CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the first standardised system of measurement established in Mesopotamia?
Answer: royal gur cube
Question: A coup in February 2010 led by Colonel Djibril Adamou Harouna displaced president Mamadou Tandja in which country?
Answer: niger
Question: Which Noble Order of Knighthood, whose motto is "honi soit qui mal y pense" was founded in 1348 in England by King Edward III?
Answer: order of garter
Question: When his Late String Quartets were first performed in the 1820s, listeners described them variously as "indecipherable, uncorrected horrors" and "we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is". Who was the composer?
Answer: ludwig van beethoven
Question: The Great Fire of London in 1666 happened when which King was on the British throne?
Answer: charles ii
Question: According to Malory and Tennyson who was the son of Lancelot and Elaine, raised by nuns and knighted on his arrival at Camelot?
Answer: galahad
Question: In 2003, Kate Winslet married (and subsequently had two children with) whom?
Answer: sam mendes
Question: Tom Cruise played which role in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire"?
Answer: jerry maguire
Question: Prior to the coming of William the Conqueror in 1066 where was the capital of England situated?
Answer: winchester
Question: Which standard recurring character Batman comic book character did not appear in the film "Batman" (1989) nor "Batman Returns" (1992), but was in "Batman Forever" (1995) and "Batman & Robin" (1997)?
Answer: robin
Question: On which continent are the native fauna called ostrich, lion, giraffe and okapi?
Answer: africa
Question: What band released the albums "Wild Life", "Red Rose Speedway", "At the Speed of Sound", "London Town" and Back to the Egg" between 1971 and 1979?
Answer: wings
Question: Where is the second regional gallery in the Tate Gallery network, that was opened in 1993?
Answer: st ives cornwall
Question: The libretto for Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" was based on a play written by the playwright Victorien Sardou for performance by which actress?
Answer: sarah bernhardt
Question: In ancient Rome, what was the title of a magistrate who was next in importance to a consul?
Answer: praetor
Question: Where did Henry Ford, in the early twentieth century, establish the Ford Motor Company?
Answer: detroit usa
Question: Lake Chad, the second largest wetland in Africa, is shared by the Republic of Chad, the Republic of Cameroon, Nigeria and which other country?
Answer: republic of niger
Question: Who made the musical sculptures called "Pythagoras", "Kepler" & "Galileo" that were installed between the tracks of Kendall Station in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1987 to 2007?
Answer: paul matisse
Question: Someone who has an abnormal fear of dogs is suffering from what?
Answer: cynophobia
Question: William Shakespeare wrote plays set in Italy, Denmark, Scotland, England, Greece, Troy, Egypt, Tyre and more; what was his nationality?
Answer: english
Question: In the Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho", where did the murder take place?
Answer: in shower
Question: Tolstoy's book "War and Peace" is set when?
Answer: napoleonic wars
Question: G. H. Armauer Hansen discovered the cause of what disease in 1873?
Answer: leprosy
Question: What plant, a bushy herb of the mint family, has a heavy, strong scent, and has been used for centuries in perfumes?
Answer: patchouli
Question: What do the notes for the "euro" have on the front (recto)?
Answer: windows or gateways
Question: What was the occupation of Polish trade unionist and politician Lech Walesa?
Answer: electrician
Question: In mediaeval falconry, which social level was most commonly associated with a goshawk?
Answer: yeoman
Question: Who was expelled from school, owned two failed businesses, worked for the Northampton Repertory Company and appeared in the film "Murder at Monte Carlo", where he was discovered by a Warner Brothers executive and went on to make 58 films?
Answer: errol flynn
Question: The island of Madagascar is off the coast of which African mainland country?
Answer: mozambique
Question: The fifteen elements with atomic numbers 57 to 71, which includes Lanthanum (La), Cerium (Ce), Praseodymium (Pr), Neodymium (Nd), Promethium (Pm), Europium (Eu), Erbium (Er), Thulium (Tm), Ytterbium (Yb) and Lutetium (Lu), are known as what?
Answer: lanthanoid series
Question: What nationality was Abel Janszoon Tasman the voyager, explorer and map maker?
Answer: dutch
Question: Who was the (subsequently) Pulitzer-Prize-winning American playwright who wrote "The Odd Couple"?
Answer: neil simon
Question: Who created and performed the most soundtracks for the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps?
Answer: david byrne and brian eno
Question: Prepatellar bursitis is more commonly known as what?
Answer: housemaid s knee
Question: The line "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind ..." is from which film?
Answer: wall street
Question: What is the largest island administered by the People's Republic of China, which is due east of Vietnam?
Answer: hainan
Question: In May 2001, Christopher Bailey was appointed creative director of which British luxury fashion house that manufactures clothing, fragrances and fashion accessories?
Answer: burberry
Question: Which film actor (1895-1926) is known for his films "The Four Horsemen", "The Sheik" and "Blood And Sand"?
Answer: rudolph valentino
Question: Who was said to have interceded to save the life of Captain John Smith, was later taken hostage and held at Jamestown, married John Rolfe, came to England and died at Gravesend in 1617?
Answer: pocahontas
Question: What describes a variable signal that is continuous in time and amplitude, that can be seen as the opposite of "digital"?
Answer: analogue
Question: What type of building in the Roman forum, the largest of its type there, was called "Julia"?
Answer: basilica
Question: What style of French painting, influenced by Flemish and Dutch Baroque and Italian styles, with schools developed around Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens, was practised by Georges de la Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain brothers?
Answer: louis xiii
Question: Who commited suicide after she was abandoned by Aeneas?
Answer: dido
Question: Who played the joker in the 2008 film "The Dark Knight"?
Answer: heath ledger
Question: What term for a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, a famous example odf which is Paul Gauguin's "The Yellow Christ" (1889), was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin in 1888?
Answer: cloisonnism
Question: Which river runs through the cities of Turin, Piacenza and Ferrara, and is connected to Milan through a network of channels?
Answer: po
Question: Which official knocks three times on the doors to the chamber of the House of Commons at the state opening of a British parliament?
Answer: black rod
Question: Which Canadian-born bandleader and violinist formed The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and Victor?
Answer: guy lombardo
Question: Which film, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, concerns a man from Vermont who tries to share his inheritance?
Answer: mr deeds goes to town
Question: Where was Geoff Ogilvie, the 2006 US Open golf tournament winner, born?
Answer: australia
Question: What name was given to both of the Acts that united the parliaments of England and Scotand in 1707, and those of Britain and Ireland in 1800?
Answer: act of union
Question: What is a Chinese-inspired meat dumpling-style snack food that normally consists of a large ball of pork or other meat, cabbage and flavourings, encased in a wrapper similar to that of a more traditional dumpling?
Answer: dim sim
Question: He was a founding member, songwriter, and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex, made his professional acting debut in 1992 in UK TV, and in TV has starred alongside Robbie Coltrane, Philip Glenister, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent. Who is he?
Answer: john simm
Question: A single flame gas burner frequently used in student science laboratories is named after whom?
Answer: robert bunsen
Question: What was the name of the TV producer who started what became a long and outstanding career by establishing the UK TV series "Dr Who" in 1963?
Answer: verity lambert
Question: By what name is the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who lived near Coventry in the 11th century, better known?
Answer: lady godiva
Question: Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play US Marshalls investigating the disappearance of a psychiatric patient in the 1950s in which 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese?
Answer: shutter island
Question: """Hobson-Jobson"" is the short title of a book written by Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell, first published in 1886, that contains what?"
Answer: anglo indian words and terms
Question: Which American serial killer raped and murdered at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978, burying many in the crawl space underneath his home, who became known as "Killer Clown" for entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup as "Pogo the Clown"?
Answer: john wayne gacy jr
Question: In what kind of establishment was the TV series Fawlty Towers set?
Answer: hotel
Question: What is a means for storing movies and so on, on a disc?
Answer: dvd
Question: Which author is the ex-wife of British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer Sir Terence and the mother of designers Sebastian and Jasper?
Answer: shirley conran
Question: What sport is played at an international level by ngel Cabrera, Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen, Stewart Cink, Pdraig Harrington, Sergio Garca, Henrik Stenson & Fred Funk?
Answer: golf
Question: Awarded since 1955, what is the name of the highest prize for competing films at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: palme d or
Question: Who had 2 hit records in his short career, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" & "Time in a Bottle"?
Answer: jim croce
Question: Whose visit to Vietnam in November 2000 was the first by a U.S. President since the end of the Vietnam War?
Answer: bill clinton
Question: Which space telescope was carried into orbit by the space shuttle in April 1990?
Answer: hubble
Question: Who wrote the line "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree"?
Answer: samuel taylor coleridge
Question: Covering 75,000 square km, what is the world's largest river delta?
Answer: ganges brahmaputra
Question: Which Polynesian island nation of 4 reef islands and 5 true atolls in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, became fully independent within the Commonwealth in 1978?
Answer: tuvalu
Question: Hamlet's thought: "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of ..."?
Answer: king
Question: What title did King Edward VIII of the UK take after his abdication?
Answer: duke of windsor
Question: Who did George W. Bush beat for the US presidency in 2000?
Answer: al gore
Question: In 2010, the International Cricket Council turned down a nomination for Vice President from ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard in favour of one from Alan Isaac, who was from which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: The world's first passenger railway operated between which two stations?
Answer: stockton darlington
Question: Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover often had public conversations in which language so that people could not eavesdrop on them?
Answer: mandarin chinese
Question: The long-running murder mystery play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie, was developed from an earlier radio play by the same author called what?
Answer: three blind mice
Question: She was known during her training and work as Nora Baker, and was posthumously awarded a British George Cross, appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire and awarded a French Croix de Guerre with Gold Star. What was her real name?
Answer: noor inayat khan
Question: What is produced from milk curds, and is drained, not pressed, so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose?
Answer: cottage cheese
Question: The Beach Soccer World Championship began in 1995 and became the Beach Soccer World Cup in 2005. Which country has won the contest most often since 1995?
Answer: brazil
Question: What powers the form of transport known as lectica (ancient Rome), jiao (China), sedan chair (England), palanquin (India), gama (Korea) and tahtrevan (Turkey)?
Answer: humans
Question: Bela Lugosi's most famous role was as who?
Answer: dracula
Question: Who is the only boxer to be the WBA Heavyweight Champion four times?
Answer: evander holyfield
Question: Who was a session musician from Harlesden, North London, England who played for leading UK independent producers Shel Talmy and Mickie Most and performed on albums and singles by The Kinks, The Move, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, and the Steve Miller Band?
Answer: nicky hopkins
Question: The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" entered pop music vocabulary following a performance at the Super Bowl XXXVIII between Janet Jackson and which other singer?
Answer: justin timberlake
Question: The tibia and fibula are found where in the human body?
Answer: lower leg
Question: According to Tennyson in "The Passing of Arthur", which knight stayed with the dying King Arthur to the end and threw the sword Excalibur into the lake?
Answer: bedivere
Question: Which car maker has marketed models called Jazz, Accord, Civic and Legend?
Answer: honda
Question: Where would you find the Caves of Altamira, famous for prehistoric paintings on the rock?
Answer: spain
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "The World Is Not ... "
Answer: enough
Question: What band's lead singer is known as "Suggs"?
Answer: madness
Question: According to Ovid, a giant called Argus had his hundred what preserved forever in a peacock's tail, by the goddess Hera?
Answer: eyes
Question: The Straits of Florida go between the Gulf of Mexico and where?
Answer: atlantic ocean
Question: Who ordered the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Answer: khufu
Question: Whose remains, after he died in 1506 at Valladolid, Mexico, were taken to San Domingo then Havana, and then, in 1898, to Seville?
Answer: christopher columbus
Question: What is the city where the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria meets the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia?
Answer: khartoum
Question: Henry Croft, an orphan street sweeper who collected money for charity, is associated with what organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England?
Answer: pearly kings and queens
Question: The Gunpowder Plot, planned for 5 November 1605, was an attempt by a group of Catholics to blow up the English parliament and which monarch?
Answer: james i
Question: What was the "Lord of the Rings" character Gollum originally?
Answer: hobbit
Question: A modified version of which type of weapon was designed by US frontiersman Jim Bowie?
Answer: knife
Question: What is the study of the production of very low temperature and the behaviour of materials at those temperatures?
Answer: cryogenics
Question: What rock is where the "Pilgrim Fathers" are said to have landed in North America in 1620?
Answer: plymouth
Question: Which team beat the defending champions, Russia, 21 in the final of the 2010 Ice Hockey World Championships?
Answer: czech republic
Question: What do Viva la Vida, No Line on the Horizon, Spore and the Sirocco have in common?
Answer: brian eno
Question: What is the collective name for table items such as salt, mustard, vinegar and pepper?
Answer: condiments
Question: Which British ruler was nicknamed "The Merry Monarch"?
Answer: charles ii
Question: Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA?
Answer: puerto rico
Question: Which World Championship inaugurated in 1963 has been dominated primarily by the Australian and New Zealand national teams?
Answer: netball
Question: What Hindu practice involves a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre?
Answer: suttee
Question: What is the name for the coloured part around the pupil of the eye?
Answer: iris
Question: The 1983 film "Staying Alive" was the sequel to what film?
Answer: saturday night fever
Question: John Muir is known as the father of which US national institution?
Answer: national park service
Question: What name is given to the area above the stage into which scenery can be raised?
Answer: flies
Question: A businessman with the surname of Masterley is the subject of a comic strip. What is his first name, and the title of the strip?
Answer: alex
Question: Which conductor of the Worcester Glee Club from 1879 to 1889, went on to write "The Enigma Variations" and "The Dream of Gerontius"?
Answer: edward elgar
Question: In Christian chronology when is the 'Feast of Stephen'?
Answer: 26 december
Question: Which two countries between them have won every Netball World Championship since its inception in 1963?
Answer: australia and new zealand
Question: Where was the first FIFA Club World Championship, a football competition contested between the world's champion clubs, held in 2000?
Answer: brazil
Question: What is the name of the large seat covered with red cloth, being the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the UK Parliament?
Answer: woolsack
Question: Who was the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1964 to 1965 and the first Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1979?
Answer: ian smith
Question: Which Scotswoman is an Oscar, Brit and Grammy award-winning pop musician and vocalist who, after 3 years as lead singer of "The Tourists", formed the duo "Eurythmics" with British musician Dave Stewart?
Answer: annie lennox
Question: What machine, that enables a person to breathe when the work of breathing exceeds their ability to do so, was invented by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw in 1928 and improved upon by John Haven "Jack" Emerson in 1931?
Answer: iron lung
Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "edam"?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart's candidacy?
Answer: where s beef
Question: What cemetery near Sturgis, South Dakota, is associated with a gold rush, land wars, and a famous 19th century last stand?
Answer: black hills national cemetery
Question: Who wrote the book "In His Own Write", published in March 1964, and the follow up, "A Spaniard in the Works", published in June 1965?
Answer: john lennon
Question: What was the occupation of Willy Loman in the play written in 1949 by Arthur Miller?
Answer: salesman
Question: Who wrote the lyrics to Burt Bacharach's music for the songs including "The Look of Love", "Walk on By", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "This Guy's in Love with You" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"?
Answer: hal david
Question: Who was the writer of the books on which the UK comedy TV series "Doctor in the House" (1969-70) were based?
Answer: richard gordon
Question: What provides the staple diet of a koala?
Answer: eucalyptus tree
Question: The pirate radio station Radio Caroline was named after the daughter of which US President?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: During the production of the Disney animated feature "Fantasia", what nickname was given by the animation department to the unnamed sorcerer in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment?
Answer: yen sid
Question: Which country has, at various times, been known as "Kingdom of" (1918), "Democratic Federal" (1943) "Federal People's Republic of" (1946), "Socialist Federal Republic of" (1963) and "Federal Republic of" (1992 to 2003)?
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: A relatively modern religion laying claim to roots in an ancient belief system is...?
Answer: wiccan
Question: Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa & Andrea Dovizioso compete in what sport?
Answer: motorcycling
Question: The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour was a gift in 1886 to the USA by whom?
Answer: people of france
Question: Who plays Gail Platt in the British TV soap opera "Coronation Street"?
Answer: helen worth
Question: At which event, in 2010, was Francesca Schiavone the first Italian woman to win a tennis Grand Slam event in singles?
Answer: french open
Question: Who developed the live attenuated polio vaccine which has led to hopes of global eradication of the virus?
Answer: albert sabin
Question: The White Witch, Madagascan Sunset, Luna and Gypsy are varieties of what?
Answer: moth
Question: Two wars fought in 1880-1881 and then in 1899-1902 in South Africa are known as what?
Answer: boer wars
Question: China is the world's biggest tea producer. Which is the second biggest?
Answer: india
Question: Who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: nikita khrushchev
Question: In architecture, what is the space around the altar at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building?
Answer: chancel
Question: The partition of India, formalised in 1947, was characterised by religious tension and violence between Hindus and people of which other major religious group?
Answer: muslim
Question: What is name for the holistic, global, comparative study of humans (the comprehensive study of human beings and of their interactions with each other and the environment), which has its intellectual origins in both the natural sciences and the humanities?
Answer: anthropology
Question: The largest river in China and among the largest in the world, it is variously known over its length as Ulan Moron, Dangqu, Tongtian, Jinsha, Sichuan, Jing and Dajiang, and has been called the Kiang and the Blue River. By what name is it now most often known outside China?
Answer: yangtze
Question: What was the area now known as the Mekong Delta called in the 19th century?
Answer: cochinchina
Question: Ayers, Blake's Pride, Concorde and Louise Bonne are types of what?
Answer: pear
Question: What was the first name of Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement?
Answer: mohandas
Question: The peace treaty, the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I, was signed between the Allied Powers and which nation?
Answer: germany
Question: Who played James Herriot in the British TV series (1978 1990) "All Creatures Great and Small"?
Answer: christopher timothy
Question: The Matterhorn is on the border between which two countries?
Answer: switzerland and italy
Question: The Polisario Front disputes which country for control of the Western Sahara?
Answer: morocco
Question: In film and photography, what is the name for the distance in front of and behind the subject which appears to be in focus?
Answer: depth of field
Question: In 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali became head of what organisation?
Answer: united nations
Question: What was the name of the security organisation that operated in East Germany during the Cold War?
Answer: stasi
Question: What is the name of the chemical that naturally occurs in sheep's wool?
Answer: lanolin
Question: Otto Lilienthal was an inventor whose designs and practice led to the first practical what in the 1890s?
Answer: hang glider
Question: What are Argon, Helium, Nitrogen, Neon and Xenon?
Answer: inert gases
Question: The three countries which border the Gulf of Aden are the Yemeni Republic, the Republic of Djibouti, and...?
Answer: somalia
Question: Zonker, Boopsie and Roland Hedley appear in which comic strip?
Answer: doonesbury
Question: Who in the 16th century founded the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits?
Answer: ignatius de loyola
Question: Who appeared in the films "The Parent Trap" (1998), "Freaky Friday" (2003), "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (2004), "Mean Girls" (2004), "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005), "Bobby" (2006) and "Machete" (2010)?
Answer: lindsay lohan
Question: Two of the characters in the US TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" are fans of work by whom, the source for their respective names?
Answer: sheldon leonard