CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What famous newspaper displays the motto "All the News That's Fit to Print", and is known as The Gray Lady because of its traditional dominance of copy (words) compared to graphics?
Answer: new york times
Question: What famous suncream is named after a mountain in Switzerland?
Answer: piz buin
Question: The hot condiment wasabi is generally from what part of the plant?
Answer: root
Question: Narendra Modi achieved what notable title in May 2014?
Answer: prime minister of india
Question: What highly stigmatized human disease is alternatively named after Norwegian physicist GH Armauer Hansen, who in 1873 discovered its causal bacterium?
Answer: leprosy
Question: 'Anima sana in corpore sano' (Latin for 'a healthy mind in a healthy body') is significant in which 1949-founded Japanese corporation's branding?
Answer: asics
Question: To which major biblical event did the 'burning bush' direct Moses? The Sermon on the Mount; The Ten Commandments; Jesus' birth; or Noah's Ark?
Answer: ten commandments
Question: What two-word slang is an open quarry, secondary glassblowing furnace, dam/reservoir spillway, and a small opening in a wall for anonymous sexual cooperation either side?
Answer: glory hole
Question: In many Asian/Eastern beliefs 'Naraka' is what?
Answer: hell
Question: The obsequious "ever so 'umble" money-lender in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, is?
Answer: uriah heep
Question: Originating in Turkish cuisine terminology the 'shish' in a shish kebab refers to? Lamb; Skewer; Spice; or the 'Sizzle' sound?
Answer: skewer
Question: Who wrote 'This be the Verse', starting famously "They f*** you up, your Mum and Dad, They may not mean to, but they do..."?
Answer: philip larkin
Question: Brazil's first ever football match as a national team was in 1914 at Laranjeiras stadium, Rio de Janeiro state, against?
Answer: exeter city
Question: The UHF wireless technology developed by Eriksson in 1994 for data transfer between devices in close proximity is?
Answer: bluetooth
Question: What city/club football rules, which spread widely in the late 1800s, introduced heading, corners, throw-ins, changing ends, and the goal crossbar?
Answer: sheffield
Question: In the 2010 World Cup Final, Jo'bulani was the?
Answer: ball
Question: Soccer rules award what after an 'own goal' directly from a throw-in?
Answer: corner
Question: The headquarters of FIFA are in Brussels; London; Zurich, or Oslo?
Answer: zurich
Question: The World Cup Qualifiying matches between El Salvador v Honduras in 1969 coincided with what mutual event?
Answer: war
Question: Waterloo, the location of Napoleon's 1815 defeat, is in modern-day?
Answer: belgium
Question: Name the core specialism of notable Anglo-Danish industrialist Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895-1988) and the global (Arup Group) corporation he created?
Answer: structural engineering
Question: Calabria, flanked by the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, is the southern peninsular of which country?
Answer: italy
Question: In the 1920s Japanese and Austrian physicians Kyusaku Ogino and Hermann Knaus devised the contraceptive method called popularly?
Answer: rhythm
Question: The artists Monet, Manet, Degas and Cezanne are mainly noted for what style of art?
Answer: impressionism
Question: Comprising 100 centavos, what is the currency of Brazil?
Answer: real
Question: What herb is traditionally associated, besides garlic, with the pickling of a gherkin (US pickle)?
Answer: dill
Question: Derived from Latin for 'place', what anglicized French word commonly means 'instead' in formal communications?
Answer: lieu
Question: Which inspirational genius created the landmark film 'Modern Times' and its theme song, 'Smile', released in 1936?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: The traditional generic name of the 1880s bike design which improved the penny-farthing (high-wheel) and basically endures today is the '(What?) bicycle'?
Answer: safety
Question: What French railway term refers to the bicycle gear system for shifting the chain between sprockets?
Answer: derailleur
Question: What country produces Flying Pigeon bicycles, at 2010 the most popular mechanical vehicle in history?
Answer: china
Question: What was a bicycle first called (and still today also any human powered wheeled vehicle), a Latin portmanteau of 'speed' and 'foot'?
Answer: velocipede
Question: A penny-farthing (high-wheel) bicycle is steered by which wheel(s)?
Answer: front
Question: Who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in October 2012 due to doping?
Answer: lance armstrong
Question: Developed, named (c.1950) and hugely popular in Japan for gambling, what Olympic track cycling event requires riders to follow a motorized bike until the last few hundred metres of free sprint?
Answer: keirin
Question: Drop, Randonneur, Porteur, Aero and Moustache are types of bicycle what?
Answer: handlebars
Question: The French medieval term 'jongleur' refers to the trade of?
Answer: entertainer
Question: A loggia is a room or gallery characterized by the absence of?
Answer: external wall
Question: What is the main organic ingredient of Grappa, the strong Italian alcholic drink?
Answer: grapes
Question: 'Pinyin', the original and common other Chinese/Japanese name for the tile game Mahjong means?
Answer: sparrow
Question: What 2001 Disney movie bockbuster is considered the first to successfully achieve CGI fur?
Answer: monsters inc
Question: The 1st World War Armistice was signed in 'Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits 2419', a?
Answer: railway carriage
Question: Created by marine biologist/animator Stephen Hillenburg, Nickelodeon's $8bn grossing and most distributed media property of MTV networks (at mid-2010s)?
Answer: spongebob squarepants
Question: A longhorned grasshopper or bush cricket is also known as a?
Answer: katydid
Question: What famous French 1970s-designed anti-ship missile means 'flying fish'?
Answer: exocet
Question: Generally what metalwork process extracts a metal from its ore?
Answer: smelting
Question: Hinnomaki Red, Invicta, Pax and Hairy Amber are types of which Ribes genus fruit?
Answer: gooseberry
Question: Jam, Wing, Acorn, T, and Hex are types of what?
Answer: nut
Question: The eminent British economist Richard Layard is noted for pioneering work on?
Answer: happiness
Question: Suchen, Buscar, Rechercher and Zoeken appear commonly on German, Spanish, French and Dutch language websites, all meaning what?
Answer: search
Question: What parts of the human body are surrounded by protective skin called the eponychium and paronychium?
Answer: nails
Question: A mattock (alternatively called a dibber in some countries) is used mainly for?
Answer: digging
Question: A negotiating offer that is available for discussion is said to be 'On the (What?)'?
Answer: table
Question: The adjacent African nations Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin have coastlines facing?
Answer: south
Question: Likud, Yesh Atid, and Shas are political parties of which country?
Answer: israel
Question: Bright, Burley, and Oriental are leaves used for what?
Answer: cigarettes
Question: In biochemistry the suffix '-ose' usually denotes what common sort of substance?
Answer: sugar
Question: The US-originating slang 'wallwart' is used in which connection?
Answer: electrical
Question: A 'night glow' features in which sort of festival?
Answer: hot air balloons
Question: Which 1947-originated DeBeers slogan is according to Advertising Age magazine the best advertising slogan of the 20th century (perhaps aided by a 1956 Fleming creation)?
Answer: diamond is forever
Question: US engineer/industrialist George Pullman (1831-1897) is eponymously associated with travel by?
Answer: rail
Question: Acetylsalicylic Acid is better known by what Bayer trademark?
Answer: aspirin
Question: What literally connects Vikramshila Setu, Rajendra Setu, Mahatma Gandhi Setu and Farakka Barrage?
Answer: ganges
Question: Built for the 1980 Summer Olympics, which city boasts the The Izmailovo Hotel (at 2014 the world's largest, comprising 7,500 rooms)?
Answer: moscow
Question: The European supermarket corporation Netto was founded and remains (at 2014) headquartered in?
Answer: denmark
Question: The word dinosaur is from Greek 'deinos saurus' meaning?
Answer: terrible lizard
Question: What is a 3D crystal structure in physics and a criss-cross pastry pie top?
Answer: lattice
Question: Which famous archipelago comprises eight major islands including Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Molokai?
Answer: hawaiian islands
Question: Trypanosomiasis technically refers to what sort of sickness?
Answer: sleeping
Question: What modern globally recognized symbol was created by British designer Gerald Holtom in 1958, based on the flag semaphore signals for N and D?
Answer: nuclear disarmament
Question: Bok Choy (US) or Pak Choi (UK) is a Chinese?
Answer: cabbage
Question: Meissen and Dresden of Germany, and Spode of England made high-quality?
Answer: porcelain
Question: A 'lustrum' refers to a period of how many years?
Answer: five
Question: What is the more common English/Western biblical name of Golgotha, the site of Christ's crucifixion?
Answer: calvary
Question: What English uprising ended with the death of one its leaders Wat Tyler in June 1381?
Answer: peasants revolt
Question: Which corporation operates the $multi-billion two-sided advertising service branded AdSense and AdWords?
Answer: google
Question: Psychological tests which ask standardized questions, whose answers are assessed according to fixed measures are called?
Answer: objective
Question: Chatsworth House gardener, engineer and greenhouse expert, Joseph Paxton, created which iconic 1851 London building?
Answer: crystal palace
Question: What was a originally an ancient Greek post-banquet drinking party, and nowadays refers to a researchers/academic conference?
Answer: symposium
Question: Which punningly alliteratively named professor drove the No3 Convert-a-Car in Wacky Races?
Answer: pat pending
Question: In 1849 US mechanic Walter Hunt patented what multi-billion-selling and punk rock device?
Answer: safety pin
Question: What potent plant is called technically Papaver somniferum?
Answer: opium poppy
Question: What community-support focused branch of Christianity grew from the work of brothers John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield?
Answer: methodism
Question: The fin whale, second largest animal after the blue whale, excretes approximately how many litres per day?
Answer: 1 000
Question: What ancient seminal Palestinian city is 'house of meat' in Arabic, and 'house of bread' in Hebrew?
Answer: bethlehem
Question: During the 1900s, Olivetti, Olympia, Underwood, Smith Corona, and Remington were famous makers of?
Answer: typewriters
Question: Bosintang/Boshintang (or Gaejangguk) is a Korean soup of declining popularity made chiefly of what meat?
Answer: dog
Question: Anopheles and Aedes, which indirectly kill millions of people every year, are what?
Answer: mosquitos
Question: Petite Borgeoisie is an Anglicized French term referring to what traditional notion of social demographics class?
Answer: lower middle class
Question: Which German rye bread is named, according to many reliable sources, from the original meaning 'Devil's fart'?
Answer: pumpernickel
Question: Dart, mushroom, grain, notions, and piping are terms used in what handicraft?
Answer: sewing
Question: A nuclear reactor which produces more 'fissile' material (i.e., which sustains a chain reaction) than it consumes in fuel is known by what sexual term?
Answer: breeder
Question: Brimstone is an old word for which chemical element?
Answer: sulphur
Question: In 2010 which famous pedestrian 'zebra' crossing was the first to be given UK Heritage listed status, normally only given to buildings and monuments?
Answer: abbey road
Question: The latin term 'mutatis mutandis' is used when doing what to two basically similar things?
Answer: comparing
Question: In a musical work the term 'coda' refers to its?
Answer: ending
Question: A nuclear component which emits radioactivity for an industrial/commercial purpose is called a?
Answer: source
Question: The cobalt salts of aluminium/aluminum oxide produce what colour/color in ceramics, glass, etc., notably ancient Chinese porcelain?
Answer: blue
Question: A solenoid, featured in electromagnetic valves and switches of that name, is a?
Answer: helix
Question: Who painted The Starry Night, Sorrowing Old Man and Self-Portrait Without Beard?
Answer: vincent van gogh
Question: An oophorectomy is the removal of one or both of a woman's what?
Answer: ovaries
Question: To what very common consumer items do the IEC codes R6 and R03 and equivalent ANSI codes AA and AAA refer?
Answer: batteries
Question: The significant Irish minister Ian Paisley, who died in 2014, was a?
Answer: protestant
Question: A full moon which coincides with its closest proximity to Earth is called a '(What?) moon'?
Answer: harvest
Question: A mollymawk is an Australian/NZ word for what creature, strongly linked with maritime superstition?
Answer: albatross
Question: What silver-grey/gray metallic element used in high strength steels has the symbol Mo?
Answer: molybdenum
Question: What term refers to a style of fatalistic or menacing cinema, coined first by French critics in describing US thrillers of the 1940s?
Answer: film noir
Question: Posset is a late-medieval curdled drink of alchocol and which other liquid?
Answer: milk
Question: A sepulchre is a (what?), usually made/carved from stone?
Answer: tomb
Question: Hilary Mantel's controversial 2014 fictional story is "The Assassination of (Which controversial leader?)" ?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: The sulphate/sulfate used as a contrast agent for gastro-intenstinal x-rays contains which metallic element?
Answer: barium
Question: Native to Indonesia, what spice is a flower bud from a tall evergreen tree 'Syzygium aromaticum'?
Answer: clove
Question: This historical region (1300s-1800s) of Bessarabia is in?
Answer: eastern europe
Question: What Swiss psychologist conceived 'extraversion' and 'introversion', and personality tendencies of intuition, sensing, feeling and thinking?
Answer: carl jung
Question: In what discipline was Alex Jesaulenko's 'Mark of the Century'?
Answer: australian rules football
Question: Name IBM's artificial intelligence computer, which answers 'knowledge' questions with startling effectiveness, named after the company's first CEO/chairman (coincidentally the name of a doctor/narrator noted for asking questions of a famous detective)?
Answer: watson
Question: What's the full name of Sherlock Holmes' companion/narrator?
Answer: dr john h watson
Question: Originating in the fictional 'Game of Thrones' and launched internationally in 2014 as a real training program, 'Dothraki' is a?
Answer: language
Question: What nation, the most sparsely populated of the EU, has nearly 200,000 lakes?
Answer: finland
Question: Founded 1938 by Lee Byung-chul, Samsung is which country's biggest business (at 2014)?
Answer: south korea
Question: What sparking wine from Catalonia is traditionally and incorrectly referred to as Spanish Champagne?
Answer: cava
Question: What famous corporation, having a flying crane logo, is named from Germany's late-medieval defensive commercial federation the Hanseatic League, and word for 'air'?
Answer: lufthansa
Question: What Andalusian city gave its name to a bitter orange used especially in marmalade?
Answer: seville
Question: Georges Bizet devised the word 'toreador' for what opera?
Answer: carmen
Question: What is a remark, act, or chess move seeking advantage, from Italian for trip-up, and leg?
Answer: gambit
Question: The Dewey Decimal, Universal Decimal, and Bliss Bibliographic classifications are used by?
Answer: libraries
Question: The Carthage civilization (814-200BC) was based around modern?
Answer: tunis
Question: What edible weed is named from 'lion's tooth'?
Answer: dandelion
Question: Disney's Lion King movie/musical is generally said to be based on what Shakespeare play?
Answer: hamlet
Question: What is the UK's most senior royal palace and official residence of the monarch?
Answer: st james s palace
Question: The traditional Windows/Mac keyboard shortcut to undo the last operation is Ctrl or Cmd and what key?
Answer: z
Question: The Gannex brand, popularised by British prime minister Harold Wilson in the 1960s, was a?
Answer: raincoat
Question: Which fictional family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, California?
Answer: munsters
Question: Name the chemical separation process in which electricity passes through a conducting substance between two electrodes?
Answer: electrolysis
Question: The highest US military award, the Medal of Honor, is what shape?
Answer: star
Question: The Drachma was which nation's main currency unit before the Euro in 2002?
Answer: greece
Question: Historically, malmsey wine came from what nation and its surrounding islands?
Answer: greece
Question: Pioneering collaborative UK/Poland surgery to repair human spinal cord was demonstrated in 2014 using what uniquely regenerating human nerve cells?
Answer: olfactory
Question: Equating to Roman goddess Diana, name Apollo's huntress chaste twin sister, also ironically a 600-customer Berlin brothel?
Answer: artemis
Question: The 1850s 'open-hearth process' was used in producing?
Answer: steel
Question: Bullace is a thorny shrub with fruit similar to small uncultivated?
Answer: plum
Question: The Union of Myanmar, capital Rangoon, is traditionally (in the 'west') called what country?
Answer: burma
Question: What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900?
Answer: k mart
Question: Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element?
Answer: carbon
Question: 'Anchor escapement' refers to controlled rocking mechanical energy release in?
Answer: clocks
Question: What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form?
Answer: vermouth
Question: Common in Middle East and North Africa, a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc) is a?
Answer: marketplace
Question: The mainly Australian/NZ rugby term 'five-eighth' refers to a player positioned behind his own?
Answer: scrum half
Question: What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979?
Answer: liquid paper
Question: Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)?
Answer: esperanto
Question: Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014?
Answer: brazil
Question: Youku Tudou is (early 2000s) China's most popular?
Answer: video sharing website
Question: Yildiz Holding, one of the world's largest confectionery corporations and acquirer of United Biscuits in 2014, is what 'MINT' nationality?
Answer: turkish
Question: Name the largest pre-Columbian/Hispanic city of South America, in Peru, and also the name of a popular song from Cuba?
Answer: chan chan
Question: Which statesman used the Russian maxim 'doveryai, no proveryai' ('trust, but verify') to ease US/USSR negotiations at the end of the cold war?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Pāramitā, pāramī, or the Ten Perfections, are an aspirational model of which belief system?
Answer: buddhism
Question: Collagen, elastin, keratin, myosin, and lectin are?
Answer: proteins
Question: Edema (or oedema, or dropsy) refers to body tissue?
Answer: swelling
Question: The ischium, related to 'sciatic', is the lower part of which human bone?
Answer: pelvis
Question: Glycyrrhizin, from the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant, used in medicine, is more generally known for the distinctive sweet characteristic of what confection, famously produced (among other varieties/sources) in Pontefract, W Yorkshire?
Answer: liquorice
Question: Name Bette Midler's early-career pianist and co-producer of The Divine Miss M debut album, who became a major star in his own right?
Answer: barry manilow
Question: What controversial process uses a 'proppant' with 'slickwater' or gel/foam including additives such as hydrochloric acid, guar gum, radioactive tracers?
Answer: fracking
Question: Built 1723-25, the famous Spanish Steps are in which capital city?
Answer: rome
Question: What old Japanese battle cry and emperor greeting means 'ten thousand years of life (to you)'?
Answer: banzai
Question: 'Picaboo' was the 2011 launch name of what popular online application, whose logo is based on Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan?
Answer: snapchat
Question: In South Korea a chaebol is a significant family-owned/operated?
Answer: corporation
Question: The simplest alcohol (CH3OH), 'wood spirits', first produced by burning pine, is technically known as?
Answer: methanol
Question: The last Russian monarchy, ended by the 1917 revolution, was the House of?
Answer: romanov
Question: Name Finnish writer Tove Jansson's Hippo-like children's character franchise, originally in Swedish books 1945-93, TV/film and the popular '(What?) World' theme park in Naantali, Finland?
Answer: moomin
Question: Planchets, flans and blanks are synonyms for pieces of metal used to make?
Answer: coins
Question: The Coca Cola corporation launched 'Fairlife' in 2014, a 'premiumized' version of?
Answer: milk
Question: Althaea officinalis, an ancient African medicinal plant and sugar sweet ingredient, is commonly known as (What popular confection)?
Answer: marshmallow
Question: Under standard conditions, the lightest and least dense of all metallic elements is?
Answer: lithium
Question: What Italian originating pasta is most popularly consumed in 'elbow' variety in US/Canada?
Answer: macaroni
Question: Roald Dahl's children's novel Esio Trot features which creature?
Answer: tortoise
Question: What famous Australian product did Cyril Callister devise in Melbourne, in 1922, partly in response to war-related shortages of the British version?
Answer: vegemite
Question: Leo Tolstoy's book War and Peace concerns the 1812 invasion of Russia by?
Answer: france
Question: What is the general term for the form of physics concerned with sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, and their radiation?
Answer: quantum
Question: Which Japanese corporation produced the first compact electronic calculator, released in 1957?
Answer: casio
Question: Which fictional small people, in a famous 1939 film and prior LF Baum book series, became in 2007 the largest group represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Answer: munchkins
Question: The medieval profession called a 'bard' equates nowadays to a what?
Answer: poet
Question: Name Captain Flint's quartermaster in the novel Treasure Island?
Answer: long john silver
Question: What was Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft made from, which he sailed from S America to Polynesia in 1947, to demonstrate early Polynesian immigration?
Answer: balsa
Question: What iconic Louisiana Creole dish, named from a French Provencal word, is based on Spanish paella, typically of meat and vegetables, stock and rice?
Answer: jambalaya
Question: Name the Sovient Union policy of governmental openness, implemented by Gorbachev from 1985?
Answer: glasnost
Question: The central blue 'Ashoka Chakra' icon on India's national flag represents a?
Answer: wheel
Question: Which 'historical nationality' of Spain is directly north of Portugal?
Answer: galicia
Question: What onomatopoeic term refers to a 'modern jazz' form popularized in the 1940s by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others?
Answer: bebop
Question: The variable vast plasma stream of electrons and protons from the Sun is called?
Answer: solar wind
Question: Doggerel is a crude form of what, originating in many cultures in the late middle-ages?
Answer: poetry
Question: Name the actor who died in 2014, star of The Rockford Files and The Great Escape?
Answer: james garner
Question: What word differentiates the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final from the 2014 'repeat' in which Germany beat Argentina 1-0?
Answer: west
Question: What was Miley Cyrus's award-winning record-breaking 2014 video/hit song, being the thing on which she controversially swung nude?
Answer: wrecking ball