CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What legendary ruler visited King Solomon in the Bible, and became a metaphoric/ironic term for a female with delusions of grandeur?
Answer: queen of sheba
Question: The Frey Bentos factory of which nation was given UNESCO World Heritage status July 2015?
Answer: uruguay
Question: Jay Z and Beyonce launched a music streaming service in 2015 called?
Answer: tidal
Question: At auction in 2015, $1.2m was paid for Don McLean's original handrwitten lyrics for which 1971 big hit song?
Answer: american pie
Question: The 'Save the Children' charity admitted in 2015 it mistakenly awarded which controversial politician a Global Legacy award?
Answer: tony blair
Question: Name the ride which failed catastrophically at Alton Towers in 2015?
Answer: smiler
Question: Philae, the spaceprobe thought dead/lost until it recommunicated with controllers in 2015 is on?
Answer: comet 67p
Question: Which vast tech corporation opened its first 'Nest' branded intelligent home store in Palo Alto California in 2015?
Answer: google
Question: Who stepped down as chief of 21st Century Fox in 2015?
Answer: rupert murdoch
Question: Which 'BRIC' country launched the Astrosat space lab in 2015?
Answer: india
Question: 'Dismaland' was the temporary theme park/exhibition of which famous 'anonymous' artist?
Answer: banksy
Question: In 2015 the World Anti-Doping Agency suggested banning which nation from the 2016 Olympics?
Answer: russia
Question: Name the Princess born 4th in succession to the British throne in 2015, to Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?
Answer: charlotte
Question: In 2015 the Sinabug volcano erupted in?
Answer: indonesia
Question: Olav Bjortmont became 2015 world champion in?
Answer: quizzing
Question: Blackberry's new phone for 2015 was called the?
Answer: priv
Question: Jon Snow was killed off in what series in 2015, adapted from GRR Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire'?
Answer: game of thrones
Question: In a 2015 biography, who was accused of a bizarre initiation ceremony while a student Oxford University?
Answer: david cameron
Question: What nation hosted the 2015 Women's World (soccer) Cup?
Answer: canada
Question: Due to a 2015 contamination scandal in India/Afica, which corporation destroyed 400 million packets of Maggi noodles?
Answer: nestle
Question: Who was announced in 2015 as Jeremy Clarkson's replacement on BBC's popular TV show Top Gear?
Answer: chris evans
Question: What famous horror film actor - especially for playing Dracula - died age 93 in 2015?
Answer: christopher lee
Question: In the 2015 movie 'The Lady in the Van' was longstanding occupant of which English playwright's front drive?
Answer: alan bennett
Question: The space transport company launched in 2015 by Jeff Bezos is called?
Answer: blue origin
Question: The shortest ever entry in the history of what competition came from Finland in 2015?
Answer: eurovision song contest
Question: Published in 2015, Go Set a Watchman, written before her only prior and enduringly popular book of 1960, was written by whom?
Answer: harper lee
Question: Peter Robinson announced in 2015 he would step down as First Minister of?
Answer: northern ireland
Question: In 2015 Ronda Rousey lost to Holly Holm in what brutal sporting discipline?
Answer: ufc
Question: Which country won the 2015 Davis Cup (world team tennis)?
Answer: great britain
Question: Brazil began to nationalise its (What?) in 2015?
Answer: rainforest
Question: Oxford University Press/Dictionaries announced what (most popularly used emoji icon) 'word of the year 2015'?
Answer: face with tears of joy
Question: Whose family received $7.4m royalties from Pharrell Williams/Robin Thicke after a legal claim in 2015 for illicit use of the song Got to Give it Up?
Answer: marvin gaye
Question: Lord Coe ceased working for which brand in 2015 due to conflict of interest?
Answer: nike
Question: Helmut Schmidt, who died in 2015, once led which nation?
Answer: west germany
Question: What famous saying, representing a deranged and directionless group of people, has been interpreted in creative works by Hieronymus Bosch, Katherine Anne Porter, Erasure, The Grateful Dead, and Bob Seger, among others?
Answer: ship of fools
Question: What is the French meaning of 'Marmite'?
Answer: cooking pot
Question: According to his memoirs, what famous Venetian adventurer was once imprisoned as a magician, a director of the Paris state lotteries, knighted in the Netherlands, a spy for Louis XV, and a librarian in Bohemia?
Answer: casanova
Question: Who was the 'father of medicine' to whom a code of medical ethics is attributed and which bears his name?
Answer: hippocrates
Question: What city did Charles II of England sell to France in 1662 for £40,000?
Answer: dunkirk
Question: From which creatures can Newcastle disease transfer to humans, causing mild conjunctivitis and flu symptoms?
Answer: birds
Question: What household gadget did Melville R Bissell invent 1876?
Answer: carpet sweeper
Question: British Landrace, Pietrain and Tamworth are what sort of animals?
Answer: pigs
Question: Lee Kuan Yew became the first officially elected prime minister of which country in 1959?
Answer: singapore
Question: Who was rumoured to to have had his first wife Amy Robsart poisoned, in the hope of marrying Queen Elizabeth the First?
Answer: robert dudley earl of leicester
Question: A Salchow (usually pronounced 'salco' or 'salcov') is a jump in which sport?
Answer: figure skating
Question: Of Albanian descent, by what name is 1979 Nobel Prizewinner Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Answer: mother teresa
Question: Mjosa (more precisely Mjøsa) is the largest lake of which country?
Answer: norway
Question: The traditional biathlon most commonly (for example at the Olympics) consists of which two sports?
Answer: skiing and shooting
Question: The word deltiologist, derived from the Greek 'deltos' meaning writing-tablet, refers to a collector of what?
Answer: postcards
Question: Which tragic figure of Greek mythology became the King of Thebes after solving the Sphinx's riddle to guess what walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening?
Answer: oedipus
Question: What instant messaging service was acquired in 2014 for $16bn by Facebook?
Answer: whatsapp
Question: The main character in the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas is?
Answer: jack skellington
Question: American Linus Pauling, 1954 Nobel Prizewinner, conceived a helical structure fundamental to?
Answer: dna
Question: What spooky TV series was originally titled 'Too Much', and had a nicknamed character whose fictional 'real name' was Norville Rogers?
Answer: scooby doo
Question: The fictional character Norville Rogers is better known by the nickname?
Answer: shaggy
Question: The popular geeky children's TV series about an anthropomorphic aardvark whose theme song was sung by Ziggy Marley is?
Answer: arthur
Question: The long-standing currency of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (at early 2000s) is the?
Answer: shilling
Question: Drug corporation Reckitt Benckiser was found guilty of marketing false 'variations' and inflated pricing of what identical product? Paracetamol; Nurofen; Anadin; or Ibuprofen?
Answer: nurofen
Question: Human urine passes from each kidney via the ureter to (What?) next?
Answer: bladder
Question: The brunch dish of poached eggs, muffins, bacon/ham and hollandaise sauce, popularized in New York City is 'Eggs...?
Answer: benedict
Question: The 2015 Star Wars sequel is subtitled 'The Force...' ?
Answer: awakens
Question: A rock containing a mineral that can be viably extracted for use is called an?
Answer: ore
Question: The most poisonous fungi, which usually kills anyone eating it, is the?
Answer: destroying angel
Question: A dessicant is a hygroscopic substance used to produce (What?) in its vicinity?
Answer: dryness
Question: The Ancient Egyptian mummy/afterlife figure Anubis is typically half-man and half-?
Answer: dog
Question: New Year's Day (Gregorian international standard calendar) in the year 2017 is a?
Answer: sunday
Question: Tundra regions of the world are typically defined as having no?
Answer: trees
Question: Who created the 1970s persona Thin White Duke, and subsequent brands Glass Spider and Tin Machine?
Answer: david bowie
Question: The Solanum Pseudocapsicum plant, called winter cherry and Jerusalem cherry, is noted for being very?
Answer: poisonous
Question: What was the Russian city of Stalingrad renamed in 1961, after Europe's longest river?
Answer: volgograd
Question: Chinese Emperor Jing Di's 141BC tomb revealed in 2015 the early use of?
Answer: tea leaves
Question: The famous Ancient Roman marble statue 'Venus Callipyge' or 'Callipygian Venus' literally and artistically represents "Venus/Aphrodite of the beautiful..."?
Answer: buttocks
Question: Best-selling Japanese author Marie Kondo refers to Japanese 'Tokimeku' ('spark joy' - literally palpitate) in the life-changing 'KonMari' method of?
Answer: decluttering
Question: Vaquita porpoise 'maw', an illegally trafficked delicacy in Chinese cuisine, priced upwards of $10,000/kilo, is the creature's?
Answer: swim bladder
Question: What autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark has the Internet Top-Level Domain of .gl?
Answer: greenland
Question: What ancient Greek's name is given to the professional/ethical oath of medical doctors?
Answer: hippocrates
Question: What orange spice/colouring comes from the crocus plant, often associated with rice?
Answer: saffron
Question: Theseus, Hyppolyta, Nick Bottom, and Oberon the King of the Fairies are in Shakespeare's play?
Answer: midsummer night s dream
Question: Wikipedia's spherical logo features what symbol for Greek W, also a fatty acid name?
Answer: omega
Question: What hugely popular cereal crop has varieties including Arborio (Italy), Ambemohar (India), Doongara (Australia), and Uruchimai (Japan)?
Answer: rice
Question: What word is a flat-bottom boat, a football kick, a glassmaking tool, and a dented base of a wine bottle?
Answer: punt
Question: Turkish Van, Chartreux, Scottish Fold and Ragdoll are types of?
Answer: cats
Question: What popular orange-coloured citrus fruit is surprisingly a hybrid of the pomelo (25%) and mandarin (75%)?
Answer: orange
Question: Undiscovered for 100 years and published 2016, 'The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots' was written by?
Answer: beatrix potter
Question: Whose 'heroic' performance at the German Reichstag in 1987 is considered a catalyst for the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989/90?
Answer: david bowie
Question: The US 1899-founded Gideons International organization is famous for distributing to 200 countries free?
Answer: bibles
Question: Considered the oldest living land animal at 183yrs in 2016, on St Helena island, Sth Atlantic, Jonathan is a Seychelles Giant?
Answer: tortoise
Question: Rochambo/Rochambeau is better known as (What?), typically used to decide a tie, or determine an order between competitors?
Answer: rock paper scissors
Question: Which one of these is not a founding member of the European Union, nor has ever been a member (at 2016)?
Answer: norway
Question: A slot/fruit machine was originally known as a One-Armed?
Answer: bandit
Question: Hex/Allen, Slot, Cross, and Phillips are types of?
Answer: screw drives
Question: Name the famous naval base and natural port on Oahu island, Hawaii, which featured in the US entry to World War II?
Answer: pearl harbor
Question: The classical composers Bach, Brahms, Handel, Strauss, and Schumann are all?
Answer: german
Question: Quiche Lorraine traditionally contains lardons, which are pieces of?
Answer: pork fat
Question: Which of one these does not feature in lists of the most common UK pub names in recent times?
Answer: princess diana
Question: Philadelphia, Cheddar, Feta, and Paneer are all?
Answer: cheeses
Question: From Latin 'sapo', saponification is a process of producing?
Answer: soap
Question: Zika disease, identified 1947 and epidemic in S America commencing 2015, is mainly transmitted by infected?
Answer: mosquitoes
Question: IHOP refers to which N American-based fast-food chain?
Answer: international house of pancakes
Question: Barbara Millicent Roberts (1959 - present) from Willows Wisconsin is better known as what iconic figure?
Answer: barbie
Question: According to DC Comics history, 'Nightwing' when younger was?
Answer: robin
Question: The fitness corporations Fitbit and Fitbug, subject of legal actions 2013-16, pioneered?
Answer: wearable technology
Question: Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, and Arthur C Clarke are famous writers of?
Answer: science fiction
Question: Plankton (including jellyfish, algae, krill) is named from Greek 'planktos', which refers to its defining feature?
Answer: drifter
Question: Barber, Debussy, Glass and Holst are?
Answer: composers
Question: Marfona, Charlotte, Jersey, and Desiree are?
Answer: potato varieties
Question: Which one of these is not among the three most common gases of the Earth's atmosphere, instead being the most abundant chemical in the Universe?
Answer: hydrogen
Question: Tallow, Beeswax, Spermaceti, and Paraffin are traditionally used in making?
Answer: candles
Question: The famous self-styled anarchist web-hacking group founded in 2003 is called?
Answer: anonymous
Question: Name the controversial detention camp established in 2002 by the USA in Cuba?
Answer: guantanamo bay
Question: Often suggested as an English national anthem, William Blake's 1804 poem set to Hubert Parry's music is?
Answer: jerusalem
Question: Martini, Rossini, Mojito, and Sazerac are?
Answer: cocktails
Question: Clipper, Brigantine, Corvette, and Schooner are?
Answer: sailing ships
Question: Who released an album in 1999 called Brand New Day?
Answer: sting
Question: Excluding Australia and continental land masses what is the largest island in the world?
Answer: greenland
Question: What is the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain more popularly known as?
Answer: eros
Question: What is the name of Don Quixote's horse?
Answer: rosinante
Question: In the human body what is Varicella commonly known as?
Answer: chicken pox
Question: What is the metal or plastic end of a shoelace called?
Answer: aglet
Question: With which country did the UK have the long-running 'Cod War' disputes over fishing rights?
Answer: iceland
Question: Who was given the name 'Fourth Man' when he was revealed as a spy in 1979?
Answer: anthony blunt
Question: What famous landmark was moulded in gold during a bullion robbery in the 1951 film The Lavender Hill Mob?
Answer: eiffel tower
Question: How many players are there in an Australian Rules football team (on the field at the same time)?
Answer: eighteen
Question: At which ski resort would you see the Cresta Run?
Answer: st moritz
Question: White Lion pubs are named after which English King's heraldic symbol?
Answer: edward fourth
Question: What every-day item was named after Mrs Gamp in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit?
Answer: umbrella
Question: The Aconcagua is the highest peak in which mountain range?
Answer: andes
Question: What of these sports bodies was founded first, the AAA, FA, MCC or IOC?
Answer: mcc
Question: What was American silent film star 'Fatty' Arbuckle's first name?
Answer: roscoe
Question: The character Roger 'Race' Bannon appeared as a boy's bodyguard in which cartoon series?
Answer: jonny quest
Question: The Phoenix Park murders of 1882 took place in which city?
Answer: dublin
Question: What is the human ailment epistaxis better known as?
Answer: nosebleed
Question: In British history a Cavalier was a supporter of which king?
Answer: charles i
Question: Assassinated in 1965, who was Malcolm Little better known as?
Answer: malcolm x
Question: By what name was Dutch dancer Margarethe Zelle better known?
Answer: mata hari
Question: Which famous US lawman had brothers called Morgan and Virgil?
Answer: wyatt earp
Question: In 1968 which US artist and film maker was shot and wounded by actress Valerie Solanas?
Answer: andy warhol
Question: In 1902 the Treaty of Vereeniging brought which war to an end?
Answer: second boer war
Question: The original 'Wendy house' was built for which fictional character?
Answer: wendy darling
Question: Convict Robert Franklin Stroud was better known as whom?
Answer: birdman of alcatraz
Question: Which city is known as Auld Reekie and also Athens of the North?
Answer: edinburgh
Question: Dame Peggy Ashcroft won an Oscar for her role in which 1984 film?
Answer: passage to india
Question: Who wrote the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
Answer: thomas gray
Question: Little Big Horn, the scene of Custer's last stand, is in which US state?
Answer: montana
Question: Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' theory is commonly represented as a?
Answer: pyramid
Question: Abraham Maslow's seminal book introducing the 'Hierearchy of Needs' is called?
Answer: motivation and personality
Question: Which one of these does not appear in Maslow's 'Esteem' category of needs?
Answer: marriage
Question: Which one of these does not appear in Maslow's 'Belongingness and Love' category of needs?
Answer: punishment
Question: The highest-order need added/interpreted/implied within Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' is?
Answer: transcendence
Question: The Latin prefix 'dino' (as in dinosaur) means?
Answer: terrible
Question: The standard spoken English accent of the UK, abbreviated to 'RP', traditionally used by BBC newsreaders, the Royal Family and 'upper class' is fully called '(What?) Pronunciation'?
Answer: received
Question: Volvic, Evian, Perrier and San Pellegrino are famous brands of?
Answer: bottled water
Question: What is a pullover, a New US state, a UK channel island and knitted fabric first produced there?
Answer: jersey
Question: What once world-leading social networking website was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580m in 2005, and sold to Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake for $35m in 2011?
Answer: myspace
Question: A 'short corner' or 'penalty corner' features in?
Answer: field hockey
Question: Jana Gana Mana is, since 1950, the national anthem of?
Answer: india
Question: The internationally significant UK organizations PRS and PPL which merged in 2016 operate in which sector?
Answer: music
Question: The saying which alludes to a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and to the intoxicating effects of a trade glue is 'Mad as a (What?)'?
Answer: hatter
Question: The 13th century legend of Lady Godiva, riding naked on horseback in Coventry to save townsfolk from her husband's taxes, featured/originated the notion of a voyeur called 'Peeping (Who?)'?
Answer: tom
Question: When an entity/person disposes of significant assets, perhaps unwisely, to raise money, this is called 'Selling off the family (What?)?
Answer: silver
Question: St Andrews, Cypress Point, Augusta, and Muirfield are famous?
Answer: golf courses
Question: Butterfly, Trudgen, Back, Side, and Breast are?
Answer: swimming strokes
Question: Shakespeare's romantic tragedy written c1598 is called 'Much Ado about (What?)'?
Answer: nothing
Question: The Anglicized-Latin court term 'in camera' means proceedings are?
Answer: in private
Question: Paramount and CBS Studios went to court in 2016 to enforce rights over what fictional language when the fan-funded Axanar company sought to produce a prequel to a popular 1966-founded franchise set originally in the 23rd century?
Answer: klingon
Question: A famous sports car named after Argentina's hot dusty North wind, is the?
Answer: zonda
Question: On a QWERTY keyboard the backslash (\) shares the key with the?
Answer: vertical bar
Question: The photocopying technology called Xerography is named from Greek 'xero' meaning?
Answer: dry
Question: In 1852 American Elisha Graves Otis produced the first successful (eponymously branded) safety?
Answer: elevator
Question: The 1940s originating term 'Latchkey child/kid' refers to a child who is often?
Answer: home alone
Question: An oubliette, which has a top opening for access, is a?
Answer: dungeon
Question: What is a musical note time value/symbol, a voice tremble, and a brand of cheese snacks?
Answer: quaver
Question: Ostler is an old occupational name for someone who looks after?
Answer: horses
Question: The famous bazouki instrumental dance music which speeds up is called Zorba the?
Answer: greek
Question: The Japanese 'chūkanabe' (Chinese pot) is known popularly in Western/Chinese culture as a?
Answer: wok
Question: The unstressed vowel sound 'uh' usually represented by 'a' or 'e' (in 'ago', and 'a cat' or 'open') is called a?
Answer: schwa
Question: According to the rainbow/light spectrum mnemonic (memory aid), Richard Of York Gave (What?) In Vain?
Answer: battle
Question: Formed 1950 and dissolved 1990, the Stasi was the secret police of?
Answer: east germany
Question: Sepals and Tepals are decorative protective elements of many old?
Answer: flowers
Question: Aurizon, VicTrack, Brookfield and John Holland are/were major railway operators of?
Answer: australia
Question: A plantar wart or myrmecia is better known as a?
Answer: veruca
Question: The Fountain of Neptune, Bologna, Italy, inspired which famous sports car logo?
Answer: maserati
Question: What common typographical symbol's name is taken from Greek 'little star'?
Answer: asterisk
Question: The iconic symbol of Kathmandu is in Nepal; Iraq; France; or the Lord of the Rings?
Answer: nepal
Question: In the Russian alphabet and Cyrillic script the 'English' 3 symbol equates to?
Answer: z
Question: Flared trousers were originated in the early 1800s by?
Answer: sailors
Question: Where are found the Seas of Tranquility, Cleverness, Nectar, and Moisture?
Answer: moon
Question: Pitcairn Islands, home to several 1790 'Mutiny on the Bounty' mutineers, are in the Southern?
Answer: pacific
Question: Blepharoplasty refers to a common cosmetic surgery on?
Answer: eyelids
Question: Zephyr, Sirocco, Mistral, and Chinook are names of?
Answer: winds
Question: The Poaceae or Gramineae family of organisms is better known as?
Answer: grasses
Question: The first most popular book of seven from CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) is The Lion, The Witch and the?
Answer: wardrobe
Question: The term 'histrionics', referring to excessive emotion, is Latin 'histrion', meaning?
Answer: actor
Question: Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), author of 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham', is most famous in what literary genre?
Answer: children s
Question: The name of which famous island borough, also a cocktail and Woody Allen film, derives from Lenape Native American Indian, land owners until Dutch settler acquisition, 1626?
Answer: manhattan
Question: Ptolemy (AD100-170), Roman/Egyptian, was a famous?
Answer: writer
Question: The central financial City of London is known as the (What?) Mile?
Answer: square
Question: Body language is also known as (What?), derived from Greek, meaning motion?
Answer: kinesics
Question: Body language is also generally called, and categorized within, what well-established term?
Answer: non verbal communication
Question: Who wrote 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals' in 1872, considered the start of body language science?
Answer: charles darwin
Question: Physiognomy, related historically to body language, interprets human characteristics from a person's?
Answer: face
Question: Author of the 1971 book 'Body Language', which helped popularize the subject, was Julius?
Answer: fast
Question: According to research, the perception and interpretation of body language is generally strongest in?
Answer: women
Question: When a person moves his/her eyes right, this generally indicates what sort of thinking/communication?
Answer: creative
Question: The state of Nebraska was sold to the USA in 1803 by which country?
Answer: france
Question: Who was the first woman to walk in space?
Answer: svetlana savitskaya
Question: In which European town is the Menin Gate Memorial to missing British and Commonwealth soldiers?
Answer: ypres
Question: Who was the president of Chile from 1974-90?
Answer: augusto pinochet
Question: Who played the prison warden in the 1979 film Escape from Alcatraz?
Answer: patrick mcgoohan
Question: Sounding like a placename, what is the traditional pronged spear used for catching Salmon called?
Answer: leister
Question: Who succeeded Michael Foot as leader of the Labour Party in the UK?
Answer: neil kinnock