CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Used in cause-and-effect analysis, due to its structure the Ishikawa diagram is more commonly called a 'what' diagram?
Answer: fishbone
Question: What album title does England footballer Wayne Rooney have tattooed on his right forearm?
Answer: just enough education to perform
Question: In which country is the spectacular 1650 stone-built 23-arch Khaju Bridge?
Answer: iran
Question: How many stars in total are on the national flags of Australia, China, and Pakistan?
Answer: twelve
Question: Miss Rosa Dartle is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: david copperfield
Question: The Red Lake Mine, said to produce the richest gold ore in the world is in which country?
Answer: canada
Question: How many cards are dealt to each player at the start of a game of Blackjack or Pontoon?
Answer: two
Question: What is the name of the outer plasma atmosphere of the sun, visible with the naked eye during an eclipse?
Answer: corona
Question: Al Maghrib - a common shortening of al-Mamlaka al-Magribiyya ('The Western Kingdom') - is the local name for which country?
Answer: morocco
Question: In Greek mythology, who did Leander fall in love with and swim every night across the Hellespont to be with?
Answer: hero
Question: Which UK TV series featured the fictional relocation of the Middlesborough Transporter Bridge to Arizona, prompting worried phone calls to the local council and forcing the broadcaster to clarify that the storyline was not real?
Answer: auf wiedersehen pet
Question: Which war artist, and later a famous sculptor, produced a notable series of drawings depicting people sheltering in London Underground railway stations during the Blitz bombings of 1940-41?
Answer: henry moore
Question: Which British politician was formerly known as 2nd Viscount Stansgate?
Answer: tony benn
Question: In 1962, who starred in the first of the longest-running series of films with the same main character?
Answer: sean connery
Question: Who was killed when his private plane crashed in Monterey Bay, California in 1997?
Answer: john denver
Question: What was the family name of the rulers of Russia from 1613 to 1917?
Answer: romanoff
Question: Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennials, shrubs, and biennials that are commonly called ?
Answer: foxglove
Question: Who won the FIFA World Cup for Association Football in Germany in 2006?
Answer: italy
Question: Which word means to move a camera, lighting effect or sound effect vertically?
Answer: tilt
Question: To what did the light-heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay change his name?
Answer: muhammad ali
Question: Which British scientist is best known for his study of gravitation, his work on the spectrum, his statement on the laws of motion, the construction of telescopes, and his work on geometry and differential calculus?
Answer: isaac newton
Question: Which ragtime pianist, between 1894 and 1915, composed tunes such as "The Entertainer" that became popular in 1973 after being included in the film "The Sting"?
Answer: scott joplin
Question: Which Liverpudlian was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times in the 19th century?
Answer: william gladstone
Question: Which island territory is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the U S A?
Answer: puerto rico
Question: Queen Salote Tubou ruled over which country from 1918 to 1965?
Answer: tonga
Question: What game is also known as "Literati", "Alfapet", "Funworder", "Skip-A-Cross", "Spelofun", "Palabras Cruzadas" and "Word for Word"?.
Answer: scrabble
Question: Which British band, a four-piece when it formed in the early 1960's, is still touring although only the singer and guitarist/composer, are still alive?
Answer: who
Question: Which German-born political scientist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration?
Answer: henry kissinger
Question: In which city did Rosa Parks refuse to obey a bus drivers order to give up her seat for a white passenger on December 1, 1955, becoming an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement?
Answer: montgomery alabama
Question: Who was the 17th century English architect who designed St Paul's cathedral, London?
Answer: christopher wren
Question: In draughts, what is a counter called when it reaches the opposite end of the board and another piece is put on top?
Answer: king
Question: What car, intended as a competitor to the Ford Mustang, was unveiled at a press conference by Chevrolet on 12 September 1966?
Answer: camaro
Question: What is a large semi-aquatic rodent native to Canada, much of the United States, and parts of northern Mexico that constructs homes out of sticks, twigs, and mud in lakes or streams?
Answer: beaver
Question: Which film, Alfred Hitchcock's first as producer as well as director, starred Cary Grant, working with Hitchcock for the first time, and Joan Fontaine, who won Best Actress Oscar for it?
Answer: suspicion
Question: In which country was Pol Pot Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979 and leader of the communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge"?
Answer: cambodia
Question: Who was found guilty of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1963?
Answer: sirhan bishara sirhan
Question: What fraction, having 10 or a multiple thereof as the denominator, is represented by a full stop?
Answer: decimal
Question: In which Australian city can be found the suburbs of Indooroopilly, Jamboree Heights, Jindalee and Kangaroo Point?
Answer: brisbane
Question: What is the baseball term coined by Henry Chadwick to collectively call the pitcher and the catcher?
Answer: battery
Question: Which tuber of the nightshade family was cultivated by the Incas, was taken to Spain from Peru in the 16th century and to Ireland from Virginia in the 16th century?
Answer: potato
Question: Which English-born sculptor is best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures, usually depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures, that are pierced or contain hollow spaces?
Answer: henry moore
Question: What make of car was founded in 1963 in a tractor factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, and is now a subsidiary of Volkswagen?
Answer: lamborghini
Question: Which country was proclaimed a republic in 1867, following the withdrawal of the French administration and the execution of Emperor Ferdinand Maximilian?
Answer: mexico
Question: In Greek legend, Aphrodite turned Adonis into what?
Answer: anemone
Question: Who was the Italian player head-butted by French captain Zinedine Zidane in the final of the football World Cup 2006?
Answer: marco materazzi
Question: Which New Zealand-born and New York-based artist, known for his kinetic sculpture produced between 1950 and 1980, also made films, applying dyes, stencils, air-brushes and other objects directly to celluloid?
Answer: len lye
Question: Which war ended as a result of peace negotiations at Panmunjon, completed on 27 July 1953?
Answer: korean war
Question: What was the name of the group that invaded the Olympic village at Munich in 1972, killing 2 Israelis and holding 9 others hostage, resulting in a firefight killing 15 people, including all the athletes and 5 terrorists?
Answer: black september
Question: Whose discovery, that there were other galaxies in existence besides the Milky Way, was announced in 1925?
Answer: edwin hubble
Question: In 1956, British and French forces invaded a country in North Africa due to a dispute over which engineering work?
Answer: suez canal
Question: In which 1988 Academy Award-winning film did Dustin Hoffman play a character with special mental powers called Raymond Babbitt?
Answer: rain man
Question: Who organised a congress in Paris, on June 23, 1894 to establish the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and choose the host city for the 1896 Olympic Games?
Answer: baron de coubertin
Question: After the Rolling Stones released their first LP, who was the first person to leave the band?
Answer: brian jones
Question: In 1838, which steamship made the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, from Bristol to New York?
Answer: great western
Question: Chicago, Illinois, U S A, is on the shores of what body of water?
Answer: lake michigan
Question: What is the name for two collections of lymphoid tissues, one on either side of the throat, level with the base of the tongue?
Answer: tonsils
Question: What is the name of the stadium in The Bronx in New York City which was the home baseball park of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 2008?
Answer: yankee stadium
Question: What was the title of the film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood that was about a thinly disguised episode in John Houston's life?
Answer: white hunter black heart
Question: What actor is common to the films "Ned Kelly" (1970), "Performance" (1970), "Freejack" (1992), "Bent" (1997) and "The Man From Elysian Fields" (2001)?
Answer: mick jagger
Question: Until Lewis Hamilton's win at Spain in 2007, who held the record for being the youngest driver to lead the Formula One Championship?
Answer: bruce mclaren
Question: Which one of these planets was not represented in the musical work by Gustav Holst called The Planets?
Answer: earth
Question: In 1990, mountain climbers Rob Hall and Gary Ball were the first to do what in 7 months?
Answer: climb seven summits
Question: The skull can be divided into two parts: the cranium and what other part?
Answer: mandible
Question: Who was the first Prime Minister of the Repubic of India when it was created in 1947?
Answer: pandit jawaharlal nehru
Question: In the final episode of the TV series "M*A*S*H", which of the main characters did not return to the U S A?
Answer: corporal klinger
Question: On 1 July 2001, who was the IBF Heavyweight Champion, WBC Heavyweight Champion, IBO Heavyweight Champion, USBA Heavyweight Champion, & IBF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion?
Answer: hasim rahman
Question: Who wrote the text on which the musical Cats was based?
Answer: t s eliot
Question: What is the name of the arts programme made for British television from 1978 that is identified with Melvyn Bragg?
Answer: south bank show
Question: What was the name of the scheme approved by U S Congress in 1948 for the long term financing of the reconstruction of Europe following World War II?
Answer: marshall plan
Question: What 2003 mystery-detective novel by Dan Brown has been denounced as an attack on the Catholic Church and criticised for historical and scientific inaccuracy?
Answer: da vinci code
Question: The Roman Coliseum was built under the direction of which Emperor?
Answer: vespasian
Question: According to Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", what were "all mimsy"?
Answer: borogoves
Question: Who was largely responsible for the development of the jet engine, seeing the first application of his engine installed in a Gloster aircraft in 1941?
Answer: frank whittle
Question: Who commanded No. 11 Group RAF, responsible for the fighter defence of London and southeast England, which took the brunt of the German air attacks in the Battle of Britain?
Answer: keith park
Question: What was the title of Walt Disney's first full length animated feature, released in 1937?
Answer: snow white and seven dwarfs
Question: Which Apollo mission brought the first rocks and other material from the Moon?
Answer: apollo 11
Question: Which law enforcement agency was established in 1908 as a branch of the U S Department of Justice?
Answer: f b i
Question: What game is set in a mansion where players attempt to solve a murder, the solution requiring the components of "Suspect", "Weapon", and "Room"?
Answer: cluedo
Question: What orchestral string instrument has a deeper tone than a violin, and higher than a cello?
Answer: viola
Question: What U K TV series about a father and son, rag and bone men, was the basis for the U S TV series "Sandford and Son"?
Answer: steptoe and son
Question: Who was the first black woman, second African American, and the second woman to serve as U S Secretary of State?
Answer: condoleeza rice
Question: Which group of people took control of Carthage in 439 AD?
Answer: vandals
Question: What wine originated in the Spanish town of Jerez de la Fontera?
Answer: sherry
Question: Which city was the site of the dervish rebellion and the death of the British General Gordon in 1885?
Answer: khartoum
Question: In Billy Wilder's film "Sunset Boulevard", in which Gloria Swanson often said the line, "All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up", who played Cecil B DeMille?
Answer: cecil b demille
Question: What theory, developed by Franz Joseph Gall, in which personality traits were determined by "reading" bumps and fissures in the skull, was once considered a science?
Answer: phrenology
Question: The singer and English TV personality Priscilla White is better known by what name?
Answer: cilla black
Question: Who described "unified field theory", an attempt to unify and simplify the fundamental laws of physics, in a paper titled "On The Generalised Theory of Gravitation" in 1950?
Answer: albert einstein
Question: In 1952, Jonas Salk invented a vaccine to prevent the spread of which disease?
Answer: polio
Question: What playwright wrote many of his plays for the Stephen Joseph Company in Scarborough, UK?
Answer: alan ayckbourn
Question: Who had a positive drug test for excessive levels of testosterone after initially being declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France?
Answer: floyd landis
Question: Both opposing generals, the British general Wolfe, and the French general Montcalm, were killed in a battle for which city in 1759?
Answer: quebec
Question: What was the cause of the disqualification of Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall at Mexico City in 1968, the first as a result of failing a doping test at an Olympic Games?
Answer: beer
Question: In which film starring Bill Murray was each day the same as the one before?
Answer: groundhog day
Question: Spain's war in 1898 with which power resulted in its loss of sovereignty over Cuba and the Philippine Islands?
Answer: u s
Question: In ballet, what is the name for a dance duet in which ballet steps are performed together?
Answer: pas de deux
Question: In which war were the sieges of Mafeking, Kimberley and Ladysmith lifted following the arrival of reinforcement British troops under the command of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts?
Answer: boer war
Question: In 1960 an international agreement defined the metre in terms of the wavelength of the light from which gas, when burnt?
Answer: krypton
Question: In darts, what is the name of the line behind which the throwing player must stand?
Answer: oche
Question: Who was the 15th century woman who led a French army to relieve the siege of Orleans by the English army?
Answer: joan of arc
Question: Who wrote the plays "The Cherry Orchard", "Three Sisters", "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya"?
Answer: anton chekhov
Question: Which forces were defeated by Ho Chi Minh's forces at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam in May 1954?
Answer: french
Question: What is the capital of the province of New Brunswick, Canada?
Answer: fredericton
Question: Cambodia is better known in Asia as, and its official name was changed in 1975 temporarily to, what?
Answer: kampuchea
Question: Who was Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers during the occupation of Japan immediately following World War II?
Answer: douglas macarthur
Question: What is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25% of the total protein content?
Answer: collagen
Question: Who, in 1948 at London, equalled the record of winning 4 gold medals at one Olympics, set at the previous Games by Jesse Owens?
Answer: fanny blankers koen
Question: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier became better known as who?
Answer: jackie kennedy
Question: What event took place at Yasgur's farm, New York, on 15 to 18 August 1969?
Answer: woodstock music and art fair
Question: Before Ron Howard became a film director, and before he starred in "Happy Days", he appeared in a long-running US TV series set in Mayberry. What was the name of the show?
Answer: andy griffith show
Question: In standard tuning for a 6 string guitar, two strings are tuned to the same note, two octaves apart. What is the note?
Answer: e
Question: What is the longest named river in North America, which runs from Montana to near St Louis, Missouri?
Answer: missouri
Question: In which city did Popes officially reside from 1309 to 1378?
Answer: avignon
Question: Western nations allied with the United States to intervene between warring countries and defend the border at the 38th Parallel in which country?
Answer: korea
Question: What was believed to be a hemisphere above the ground, carrying the fixed stars and surrounding the seven spheres of the planets, through which the Sun and Moon moved in and out through a series of openings?
Answer: firmament
Question: Who won the Formula One Championship for drivers in 2000?
Answer: michael schumacher
Question: Who was the Venetian who made a number of journeys to China and India in the 13th century and was later taken prisoner by the Genoese?
Answer: marco polo
Question: Who, in 1831, first demonstrated that the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field generates an electric current?
Answer: michael faraday
Question: What instrument was designed to measure variations in temperature by the expansion or contraction of a liquid or gas?
Answer: thermometer
Question: At the 1968 Olympic Games held at Mexico City, what was the now-universal style introduced to the high jump?
Answer: fosbury flop
Question: What Indian people drove out the Toltecs and were conquered by Spain in the 16th century?
Answer: aztecs
Question: What is the name for a nutritional disease caused by a lack of vitamin c?
Answer: scurvy
Question: What were the Penny Black and the Two Pence Blue that first went on sale in England in May 1840?
Answer: postage stamps
Question: What was the title of Stephen Kings first novel, in which a telekinetic woman exacts deadly revenge on her high school classmates?
Answer: carrie
Question: The group of 48 of the United States that are between Canada and Mexico is referred to as the continental or what United States?
Answer: contiguous
Question: Who became World Snooker Champion for the third time in 2008?
Answer: ronnie o sullivan
Question: Which scientist allegedly used mirrors to focus the sun's rays to burn Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse around 214212 BC?
Answer: archimedes
Question: What British institution has the nickname "The Old Lady Of Threadneedle Street"?
Answer: bank of england
Question: Which artist, born in Leeuwarden in 1898, is famous for his optical illusions such as "Ascending And Descending", "Convex and Concave", and "Metamorphosis I"?
Answer: m c escher
Question: What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude?
Answer: measles
Question: Which piece on a chessboard can move only one space in any direction?
Answer: king
Question: What name was applied to legislation regarding the sale of liquor in the U S A between 1919 to 1933?
Answer: prohibition
Question: What is the inherited condition that causes the body to retain copper, which can lead to brain and liver damage?
Answer: wilson s disease
Question: At which Olympic Games were females allowed to compete at track & field athletics for the first time?
Answer: 1928 amsterdam
Question: In the 1960s, who had a hit record with Bob Dylans Blowin in the Wind?
Answer: peter paul and mary
Question: What component of tonic water is used to prevent or alleviate the effects of malaria?
Answer: quinine
Question: The capital of the U S A, Washington, DC, is bordered by Maryland and which other state?
Answer: virginia
Question: What is the only country not to identify itself on its postage stamps?
Answer: united kingdom
Question: Which of the Marx Brothers appeared in their vaudeville act, but not in any of their films?
Answer: gummo
Question: African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, as a protest against a recent tour of South Africa by a rugby team from which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Where was the battle fought between the Royalist forces under Prince Rupert and Oliver Cromwell's men in June 1645 that was the key to the final downfall of Royalist forces a year later?
Answer: naseby
Question: Who received a replacement gold medal at the 1996 Olympics for the one he allegedly threw away after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant in his home town?
Answer: cassius clay
Question: Who created the sculptures Single Form, in memory of Dag Hammarskjld, at the United Nations building in New York City, and "Construction (Crucifixion): Homage to Mondrian" in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral?
Answer: dame barbara hepworth
Question: What is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body?
Answer: sciatic nerve
Question: Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders and Nick OMalley are collectively known as what?
Answer: arctic monkeys
Question: Which tennis tournament runs for 14 days from late June to early July, ending with the men's singles final on a Sunday?
Answer: wimbledon
Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1919 and 1935?
Answer: new york yankees
Question: Who was the president of the Confederate States of America following its formation in 1861?
Answer: jefferson davis
Question: In England, Dick Turpin (1706-39), Claude Duval (1643-70) and John Nevison (1639-84) were well known as what?
Answer: highwaymen
Question: In what word game do two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a grid, the words formed across and down in crossword fashion?
Answer: scrabble
Question: Who was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon when it became independent on 14 October 1947?
Answer: don stephen senanayake
Question: Which ex-European colony in China is at the mouth of the Canton River?
Answer: macau
Question: Who were the USA fighting a war against in 1812 when the successful American defence of Fort McHenry in September 1814 inspired the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
Answer: great britain
Question: What are the Christian names of J K Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter?
Answer: joanne kathleen
Question: Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
Answer: ernest rutherford
Question: What fate made Spencer Perceval unique among British Prime Ministers?
Answer: he was assassinated
Question: Where were the FIBA (Basketball) World Championships held in 2006?
Answer: japan
Question: In Greek legend, a woodland deity, half man, half goat, is called a ?
Answer: satyr
Question: What was the subtitle of "Star Wars - Episode 1", released in 1999?
Answer: phantom menace
Question: Mahatma Gandhi led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with what 400 km (249 mile) journey in 1930?
Answer: dandi salt march
Question: What is the next in the series: Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan?
Answer: salt lake city united states
Question: Which building was attacked at the start of the French Revolution on 14 July 1789 because it was symbolic of injustice?
Answer: bastille
Question: Who was the Anglo-Irish scientist who, in the 17th century, discovered that "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
Answer: robert boyle
Question: Who collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to create the musical "The Beautiful Game"?
Answer: ben elton
Question: What is the name of the process by which plants obtain carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water?
Answer: photosynthesis
Question: During World War II, where was the HQ of the English code cracking unit that was set up to decipher the output from the "Enigma" machine?
Answer: bletchley park
Question: What is the dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada that was completed in 1935?
Answer: hoover dam
Question: Which jazz musician has a memorial, created by sculptor Robert Graham and unveiled in 1997, in Central Park New York, near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 100th Street?
Answer: duke ellington