CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In 1963, US President Kennedy sanctioned a coup d'tat in which country to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem, the Roman Catholic President, by his own army generals?
Answer: south vietnam
Question: Who sang, backed by U2, as the first song in the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London, in 2005?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: """Rawhide"" was played to a bar full of hostile country music fans in which film?"
Answer: blues brothers
Question: Which country declared war on Mexico on 13 May 1846?
Answer: usa
Question: What is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep?
Answer: sleep apnoea
Question: Which player made a comeback to international tennis in 2006 after 4 years?
Answer: martina hingis
Question: The Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy, presented annually to the Canadian Football League player "who best demonstrates the attributes of Canada's veterans in times of war, peace and military conflict", was first awarded in 2010 to Mike McCullough who played for which team?
Answer: saskatchewan roughriders
Question: In the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty", who kissed the princess to wake her up?
Answer: handsome prince
Question: Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from lumbago?
Answer: back
Question: Which 18th century self-taught Liverpudlian, who studied human anatomy and spent 18 months dissecting horses, is best known for his paintings of horses (such as "Whistlejacket"), sometimes accompanied by hounds, and of animals such as lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, and rhinoceroses?
Answer: george stubbs
Question: In basketball, what is the offence of running with the ball called?
Answer: travelling
Question: Before she was a Member of Parliament, what was Margaret Thatcher's occupation?
Answer: barrister
Question: What arcade game, based on the concept of eating, was developed primarily by Tru Iwatani over the course of a year in 1979/80, with a nine-man team?
Answer: pac man
Question: What Christian church observes The Sabbath on Saturday?
Answer: seventh day adventist church
Question: Whose alter egos have included Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and "The Thin Whte Duke"?
Answer: david bowie
Question: What region covers most of the "toe" of "the boot of Italy"?
Answer: calabria
Question: Bigfoot, a supposedly large, hairy, bipedal humanoid which lives in forests in the Northwest of North America, is also known as what?
Answer: sasquatch
Question: What landlocked, mountainous, Central Asian country is bordered by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and the People's Republic of China?
Answer: kyrgyzstan
Question: In a 1980 episode of the TV series "Dallas", what character was Sue Ellen's scheming sister, who shot J.R. after having an affair with him?
Answer: kristin shepard
Question: What term is used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment, commonly in opera, although they also form movements of oratorios and cantatas?
Answer: aria
Question: What is the common name of the chemical NH3, which is found in cleaning products?
Answer: ammonia
Question: What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for British industries involved in film, television, video games and forms of animation?
Answer: baftas
Question: Key Largo, Key West, Plantation Key and Big Pine Key are islands of the coast of are part of which US state?
Answer: florida
Question: Which British actor made his film debut in Peter Ustinov's film adaptation of "Billy Budd" (1962) and went on to make a number of films, including "The Collector" (1965), "Far From The Madding Crowd" (1967), "Poor Cow" (1967), "Wall Street" (1987), "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994), "Bowfinger" (1999), "My Boss's Daughter" (2003) and "Elektra" (2005)?
Answer: terence stamp
Question: Which bank, which had opened in 1762 (and was the oldest merchant bank in London) collapsed in 1995 after one of the bank's employees lost 827 million ($1.3 billion) speculating primarily on futures contracts?
Answer: barings bank
Question: What was the name of the policy making body of the USSR before it broke up?
Answer: politburo
Question: """Summer of the Seventeenth Doll"", a 1955 play by Ray Lawler, is set in Carlton, a suburb of what city?"
Answer: melbourne australia
Question: Who beat Muhammad Ali in his last professional fight in 1982?
Answer: trevor berbick
Question: """Black Cherry"" and ""Supernature"" are albums by which band?"
Answer: goldfrapp
Question: What was invented by George de Mestral in 1957?
Answer: velcro
Question: Who watched his daughter win her first professional boxing bout in October 1999?
Answer: muhammad ali
Question: In 1794 in Pennsylvania, USA, more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville because of an excise tax on what product?
Answer: whiskey
Question: Who wrote the poem called "The New Colossus" that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: emma lazarus
Question: The "Curse of the Bambino" was thought to have struck what baseball team until they won the World Series in 2004?
Answer: boston red sox
Question: Which cable suspension road bridge, known as "Galloping Gertie", was completely destroyed due to "aeroelastic flutter" on 7 November 1940?
Answer: tacoma narrows bridge
Question: Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, made his fortune from what?
Answer: newspapers
Question: The first father and son win at the Oscars was in 1948 when John Huston won the award for Directing and for Writing Adapted Screenplay and his father Walter Huston won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Which film had they worked on together to win these awards?
Answer: treasure of sierra madre
Question: What is the term used in wine making for the catalyst function that turns grape juice into an alcoholic beverage when yeast interacts with sugars in the juice to create ethanol and carbon dioxide?
Answer: fermentation
Question: Who played Alan's young son, Jake, in the TV series "Two and a Half Men"?
Answer: angus t jones
Question: Comedian Ernie Wise was the subject of a publicity campaign launched in the UK on 1 January 1985 as being the first person in the UK to use what?
Answer: mobile phone
Question: What war was waged 1852-1856, one side being an alliance between the Ottoman Empire, UK, France, and Sardinia?
Answer: crimean war
Question: In Greek mythology, what was the name for the deepest part of hell, for those who had committed really bad crimes?
Answer: tartarus
Question: Who married Taylor Hackford (the director of "White Nights", in which she appeared), her partner since 1986, on 31 December 1997?
Answer: helen mirren
Question: The exterior of which real Boston pub was used in the TV programme "Cheers" in the 1980s?
Answer: bull finch
Question: What sport is played by two teams of players in a space 60 feet by 40 feet?
Answer: basketball
Question: What device measures its the proper acceleration relative to freefall, and is increasingly used in portable electronic devices and video game controllers to detect the orientation of the device or provide game input?
Answer: accelerometer
Question: In Greek mythology, which horned and hoofed being was the god of shepherds, pastures, and fertility?
Answer: pan
Question: In 1635 Robert Hooke developed what?
Answer: law of elasticity
Question: In English mythology, who were Galligantus and Bunderbore?
Answer: giants
Question: Which American singer, actress, songwriter and author who was born Cherilyn Sarkisian has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards?
Answer: cher
Question: What branch of anthropology compares and analyses the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity?
Answer: ethnology
Question: Who designed both the obverse and reverse of the twenty-dollar gold coin, or double eagle, produced by the US Mint from 1907 to 1933?
Answer: augustus saint gaudens
Question: Which 1942 film starring Tim Holt, Joseph Cotton, Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Dolores Costello and Richard Bennett was adapted by Orson Welles from a novel by Booth Tarkington?
Answer: magnificent ambersons
Question: On the Jewish calendar, what is Rosh Hashanah?
Answer: new year
Question: Tamerlane was a 14th-century conqueror of Western, South and Central Asia, founder of which empire?
Answer: timurid empire
Question: According to Charlotte Bront, who married Jane Eyre?
Answer: mr rochester
Question: What name is given to a person or animal with a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair?
Answer: albino
Question: Who was the last monarch in the recent reunified kingdom of Italy?
Answer: umberto ii
Question: What is the name of the Hobbit who carries the ring to Mordor to be destroyed?
Answer: frodo
Question: The era of political liberalisation in Czechoslovakia in 1968 was called what?
Answer: prague spring
Question: The Wash is an English estuary which opens to which body of water?
Answer: north sea
Question: According to Arthurian legend, who was the father of Galahad?
Answer: lancelot
Question: Who are Anne Valerie Hash, Stephanie Rolland, Alexis Mabille, Rebecca Taylor, Marc Jacobs and John Galliano?
Answer: fashion designers
Question: Who played Rick, the self-proclaimed anarchist who writes poetry and calls himself "The People's Poet" in the UK TV series "The Young Ones"?
Answer: rik mayall
Question: The national team of the Iroquois League was admitted to the international federation for what sport in 1990 and competes internationally, the only native American/First Nations team to do so?
Answer: lacrosse
Question: Which ancient people with a conferacy of 5 cities (Ekron, Ashdod, Gath, Askalon and Gaza) came into conflict with Israel under Samson, Samuel and David?
Answer: philistines
Question: Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?
Answer: sir thomas stamford raffles
Question: Johnny Weissmuller, the star of 12 "Tarzan" films between 1932 and 1948, won 5 Olympic gold medals in the 1920s in what sport?
Answer: swimming
Question: Which BBC TV programme of 4 series featured Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, with Chris Langham in the first series?
Answer: not nine o clock news
Question: Who played the title role in the 1970s TV series "McCloud", about a cowboy policeman working in New York?
Answer: dennis weaver
Question: In what sport does one "play the ball" by rolling it back to a dummy half?
Answer: rugby league
Question: What name is given to English comedies written from 1660 to 1700 which signalled the rebirth of English drama after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years?
Answer: restoration comedy
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 3 points?
Answer: green
Question: Who would use an inkblot or Rorschach Test?
Answer: psychologist
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 1 point?
Answer: red
Question: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) installed as First Consul in France by 1800 and crowned Emperor of France 1804, was born where?
Answer: ajaccio corsica
Question: According to the Bible (and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice), who had a coat with many colours?
Answer: joseph
Question: Who played Mr Big in the TV series "Sex and the City" which first ran from 1998 to 2004, and the films "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Sex and the City 2" (2010)?
Answer: chris noth
Question: Where was the record for the longest professional match broken in 2010 when John Isner & Nicolas Mahut took 11 hours and 5 minutes over a three day period?
Answer: wimbledon
Question: In the film "Batman Forever", released in 1995, who played the villain called "Two Face"?
Answer: tommy lee jones
Question: What was the first name of the political cartoonist known as Hogarth?
Answer: william
Question: Who published their autobiography "Life is a Rollercoaster" in 2000?
Answer: ronan keating
Question: The Michael Phelps Foundation Golf Classic is an annual fundraiser for what?
Answer: growing sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles
Question: What film was based on the book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup?
Answer: slumdog millionaire
Question: Who has played, on film, John Dillinger, Sweeney Todd, J M Barrie, Jack Kerouac and Ed Wood?
Answer: johnny depp
Question: Which British golfer won the US Masters in 1989, 1990 & 1996?
Answer: nick faldo
Question: On the western Christian calendar, what date is Twelfth Day?
Answer: 6 january
Question: Where was the most recent volcanic eruption in the contiguous states of the USA?
Answer: washington
Question: What is the Roman military formation called the Testudo named after?
Answer: tortoise
Question: What is the name of the vertical groove above the upper lip that connects the top lip to the bottom of the nose?
Answer: philtrum
Question: The Harelle, a revolt that occurred in the French city of Rouen in 1382 followed by the Maillotins Revolt a few days later in Paris, and subsequently in Amiens, Dieppe, Falaise, Caen, Orleans, and Rheims during the Hundred Years War, was about what?
Answer: taxation
Question: Built in 1869, what type of ship is the Cutty Sark, which was put on public display in 1954 and is preserved in dry dock in Greenwich, London, UK?
Answer: clipper
Question: In Ireland, what are "Macgillycuddy's Reeks"?
Answer: mountains
Question: In soccer, what coloured card is used to order a player off the field?
Answer: red
Question: Silkworms feed mainly on the leaves of what tree?
Answer: mulberry
Question: According to legend, what is needed to kill a werewolf?
Answer: silver bullet
Question: What country, part of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years as the provinces of Shkodra, Manastir and Yanya, proclaimed its independence on 28 November 1912, with Ismail Qemali as its first Prime Minister?
Answer: albania
Question: The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 was fought between which two countries?
Answer: england and france
Question: Which 19th century Austrian composer is famous for his waltzes such as "The Blue Danube" and "Tales of the Vienna Woods", and the operetta "Die Fledermaus"?
Answer: johann strauss
Question: Which Canadian won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest representing Switzerland?
Answer: celine dion
Question: What alloy is made of 12% tin and 88% copper?
Answer: bronze
Question: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major (Op. 68) is known as what?
Answer: pastoral symphony
Question: Which state in the USA is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, containing both the geographic centre of the 48 contiguous USA states and the geodetic centre of North America?
Answer: kansas
Question: What links a type of footwear, the home of NATO, the best known military exploit of an early British Prime Minister, and the final days of freedom for a short Corsican commander?
Answer: brussels
Question: A game popular in a number of countries and known variously as Belote, Boeuf, Vida, and other names is played with what?
Answer: cards
Question: Aten, Ra, Amun and Ptah are what?
Answer: egyptian gods
Question: Where was the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles, held?
Answer: windsor guildhall
Question: A style of intimate singing, developed and made popular in the first half of the 20th century by, among others, Bing Crosby, is called...?
Answer: crooning
Question: Which painter, who was born in Paris, France in 1848 and died in 1903 at Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, had lived at various times in Lima (Peru), Orlans (France), Copenhagen (Denmark), Panama, Saint Pierre (Martinique), Pont-Aven (France), Arles (France), Mataiea Village (Tahiti), Punaauia (Tahiti)?
Answer: paul gauguin
Question: In August 2005 the robotic rover Spirit explored the surface of what?
Answer: mars
Question: What is the name of the government-owned corporation that provides the intercity passenger train service in the USA?
Answer: amtrak
Question: Which bank robber, whose exploits were sensationalized across the USA, was shot dead by police in an ambush outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934?
Answer: john dillinger
Question: By what name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known?
Answer: el cid
Question: According to Lewis Carroll in his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1872), what was used to kill the Jabberwock?
Answer: vorpal sword
Question: When the Olympics was resurrected in modern times, with a Summer Olympics in 1896, where were the games held?
Answer: athens greece
Question: What species of spiny lobster is probably the longest decapod crustacean in the world, growing to lengths of up to 60 centimetres (24 in)?
Answer: packhorse crayfish
Question: Which city, on the River Arno, is the capital of the region of Tuscany?
Answer: florence
Question: What is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, which are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain?
Answer: epilepsy
Question: What is the title of ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard's autobiography, published in October 2010?
Answer: lazarus rising
Question: Manchuria is the historical name given to a vast geographic region that falls mostly within what country?
Answer: people s republic of china
Question: """Now is the winter of our discontent"" is a line from which play?"
Answer: richard iii
Question: What did Basutoland change its name to in 1966?
Answer: lesotho
Question: In 1453, the Ottomans used a cannon called "the Great Turkish Bombard", which required an operating crew of 200 men and 70 oxen, and 10,000 men to transport it, during their siege of which city?
Answer: constantinople
Question: Who dies at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy "Troilus and Cressida"?
Answer: hector
Question: At the 2010 Grammy Awards, who set a new record for the most wins by a female artist in one night, winning six?
Answer: beyonc
Question: What is a localised, blood-filled dilation of a blood vessel caused by disease or weakening of the vessel wall, which most commonly occurs in arteries at the base of the brain and in the aorta?
Answer: aneurism
Question: In Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", what animal was Kaa?
Answer: snake
Question: Held annually since 1923 which is the oldest active endurance race for sports cars?
Answer: 24 hours of le mans
Question: Which play by Arthur Miller used events from early US history to mirror Senator McCarthy's communist witch hunts in the 1950's?
Answer: crucible
Question: What actor had the title role in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"?
Answer: steve carell
Question: The parable of "The Good Samaritan" is in which Christian gospel?
Answer: luke
Question: What was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth?
Answer: luna 16
Question: Who "is watching you" in George Orwell's book "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
Answer: big brother
Question: Which boxer was known as the "Manassa Mauler"?
Answer: jack dempsey
Question: What is the name of a Japanese dish consisting of noodles and broth?
Answer: ramen
Question: What is the best known work by German composer Carl Orff?
Answer: carmina burana
Question: What name was commonly used for the struggle that emerged after World War II between capitalism and communism that centred around the USSR & the USA and their partners, that lasted from about 1947 to 1991?
Answer: cold war
Question: What was the name of his backing band for Bill Haley on the record "Rock Around the Clock" that was released in 1954?
Answer: comets
Question: Which European country was twice, in 1892 and again in 1902, declared bankrupt?
Answer: portugal
Question: The 2006 Open Golf Championship was played on which English course after a gap of almost 40 years?
Answer: hoylake
Question: Designer Karl Lagerfeld is famous for carrying what as a fashion accessory?
Answer: fan
Question: Who became president of the Islamic Repubic of Iran in August 2005?
Answer: mahmoud ahmadinejad
Question: During which war were occupying Ottoman forces forced to withdraw from the town of Aqaba after a raid led by T. E. Lawrence and the Arab forces of Sharif Hussein?
Answer: world war i
Question: What song was written by Bob Geldof in the aftermath of Brenda Ann Spencer's attempted massacre at an elementary school across the street from her house in San Diego, California, in 1979?
Answer: i don t like mondays
Question: Jane Horrocks plays which role in the TV series "Absolutely Fabulous"?
Answer: bubble
Question: Who escaped to the Isle of Skye, assisted by Flora MacDonald?
Answer: bonnie prince charlie
Question: Wakame and Kombu are what type of dishes?
Answer: seaweed
Question: London's Hatton Garden is the centre of trade in what?
Answer: jewellery
Question: In 1991, Warner Bros was picketed by a major national organisation over the use of which cartoon character?
Answer: porky pig
Question: In 1848, the USA offered Spain $100 million, equivalent to around $2.45 billion in present day terms, for the purchase of which area of land?
Answer: cuba
Question: What 1983 Scottish film, starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi and Burt Lancaster, was directed by Bill Forsyth with music by Mark Knopfler?
Answer: local hero
Question: What is traditionally added to sulphur and saltpetre to make gunpowder?
Answer: charcoal
Question: What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient sentencing (for voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible) of Dan White for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, which led to changes in the city's official attitude to gays?
Answer: white night riots
Question: In November 2010, China announced that it would have its first what in 2011?
Answer: aircraft carrier
Question: From 2010 to 2012 a series of major earthquakes devastated areas in the South Island of which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Sony introduced a product to the world market in 1979, and in October 2010 announced that they would cease selling it in Japan. What product was it?
Answer: walkman
Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the end of World War I?
Answer: david lloyd george
Question: Emperor Pedro II, Deodoro da Fonseca, Floriano Peixoto, Manuel Vitorino Pereira and Prudente de Morais are names that crop up in the politics of what country in the 19th century?
Answer: brazil
Question: In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?
Answer: enrico fermi
Question: In 1846, using mathematical predictions by French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle became the first person to observe which planet?
Answer: neptune
Question: The musical "South Pacific" was based on the book "Hawaii" by which author?
Answer: james michener
Question: The Battle of Guadalcanal was between troops from the USA and what other country?
Answer: japan
Question: Who owned the flat at No.12, 9 Curzon Place, Shepherd Market, Mayfair where both Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) died in 1974 and Keith Moon died in 1978?
Answer: harry nilsson
Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 5 points?
Answer: blue
Question: What sport, when it was first played in 1902, was called immoral and "a monster that spreads its claws to all sides"?
Answer: korfball
Question: What type of highly directional microphone, commonly used on television and film sets, in stadiums, and for field recording of wildlife, was invented by Fritz Sennheiser in the 1950s?
Answer: shotgun
Question: What is the nationality of Mohammed Al Fayed, who sold the department store Harrods Knightsbridge to Qatar Holdings in 2010?
Answer: egyptian
Question: What was the tallest man-made structure before the completion of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: washington monument
Question: What is the overall name for a branch of applied mathematics used to study behaviour in strategic situations, in which an individual's success in making choices depends on the choices of others?
Answer: game theory
Question: Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Jansk and William Moss worked on the classification of what?
Answer: blood groups