CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In which country would you find the Moorish castle called the Alhambra?
Answer: spain
Question: Who, in the 16th century, published "Orbium Coelestium", the theory that underlies our current understanding of the relationship of the earth to the sun and the planets?
Answer: nicolaus copernicus
Question: Which chief laid siege to Fort Detroit in 1763, an action that led to widespread rebellion against colonists in the area around Ohio and Illinois?
Answer: pontiac
Question: Who was President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 and was depicted in the film "The Last King Of Scotland"?
Answer: idi amin
Question: What virtual cricketing prize began in 1882 when Australia beat England by 7 runs?
Answer: ashes
Question: Which British playwright won the 2005 Nobel Prize for literature?
Answer: harold pinter
Question: What word refers to a note whose pitch is not a member of the scale indicated by the key signature?
Answer: accidental
Question: What series of 29 British films made between 1958 and 1978 were made by a collection of actors including Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, and Kenneth Connor?
Answer: carry on
Question: According to Greek legend, whose fate was to stand near the garden of the Hesperides and support the universe on his shoulders?
Answer: atlas
Question: What 1980's TV programme starred Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless?
Answer: cagney and lacey
Question: What American Indian word was used to describe the first international Boy Scout rally held at Olympia, London, in 1920?
Answer: jamboree
Question: What organisation, formed by Reverend John Flynn and based in Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, began in 1928?.
Answer: royal flying doctor service
Question: In 2004 it was announced that what new fixture was planned for Wimbledons Centre Court, to be completed in 2009?
Answer: retractable roof
Question: Time On Our Hands, which held the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode from 1996 for over ten years, is from which TV series?
Answer: only fools and horses
Question: Which light-heavyweight boxer won a gold medal when he competed at an Olympic Games for the first time in 1960 at Rome?
Answer: cassius clay
Question: Which Irish step dancer, flautist and choreographer, born 16 July 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, became internationally known through the musical "Riverdance"?
Answer: michael flatley
Question: What phrase used by the US during the Cold War to justify American intervention around the world, suggested that if any country came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would follow?
Answer: domino theory
Question: Which US horse race for three year-old thoroughbred horses is held on the first Saturday in May, over one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs?
Answer: kentucky derby
Question: What is the Russian rocket launch and development site in the Astrakhan Oblast, between Volgograd and Astrakhan, established in 1946?
Answer: kapustin yar
Question: Nelson beat Napoleon's fleet, which lost 13 of 17 ships, in which battle in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1793?
Answer: battle of nile
Question: Which impresario, music manager and record producer has been involved with The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Graham Gouldman, Godley and Creme, (later 10cc), Soft Machine, and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity?
Answer: giorgio gomelsky
Question: Which mountains are between Lake Champlain and the St Lawrence, in the state of New York, USA?
Answer: adirondacks
Question: Who made the first, in western countries, practical successful and widely usable vaccinations in 1796 against smallpox?
Answer: edward jenner
Question: In 2008, who was the President of Palestine and Fatah leader?
Answer: mahmoud abbas
Question: Which river flows from north to south through eastern New York State, USA, and forms the border between Pennsylvania and New Jersey before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: hudson
Question: Launched on 4 March 2001 as the largest ship operated by the U S Navy, this aircraft carrier is named after which past U S president?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: What is a highly magnetized, rotating, neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation that can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth (known as the lighthouse effect)?
Answer: pulsar
Question: Which country became a self-governing state within the British Empire in 1959, declared independence from Britain, joining the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, and left the federation on 9 August 1965?
Answer: singapore
Question: In Britain, what was the name given to the M4 Medium Tank that was produced by the US from World War II until the end of the Korean War?
Answer: sherman
Question: Which English actor, the majority of whose film work was between 1944 ("Waterloo Road") and 1960 ("Tunes of Glory"), won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Ryan's Daughter" (1970)?
Answer: john mills
Question: What is the word commonly thought to mean "a morbid fear of open spaces"?
Answer: agoraphobia
Question: Who set the record for winning the World Snooker Championship the most times (7) in 1999?
Answer: stephen hendry
Question: In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana, what is the name for the day called Shrove Tuesday in Ireland and the UK where it is celebrated with pancakes?
Answer: mardi gras
Question: Which Greek mathematician, from the 1st century BC, is best known for the theorem which bears his name and for leading a group who discovered square numbers and proposed that the earth was round, planets have an axis, and they travel around the sun?
Answer: pythagoras
Question: In sheep's stomach put finely minced heart, lungs & liver of sheep, 2 chopped onions, 1lb suet, juice of 1 lemon, 1/2pt oatmeal, 2tsp salt, 1tsp pepper, 1/2 grated nutmeg, 1/2pt gravy; boil 3 hrs is a recipe for what?
Answer: haggis
Question: CRP (or CREEP) was The Committee to Re-elect which US president?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: Which US TV show's theme song, by Judy Hart Angelo & Gary Portnoy, performed by Portnoy, contained the line "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"?
Answer: cheers
Question: What is the name given to a class of coal that contains a high percentage of fired carbon and burns smokelessly with intense heat?
Answer: anthracite
Question: What is the largest island of Denmark, that includes the cities of Copenhagen and Helsingr?
Answer: zealand
Question: What was the name of the temporary harbours that were towed to the French coast to facilitate D Day landings on 5 and 6 June 1944?
Answer: mulberry
Question: From which sport do we get the expression "Bowled a googly"?
Answer: cricket
Question: Which one of four "big cats" in the Panthera genus is the only one found in the New World (i.e. Mexico, across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina)?
Answer: jaguar
Question: Which city held the 2012 Summer Olympics, making it the first city to host the Games three times?
Answer: london
Question: Who wrote the plays "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Play", "Happy Days" and "Krapp's Last Tape"?
Answer: samuel beckett
Question: Which theatre in Dublin, built in 1904 where George Bernard Shaw, W B Yeats, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey premiered many of their plays, was severely damaged by fire in 1951?
Answer: abbey theatre
Question: Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws?
Answer: opium wars
Question: Which Beatle played "Youngman Grand" in "The Magic Christian" 1969, with Peter Sellers?
Answer: ringo starr
Question: Woody Guthrie, tired of radio overplaying Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", wrote a song in 1940 now known as what?
Answer: this land is your land
Question: What is produced by the cortex of supra-renal glands that stimulates the autonomic nervous system?
Answer: adrenalin
Question: Which mountain range crosses North Africa for over 1500 miles from Cape Nun on the Atlantic Coast to Cape Bon on the Mediterranean?
Answer: atlas
Question: Which city was settled by the French in 1718, ceded to Spain in 1763, fell to France in 1800, and was bought by the USA in 1803?
Answer: new orleans
Question: When bidding in Auction Bridge, what suit has the highest value below "No trumps"?
Answer: spades
Question: Which dancer had success on stage with his sister Adele before achieving fame in films with Ginger Rogers?
Answer: fred astaire
Question: What is next in the series: Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine?
Answer: catherine
Question: The publication of which book by Salman Rushdie led to threats on his life by Ayatollah Khomeini?
Answer: satanic verses
Question: Over 99.9% of an atom's mass is concentrated in what part of the atom?
Answer: nucleus
Question: Which is the largest of the Channel Islands, where the official language is French?
Answer: jersey
Question: What appeared in the Netherlands in 1608, developed by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius, and improved by Galileo in 1609?
Answer: refracting telescope
Question: What is the alternative name for Pluto, the Greek God of the underworld, that has come to mean Hell?
Answer: hades
Question: Antoni Gaudi is responsible for the architecture of which building which is still being constructed to his original plans and drawings, 90 years after his death?
Answer: sagrada familia
Question: Which large, non-venomous snake found in South America and on Trinidad grows to around 23 feet (7.0 m) long, and is olive green with black blotches with orange-yellow striping on either side of the head?
Answer: anaconda
Question: Which 1967 film ended with the deaths of the characters played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty?
Answer: bonnie and clyde
Question: The term "New England" covers the US states of Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and which other state?
Answer: new hampshire
Question: Who married the woman who was to become Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, on 10 March 1966?
Answer: prince claus
Question: Which Hungarian-born actor acted in films from 1917 to his death in 1956, and is best known for playing the title role in the 1931 film "Dracula"?
Answer: bela lugosi
Question: New York city consists of the boroughs of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and which other?
Answer: queens
Question: Which building on the le de la Cit in Paris took 300 years to build from 1163, and was one of the first to have flying buttresses?
Answer: notre dame
Question: What term is familiarly applied to the university where one received one's education?
Answer: alma mater
Question: What film, in production between 2007 and 2009, is directed by James Cameron ("Titanic")?
Answer: avatar
Question: Where was the most damage done by the Loma Prieta earthquake, that struck on 17 October 1989?
Answer: san francisco bay area california
Question: Who was the first Chancellor of West Germany from 19491963, who retired at age 87?
Answer: konrad adenauer
Question: Theo van Doesberg, Piet Mondriaan, Vilmos Huizar and Bart van der Leck are identified with what art movement?
Answer: neoplasticism
Question: What is an aramaic word meaning "father" that is used as a title of respect to bishops and patriarchs in Coptic, Syrian and Abyssinian churches?
Answer: abba
Question: What is a food consisting of sweetened milk thickened with rennet into a curd, sometimes flavoured with brandy?
Answer: junket
Question: What is the name in England for the mystery crime fiction board game devised by Anthony E. Pratt and originally published in 1949?
Answer: cluedo
Question: In Morse code, what letter is represented by "dash dash dash"?
Answer: o
Question: In which UK TV series did Ronnie Barker play "Arkwright" and David Jason play his nephew "Granville"?
Answer: open all hours
Question: Which country was the largest producer of kiwifruit (also known as Chinese Gooseberry or kiwi) in 2012?
Answer: italy
Question: Who wrote "Badjelly The Witch", "A Little Pot Boiler" and "Small Dreams Of A Scorpion"?
Answer: spike milligan
Question: Greenland and the Faroe Islands are dependencies of which European nation?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which drummer for the 1960s rock band Holy Modal Rounders (featured in the movie "Easy Rider") received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play, Buried Child?
Answer: sam shepard
Question: The anniversary that commemorates Captain Arthur Phillip founding the British Colony of Australia in 1788, is celebrated on which day every year?
Answer: 26 january
Question: Nitroglycerin is made by treating glycerin with nitric acid and what?
Answer: sulphuric acid
Question: Which American screenwriter, producer, director, actor, author and editor, most productive in the 1950's, made "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "Glen or Glenda" and "Bride Of The Monster"?
Answer: ed wood
Question: What light display in Antarctica is caused by atomic bombardment from the sun on the earth's magnetic field?
Answer: aurora australis
Question: What is the name for a queen reigning in her own right, with her husband as one of her subjects?
Answer: queen regnant
Question: What is the name for the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, from which Muslims date their era?
Answer: hejira
Question: In "The Lord Of The Rings", what was the name of Gandalf's horse?
Answer: shadowfax
Question: Who wrote "The Threepenny Opera", "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and "Life of Galileo"?
Answer: bertolt brecht
Question: Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?
Answer: hapsburg
Question: From 2008 Ferrari provided cars (a modification of the F1 Ferrari F2004 chassis) with a V8 engine for which 'single make' motor racing series?
Answer: a1 grand prix
Question: Swiss physician and psychologist Carl Jung was initially a disciple of whom, until he disagreed with his theories regarding the Libido etc?
Answer: sigmund freud
Question: William Randolph Hearst, Turk Murphy, Wyatt Earp and Joe DiMaggio are buried in cemeteries at Colma, where the dead outnumber the living by thousands to one. Where is Colma?
Answer: san mateo county california
Question: What team water sport involves two teams of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes?
Answer: water polo
Question: The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, established in 1884, was formed by people from what religion?
Answer: jehovah s witnesses
Question: Which winner of an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Tony and a Pulitzer, wrote musicals with Hart, Hammerstein and Sondheim?
Answer: richard rodgers
Question: From which play is the quotation "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players"?
Answer: as you like it
Question: What is the name for what is commonly known as aspirin?
Answer: acetyl salicylic acid
Question: What disaster occurred on the San Andreas Fault in 1906?
Answer: san francisco earthquake
Question: What was the occupation of Vaslav Nijinsky from 1908?
Answer: dancer and choreographer
Question: What was the first combat aircraft to provide cabin pressurisation for the crew?
Answer: b29 bomber
Question: Middelburg is the capital of which province in the South West of The Netherlands?
Answer: zeeland
Question: Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" in 1789?
Answer: robert burns
Question: Which Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under a parabola, and provided formulas for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and a system for expressing very large numbers?
Answer: archimedes
Question: What British sitcom features Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, immature, prosperous, preposterous, substance-abusing fashion obsessed Londoners who value fame and style over substance?
Answer: absolutely fabulous
Question: The 9th Marquess of Queensberry sponsored the rules for which sport?
Answer: boxing
Question: In Greek mythology, who was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, murdered by his wife Clytemnestra on his return home from the Trojan War?
Answer: agamemnon
Question: What is the second longest named river in the USA, which runs from Lake Hasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: mississippi
Question: In 1898, an agreement was made between Britain and China for a 99 year lease for part of which colony?
Answer: hong kong
Question: What event led to a US grand jury indicting E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws?
Answer: watergate
Question: Which science fiction writer developed "The Three Laws of Robotics"?
Answer: isaac asimov
Question: Who wrote the songs "Suzanne", "First We Take Manhattan" and "Everybody Knows"?
Answer: leonard cohen
Question: In what sport would one use a carabiner and a piton?
Answer: climbing
Question: What weapon, used by some African tribes, is a light throwing spear, tipped with iron?
Answer: assegai
Question: What is a navigation instrument used until the 18th century to measure the angles between heavenly bodies, or between them and the horizon?
Answer: astrolabe
Question: According to the Bible, which one of Eve's sons killed his brother?
Answer: cain
Question: The aim of which board game, which is based on one created in India around 500 BC, is to move pawns from the "nest" to "home"?
Answer: parcheesi
Question: Who became King of Belgium on 9 August 1993?
Answer: king albert ii
Question: Which city was founded in 1624 as a commercial trading post by the Dutch, who called it New Amsterdam, and was a nation's capital from 1785 until 1790?
Answer: new york
Question: Which British sitcom featured Captain Mainwaring's catch phrase "You stupid boy!"
Answer: dads army
Question: Which Irishman wrote the novels "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake"?
Answer: james joyce
Question: What name for an army unit composed of New Zealand and Australian troops was applied to them in World War I?
Answer: anzacs
Question: Which of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments is played on grass courts?
Answer: wimbledon
Question: What is an aficionado of Gilbert and Sullivan's light operas called?
Answer: gilbertian
Question: What name is given to the death of tissue due to failure of the blood supply?
Answer: necrosis
Question: In curling, how do team members help to direct the "stones" towards the target?
Answer: sweeping
Question: Which board game depends on each competitor drawing destination cards, railway car cards and locomotive cards?
Answer: ticket to ride
Question: Burt Munro set the current land speed record for motorcycles under 1000cc in 1967 on what make of motorcycle?
Answer: indian
Question: The Great Falls of the Potomac River are located upstream (to the northwest) of which US city?
Answer: washington
Question: What is the name given to the retreat from Chiang Kai-sheks forces by the Chinese communists from Jiangxi to Shaanxi, a 9,600 km (5,965 mile), year-long journey that began in October 1934?
Answer: long march
Question: At which university on 4 May 1970 were 4 students killed and 9 wounded when an Army National Guard unit fired at students during a protest against the US invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War?
Answer: kent state university
Question: In the Roman calendar, what was the 7th day called for the months of March, May, July and October?
Answer: nones
Question: Which author, who wrote "Portrait Of A Lady", "The American" and "Roderick Hudson", was born in New York in 1843 and became a naturalised Englishman in 1915?
Answer: henry james
Question: Christopher Reeve had the title role in the first of which series of films?
Answer: superman
Question: What does the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom relate directly to?
Answer: its atomic number
Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1914 and 1919?
Answer: boston red sox
Question: What is the next in the series: Waterloo, Blackfriars, Blackfriars Railway, Millennium ?
Answer: southwark
Question: What multi-venue rock music concert, held on 13 July 1985, was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia?
Answer: live aid
Question: Who played Jemima in the then new musical Cats in 1981, and later starred in more of Lloyd Webber's work, with two roles written for her: in the mass Requiem, and Christine Daa in The Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: sarah brightman
Question: What is the name given to a cataclysmic nuclear explosion caused by the accretion of hydrogen onto the surface of a white dwarf star?
Answer: nova
Question: Which English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era had a mysterious and untimely death?
Answer: christopher marlowe
Question: Which film ended with the two main characters driving a car off a cliff?
Answer: thelma and louise
Question: Alan Longmuir, Derek Longmuir, Eric Faulkner, Stuart "Woody" Wood and Les McKeown were collectively known as what band from 1974 to 1976?
Answer: bay city rollers
Question: As at 2006 elections which Sunni Islamist paramilitary organisation and political party holds a majority of seats in the legislative council of the State of Palestine, the name since 2012 of the Palestinian National Authority?
Answer: hamas
Question: What is the branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Asia Minor which contains many Greek islands?
Answer: aegean sea
Question: What type of design was used for London's Millennium Footbridge across the Thames, that opened on 10 June 2000?
Answer: steel suspension bridge
Question: In books by A A Milne, which of the main characters was usually depressed?
Answer: eeyore
Question: What name is given to the activities of the specially constituted group of British, American, Russian and French judges that tried NAZI Party leaders and German military commanders after World War II?
Answer: nuremberg trials
Question: Who wrote the music for what he described as "an American folk opera", which was set on Catfish Row?
Answer: george gershwin
Question: Which calendar was different from its predecessor because leap years did not fall on years divisible by 100 unless they were also divisible by 400?
Answer: gregorian calendar
Question: Where were the first modern Olympic Games held, from 6 to 15 April 1896?
Answer: athens greece
Question: Which territory has abandoned its capital city of Plymouth and has Brades as a de facto capital?
Answer: montserrat
Question: Which band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, had the original members of Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, John Steel, and "Chas" Chandler?
Answer: animals
Question: Which medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal, native to Africa, is the sole representative of the mammalian order Tubulidentata?
Answer: aardvark
Question: Who is the subject of The Future Is Unwritten, a film by Julien Temple?
Answer: joe strummer
Question: Which animal character, who first appeared on film in 1933, was conceived by Merian C Cooper and created by Willis O'Brien?
Answer: king kong
Question: Which birds from around Papua New Guinea and brought to Europe were believed never to land and to be kept aloft by their plumes, because native traders had removed the wings and feet from the specimens?
Answer: bird of paradise
Question: What was the name of the meeting that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787?
Answer: philadelphia convention
Question: Who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances?
Answer: ernest rutherford
Question: What is the Chilean desert between the coast and the Andes?
Answer: atacama
Question: What is the name for an Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device used to increase the power of a throw?
Answer: woomera
Question: What was the name of the band that Louis Armstrong put together with his wife Lil, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds and Johnny St. Cyr around 1925 in Chicago?
Answer: hot five
Question: What film starring Denis Quaid and Tyrese Gibson released in 2004 is a remake of one released in 1965 starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough?
Answer: flight of phoenix
Question: In 2003, which team broke Australia's winning streak of the World Netball Tournaments since 1971?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What measure of land area was defined in medieval England as the size of a field that could be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in one day?
Answer: acre