CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Wenlock and Mandeville are the mascots of which sporting event?
Answer: 2012 london olympics
Question: Israel Zangwill wrote the 1892 novel 'Children of the ...' what, depicting Jewish life in London?
Answer: ghetto
Question: Who succeeded John Major as leader of the UK Conservative Party in 1997?
Answer: william hague
Question: The Aswan Dam, which enables controlled use of the Nile flood plain for agriculture, is in which African country?
Answer: egypt
Question: Who played Claus Von Bulow in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune?
Answer: jeremy irons
Question: In Greek mythology, what did Prometheus steal from Zeus and give to mankind?
Answer: fire
Question: Who captained the England cricket team during the 1986-87 Ashes series?
Answer: mike gatting
Question: Which war was the subject of the 1978 film The Deerhunter?
Answer: vietnam war
Question: Which palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: lambeth palace
Question: Which country's use of energy overtook the USA in 2010 to become the world's biggest consumer of power (from oil, coal, water, wind, etc)?
Answer: china
Question: The auto-biographical poem 'The Story of Suicide Sal' was written by which 1930s female outlaw?
Answer: bonnie parker
Question: Who was the US Secretary of State 1973-1977?
Answer: henry kissinger
Question: The Edgbaston Test Cricket Ground is in which English city?
Answer: birmingham
Question: The song 'San Quentin', about the California state prison, was written, and subsequently performed there, by which artist, recorded on a live album and British TV documentary?
Answer: johnny cash
Question: Established 1845, during British colonial rule, the top-selling Straits Times newspaper, and a similarly named stock market index (STI) belongs to which country?
Answer: singapore
Question: The Scandinavian raw dish gravlax is made from which creature?
Answer: salmon
Question: Irish born missionary Saint Aidan founded a monastery in 653 on which English island, which is also the name of a 1970s UK folk-rock band?
Answer: lindisfarne
Question: Triops Cancriformis, discovered in Scotland in July 2010 and said by scientists to have the oldest pedigree (over 200m years) of any living animal on Earth is what type of creature?
Answer: shrimp
Question: In cycling, what colour jersey is worn by the leader of the Tour of Italy?
Answer: pink
Question: In which secure London building was Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess briefly imprisoned in May 1941 after he fled Germany to Scotland?
Answer: tower of london
Question: What is the method of dyeing fabric in which the parts not to be dyed are covered with removeable wax?
Answer: batik
Question: Who was the first female film director to win a best film Oscar?
Answer: kathryn bigelow
Question: The inactive volcano, Mauna Kea (meaning 'white mountain' in the local native language), is in which US state?
Answer: hawaii
Question: Who composed the music for the opera Porgy and Bess, about 1920s African American life in Charleston, South Carolina?
Answer: george gershwin
Question: The mineral and ore pitchblende is rich in what radioactive element, after which it is now named?
Answer: uranium
Question: Bianca is the younger sister of Katherina in which Shakespeare comedy play?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: Manchester United's 2010 Spanish signing nicknamed Chicharito means what in Spanish?
Answer: little pea
Question: What is the one-sleeved half-jacket worn under a jacket as additional protection in the sport of fencing?
Answer: plastron
Question: Cnut the Great, who ruled Denmark, England, Norway and parts of Sweden from 1018-35, is commonly known by what other name, particularly relating to a story of attempting to 'rule the sea'?
Answer: king canute
Question: On which island was Nelson Mandela incarcerated for 27 years, from 1962-90?
Answer: robben island
Question: Who unexpectedly beat Jimmy Connors in the 1975 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
Answer: arthur ashe
Question: By what name did the 1932-33 England-Australia cricket series become known, after the visiting English team, notably fast bowler Harold Larwood, employed controversial tactics of bowling at batsmen's heads and chests, rather than the wicket?
Answer: bodyline
Question: Abhorson is an executioner in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: measure for measure
Question: Who is generally considered to have invented the first electric battery cell in 1800?
Answer: alessandro volta
Question: How many separate terms did William Gladstone serves as Prime Minister of Britain?
Answer: four
Question: What was Alexander the Great's famous horse, whose Greek name translates to mean 'ox-head'?
Answer: bucephalus
Question: Which spice comes from the rhizome (root-stalk) of the plant Zingaber Officionale?
Answer: ginger
Question: In summer 2010 what species produced offspring in the wild in the UK for the first time in around 400 years after reintroduction to Scotland?
Answer: beaver
Question: A caparison is an ornamental cloth used to cover a what?
Answer: horse
Question: Which 1920s film star's third husband was Henri Le Bailly de la Falaise, Marquis de la Coudraye?
Answer: gloria swanson
Question: In anatomy, 'plantar' relates to which part of the human body?
Answer: foot
Question: A 2010 publicity-driven competition called the Carbuncle Cup focused on unpopular British what?
Answer: architecture
Question: Sprinter Merlene Ottey, age 50, was a member of which nation's 4 x 100 metres relay squad at the 2010 European Championships?
Answer: slovenia
Question: Who dueted with Harry Nilsson on the 1975 Phil Spectre song 'A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Every Day)' ?
Answer: cher
Question: Evo Morales became president of which country in 2006?
Answer: bolivia
Question: Which religion emerged from the Bible Student movement, founded in 1872 by Charles Taze Russell?
Answer: jehovah s witness
Question: A nide is a brood or nest of which type of birds?
Answer: pheasants
Question: A Munro, of which there are 283, is a Scottish mountain which is over how many feet high?
Answer: 3 000
Question: An anemometer is a guage used for recording the speed of what?
Answer: wind
Question: Which of the Rolling Stones has a cameo role as Captain Jack Teague, father of Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End'?
Answer: keith richards
Question: Catalonia, the Spanish Autonomous Community region comprising provinces Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, banned what in 2010 with effect from 2012?
Answer: bullfighting
Question: In the UK in the 1930s, what was named after the Minister of Transport?
Answer: belisha beacon
Question: Pop star Wyclef Jean was a potential but unsuccessful 2010 presidential candidate in which country?
Answer: haiti
Question: Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was known by what name until 1968?
Answer: madras
Question: Eighteen year-old Eri Yoshida, known as the Knuckleball Princess, in 2010 became the first Japanese woman to play in the US professional (generally all-male) league of which sport?
Answer: baseball
Question: Which jockey won the 1981 UK Grand National on Aldaniti?
Answer: bob champion
Question: Yitzhak Rabin was the prime minister of which country between 1974 and 1977?
Answer: israel
Question: Raines Law of 1896 related to the sale of what in New York State?
Answer: liquor
Question: What was the nickname of the Parliamentary supporters during the mid 17th century English Civil War?
Answer: roundheads
Question: The English town name suffix 'wich' (as in Nantwich and Northwich) derives from the mining of what mineral?
Answer: salt
Question: What is the title of the fourth Dirty Harry film, starring Clint Eastwood?
Answer: sudden impact
Question: Castor (or castoreum) is an oily substance secreted by which animal, and historically used in medicine and perfume?
Answer: beaver
Question: Which US president greeted astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin when they got back from the moon?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: Bruxism is the medical term for the involuntary habitual grinding of what?
Answer: teeth
Question: Sapphire is the birthstone relating to which month of the year?
Answer: september
Question: UCAS, the organization which manages student applications for virtually all UK degree courses, is fully known as what?
Answer: universities and colleges admissions service
Question: During which battle of 1876 did the Sioux Indians massacre George Custer's Seventh Cavalry Regiment?
Answer: battle of little big horn
Question: Which common material was invented by Marc Chavannes and Alfred Fielding in 1957 initially as textured wallpaper?
Answer: bubble wrap
Question: Welsh singer Michael Barratt is better known by which name?
Answer: shakin stevens
Question: In ancient Greek legend, soldier Pheidippedes collapsed and died after running over twenty-five miles to Athens to give news of which battle?
Answer: marathon
Question: Held in turn by the ancient Phonecians, Greeks and Romans, Cyrenaica is a region of which African country?
Answer: libya
Question: With species called common, Danube and Italian, what creature is a bleak; Bird; Fish; Crab; or Whale?
Answer: fish
Question: For which English county cricket team did Australian Shane Warne play between 2000 and 2007?
Answer: hampshire
Question: In the 2004 film biopic Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey plays which 1960s singer?
Answer: bobby darin
Question: In June 1937, which US state became the first, and only, to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday?
Answer: pennsylvania
Question: Which European leader publicly welcomed a new female MP to parliament by reminding her of a 'rule' called 'jus primae noctis' ('law of the first night' - a medieval right of the Lord of the manor to deflower new brides) ? Silvio Berlusconi; Winston Churchill; Nicolas Sarkozy; or Helmut Kohl?
Answer: silvio berlusconi
Question: What is a bump on a ski slope called which is formed by skiers turning?
Answer: mogul
Question: The Watergate Complex is in which area of Washington DC?
Answer: foggy bottom
Question: What historic region of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, gave its name to a dog breed with a striking appearance?
Answer: dalmatia
Question: In March 2010 artist Spencer Tunick arranged and photographed 5,200 what in front of Sydney Opera House?
Answer: naked people
Question: Derived from the French word meaning to brood or hatch, what term refers to a male phantom or sympathetic pregnancy syndrome in response to a wife or partner's real pregnancy?
Answer: couvade
Question: What traditional profession specialises in the assessment of costs and tenders for materials and contracts within building and construction projects?
Answer: quantity surveyor
Question: What did US southerners call a northerner who moved to the south in the 1860-70s to exploit opportunities in the Reconstruction era, and which word today refers to an opportunitistic investor, especially where a mutual society might convert into a public commerial company?
Answer: carpetbagger
Question: The UK Glastonbury music festival was originally known as what name (combined with 'festival'), taken from a nearby village?
Answer: pilton
Question: Who invented roll camera film, thereby popularizing photography, and founded the Kodak company, whose full title also bears his name?
Answer: george eastman
Question: Composed in 1907, The Soldier's Song (that's the English translation of the title) was formally adopted in 1926 as the national anthem of which European country?
Answer: ireland
Question: The Mills bomb, developed in Birmingham in 1915, and produced in numbers exceeding 70 million since then, is more commonly known by what term?
Answer: hand grenade
Question: The Sumida and Arakawa are two main rivers of which capital city?
Answer: tokyo
Question: Luke Rinehart's cult 1971 novel is called The 'what?' Man?
Answer: dice
Question: What is the Italian word, meaning 'head', for the clamp-like gadget used on guitars and other fretted stringed instruments to change key and tuning?
Answer: capo
Question: New France was the name given to French colonized lands in which continent from the 16th-18th centuries?
Answer: north america
Question: Who owns the luxury food brand Duchy Originals, which announced £3.2m losses in 2010?
Answer: prince charles
Question: What is the name of the mount on which the Hollywood sign sits in California?
Answer: mount lee
Question: Which gemstone is associated (traditional UK/US) with a 45th wedding anniversary?
Answer: sapphire
Question: In 1919, which country became the first to legalise abortion?
Answer: russia
Question: Name the French bank controversially exonerated (judged free of any responsibility/liability) in the 2010 trial of its employee rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who was imprisoned for, and fined, the 4.9bn euros he lost in 2008 futures trading?
Answer: soc gen
Question: In the TV series Thunderbirds, what is Parker's first name?
Answer: aloysius
Question: What is the name of the hook which forms on the lower jaw of the male salmon during the breeding season?
Answer: kype
Question: Mock Turtle Soup is traditionally made from the head of a?
Answer: calf
Question: The lempira is the basic monetary unit of which Central American country?
Answer: honduras
Question: Name the mine in Copiapo, Chile, where 33 miners were trapped after a collapse on 5 Aug 2010?
Answer: san josé
Question: In 1760, Belgian inventor Joseph Merlin patented which item of footwear?
Answer: roller skates
Question: American mathematician Norbert Wiener, 1894-1964, coined what scientific term concerning complex systems, and helped define its modern understanding?
Answer: cybernetics
Question: When steel is galvanized it is most commonly coated by what?
Answer: zinc
Question: What element, with zirconium, forms the compound zirconia, which is used to make synthetic diamonds?
Answer: oxygen
Question: What name (in English) was given to the capsule which brought the 33 Chilean miners to the surface in the San Jose rescue on 13 October 2010?
Answer: phoenix
Question: Meaning literally 'make like' what is the full Latin word from which 'fax' derives (as in fax machine)?
Answer: facsimile
Question: According to Greek legend, the labyrinth built by architect Daedalus housed which monster?
Answer: minotaur
Question: Sir Thomas Sopwith designed what famous British biplane fighter aircraft, whose name combined his own name with an animal?
Answer: sopwith camel
Question: What type of wartime field gun took its name originally from the old Czech word (loosely 'houfnice') meaning catapault?
Answer: howitzer
Question: What is a brief period of time and a turning effect produced by a force?
Answer: moment
Question: Permanent software programmed into a read-only memory is generally called what ' ...ware'?
Answer: firmware
Question: What colour/color normally follows orange moving up the scale, low to high, in judo belts?
Answer: green
Question: Sometimes called Echo Boomers, people born between around 1980 to the mid-1990s (or later depending on interpretation), are more commonly referred to as Generation what?
Answer: y
Question: What term, common in fantasy games, also refers to the three wise men in the Bible?
Answer: magi
Question: 'Five-finger discount' is US slang for what crime?
Answer: shoplifting
Question: In Gustav Holst's orchestral suite 'The Planets' what planet from the (our) Solar System is missing?
Answer: earth
Question: In which country is Lake Banyoles, site of the 1992 Olympic rowing events?
Answer: spain
Question: Jomo Kenyatta became the first president of which African country in 1964?
Answer: kenya
Question: Which character is the science officer of the starship Enterprise (in the original TV series)?
Answer: spock
Question: What type of animal is a markhor, the national animal of Pakistan?
Answer: goat
Question: Which couturiere and perfumier's first names were Gabrielle Bonheur?
Answer: coco chanel
Question: The flavoured fishing bait boilie is mainly used to catch which type of fish?
Answer: carp
Question: A traditional weapon of the Sicilian mafia, what is a lupara?
Answer: shotgun
Question: In geological classification what granular term is between silt and gravel?
Answer: sand
Question: What was Brad Pitt's initialised character name in the film 'Thelma and Louise'?
Answer: j d
Question: Opened in 1998, accessible usually only by air, and continually in permafrost, the EKATI Diamond Mine is in which country?
Answer: canada
Question: Which US president's mother was known as 'Miss Lillian'?
Answer: jimmy carter
Question: In human anatomy, in which part of the body is the buccinator muscle?
Answer: cheek
Question: Diacetylmorphine is the technical term for which drug?
Answer: heroin
Question: The actress Caryn Johnson is better known by which name?
Answer: whoopi goldberg
Question: Iapetus (or Japetus) is a satellite of which planet?
Answer: saturn
Question: Name the Panama military dictator imprisoned from 1992-2007 in the USA for drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering, and subsequently extradited to France for money laundering, and imprisoned again in 2010?
Answer: general manuel noriega
Question: A muumuu is a brightly coloured dress traditionally worn by women on which island?
Answer: hawaii
Question: What is the large dog breed named after a town in south-west Germany, with St Bernard, Newfoundland and Pyrenean Mountain Dog ancestry?
Answer: leonberger
Question: Named after the Greek words for good and sound, what is the valved brass tenor instrument resembling a small tuba?
Answer: euphonium
Question: Car exhaust fumes contain mainly what poisonous gas?
Answer: carbon monoxide
Question: David Low created what pompous British cartoon officer character, first appearing in London's Evening standard in the 1930s?
Answer: colonel blimp
Question: 20-year old criminology undergraduate Marisol Valles Garcia became police chief of drug-war-torn town Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero in what country?
Answer: mexico
Question: What are the basic three 'alter ego' states (of a person) identified and used within Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis theory?
Answer: parent adult child
Question: In which country was ex-England cricket captain Tony Greig born?
Answer: south africa
Question: What product was the first to appear in a UK TV commercial (in 1955)?
Answer: toothpaste
Question: Which singer was known as the 'Forces' Sweetheart'?
Answer: vera lynn
Question: What is the monkey species on the Rock of Gibraltar commonly called?
Answer: barbary ape
Question: In German mythology what is the name of the siren who lived on a rock and lured boatmen to their deaths?
Answer: lorelei
Question: Which group had three consecutive UK Christmas number ones in 1996, 97 and 98?
Answer: spice girls
Question: In which sport do Great Britain and the USA compete for the Westchester Cup?
Answer: polo
Question: What was the name of the bottled water launched by Coca-Cola and then withdrawn?
Answer: dasani
Question: How many players does an American Football team normally have on the field at one time?
Answer: eleven
Question: What are the two ingredients of a screwdriver cocktail?
Answer: vodka and orange juice
Question: In February 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last man to be hanged in which country, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in 1965?
Answer: australia
Question: In February 1942, Antonio Oscar Carmona was re-elected as president of which European country?
Answer: portugal
Question: What was the nickname of the largest fixed-wing flying boat ever built, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, flown by Howard Hughes in November 1947, for just eight minutes, its only ever flight?
Answer: spruce goose
Question: Which American expatriate poet and author was arrested by American soldiers in Italy in May 1945 for treason?
Answer: ezra pound
Question: Norman Rockwell's illustration of which US iconic World War II heroine appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in May 1943?
Answer: rosie riveter
Question: In March 1971, who defeated boxer Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden?
Answer: joe frazier
Question: What was Thornton Wilder's play performed for the first time ever in 1938 in Princeton, New Jersey?
Answer: our town
Question: Who made the 'I Am Prepared to Die' speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial in April 1964?
Answer: nelson mandela
Question: In October 1973, who resigned as Vice President of the US, and then pleaded no contest to the charges of income tax evasion in a federal court in Baltimore?
Answer: spiro t agnew
Question: In April 1946, Derby County beat which football team in the first FA Cup final since the end of the war?
Answer: charlton athletic
Question: Who did Marilyn Monroe marry in January 1954?
Answer: joe dimaggio
Question: In October 1960, Dr Michael Woodruff carried out the first successful transplant of what at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in the UK?
Answer: kidney
Question: In 1974, what was the title of Stephen King's first published novel?
Answer: carrie
Question: Who founded Tamla Motown Records in January 1959?
Answer: berry gordy jr
Question: In Britain, the Education Act of March 1944 provided free what in schools to all children in the UK under the age of 18?
Answer: milk
Question: In March 1951, which comic strip by Hank Ketcham appeared in newspapers accross the US for the first time?
Answer: dennis menace
Question: The Treaty of where established the European Economic Community in March 1957?
Answer: rome
Question: What was the name of the Coca-Cola Company's first diet drink, launched in 1963?
Answer: tab
Question: In a Los Angeles court, in March 1969, who admitted killing presidential candidate Robert Kennedy?
Answer: sirhan sirhan
Question: Published in August 1953, what is the name of the Report on 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female'?
Answer: kinsey report
Question: What is the colouring agent E102 also known as?
Answer: tartrazine
Question: David Balfour is the hero of which Robert Louis Stevenson novel?
Answer: kidnapped
Question: Its name shared by a species of goose, what are the marine crustaceans which live attached to submerged surfaces, such as the bottoms of boats?
Answer: barnacles
Question: A lachrymator is a substance that irritates which part of the body?
Answer: eyes
Question: The Abominable Snowman is said to inhabit which mountain range?
Answer: himalayas
Question: In needlework, what is the technique in which pieces of fabric are attached to another piece of material for decoration?
Answer: applique
Question: What is the croup of an animal, such as a horse?
Answer: rump
Question: Name the Italian-born American film producer (of Death Wish, Barbarella, and Hannibal) who died in November 2010 age 91?
Answer: dino de laurentis
Question: What island nation suffered a serious cholera outbreak in late 2010, partly as a consequence of a major earthquake in January the same year?
Answer: haiti
Question: The UK Conservative Party HQ in London, trashed during student protests in November 2010, is known by its address of 30 'what' ?
Answer: millbank
Question: What high-tech manufacturing corporation agreed to buy the security software company McAfee for $7.7bn in summer 2010?
Answer: intel
Question: What African country, south of Libya, west of Sudan, and east of Niger, has the capital N'Djamena?
Answer: chad
Question: Forbes Magazine reported in 2010 the most expensive (real estate) US zip code to be 91008 Duarte, in which US state?
Answer: california
Question: Name the German manufacturer of 2nd World War fighter planes which pioneered the micro car?
Answer: messerschmitt
Question: Sony announced in 2010 what iconic device would cease to be made after April 2011?
Answer: walkman
Question: What musical instrument is financier and mogul Warren Buffett associated with, notably because of his performances to shareholders?
Answer: ukulele
Question: The Cathedral of Saint Mary, at one time the largest church in the world, and burial place of Christopher Columbus, is in which city, by whose name it is better known?
Answer: seville
Question: Whose memoir 'Decision Points' was published in late 2010?
Answer: george w bush
Question: What is/was the Emperor of Exmoor, subject of much debate and news coverage about being the largest beast living wild in the UK, and whether it had actually been shot dead or not in late 2010?
Answer: stag