CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which country became a self-governing state within the British Empire on 3 June 1959, with Lee Kuan Yew was sworn in as the first prime minister 2 days later?
Answer: singapore
Question: Who is the next in this series: Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore ... ?
Answer: dick cheney
Question: What is the popular name for the ancient Egyptian works generally inscribed on papyrus and placed in coffins of nobility and royalty?
Answer: book of dead
Question: In 1949, when the part of Ireland that was more independent than the rest was declared a sovereign independent state outside the British Commonwealth, what name was given to it?
Answer: republic of ireland
Question: Which American pop singer/songwriter who won the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002 won two Grammy Awards in 2006 - for her album "Breakaway" and the single "Since U Been Gone"?
Answer: kelly clarkson
Question: In 2010, Neil Robertson became the second Australian to win the World Snooker Championship title. Who was the first, who won the 1952 championship?
Answer: horace lindrum
Question: Jugular veins carry blood away from which part of the body?
Answer: head
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" and "Peter and the Wolf" (a children's tale for narrator and orchestra)?
Answer: prokofiev
Question: Serena Williams, who had not advanced past the quarterfinals at the French Open between 2003 and 2009, lost to whom in the quarterfinals 63, 67(2), 86, in 2010?
Answer: samantha stosur
Question: Who succeeded Sir William Howe as Commander in Chief of the British forces in 1778 during the American War of Independence?
Answer: sir henry clinton
Question: What Western Christian military order, which existed for approximately two centuries in the Middle Ages, was endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129?
Answer: knights templar
Question: Which band put out a single in 1996 called "Tonight Tonight"?
Answer: smashing pumpkins
Question: Where is the "Day of the Dead" celebrated on 2 November?
Answer: mexico
Question: What phrase refers to an archaic method of excommunication for one who had committed a particularly grievous sin?
Answer: bell book and candle
Question: What embroidery technique is to gather fabric so that it can stretch, and was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable before elastic?
Answer: smocking
Question: Which English king asked the Pope to annul his marriage as he had married his brother's widow?
Answer: henry viii
Question: What unit of work represents the work done to overcome a force of 1 dyne through a distance of 1 centimetre?
Answer: erg
Question: What is the wine-tasting term for the aroma, smell or bouquet of a wine?
Answer: nose
Question: Which city has "areas" called Burdiehouse, Clermiston, Corstorphine, Dumbiedykes, The Grange, Haymarket, Hermiston, Holyrood, Inverleith, Jock's Lodge, Leith, Meadowbank, Murrayfield, Oxgangs, Pilrig, Portobello, Riccarton, Shandon and Tynecastle?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)"?
Answer: cherry pickers
Question: Winston Churchill started his first term as British Prime Minister during which event?
Answer: world war ii
Question: Simon Baker, the star of the TV series "The Mentalist", was born where?
Answer: australia
Question: In the 1990s, which country briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre and from 2001 to 2008, accepted aid from the Australian government in exchange for housing an illegal migrant detention center that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia?
Answer: nauru
Question: Between 1960 and 1987, Maurice Yamogo, Lt. Col. Sangoul Lamizana, Col. Saye Zerbo, Maj. Dr. Jean-Baptiste Oudraogo, Capt. Thomas Sankara and Capt. Blaise Compaor were involved in the politics of which country?
Answer: burkina faso
Question: Which mountain range extends over Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela?
Answer: andes
Question: How were Plcido Domingo, Jos Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti known collectively?
Answer: three tenors
Question: Doggles, invented by Ken and Roni di Lullo, are a type of what?
Answer: sunglasses
Question: In the 1960s, which instrument was associated with Mick Avory, John Steel, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, Charlie Watts, Dave Clark, Richard Taylor, Viv Prince and Jim McCarty?
Answer: drums
Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 Muses was the muse of Lyric poetry?
Answer: erato
Question: What was the name of the country in west Africa which, in 1975, was re-named "The People's Republic of Benin"?
Answer: dahomey
Question: David Attenborough is best known for narrating what kind of TV programme?
Answer: natural history
Question: The cities of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Bethlehem, Altoona and Harrisburg are in which US state?
Answer: pennsylvania
Question: In Greek and Roman mythology, who is the son (with a twin sister, Artemis) of Zeus and Leto, who has been worshipped as a god of a number of responsibilities, including light, the sun, truth, prophecy, archery, medicine, healing, music, poetry and the arts?
Answer: apollo
Question: Who won the World Darts Championship 13 times between 1995 and 2010 inclusive?
Answer: phil taylor
Question: What was the official date of the formation of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland"?
Answer: 1 january 1801
Question: What is the name for the act of murdering of one's own brother?
Answer: fratricide
Question: In the original Star Trek TV series that aired from 1966 to 1969, who played Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy?
Answer: deforest kelley
Question: Gene Kelly played Tommy Allbright in which 1954 film musical?
Answer: brigadoon
Question: According to a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s, what is the full name of Barbie, the doll manufactured by Mattel, Inc. launched in March 1959?
Answer: barbara millicent roberts
Question: Bernard and Phyllis Coard and Maurice Bishop were involved with the politics of which country in 1983?
Answer: grenada
Question: Retired professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, is a former governor of which US state?
Answer: minnesota
Question: Where are the Kasubi Tombs, also known as the Ssekabaka's Tombs, the burial grounds for four kings, which were badly damaged by fire on 16 March 2010?
Answer: kampala uganda
Question: The screenplay for which 2000 film, set against the UK miners' strike in County Durham in 1984 & 1985, was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's novel "The Stars Look Down"?
Answer: billy elliot
Question: What is the common name of the endangered Techmarscincus jigurru, usually found above 1400 m on the slopes of Queensland's highest mountains, which was discovered in 1981?
Answer: bartle frere skink
Question: The International Pageant of Pulchritude, held from 1926 to 1932, was the forerunner of what modern event?
Answer: miss universe
Question: A teaching technique invented by Sarah Ann Glover (who adapted it from a number of earlier systems) and popularised by John Curwen in the 19th century is associated with what activity?
Answer: singing
Question: Toward the end of 2000, in which sport was the diameter of the ball increased by 2mm to make it easier to be seen on television and thus make it more viable as a televised spectator sport?
Answer: table tennis
Question: What were the weapons used mainly by infantrymen in the American Civil War?
Answer: rifles
Question: A book by D H Lawrence that caused controversy in the 1960s is "Lady Chatterley's ..." what?
Answer: lover
Question: Olympic gold medallists Ian Fergusson and Danyon Loader represented which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Arnall Patz received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 for his lifetime of work in what field?
Answer: ophthalmology
Question: The Plum Judy, Painted Lady, Monarch, Speckled Wood, Mallow Skipper, and Zabulon Skipper are varieties of what?
Answer: butterfly
Question: What was the cause of a state of emergency in Kenya from October 1952 to December 1959?
Answer: mau mau rebellion
Question: A compilation of whose inspirational letters to a young jazz student named Anthony, has been published as "To a Young Jazz Musician"?
Answer: wynton marsalis
Question: Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez are associated with what style of music?
Answer: folk
Question: English actress Lily Langtry was the mistress of whom?
Answer: edward vii
Question: What historical period is commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the rise of nation-states and the beginnings of European overseas expansion?
Answer: middle ages
Question: What old English unit equalling inch (8.46 mm) is the base for the English and the US shoe sizing system?
Answer: barleycorn
Question: The city of Leningrad, Russia, is now known as what?
Answer: st petersburg
Question: What name was given to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France from the 16th to the 18th centuries, many of whom emigrated in the late 17th century, who were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s?
Answer: huguenots
Question: Which cartoon character was born at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm?
Answer: snoopy
Question: Which island was a major exporter of phosphate from 1907 until deposits ran out in the 1980s, and had the highest per-capita income of any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Answer: nauru
Question: Thomas Cranmer held what position during the reign of Henry VIII, between 3 December 1533 and 4 December 1555?
Answer: archbishop of canterbury
Question: What is the legal tender (face) value of the "American Buffalo", a 24-karat gold bullion coin first offered for sale by the US Mint on 22 June 2006?
Answer: us 50
Question: What is the next in this series: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians ... ?
Answer: colossians
Question: During a speech in January 1992, then-president George H. W. Bush mentioned that he wanted to "make American families a lot more like ... which family? ... and a lot less like the Simpsons".
Answer: waltons
Question: What nationality is Justine Henin, winner of 7 Grand Slam singles titles and an Olympic gold medal, who retired from professional tennis in 2008 when ranked World No. 1 and returned in 2010?
Answer: belgian
Question: Which colony centred at Fort Christina (now in Wilmington, Delaware) that included parts of the now US states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania was established in 1638, and in 1655 surrendered and was taken over by the Dutch?
Answer: new sweden
Question: Which cartoon series relies on the voices of Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis & Mike Henry?
Answer: family guy
Question: Who is the bulldog who appears in "Tom and Jerry" cartoons?
Answer: spike
Question: What name was applied to lightly-armed Russian horsemen?
Answer: cossacks
Question: What was the name of the British India "Special Force", the brainchild of British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, that operated behind Japanese lines in Burma & India in 1943/1944 during World War II?
Answer: chindits
Question: What weapon used in the middle ages had the cord of a bow fixed in a notch and an iron bolt released from it by a trigger?
Answer: crossbow
Question: Australopithecus sediba, an early hominid, whose only discovered remains date to 1.78 to 1.95 million years ago, is known from two partial skeletons discovered where?
Answer: south africa
Question: Who supposedly wrote the fictional diaries written by Sue Townsend?
Answer: adrian mole
Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 3 -4 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C 2 octaves below middle C, and the others tuned in fifths?
Answer: cello
Question: What was Emma Bunton's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: baby
Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who jumped over the moon?
Answer: cow
Question: What is the name of the main tournament course at St Andrews Golf Club?
Answer: old course
Question: What French political scandal involved the sentencing of an artillery officer to life imprisonment for treason in 1894, who was exonerated and reinstated to the French Army in 1906 after the discovery that the French government had fabricated evidence?
Answer: dreyfus affair
Question: Who is quoted as saying "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?
Answer: isaac newton
Question: Which American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins (water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane)?
Answer: peter agre
Question: What geographical feature is Bull Run, the site of the battle that was famously lost by troops commanded by General George Custer?
Answer: river
Question: What event, devised by Jennifer McCreight, took place on 26 April 2010 in response to reports that Hojatoleslam Kazem Seddiqi, Friday Prayer Leader for Tehran in Iran, had blamed earthquakes on women who dress immodestly?
Answer: boobquake
Question: Who is the next in this series: Jersey Joe Walcott, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson, ...?
Answer: sonny liston
Question: What designer is connected with the clothing brands Purple Label, Black Label, Polo, Blue Label, RLX, Tennis, Pink Pony and Chaps?
Answer: ralph lauren
Question: What is the name given to a randomly derived change to the nucleotide sequence of the genetic material of an organism?
Answer: mutation
Question: Which theme park in LA County, California, USA, initially created to offer tours of soundstages and sets, is one of the oldest movie studios still in use and was the first of many similar theme parks in, for example, Florida and Japan?
Answer: universal studios
Question: What was the name of the Liverpool club where the Beatles played in the early 1960s?
Answer: cavern
Question: Ronald Ross won a Nobel prize in medicine for his work on what subject?
Answer: malaria
Question: Peter The Hermit is known for leading what group in 1095?
Answer: first crusade
Question: What Roman road, which began to be constructed in 312 BC, connected Rome to Brindisi in southeast Italy?
Answer: appian way
Question: The American Landrace, Australian Yorkshire, British Landrace, Bulgarian White, Gascon, Hereford, Krskopolje, Mangalitsa, Moody Woody, Red Wattle, Tamworth and Wuzishan are all types of what?
Answer: pigs
Question: Which of his children did Michael Jackson famously hang over a hotel balcony?
Answer: blanket
Question: John McEnroe ended whose long term role as Wimbledon Champion?
Answer: bjorn borg
Question: What was the main activity of a group founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof?
Answer: terrorism
Question: In 1904 the Russian cruiser "Rossia" used what, the first time it was used by a warship on the high seas during a time of war?
Answer: observation balloon
Question: On 9 October 2009, who was elected for an 8 year period to membership of the International Olympic Committee, replacing former Danish member Kaj Holm?
Answer: frederik crown prince of denmark
Question: A binnacle is the name for the surround of what item found on a ship?
Answer: compass
Question: Who is the next in this series: Muhammad Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Muhammad Naguib, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar El Sadat, Sufi Abu Taleb, Hosni Mubarak, Atef Ebeid ... ?
Answer: hosni mubarak
Question: What part of the body removes old red blood cells, holds a reserve of blood in case of haemorrhagic shock and recycles iron?
Answer: spleen
Question: What was the name given to an insurrection (the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798) led by schoolteacher and barrister Patrick Pearse from 24 April to 30 April 1916, with the aim of establishing the Irish Republic?
Answer: easter rising
Question: What was the title of Pink Floyd's 11th studio album, released in 1987, that contained the single releases "Learning to Fly" and "One Slip"?
Answer: momentary lapse of reason
Question: In 2008 at Beijing, Laura Kay Berg became one of 4 women to have won 4 Olympic medals in what sport, having won 3 golds and 1 silver?
Answer: softball
Question: Florida produces 74 percent of which citrus fruit grown in the USA, 95% of which is processed, mostly for the official state beverage?
Answer: oranges
Question: Which English actor, director and producer, a descendant of the Terry acting family, was acclaimed for his youthful "Hamlet" which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937, and is one of the few to have won an Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award?
Answer: john gielgud
Question: Olympic gold medallists Ian Thorpe, Stephanie Rice, Lisbeth Trickett, Mike Wenden and John Henricks represented which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Which long running British police procedural television series that originated as a one-off drama, entitled "Woodentop" in August 1983 was first broadcast in 1984?
Answer: bill
Question: Which American actress became known for her role in the television series "Ally McBeal" and has appeared in several films, including "Charlie's Angels", "Kill Bill" and "Kung Fu Panda"?
Answer: lucy liu
Question: Who became the first President of the French Republic by popular vote in 1848, became dictator after a coup in 1851, then ruled as "Emperor of the French" from 1852 to September 1870, when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War?
Answer: napoleon iii
Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who laughed to see such fun?
Answer: dog
Question: What word describes the surface of the palms on the human body?
Answer: volar
Question: Dutch conductor and composer Andr Rieu, best known for creating an international revival in waltz music with his "Johann Strauss Orchestra" which began in 1987, is associated with which instrument?
Answer: violin
Question: What is the only major US City (which was founded in 1701 by Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac), that looks south to Canada?
Answer: detroit
Question: Which British TV series about cars that began in 1977 is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and features a test driver known as The Stig?
Answer: top gear
Question: What island nation in the South Pacific Ocean was, from 1906, jointly managed by France and the UK as the New Hebrides, and became a Republic in 1980?
Answer: vanuatu
Question: Minamata disease, a neurological syndrome with symptoms including ataxia, numbness, general weakness, narrowing of vision and damage to hearing and speech, and even insanity, paralysis, coma and death within weeks, is caused by severe poisoning by what?
Answer: mercury
Question: What was the first of the World Trade Centre buildings to be rebuilt after 9/11?
Answer: 7 world trade center
Question: After a Facebook campaign to make it the number 1 UK single in December 2009, "Killing In The Name" by which band set a record for most downloads in a single week, selling over 500,000 copies?
Answer: rage against machine
Question: If you were watching a game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers, what sport would they be playing?
Answer: ice hockey
Question: Which New York Yankees baseball identity is credited with coining the phrase "It's deja vu all over again"?
Answer: yogi berra
Question: Which country had, at various times, included areas known at various times as Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Istria and Rijeka?
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: What is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, the month of fasting, in which Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and so on from dawn to sunset?
Answer: ramadan
Question: What is the next in this series: "Lucky Town", "The Ghost of Tom Joad", "The Rising", "Devils & Dust", "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions", "Magic" ... ?
Answer: working on dream
Question: What thin, circular structure in the eye controls the diameter and size of the pupils and the amount of light reaching the pupil?
Answer: iris
Question: The Easter Rising, an insurrection staged during Easter Week 1916 with the aim of ending British rule, was where?
Answer: ireland
Question: """The Mystery of Edwin Drood"" is the unfinished novel by which author?"
Answer: charles dickens
Question: What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed as a "Kingdom" in 1929?
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: Busby Berkeley was famous for his contribution to elaborately staged extravagant scenes in film musicals, mainly between the 1920s to 1940s, as what?
Answer: choreographer
Question: The national flag of which country differs from the Italian tricolor only because it contains the national coat of arms?
Answer: mexico
Question: What tree is mentioned in the Christmas song 'Twelve Days of Christmas'?
Answer: pear tree
Question: The Red Ensign, a flag that originated in the early 17th century as a British ensign flown by the Royal Navy, is currently specifically used by which group?
Answer: british merchant navy
Question: What was the original name of the singer known as Annie Lennox, who was born on Christmas Day, 1954 in Torry, Aberdeen?
Answer: ann lennox
Question: What early 18th century English club in London with strong political and literary associations, had members which included writers William Congreve, Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison, and politicians the Duke of Marlborough and Sir Robert Walpole?
Answer: kit kat club
Question: In the 1970 UK general election, who was elected MP for North Antrim, became the longest serving MP from Northern Ireland, and led the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008?
Answer: ian paisley
Question: Who was the first female, the first Californian and the first Italian-American to hold the post of Speaker of the US House of Representatives?
Answer: nancy pelosi
Question: Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, represented which country?
Answer: usa
Question: What country in Southeast Asia about 640 km (400 miles) northwest of Australia that occupies half of one island and two smaller ones, was colonised by Portugal in the 16th century, declared independence on 28 November 1975, was invaded by Indonesia 9 days later and became a sovereign state on 20 May 2002?
Answer: east timor
Question: What was the name of the evil wizard that appeared in the TV series "The Smurfs"?
Answer: gargamel
Question: What was the nickname for a 1913 British Act of Parliament that enabled suffragettes on hunger strike to be released from prison when they became ill?
Answer: cat and mouse act
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, where did Peter Peter pumpkin eater keep his wife?
Answer: pumpkin shell
Question: The first name of the First Lady of which US president was Elizabeth, known as "Betty"?
Answer: gerald ford
Question: Since 1965, where has the headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) been located?
Answer: vienna austria
Question: What nation's boat "Black Magic I" won five races to nil in the America's Cup in 1995?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Ralph Nader's 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed" targeted which car?
Answer: chevrolet corvair
Question: """Rock 'n' Roll"", a play by Tom Stoppard that premiered in 2006, takes place in Cambridge, England and what other city?"
Answer: prague
Question: Which British laws introduced by the Importation Act of 1815 and repealed in 1846 are examples of British mercantilism, the abolition of which marked a significant step towards free trade?
Answer: corn laws
Question: Who, in 2010, became the first person from outside the British Isles to win the World Snooker Championship title since Cliff Thorburn in 1980, and the first non British player to win the title since Ken Doherty in 1997?
Answer: neil robertson
Question: Who was president of the USA when the first shots were fired in the American Civil War at First Sumter?
Answer: abraham lincoln