CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire, England, is famous for which annual event?
Answer: cheese rolling
Question: The Laughing Cavalier is a work by which painter?
Answer: frans hals
Question: Ribes Nigrum is the Latin name for which fruit?
Answer: blackcurrant
Question: In which country was fashion designer Rifat Ozbek born?
Answer: turkey
Question: Which famous US architect designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1916?
Answer: frank lloyd wright
Question: W Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life of which painter?
Answer: paul gaugin
Question: Who became leader of the People's National Party in Jamaica in 1969?
Answer: michael manley
Question: What is the fictional Scottish island setting of the 1973 film The Wicker Man?
Answer: summerisle
Question: Which famous Mormon church leader and educational pioneer died in Salt Lake City in 1877?
Answer: brigham young
Question: Mariolatry is the idolatrous worship of whom?
Answer: virgin mary
Question: What is the name of the Cambridge University College that was originally for women only?
Answer: girton
Question: The Cockney rhyming slang 'Bread', meaning money, is fully 'Bread and...' what?
Answer: honey
Question: Letter, Legal, Executive, Ledger/Tabloid are N American?
Answer: paper sizes
Question: A 'backhoe' (or rear/back actor) is normally found on?
Answer: construction sites
Question: The 1950s Looney Tunes cartoon Mexican mouse and term for someone acting very quickly is?
Answer: gonzalez
Question: Pigs blood, fat, pearl barley, wheat, and oatmeal are ingredients of what recently proposed 'superfood'?
Answer: black pudding
Question: Czech Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) is a famously brilliant?
Answer: distance runner
Question: What is the 2015-originating portmanteau term referring to the UK leaving the EU?
Answer: brexit
Question: The German 'dachshund' means '(What?) dog'?
Answer: badger
Question: The human hormone Ghrelin (also called Lenomorelin) is known as the '(What?) hormone'?
Answer: hunger
Question: The UK billionaire called for Parliamentary questioning (2016) about his governance of the collapsed BHS company is Sir Philip?
Answer: green
Question: Professor Pat Pending, the Arkansas Chuggabug, and the Ant Hill Mob feature in which popular 1968-69 17-episode TV cartoon series?
Answer: wacky races
Question: The logo on the famous Victorinox Swiss Army pocket knife is a (What?) in a shield?
Answer: cross
Question: The large 14-35inch elastic plastic exercise ball developed in 1963 by Aquilino Cosani, is called a (What?) ball?
Answer: swiss
Question: The salad condiment comprising oil and vinegar, often reddened with parika and tomato, popularized/produced first in the 1950s is '(What?) dressing'?
Answer: french
Question: Which newspaper remains shunned in Liverpool UK due to its grossly false reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster?
Answer: sun
Question: An increasing human/animal health hazard in Europe is the 'Oak Processionary (What?)'?
Answer: caterpillar
Question: James Grieve, Blenheim Orange, Irish Peach, and Ashmead's Kernel are traditional varieties of?
Answer: apples
Question: A traditional Moroccan house with central atrium courtyard/garden is called a?
Answer: riad
Question: Junk, Trimaran, Pontoon, and Luzzu are types of?
Answer: boats
Question: Twelve three-hundredths (12/300) expresssed as a percentage is?
Answer: 4
Question: Sabot and saboton (from French, savate and botte) are respectively a box from which casino cards are dealt, and knight's armour, equating to a?
Answer: shoe
Question: The traditional pudding of strawberries, meringue and whipped cream is called?
Answer: eton mess
Question: Clove hitch, Sheepshank, Figure eight, and Bowline are?
Answer: knots
Question: The Piolet d'Or is a major award by the French magazine Montagnes for?
Answer: mountaineering
Question: To enable accurate measuring of Moon-Earth distance the NASA lunar landings of 1969-72 left on the moon a?
Answer: mirror
Question: What scientist did the Vatican officially pardon in 1992, having declared him a heretic, and forced him to recant under threat of torture, for asserting in 1632 that the Earth orbits the Sun?
Answer: galileo
Question: A linen 'stola' is the female equivalent of the Roman man's woollen?
Answer: toga
Question: In Europe which dangerous natural phenomenon exists only in Portugal, Norway, Iceland, Italy and the Canary Islands?
Answer: volcanoes
Question: Richard Adams' 1972 anthropomorphic novel Watership Down is about a colony of?
Answer: rabbits
Question: 1960s Thamesmead social housing estate in SE London was the main location for the film?
Answer: clockwork orange
Question: The Battle of Jutland was the only (What?) battle of the 1st World War?
Answer: naval
Question: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did what in May 1953?
Answer: first ascent of everest
Question: Baklava, a food in Turkish/Central-West Asian cuisine, is a type of?
Answer: pastry
Question: What iconic British brand of matches and tobacco smoking materials is the Roman goddess of the hearth/fire?
Answer: vesta
Question: Grévy's, Grant's, Chapman's, and the extinct Quagga, are varieties of?
Answer: zebra
Question: Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), first identified in willow bark by Hippocrates c.400BC, is better known as what a genericized trademark?
Answer: aspirin
Question: Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for its European Protected designation of origin named?
Answer: pork pie
Question: Which English King was found in a Leicester car park in 2012, and reburied in Leicester Cathedral in 2015?
Answer: richard iii
Question: Leicester City FC's 2015-16 Premier League winning coach Claudio Ranieri is?
Answer: italian
Question: Wes Morgan's role for Leicester City FC's 2015-16 Premier League winning team was?
Answer: captain
Question: Name the English 'Queen of nine days' (1553), born and raised at Bradgate House at Newtown Linford in Leicestershire?
Answer: lady jane grey
Question: Name the Leicester City FC striker who in 2016 broke the record for scoring in consecutive Premiership games?
Answer: jamie vardy
Question: In 1485 the last English monarch to be (What?) occurred at Bosworth Field in Leicestershire?
Answer: killed in battle
Question: At 2016 Leicester City FC's stadium and shirt sponsor name, and owner is called '(What?) Power'?
Answer: king
Question: What Leicestershire village is famous for its historic fox hunt and the name origin for a popular meat substitute food?
Answer: quorn
Question: Leicester City FC's 1950s-70s players Gordon Banks and Peter Shilton are considered among the world's best ever?
Answer: goalkeepers
Question: In 2016 Mark Selby from Leicester won for the second time the World Championship for?
Answer: snooker
Question: Name the Leicester-born world-class goalscorer for Leicester City FC and England who became a hugely successful TV presenter?
Answer: gary lineker
Question: Leicester City FC's playing kit sponsors/makers during their 2015-16 Premiership winning season were?
Answer: puma
Question: Vaseline is a genericized brandname for what sort of 'Jelly'?
Answer: petroleum
Question: Name the ancient Greek slave/storyteller to whom many fables are attributed in an eponymous collection?
Answer: aesop
Question: What is the popular Tex-Mex and Mexican dish known in Spanish as 'frijoles refritos'?
Answer: refried beans
Question: Monophthongs, dyphthongs and triphthongs are types of?
Answer: vowel sounds
Question: From the Greek god of love what term refers to a part of the human body that is especially responsive to touch/stimulation?
Answer: erogenous
Question: Latin deus (god) and Javanese dejos became what Chinese pidgin English word for an incense stick?
Answer: joss
Question: Machiavellian/Machiavellianism, after Renaisance philosopher/writer/political scientist Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), refers to?
Answer: cunning
Question: By public vote In 2012 Shinzo Abe became Japan's new national?
Answer: prime minister
Question: In 2016 President Justin Trudeau welcomed the introduction of legal euthanasia to his nation?
Answer: canada
Question: In the original Ebay company logo 1995-2012, which letter was capitalized?
Answer: y
Question: A pollywog or porwigle in England is more generally known as a?
Answer: tadpole
Question: The Tahitian/Tongan/Samoan word and tradition 'ta-tau' became what in English?
Answer: tattoo
Question: Cilantro or Chinese parsley is better known as?
Answer: coriander
Question: Haiku, traditionally comprising 17 'morae' and a juxta-position, is a short form of Japanese?
Answer: poetry
Question: Prior to his criminal infamy, OJ Simpson was originally a famous American?
Answer: footballer
Question: The Greek word petro/petros, as in petroleum and petrochemicals, etc, means?
Answer: rock
Question: Which small English Midlands county is home to the eponymous '(What?) Water' (named after the county) - the nation's largest reservoir by area?
Answer: rutland
Question: Batman's gadget-loaded super-powered road vehicle, appearing in the very first Batman comic story 1937, is called the Bat?
Answer: mobile
Question: The female equivalent of a Sultan (Arabic/Muslim leader) is a?
Answer: sultana
Question: In soccer the playing position of captain is always a midfielder - true or false?
Answer: false
Question: In association football, Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi, are considered among the greatest (What?) besides among the greatest players of all time?
Answer: captains
Question: The famous quantum mechanics thought experiment demonstrating that something can exist in two states (in this case alive or dead) until observed is called Schrödinger's?
Answer: cat
Question: Leicester City FC won the English Premier League Champions of 2015-16 with a team costing roughly what fraction of rivals Manchester City?
Answer: tenth
Question: Mother Theresa, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, Mandela, Dalai Lama, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Jesus Christ are examples of a highly sophisticated modern leadership type, defined in Robert Greenleaf's 1977 book, '(What?) Leadership'?
Answer: servant
Question: Who discovered and opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922?
Answer: howard carter
Question: In which London building was the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales held in 1997?
Answer: westminster abbey
Question: The creation of what famous and anthemic song is officially attributed to Banjo Paterson and Christina Macpherson?
Answer: waltzing matilda
Question: Who played Daisy Duke in the 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard?
Answer: jessica simpson
Question: What name is given to the uncut locks of hair worn on the sides of the head by orthodox male Jews?
Answer: payess
Question: In Greek mythology what is the name of the river whose water when drunk caused complete forgetfulness and made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth?
Answer: lethe
Question: What are the little discs of waste called that are produced by a paper or card hole-punch?
Answer: chad
Question: What type of natural substance is caoutchouc (pronounced kachook)?
Answer: rubber
Question: Whose last work entitled The Transfiguration was unfinished when he died in 1520?
Answer: rafael
Question: Who wrote the Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898?
Answer: oscar wilde
Question: The World Trade Organization was founded in 1995 in which European city?
Answer: geneva
Question: Who played Woody Allen's ex-wife in the 1979 film Manhattan?
Answer: meryl streep
Question: The 1957 song Butterfly was (surprisingly) the only UK number one hit achieved by which significant recording artist?
Answer: andy williams
Question: On what date is St Martin's Day - or Martinmas - celebrated in Europe?
Answer: 11 november
Question: England cricketer Denis Compton played for which county club?
Answer: middlesex
Question: Henry Darnley was the husband of which British monarch?
Answer: mary queen of scots
Question: In which European city is the sixteenth century limestone Bridge of Sighs?
Answer: venice
Question: In which film does Robert De Niro play the character Rupert Pupkin?
Answer: king of comedy
Question: The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing was founded in 1860 at which London institution?
Answer: st thomas hospital
Question: The person holding what office sits on the Woolsack in the House of Lords?
Answer: lord speaker
Question: Byssinosis is a disease affecting which part of the body?
Answer: lungs
Question: First performed in 1938, and commonly considered one of the saddest of all classical works, who composed Adagio for Strings (it was used in the 1986 film Platoon)?
Answer: samuel barber
Question: Which American animator created Daffy Duck and Droopy Dog?
Answer: tex avery
Question: What range of hills between Northumberland and the Scottish borders gave their name to a farm breed?
Answer: cheviot
Question: In 1992 which scientist and philosopher was absolved of heresy by the Vatican?
Answer: galileo
Question: Who in 1990 became the first chancellor of a united Germany?
Answer: helmut kohl
Question: Who was the wing commander who led the 'Dambusters' bomber raids in 1943?
Answer: guy gibson
Question: The fashionable island Martha's Vineyard is in which US state?
Answer: massachusetts
Question: In Western culture what is the birthstone for the month of May?
Answer: emerald
Question: Fotheringhay Castle, birthplace of Richard III in 1452, and site of Mary Queen of Scots trial and execution in 1587, is in which English county?
Answer: northamptonshire
Question: Which playwright was once secretary to James Joyce, 1969 Nobel prizewinner for literature, and wrote his most famous play originally in French, titled En Attendant Godot?
Answer: samuel beckett
Question: Who is fifth in line to the British throne (as at Aug 2007)?
Answer: princess beatrice
Question: What is the flap which covers the human windpipe when swallowing?
Answer: epiglotis
Question: James Earl Ray was arrested at Heathrow airport in 1968 and subsequently convicted of whose assassination?
Answer: martin luther king jr
Question: Who was the famous wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia?
Answer: lady godiva
Question: The town of Fray Bentos, after which the meat products brand was named, is in what country?
Answer: uruguay
Question: What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin set sail on his voyage around the world in 1831?
Answer: hms beagle
Question: For which film did Henry Fonda win his best actor Oscar?
Answer: on golden pond
Question: What is the name of the carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday?
Answer: mardi gras
Question: Who was the British nurse arrested in Brussels and shot by firing squad in 1915 on suspicion of helping Allied solders to escape?
Answer: edith cavell
Question: What object officially joined our solar system on 1st May 1930?
Answer: pluto
Question: With what is a 'carpetbag steak' stuffed?
Answer: oysters
Question: Which early Charles Dickens novel features the characters Wackford and Fanny Squeers, Smike, Newman Noggs and the Cheeryble brothers?
Answer: nicholas nickleby
Question: How many balls, including the white cue ball, are on a snooker table (before any are potted)?
Answer: twenty two
Question: Who is generally credited with the invention of the hovercraft in 1955?
Answer: christopher cockerell
Question: Who won 'The Battle of the Sexes' tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in 1973?
Answer: billie jean king
Question: The billionnaire Barclay twins' long-running disputes about their private island Brecqhou (or Brechou) are with which Channel Island?
Answer: sark
Question: Which Scottish athlete refused to run on a Sunday at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games?
Answer: eric liddle
Question: The King and Queen of which European country narrowly escaped assassination on their wedding day in 1906?
Answer: spain
Question: What is the offspring of a male lion and a tigress called (apart from very dangerous)?
Answer: liger
Question: Jazz musician Miles Davis, 1926-91, whose 1959 album Kind of Blue is generally regarded as the biggest selling jazz album of all time, played what instrument?
Answer: trumpet
Question: James Mason played Sir Randolph Nettleby which 1984 film?
Answer: shooting party
Question: The St Leger is run at which English racecourse?
Answer: doncaster
Question: Which popular Welsh entertainer wrote the First World War song Keep the Home Fires Burning?
Answer: ivor novello
Question: Who became the chairman of Watford Football Club in 1977?
Answer: elton john
Question: Who played Elliot Ness in the 1987 film The Untouchables?
Answer: kevin costner
Question: What number of equal size circles (or coins) fit exactly around another of the same size so that all are touching?
Answer: six
Question: What was the name of Napoleon's horse at Waterloo?
Answer: marengo
Question: A 2007 film celebrated the 50th anniversary of which typeface?
Answer: helvetica
Question: Which famous fashion emporium was started by Barbara Hulanicki in London in 1964?
Answer: biba
Question: Who was the first British monarch to broadcast a Christmas message to the nation?
Answer: george fifth
Question: Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950's Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas?
Answer: i saw mommy kissing santa claus
Question: On which date is Epiphany celebrated in the traditional Western calendar?
Answer: 6th january
Question: What liqueur goes into making a 'snowball' cocktail?
Answer: advocaat
Question: What is the English title of the carol written in 1818 by Austrian priest Josef Mohr originally called Stille Nacht?
Answer: silent night
Question: Which US state in 1907 was the last to declare Christmas a legal holiday?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Christmas Crackers is cockney rhyming slang for which part of the male anatomy?
Answer: testicles
Question: Which of the Wise Men was said to have brought the gift of gold for the baby Jesus?
Answer: melchior
Question: The 1954 movie White Christmas was the first to be made using what new Paramount film format?
Answer: vistavision
Question: Which river did George Washington cross on Christmas night in 1776 in the American Revolutionary War?
Answer: delaware
Question: The words "Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume breathes of life, of gathering gloom..." come from which Christmas carol?
Answer: we three kings of orient are
Question: John Callcott Horsley designed what first commercial Christmas item in 1843?
Answer: christmas card
Question: Which popular poem was alternatively known as A Visit from St Nicholas?
Answer: twas night before christmas
Question: Which token vegetable is often included in the ingredients of a Christmas pudding?
Answer: carrot
Question: What is a bicycle called with seats and pedals for two riders, one behind the other?
Answer: tandem
Question: What is the name of the popular Japanese alcoholic drink made from rice?
Answer: sake
Question: Who played Don Vito Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather?
Answer: marlon brando
Question: Who is sixth in line to the British throne (as at December 2007)?
Answer: princess eugenie
Question: A 'pea-souper' is which type of weather condition?
Answer: fog
Question: During the US 1920s prohibition what was the name given to an illegal drinking place?
Answer: speakeasy
Question: The Ansoff matrix correlates what two aspects of business development from the 'new' and 'existing' perspectives?
Answer: products and markets
Question: In business accounts and financial reporting, expenses which change according to scale of performance or usage or demand are known as what?
Answer: variable costs
Question: The financial ratio which divides a company's 'liquid assets' by 'current liabilities' is known by what popular term?
Answer: acid test
Question: Daniel Goleman was responsible for popularising and defining what management and behavioural concept in his eponymously titled (ie., the title is also the subject) 1995 book?
Answer: emotional intelligence
Question: Bruce Tuckman's theory about team development uses what four sequential rhyming words to describe the four stages of a group's progression?
Answer: forming storming norming performing
Question: What visionary management thinker wrote The Age Of Unreason and The Empty Raincoat?
Answer: charles handy
Question: A lot of the traditional 20th century sales theory and training was influenced by the 1937 book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'; who wrote it?
Answer: dale carnegie
Question: Which past leader of Russia died in April 2007?
Answer: boris yeltsin
Question: What month in 2007 was the smoking ban in England introduced?
Answer: july
Question: Who was the heroic baggage handler at the attempted Glasgow airport car-bombing?
Answer: john smeaton
Question: In Chinese astrology, 2007 was the year of the what animal?
Answer: pig
Question: Which psychiatrist and host of BBC Radio 4's In the Psychiatrist's Chair died in October 2007?
Answer: anthony clare
Question: Who became the 2007 Formula One World Driver's Champion in October?
Answer: kimi raikkonen
Question: Donald Tusk replaced a twin to become prime minister of which country?
Answer: poland
Question: Cristina Kirchner became the first elected woman president of which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: What month in 2007 did Tony Blair depart as UK prime minister?
Answer: june
Question: The fifth Harry Potter film released in July 2007 is called what?
Answer: harry potter and order of phoenix
Question: Who was appointed new England soccer manager in December 2007?
Answer: fabio capello
Question: Which country's victory at Wembley in November 2007 put the home nation out of the European Cup?
Answer: croatia
Question: Who made the highly critical documentry film Sicko, about the US healthcare system?
Answer: michael moore
Question: Which former politician and convicted perjurer was appointed in November 2007 to lead a prison reform task force for the Conservative Party?
Answer: jonathan aitken
Question: Which company was found officially responsible for the Suffolk Bird Flu outbreak in February 2007?
Answer: bernard matthews
Question: On which Indonesian island was the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2007?
Answer: bali
Question: Which northern England city was flooded by torrential rain on on 25 June 2007?
Answer: hull
Question: In what US city did Barack Obama announce his presidential candidacy in February 2007?
Answer: springfield
Question: Which Bollywood actor was at the centre of the 2007 Big Brother TV Show racism uproar?
Answer: shilpa shetty
Question: Shinzo Abe resigned in September 2007 as prime minister of which country?
Answer: japan
Question: Which corporation bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240m?
Answer: microsoft
Question: The two CDs lost by the UK department HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) contained personal details of 20m people relating to claims of what?
Answer: child benefit
Question: Who resigned as England cricket coach after the 2007 Ashes series 5-0 defeat?
Answer: duncan fletcher
Question: In May 2007 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the biggest what in history to date?
Answer: charitable donation
Question: Intensive British forces operations in Afghanistan through 2007 were centred in which province?
Answer: helmand
Question: In what significant UK location was the August 2007 Climate Change Camp sited?
Answer: heathrow airport
Question: At the end of 2007 how many England Premiership football (soccer) clubs were foreign owned?
Answer: nine
Question: In June 2007 the Millennium Dome re-opened under what name?
Answer: o2
Question: Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing over the Nevada Desert in September 2007?
Answer: steve fosset
Question: What country celebrated on August 15th 2007 its 60th anniversary of independence from British rule?
Answer: india
Question: Following an Ofcom investigation which TV company was judged in September 2007 to be the worst offending in the premium line phone-in scandals?
Answer: gmtv
Question: What was the name of the Space Shuttle which launched on June 8th 2007?
Answer: atlantis
Question: Which Formula One racing team was expelled from the 2007 Constructors Championship for spying on a competitor?
Answer: mclaren
Question: What was the village and laboratory site name connected with the August 2007 foot-and-mouth desease outbreak near Guildford in Surrey?
Answer: pirbright