CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who wrote the music for the song "Smile", a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954 that was recorded by Michael Jackson for his 1995 double album "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I"?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: Who made the longest Oscar acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds, when collecting her Oscar for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as Mrs. Miniver?
Answer: greer garson
Question: What device did French inventor douard-Lon Scott de Martinville patent in 1857?
Answer: phonautograph
Question: Where are the sheer cliffs of the Drakensberg?
Answer: southern africa
Question: In 2014 at the age of 93 Phyllis Latour Doyle, "Pippa", received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, (the Legion of Honour, knight class) for activities in occupied France in World War II; where was she born, and where did she grow up?
Answer: south africa
Question: Which book about a castaway was written by Daniel Defoe?
Answer: robinson crusoe
Question: What date was the US Transcontinental Railroad completed?
Answer: may 10 1869
Question: What 2002 film, an adaptation of stage musical that explores the themes of 'celebrity' and 'scandal', starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rene Zellweger, and Richard Gere?
Answer: chicago
Question: Who moved to New York City in 1977 where she worked as a waitress in Dunkin' Donuts, performed as a dancer for French disco artist Patrick Hernandez on a world tour, formed the band "The Breakfast Club" with Dan Gilroy, and the band "Emmy" with Stephen Bray, and has been described as "a woman who pulled herself up by her bra straps?"
Answer: madonna
Question: What is the name of a construction toy made of interlocking plastic blocks?
Answer: lego
Question: Where does the Republic of Djibouti have a coastline or coastlines?
Answer: red sea and gulf of aden
Question: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won which major prize in 2010?
Answer: nobel prize for literature
Question: Which city is in the Chao Phraya River delta?
Answer: bangkok thailand
Question: The Tiger Quoll, Dibbler and Phascogale are native to which country?
Answer: australia
Question: What is likely to be found in the Pantanal?
Answer: giant river otter
Question: The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, off the Western Cape of South Africa, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?
Answer: cape gannets
Question: What is the name of the official list of books prohibited to be read by the Catholic Church?
Answer: index librorum prohibitorum
Question: Which four-time Grammy Award-winning artist's hit singles included "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "The Promise" and "Telling Stories"?
Answer: tracy chapman
Question: Thom Yorke is the lead singer for which band?
Answer: radiohead
Question: Who wrote "A History of Richard III" and "Utopia"?
Answer: sir thomas more
Question: It is home to the Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsorchester and Staatsballet, was burned down in 1823, rebuilt and re-opened 1825, bombed and destroyed 1943 and re rebuilt and re-opened 1963; what is it?
Answer: national theatre munich
Question: """Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live"", attributed to Socrates 5th century BCE, is an example of what figure of speech?"
Answer: chiasmus
Question: How can the land to the west of the Gulf of California be described?
Answer: peninsula
Question: In 1968, who was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress?
Answer: shirley chisholm
Question: In 1995, what band was the first artist to receive as many as 4 BRIT (British Record Industry Trust) awards in the same year?
Answer: blur
Question: Which book attributed to Thomas Cranmer and published around 1549 is still in print?
Answer: book of common prayer
Question: The inaugural day-night cricket test game played at the Oval, Adelaide, Australia, in November 2015 was played between Australia and which other country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In the 1968 feature film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, of what country is Baron Bomburst the tyrant ruler?
Answer: vulgaria
Question: By what name was Shane Fenton better known as a performer in the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: alvin stardust
Question: By what name is Theodor Geisel better known?
Answer: dr seuss
Question: In 1997 Bougainville gained autonomy within Papua New Guinea, after negotiations brokered by what country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The highest peaks of the Atlas Mountains, the highest being 4,167 metres (13,671 ft), are in country?
Answer: morocco
Question: Who launched a career with the book "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly"?
Answer: anthony bourdain
Question: 19th century English theatrical manager and producer Richard D'Oyly Carte was responsible for the building of which London theatre?
Answer: savoy
Question: The celebrated 18th century Englishman, Lancelot Brown, was better known by what name?
Answer: capability
Question: Where are China's largest natural gas reserves found?
Answer: xinjiang uyghur autonomous region
Question: The name of the Doukhobor religious sect means what?
Answer: spirit wrestler
Question: The Tien Shan, or Tian Shan, mountains lie to the north of which?
Answer: taklimakan desert
Question: From 2011 to 2019 who are the holders of the William Webb Ellis Cup?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which musical, based on characters created for single-panel cartoons in "The New Yorker" beginning 1938, opened on Broadway in April 2010 after a tryout in Chicago?
Answer: addams family
Question: On 26 December 2004 Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia, was devastated by what?
Answer: tsunami
Question: The Port of Hambantota, for which construction began in January 2008 to provide bunkering, ship repair, ship building and crew change facilities, is in which country?
Answer: sri lanka
Question: The book (and later a 1981 film) called "Mommie Dearest" published in 1978 was about which actress who appeared in films and on television from 1925 to 1975?
Answer: joan crawford
Question: The film "Vera Drake" (2004) by Mike Leigh has as a central focus which field of activity in 1950s Britain?
Answer: abortion
Question: Whose record album, produced by Phil Spector, was released while he is in jail serving a 19 year sentence for murder?
Answer: rachelle short
Question: Who was the founder of engineering firm Marman Products Co, which designed and manufactured the catch which among other things held the Enola Gay bomb in place during transport?
Answer: zeppo marx
Question: Who, a drummer at the time, made the first known jazz recording using the vibraphone ("Memories of You") with Louis Armstrong & His Sebastian New Cotton Club Orchestra in 1930 and then concentrated on the vibraphone, joining the Benny Goodman Quintet, and later leading his own big bands?
Answer: lionel hampton
Question: Named for its colour, originally called Greek and prized as a paint pigment, is the mixture of compounds of what?
Answer: copper
Question: In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's spacecraft?
Answer: millenium falcon
Question: Who recited the poem "The Gift Outright" at John F Kennedy's inauguration as president of the USA in 1961?
Answer: robert frost
Question: Artists Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Zhong Acheng, Ai Weiwei and Qu Leilei are associated with which avant-garde art group?
Answer: stars
Question: Although the position was not officially designated as such for nearly 200 years who was the first person (in 1721) unofficially called the Prime Minister of the British Parliament?
Answer: sir robert walpole
Question: """Four Quartets"", a set of four poems (""Burnt Norton"", ""East Coker"", ""The Dry Salvages"" and ""Little Gidding"") published between 1936 and 1942, were written by whom?"
Answer: t s eliot
Question: The main character in the film "Memento" (2000) suffered from what mental condition?
Answer: anterograde amnesia
Question: The World Games, first held in 1981 to provide a world forum for sports not contested in the Olympic Games, includes which sport - once an Olympic sport but dropped after 1920?
Answer: tug o war
Question: What name is primarily used in British English for red wine from the Bordeaux region of France?
Answer: claret
Question: Daisy Ridley and John Boyega achieved world-wide recognition as the two young stars in what film released December 2015?
Answer: star wars force awakens
Question: What did Sir Francis Drake's ship, the Golden Hind, achieve from 1577 to 1580 ?
Answer: circumnavigated globe
Question: """La Donna e Mobile"" is an aria from which opera?"
Answer: rigoletto
Question: Which Austrian performed the winning song, "Rise Like a Phoenix", at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014?
Answer: conchita wurst
Question: BCG is a vaccine, the only one currently recognised by the World Health Organisation, for what disease?
Answer: tuberculosis
Question: Which book broke the record for book sales in July 2007, selling 15 million copies in the 24 hours following its release?
Answer: harry potter and deathly hallows
Question: The film "Spectre" (2015) is centred on what?
Answer: james bond
Question: The French bank and financial services company, BNP Paribas, holds an annual event giving awards in what field?
Answer: philanthropy
Question: Boris Godunov ruled, first as de facto regent and then as ruler, in which country?
Answer: russia
Question: What is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves in the fantasy works of J R R Tolkien?
Answer: quenya
Question: At the end of the 8th century the Emperor of Japan moved his capital to which city?
Answer: kyoto
Question: Which is the missing country in the sequence: Angola, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon?
Answer: democratic republic of congo
Question: Which European country overthrew its monarchy and underwent a revolution 1789 to 1799?
Answer: france
Question: The 2010 release "Plundered My Soul" was an extra track on a re-released album by which artist(s)?
Answer: rolling stones
Question: The film "Revenant" (2015) was inspired by the experiences of what frontiersman?
Answer: hugh glass
Question: She trained as a goldsmith, has been a film actress, and a lead and solo singer with international and European hits under what name?
Answer: nena
Question: John Wayne played the lead role of whom in the 1958 film "The Conqueror"?
Answer: genghis khan
Question: What was the family name of the Mafia mob depicted in the "Godfather" movies?
Answer: corleone
Question: In 2003, Rebecca Wade became the first female editor of which British newspaper?
Answer: sun
Question: Bob Fosse won a "Best Director" Oscar in 1972 for which film?
Answer: cabaret
Question: Gumboot Day held since 1985, celebrating the gumboot and including gumboot throwing contest, takes place where?
Answer: taihape new zealand
Question: The shallow soda Mono Lake is in what state of the USA?
Answer: california
Question: The "Hyksos" was the name given to a people who assumed rule in which country in the second millennium BCE?
Answer: egypt
Question: A large part of the vegetation of the Okavango Delta, named one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa in 2013, is what?
Answer: papyrus and reed rafts
Question: Which degenerative disorder is found in professional athletes in the fields of boxing, American football, association football, ice hockey, professional wrestling, stunt performing, bull riding, bicycle motocross and rodeo as a result of their sport?
Answer: chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Question: Which new French wine is released annually on the third Thursday in November?
Answer: beaujolais
Question: """Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper"" is an example of what?"
Answer: tongue twister
Question: What was the fist name of Mr. Micawber, who appeared in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield"?
Answer: wilkins
Question: Shi'ite and Sunni are beliefs within what religion?
Answer: islam
Question: In 2004, who left the band Westlife?
Answer: brian mcfadden
Question: The TV series "Broadchurch" (2013 - present) stars Olivia Colman together with what actor famous for his Dr Who persona?
Answer: david tennant
Question: Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 when he was Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: The phrase "eyeball to eyeball" uses a figure of speech known as what?
Answer: synecdoche
Question: Who wrote "Treasure Island", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Kidnapped" and "The Master of Ballantrae"?
Answer: robert louis stevenson
Question: Michael Douglas starred in what TV series, set in California, which ran on US TV from 1972 and 1980?
Answer: streets of san francisco
Question: Which is the 17th century German mathematician and astronomer (at one time assistant to Tycho Brahe) whose works, including " Epitome of Copernican Astronomy", provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation?
Answer: johannes kepler
Question: In what country did the Boxer War, or Boxer Rebellion, happen?
Answer: china
Question: Who wrote "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us", a book published in 1996 that focuses on the impact individuals and groups outside the family have on a child's well-being?
Answer: hillary rodham clinton
Question: In which country are the Angel Falls, or Kerepakupai Ven?
Answer: venezuela
Question: The last four nations to join the United Nations 193 members are Switzerland (2002), Timor-Leste (2002), Montenegro (2006) and which other nation?
Answer: south sudan
Question: Who or what did the music hall performer mean when he sang of "my old dutch"?
Answer: his wife
Question: Who, in the 6th century BCE, was the last king of Lydia, Solon, who made war on Cyrus, King of Persia, and was defeated?
Answer: croesus
Question: Which country held the Rugby League World Cup from 1975 to 2000 (for 6 contests)?
Answer: australia
Question: Where was co-founder of band which became Crowded House, Tim Finn, born and raised?
Answer: new zealand
Question: From the 10th to the 14th centuries Scandinavian and, later, Anglo Saxon warriors formed the guard for Byzantine emperors under what name?
Answer: varangian guard
Question: Neo, Morpheus and the city of Zion feature in what 1999 film?
Answer: matrix
Question: Throughout his early years in Indonesia, who was known to his playmates and at school as "Barry Soetoro"?
Answer: barack obama
Question: The rights to which book, begun in 1768 by William Smellie and completed in 1771 and continually revised, were bought by Sears, Roebuck of Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1920?
Answer: encyclopaedia brittanica
Question: For what sport is the Cresta Run, built in Switzerland in 1884, used?
Answer: sled racing
Question: Who composed the music for the 1979 musical "Sweeney Todd"?
Answer: stephen sondheim
Question: What is the first sentence of the book "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell?
Answer: it was bright cold day in april and clocks were striking thirteen
Question: What country separates the city of Dandong and Dochon-ri village?
Answer: north korea
Question: A punnet is used as what in relationship to strawberries and other soft fruit?
Answer: container
Question: Which famous Ramone was never one of "The Ramones"?
Answer: phil
Question: Which American novelist, poet and painter, a major figure of the Beat Generation who affected popular culture as well as literature, shot his wife in Mexico in 1951?
Answer: william burroughs
Question: One of the children in the 19th century family at the centre of the famous murder trial dramatised in the UK TV show "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher", William Saville-Kent, became a naturalist whose seminal work shaped Australian practice in what area ?
Answer: fisheries
Question: Robert Drewe's book "Our Sunshine" was made into what film in 2003?
Answer: ned kelly
Question: Who formed the band called "The Tin Machine", that ran from 1988 to 1992, primarily to play for the "Glass Spider" world tour?
Answer: david bowie
Question: """Imagination encircles the world"" is an example of what figure of speech?"
Answer: metaphor
Question: The anxiety treatment drug Diazepam was originally marketed under what name?
Answer: valium
Question: Who sang with UB40 on their hit record "I Got You Babe"?
Answer: chrissy hynde
Question: Where are the Sugarloaf Mountain, the Morro da Babilnia, the Morro da Urca, and Mount Corcovado (with its famous giant religious statue)?
Answer: rio de janeiro brazil
Question: Which fictional character in the land of Oz, created by L. Frank Baum, is sometimes named "Locasta" or "Tattypoo"?
Answer: good witch of north
Question: Who, having been a Lieutenant General with three stars on his epaulettes, was posthumously appointed "General of the Armies of the United States" by a congressional joint resolution in 1976, with an effective appointment date of 4 July 1976?
Answer: george washington
Question: """It was a dark and stormy night"", the ""standard"" for hackneyed writing, was the opening line of a novel by whom?"
Answer: edward bulwer lytton
Question: What fictitious national park was the setting for the 1960s TV series "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo"?
Answer: waratah
Question: In 146BCE Rome sacked Carthage and what other major city?
Answer: corinth
Question: Of these which is North Korea's nearest neighbour?
Answer: people s republic of china
Question: Who was the leader of the band playing at the Palomar Ballroom, Los Angeles, in August 1935, when the "Jitterbug" became a new dance craze?
Answer: benny goodman
Question: """The Count of Monte Cristo"" was originally written in which language?"
Answer: french
Question: In the course of what did the captain of the Australian cricket team Michael Clarke resign in 2015?
Answer: ashes
Question: Which religion has grown from 19th century teachings, of a man born in present day Iran and who died after a 24 year imprisonment in present day Israel?
Answer: bah
Question: In 1989 Carlo Petrini founded what?
Answer: slow food movement
Question: What role did John Flamsteed (1646 1719) fill in Great Britain?
Answer: astronomer royal
Question: Calicivirus, which was introduced illegally into New Zealand in 1997 to kill the exploding rabbit population, also has a form which seriously infects what other animal?
Answer: cats
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Diamonds Are ... "?
Answer: forever
Question: In plays performed "in the round" where does the audience sit in relation to the playing area?
Answer: on all sides
Question: Over the course of 17 years from 1985 to 2002 what did actor Whoopi Goldberg complete, one of only twelve people to do so?
Answer: egot
Question: What is the name of the simplified Roman alphabet-based phonetic system of Chinese script adopted in 1958 at the Fifth Session of the 1st National People's Congress in mainland China?
Answer: hanyu pinyin
Question: What Scottish patriotic song, used frequently at special occasions and sporting events, was written by a member of the folk group The Corries in 1967?
Answer: flower of scotland
Question: Which TV series starred Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles, who is able to solve a wide range of problems with his Swiss army knife?
Answer: macgyver
Question: What is the name of the holy book of te Sikh faith?
Answer: guru granth sahib
Question: Who, aged 54, married 18 year old Oona O'Neill, the daughter of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, in June 1943?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: """Ted"" Kaczynski, an American anarchist and mathematical prodigy, became known as what?"
Answer: unabomber
Question: Who created the character of Harold C. "Rabbit" Angstrom who appears in the stories "Rabbit, Run", "Rabbit Redux", "Rabbit Is Rich", "Rabbit at Rest" and "Rabbit Remembered"?
Answer: john updike
Question: Which actor won the 2012 Golden Raspberry Award for both the worst actor and the worst actress in a 2011 film?
Answer: adam sandler
Question: The lights were turned off in the Empire State Building for 15 minutes in August 2004 to mark the death of whom?
Answer: fay wray
Question: A two-wheeled self-powered and self-balancing vehilce unveiled in 2001 is called what?
Answer: segway
Question: What, according to the stories, did the Spartans reply to Philip II of Macedon when he sent them a threat of war saying "If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta"?
Answer: if
Question: Who was the first person to win a Tony Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, and the only person to have won all 3 awards in the category of "Best Director"?
Answer: bob fosse
Question: On what continent are the following found: Mt Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater (the worlds largest unbroken caldera), Nile River, Okavango Delta, Red Sea Reef, Sahara Desert, and the Serengeti Migration?
Answer: africa
Question: What is the title of the unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?
Answer: weir of hermiston
Question: When Warren Hastings, returning from a term as Governor-General in 1786, was impeached (and acquitted) where had he been in office?
Answer: india
Question: A form of invasive toxic freshwater algal bloom known as blue-green is caused by what?
Answer: cyanobacteria
Question: The mural-size canvas painted in oils, known as "Guernica", was painted by whom?
Answer: pablo picasso
Question: Which 19th century French novelist wrote books about "The Three Musketeers"?
Answer: alexandre dumas
Question: Who had hit records with "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly Miss Molly"?
Answer: little richard
Question: The Scandinavian drink, Lillehammer Berry Liqueur, is made from what berries?
Answer: lingonberries
Question: Georges Pompidou, Prime Minister of France 1962-68) succeeded whom as President in 1969?
Answer: alain poher
Question: """Jessica"", the theme tune of the TV programme ""Top Gear"", was originally recorded by whom?"
Answer: allman brothers band
Question: Which psychological thriller film was the first appearance for Angela Lansbury (currently in long-running US TV serial "Murder She Wrote") and won its lead actress her first Academy Award for Best Actress?
Answer: gaslight 1944
Question: A bodhrn, tabor, pandeiro and bongo are types of what?
Answer: drum
Question: The names of Maradona, Platini and Cruyff are associated with what World Championships?
Answer: football soccer
Question: Which is the last major military engagement of the American Civil War?
Answer: battle of five forks
Question: In 1971 Alan Shepard fired two balls in which sporting code?
Answer: golf
Question: Who was a British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the Single Transferable Vote system of elections who is the author (1974) of "How Democracies Vote", a standard reference work on electoral systems?
Answer: enid lakeman
Question: What is a style of delivery mostly used in operas, oratorios, and cantata, in which a singer adopts the rhythms of ordinary speech?
Answer: recitative
Question: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins MBE is internationally known as what?
Answer: singer and songwriter
Question: What was the occupation of the character played by Maggie Smith in "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie"?
Answer: teacher
Question: Actors Saoirse Ronan, Julie Walter, Domnhall Gleeson and Jim Broadbent appeared in which film?
Answer: brooklyn
Question: In 1949, in the last stages of the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China in which newly named capital of the Republic?
Answer: beijing
Question: Who created the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey?
Answer: dorothy l sayers
Question: Jean-Claude Van Damme plays both of the twins, separated after the death of their parents, in which 1991 film?
Answer: double impact
Question: Who became vice-president and then president of the USA without having been voted into either office?
Answer: gerald ford
Question: Balsamic vinegar is traditionally made from fermented what?
Answer: grapes
Question: In the book "Treasure Island", what did Ben Gunn dream of?
Answer: cheese
Question: The second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjld, died in office in 1961 and became subsequently one of only four people to receive a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize. How did he die?
Answer: in plane crash
Question: A painting discovered in France in 2016 of Judith beheading Holofernes has been attributed to what artist?
Answer: caravaggio