CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: How many legs (or arms) are most usually on a starfish?
Answer: five
Question: 'Roaring' refers to what pluralised number in describing a 1900s decade of western world prosperity?
Answer: twenty
Question: What is the traditional name for a women's shoe held in place by a strap behind the ankle above the heel?
Answer: slingback
Question: 'Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation' is better known by what modern word?
Answer: laser
Question: In Judaism, loosely and originally what is a mitzvah?
Answer: commandment
Question: What mythical paradise and expression was conceived in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon?
Answer: shangri la
Question: The international corporate brands Slacker, Rdio and Spotify deliver primarily what services/product?
Answer: music
Question: The remains of what late-1800s Australian folk hero were identified by DNA in 2011?
Answer: ned kelly
Question: What Brazilian originating dance and music in Portuguese means loosely 'new trend'?
Answer: bossa nova
Question: Stately home Cliveden, now a hotel, was a pool party venue for characters involved in what famous political scandal, named after the Secretary of State for War at its centre?
Answer: profumo
Question: What widely referenced cosmetic surgery method contains the Greek word for fat?
Answer: liposuction
Question: What in Spanish what does the song-title, 'Que Sera, Sera,' mean (loosely, not grammatically correctly)?
Answer: whatever will be will be
Question: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics are notable corporations in what sector?
Answer: armaments
Question: What country has Baffin Bay to its west coast and Denmark Strait to its south-east?
Answer: greenland
Question: What pressure group, led by Kumi Naidoo, with three million members, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011?
Answer: greenpeace
Question: Greek god Dionysus is also known by what mythical Roman godly name, associated with revelry?
Answer: bacchus
Question: In 2011 Australia launched passports offering a third-gender option for intersex people (whose anatomy fits neither male/female convention) indicated by what letter symbol?
Answer: x
Question: Kevlar, the high-strength fibre material, used in armour and sports equipment, is a product/brand of which international chemicals corporation?
Answer: dupont
Question: What compound, KClO3, commonly features in the heads of safety matches?
Answer: potassium chlorate
Question: What self-proclaimed birthplace of surfing announced in 2011 that the activity would become (in 2013) an official college sport?
Answer: hawaii
Question: The world wide web domain .tv belongs to which Pacific island nation?
Answer: tuvalu
Question: What family-founded/named corporation owns the brands Snickers, Uncle Ben's and Dolmio (at 2011)?
Answer: mars
Question: What notorious convicted tax-evader is considered the instigator of milk date stamps in Chicago?
Answer: al capone
Question: What stone, still quarried in the Dorset (England) tied island which also bears its name, was used in the construction of St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace, and widely elsewhere too?
Answer: portland stone
Question: La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind)?
Answer: carlos ruiz zafón
Question: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Answer: c s lewis
Question: Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)?
Answer: antoine de saint exupéry
Question: What name was given to a legendary substance believed to turn base metals (notably lead) into gold or silver?
Answer: philosopher s stone
Question: The sweet variety of the plant genus Musa is more commonly known as what?
Answer: banana
Question: Racip Erdogan is a leader (at 2011) of what nation?
Answer: turkey
Question: Polly Toynbee is a British writer and journalist mainly on?
Answer: politics
Question: What historic capital city is situated where the White Nile and Blue Nile join to form the southern start of the Nile?
Answer: khartoum
Question: What London landmark became the UK focus of global protests in October 2011 against corporate greed?
Answer: st paul s cathedral
Question: What UK newspaper's grossly wrong reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster still causes it to be boycotted in Liverpool over 20 years later?
Answer: sun
Question: The New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team badge emblem is a silver?
Answer: fern
Question: In physics, mass multiplied by velocity equals what, represented by the symbol P?
Answer: momentum
Question: Traditional UK government terminology for the persuasion of ministers to vote according to party policy is called?
Answer: whip
Question: What French term, meaning 'high dressmaking', refers internationally to expensive designer clothing, typically of leading fashion houses?
Answer: haute couture
Question: What national population is projected (as at 2011) to overtake China in 2020 as the largest in the world?
Answer: india
Question: Cristina Kirchner was re-elected president of which country in October 2011?
Answer: argentina
Question: Kaun Banega Crorepati is loose Hindi translation and an Indian version of what popular TV gameshow?
Answer: who wants to be millionaire
Question: What country features centrally and ironically in a map of Europe on the reverse face of Euro coins?
Answer: uk
Question: Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, and Audemars Piguet are all notable what?
Answer: watchmakers
Question: What iconic Moscow theatre reopened in 2011 after major refurbishment and earlier decades of neglect?
Answer: bolshoi
Question: From Greek for gadfly, what is the sex hormonal substance which maintains/develops human female body characteristics?
Answer: oestrogen
Question: How many grooves are on one side of a standard 33RPM vinyl LP record?
Answer: one
Question: Name the Israeli corporal released in October 2011 by Palestinian Hamas militants, held hostage since June 2006?
Answer: gilad shalit
Question: Name the English 1960s playwright (of Loot and Entertaining Mister Sloane), imprisoned with (and later murdered by) boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell for defacing library books in 1962?
Answer: joe orton
Question: Yulia Tymoshenko, controversially jailed for seven years in 2011 for exceeding her authority in signing a Russian gas deal, was prime minister of which country?
Answer: ukraine
Question: Actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in prison after appearing in an Australian film critical of what country, her homeland?
Answer: iran
Question: The Omega Speedmaster is claimed (at 2011) to be the only watch worn on the?
Answer: moon
Question: Name the Glasgow-born guitar virtuoso and 1960s founder of the band Pentangle who died age 67 in 2011?
Answer: bert jansch
Question: What is common name of the clear flammable early anaesthetic liquid with the formula C2H5OC2H5 (or CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3)?
Answer: ether
Question: F = ma is a common simplification of what?
Answer: newtons second law of motion
Question: The famous geological/geographical feature Chesil Beach in Dorset, England, is a natural coastal barrier made of?
Answer: pebbles
Question: Upon the change to British regal succession law removing gender inequality, the Princess Royal (Anne) advances how many positions closer to the Crown?
Answer: six
Question: What common scientific suffix (referring to having a productive quality) is from the French/Greek word loosely meaning 'born of a specific kind'?
Answer: gen
Question: On 19-20 October 1917 the largest fleet of what attempted and mostly failed to attack the UK?
Answer: airships
Question: The Grand Bazaar, said to be the world's largest covered market, is in which city?
Answer: instanbul
Question: Apple's smartphone launched in Autumn/Fall 2011 to unprecedented demand was the iphone?
Answer: 4s
Question: The Reverend Thomas A Dorsey is linked with the origins of what musical singing style?
Answer: gospel
Question: The natural basic form of the spice ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a?
Answer: rhizome
Question: Said to be the most natural unit of time what is typically defined as the period of rotation of the Earth relative to any selected heavenly body?
Answer: day
Question: What foodstuff, meaning 'fat liver' in French, is made from the liver of a duck or goose fattened traditionally by force-feeding?
Answer: foie gras
Question: The Head of State in Italy is (at 2011) a?
Answer: president
Question: Conceived in 1999 in Melbourne, Australia, the annual month-long charity effort 'Movember' raises awareness/funds for men's health issues (notably prostate and testicular cancer) involving the wearing of what?
Answer: moustaches
Question: Canadian professor of management and psychology, Victor Vroom, established '(What?) Theory'?
Answer: expectancy theory
Question: What is the (full name of the) United Nations' agency for nuclear technology, abbreviated to IAEA?
Answer: international atomic energy agency
Question: Vitreous enamel, used to decorate and protect pottery, metals, etc., is?
Answer: glass
Question: What German word refers to the highest or premier league of any sport in Germany or Austria?
Answer: bundesliga
Question: From 2006-11 and ongoing, Giuliano Mignini became infamous for alleged incompetence and recklessness in what role in Italy? Soccer referee; Public prosecutor; Pizza restaurateur; or Formula 1 team manager?
Answer: public prosecutor
Question: Rocinha favela in Brazil is said to be the biggest what in Latin America?
Answer: slum
Question: What is Alexander Pope's (1688-1744) famous line from his poem An Essay on Criticism, written 1709, much used in books, film and music?
Answer: fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Question: IBM's innovative 'Selectric' typewriter of the 1960s-80s was popularly called a?
Answer: golfball
Question: The Russian word 'naled' (in German, 'aufeis') refers to naturally occurring thicker-than-normal layers of what?
Answer: ice
Question: A gilet (pronounced loosely 'jee-lay' - it's French) is a jacket or blouse without?
Answer: sleeves
Question: What notable businessman is known as the Sage of Omaha?
Answer: warren buffett
Question: What seasonal name is most commonly given to the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, which began in Tunisia, December 2010?
Answer: arab spring
Question: What small ex-Soviet nation between Turkey and Iran was World Team Chess Champion in 2011 and subsequently made the game compulsory in primary school education?
Answer: armenia
Question: In Cable Street East London, 1936, thousands of ordinary people famously stopped a march by what uniformly nicknamed organization?
Answer: blackshirts
Question: What is the colourful nickname of the International Business Machines (IBM) corporation?
Answer: big blue
Question: What is conventionally regarded to be the opposite of Utopia?
Answer: dystopia
Question: In medicine, the word styptic refers to something that stops what?
Answer: bleeding
Question: Gum Olibanum, from the tree Boswellia sacra?
Answer: frankincense
Question: Alternative name for the plant Sweet Cicely, from its Latin name?
Answer: myrrh
Question: Conducted mission of preaching and healing, with reported miracles, in Palestine, c.28-30AD?
Answer: jesus christ
Question: ... Anise, used for aniseed flavouring typically in Asian cooking?
Answer: star
Question: Originally Old English 'haligdaeg', meaning 'holy day'?
Answer: holiday
Question: Roger 'Race' Bannon, Hadji, and a dog called Bandit are leading characters in what 1960s TV cartoon, now media franchise?
Answer: jonny quest
Question: The rivers Brahmaputra, Ganges, Meghna and Krishna flow into the Bay of (What)?
Answer: bengal
Question: What soft gray alkaline earth metal is the fifth most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust?
Answer: calcium
Question: What feature in clothing such as trousers and skirts has variations called box, fluted, accordion, knife and honeycombe?
Answer: pleats
Question: Wildfowl such as ducks, geese, swans, etc., have a nail on which part of the body?
Answer: beak
Question: The 'God particle' is more technically called what, after two (English and Indian) physicists?
Answer: higgs boson
Question: In medicine and biological science, what is the opposite and usual alternative to 'in vitro'?
Answer: in vivo
Question: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) was first president and is regarded as founder of which republic?
Answer: turkey
Question: The Hindustani Indian instrument the dilruba, meaning 'robber of the heart', is used by a?
Answer: musician
Question: Eiswein is wine made from grapes that have been what on the vine? Frozen; Sun-dried; Salted; or Pressed?
Answer: frozen
Question: Using conventional tunings, what is the lowest note a symphonic orchestra can produce by bowing a stringed instrument?
Answer: e
Question: Mythological Norse 'hall of the slain'?
Answer: valhalla
Question: Hagrid's 'cowardly' boarhound, of Harry Potter fame?
Answer: fang
Question: US Army WWI most decorated war dog, and highest ranking?
Answer: sergeant stubby
Question: Milo's dog, The Phantom Tollbooth's 'watchdog'?
Answer: tock
Question: Odysseus's faithful hound in Homer's Odyssey?
Answer: argos
Question: Mrs Pumphrey's pekingese James Herriot's vet stories?
Answer: tricki woo
Question: Paul McCartney, and supposedly inspiration for a Beatles song/song title?
Answer: martha
Question: What William S Burroughs 1961 book popularised the rock music term 'heavy metal', and provided the names for at least two rock bands of the 1970s?
Answer: soft machine
Question: What main religion celebrates festivals including Nuakhai, Yatra (or Zatra/Jatra), Pongal, Holi and Shigmo?
Answer: hindu
Question: Which country experienced the Velvet Revolution in Nov-Dec 1989?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: The Showa period of Japan coincided with what Emperor's reign?
Answer: hirohito
Question: What fashionable Mediterranean resort hosted the G20 international economics conference at the height of the Greek Euro membership crisis?
Answer: cannes
Question: Which politician (as at 2011) has the second-highest average for a No6 cricket test batsman (over 61 runs) and in a competition bowled faster than Dennis Lillee and Andy Roberts?
Answer: imran khan
Question: Which Australian city is considered to have the largest Greek population outside of Greece?
Answer: melbourne
Question: What French term refers in English (contracts especially) to an unforeseeable factor preventing the fulfilment of an agreement?
Answer: force majeure
Question: Long wrap-around skirt meaning sheath or quiver - from Malay?
Answer: sarong
Question: Ghost or spirit, typically unseen and moving things - from German?
Answer: poltergeist
Question: Joy in the misfortune of others - from German?
Answer: schadenfreude
Question: Happiness or blissful death through elightenment (literally 'blowing out') - from Sanskrit?
Answer: nirvana
Question: What capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh became famous for the 1984 gas poisoning disaster at Dow Chemicals' Union Carbide plant?
Answer: bhopal
Question: The French term ligne (equating to 'line' in English) is used by makers of watches, buttons and hats as an expression of?
Answer: size
Question: Who wrote The Stepford Wives, Rosemary's Baby, and The Boys from Brazil?
Answer: ira levin
Question: The European/Asian slow worm (Anguis) is what sort of animal?
Answer: lizard
Question: Piscine Molitor Patel is better known by what highly abbreviated name, being the central character of an eponymously titled novel?
Answer: pi
Question: Name the UK government minister in the news in 2012 for his initiatives for schools bible distribution and a new royal yacht?
Answer: michael gove
Question: The Venetian island of Murano is noted for its centuries-old traditional manufacture of what material in decorative form?
Answer: glass
Question: 'Guerilla' street art attributed to 'Banski' became a notable feature of what capital city in 2012?
Answer: moscow
Question: The fashionable Belstaff clothing label was founded in Staffordshire UK in 1924 initially to produce protective waterprooof clothing for?
Answer: motorcyclists
Question: What instrument is the basis of the occupational name for a stringed instrument maker, notably of violins and guitars?
Answer: lute
Question: What colour/color is the second 'O' in the standard original Google logo?
Answer: yellow
Question: The fuel injection system replaced what traditional device for blending air and fuel in car combustion engines?
Answer: carburettor
Question: As at 2012 what 115-island Indian Ocean nation has the smallest population (about 86,000) of any African country?
Answer: seychelles
Question: A framework beam - a fink - that supports a wide-spanning roof is also known as a '(what nationality) truss'?
Answer: french
Question: The Turbans, The Five Satins, and The Diamonds helped establish what musical style?
Answer: doo wop
Question: What psychological condition was named after Greek legend of a beautiful hunter who fell in love with his own reflection?
Answer: narcissism
Question: Named after Hantan River, South Korea, hantaviruses typically infect humans through transfer from bites, waste, etc., of?
Answer: rodents
Question: In 2012 Josefina Vazquez Mota became a presidential candidate for the ruling National Action Party (PAN) in which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: Emil Boc resigned as prime minister of which European country in Feb 2012?
Answer: romania
Question: Lisa del Giocondo is better known as what famous characterization?
Answer: mona lisa
Question: The Aquino, Arroyo and Cojuangco families have in recent times ruled what country?
Answer: philippines
Question: In the human body the hypophysis is better known as what gland?
Answer: pituitary gland
Question: The deeply inaccessible lakes Vostok, Whillans, and Ellsworth are in the?
Answer: south pole
Question: UK road signs for tourist destinations and places of interest are normally a white icon on what colour background?
Answer: brown
Question: The 1805 Battle of Austerlitz was a major victory for which commander?
Answer: napoleon
Question: What 'white-tail' species grew in such numbers in US Washington DC parklands as to prompt radical control measures in 2012?
Answer: deer
Question: What nationality (at 2012, and at founding) are the corporations Samsung, Hyundai and LG?
Answer: south korean
Question: What film won five Oscars in 2012 including Best Actor, Original Score and Costume Design?
Answer: artist
Question: In Feb 2012 British cruise ships Adonia and Star Princess were refused entry to Ushuaia port in the southern tip of which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: Moody's, Fitch, and Standard and Poor's are leaders in what market?
Answer: credit ratings
Question: Brent Crude is the common trading classification for oil sourced from the bed of what sea?
Answer: north sea
Question: In what country was the sports goods company Fila first established (1911) and owned?
Answer: italy
Question: King Rama and Queen Sirikit rule which country (at 2012), bordered by Burma, Laos, and Cambodia?
Answer: thailand
Question: Moishe Shagall, born 1887 in what is now Belarus, became famous under what other name?
Answer: marc chagall
Question: From Greek meaning within, what sort of gland secretes hormones, etc., directly into the blood?
Answer: endocrine
Question: Geir Haard (who in 2012 became the first politician to face court charges for negligence in contributing to the 2008 global financial crisis) led what country?
Answer: iceland
Question: What is the lowest note on a common traditional four-string mandolin?
Answer: g
Question: The 'doppelsigrune' or 'sig runes' was the symbol of what secretive and powerful organization? The
Answer: ss
Question: Who was the last head of state of the Soviet Union?
Answer: mikhail gorbachev
Question: As at 2012 what nationality is the Brewery corporation Carlsberg?
Answer: danish
Question: Baselworld in Switzerland is the world's biggest annual tradeshow event for?
Answer: watches and jewellery
Question: Shakespeare's play of Greek/Trojan war, love and betrayal is Troilus and (who)?
Answer: cressida
Question: Name the 1982 Buckingham Palace early-hours intruder who woke and spoke to Elizabeth II in her bedroom?
Answer: michael fagan
Question: At 2012 what mobile broadband service is/was the next major upgrade for most of Europe?
Answer: 4g
Question: Name the Sony Playstation new handheld gaming model launched in Europe in 2012?
Answer: vita
Question: Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger's 'thought experiment' theory is referred to as Schrödinger's (what animal)?
Answer: cat
Question: The natural effect causing paint to rise up the hairs of a paintbrush, and liquid to rise up a narrow tube is called (what) action?
Answer: capillary
Question: What car company was set up by Colin Chapman in 1952, subsequently succeeding in F1 racing?
Answer: lotus
Question: Dr Robert Atkins, (1930-2003), who died weighing 260lbs, was noted for what eponymous conception?
Answer: atkins diet
Question: What ingredient, used cleverly very sparingly by the Romans, largely determines durability of concrete?
Answer: water
Question: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), was better known as what hugely influential organization, notably in the colonial exploitation of Asia?
Answer: dutch east india company
Question: In what modern country did the ancient Sumer or Sumerian civilisation develop and flourish?
Answer: iraq
Question: What modern convenient foodstuff takes its name from the Latin meaning 'salted (and preserved meat)'?
Answer: sausage
Question: Name the hugely and suddenly successful 'Pictionary-type' online game bought by Zynga for $180m in 2012?
Answer: draw something
Question: What material was used in making the 2,000 year-old dome of the Pantheon in Rome?
Answer: concrete
Question: The Renminbi is currency, and increasingly important in global trading, of which country?
Answer: china
Question: An exoplanet is a planet which does what to a sun (outside of our own solar system)?
Answer: orbits
Question: Which artist/inventor's famous lost 1504 painting, The Battle of Anghiari, was found in 2012 hidden in Florence Town Hall, behind a later fresco?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: As at 2012 what is the only European country to routinely apply the death penalty?
Answer: belarus
Question: St Tropez, Sienna X, and Fake Bake are popular brands of what product/service type?
Answer: spray tanning
Question: The British pub name 'The Talbot' traditionally refers to a what?
Answer: dog
Question: What religious code refers to 'the three poisons' (or 'unwholesome roots') of ignorance, attachment, aversion, as the roots of all suffering? Islam; Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism?
Answer: buddhism
Question: As at at 2012 Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao are/were president and premier of which country?
Answer: china
Question: Behind Wal-Mart, Carrefour, and Tesco, what corporation is the fourth largest retail group (by turnover, at 2012) in the world?
Answer: metro
Question: What organ of the body has a pericardium, pulmonary trunk, and superior vena cava?
Answer: heart
Question: Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as leader of the Sovient Union?
Answer: nikita khrushchev
Question: A dagga (duggi or dhama) is the bass element of what Indian percussion instrument?
Answer: tabla
Question: Which Greek hero killed the 'half-man/half-bull' Minotaur?
Answer: theseus
Question: The army bugle call meaning get ready/mounted and into line/parade is traditionally called?
Answer: boots and saddles
Question: Which country's royal anthem is called 'Kongesangen'?
Answer: norway
Question: Carthage is a 3,000 year old urban settlement now part of what North African capital city?
Answer: tunis
Question: What modern-day publishing corporation, owner of Penguin books, built the Blackwall Tunnel (under the River Thames in London)?
Answer: pearson
Question: What vague unit of time is also the same as torque in physics, being a rotational force?
Answer: moment
Question: What nationality is the retail group Carrefour (at 2012)?
Answer: french
Question: In old English, a Yeoman was originally a man possessing/working with?
Answer: land
Question: What African country experienced a 2012 rebellion by Tuareg fighters?
Answer: mali
Question: Zampone is an Italian dish made of stuffed pig's what?
Answer: trotter
Question: Which major social networking corporation grew from a branded messaging project at podcasting site Odeo?
Answer: twitter