CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who was the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and heir to the throne, who renounced his childrens right to succession in order to make a morganatic marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek and was assassinated with her in Bosnia in 1914?
Answer: franz ferdinand
Question: Which US TV show, for which the cast list included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards and Jason Alexander, was set predominantly in an apartment block on New York City's Upper West Side (but shot mostly in Los Angeles, California)?
Answer: seinfeld
Question: Which pen manufacturer was founded in 1891 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA?
Answer: parker
Question: One of the earliest European explorers to reach Australia and New Zealand has which island named after him?
Answer: tasmania
Question: What is the contraction of the German "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" in common use in English?
Answer: nazi
Question: At which racecourse would you find Beecher's Brook and Canal Turn?
Answer: aintree
Question: Which city, previously the Roman town of Vindobona, became the capital of the Duchy of Austria in 1156 and the capital of Hapsburg power base in the 13th century?
Answer: vienna
Question: The musical "The King and I" is associated with which geographical area?
Answer: thailand
Question: Who tried to win back the America's Cup from the New York Yacht Club 5 times between 1899 and 1930 in boats called "Shamrock"?
Answer: sir thomas lipton
Question: Who was "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: quasimodo
Question: Which journey by James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise in 1970 almost ended in disaster?
Answer: apollo 13
Question: The lyrics of which song were inspired by the successful American defence of Fort McHenry in September 1814?
Answer: star spangled banner
Question: Who had hit records with "Eh Eh", "Let's Dance" and "Poker Face"?
Answer: lady ga ga
Question: The spiny leguminous plant called furze is also known as what?
Answer: gorse
Question: David Ben-Gurion became Prime Minister of the provisional government of which newly created country on 15 May 1948?
Answer: israel
Question: Which American was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union, the first female photojournalist for Life magazine, the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II?
Answer: margaret bourke white
Question: Who created the character of Hercule Poirot?
Answer: agatha christie
Question: The military action popularly known as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" took place in which war?
Answer: crimean war
Question: What is the electrical capacitance which 1 coulomb of electricity will charge to a capacity of 1 volt?
Answer: farad
Question: Where are sculptures of Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis carved into the side of a mountain?
Answer: stone mountain georgia
Question: The song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" from the film "High Noon" was a big hit for Frankie Laine in the early 1950s. Who sang it on the film soundtrack?
Answer: tex ritter
Question: Who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex", "Antigone" and "Electra"?
Answer: sophocles
Question: What is the name for radiations of a wavelength shorter than, and immediately next to, the visible spectrum?
Answer: ultra violet
Question: Where in Paris would you go to stand under the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: champs de mars
Question: Which English writer wrote "Goodbye To All That", "I, Claudius", "Claudius The God" and "King Jesus"?
Answer: robert graves
Question: Sepoys, native soldiers, served under British command in which country?
Answer: india
Question: At an auction in New York in March 2009, Vijay Mallya made international news by buying personal items belonging to whom?
Answer: mahatma ghandi
Question: In the Christian calendar, what is the week before Easter, historically a time of abstinence from eating flesh, drinking wine and carrying on business?
Answer: holy week
Question: Which Austrian, a pioneer in psycho-analysis, died in London in 1939, a refugee from Nazi persecution?
Answer: sigmund freud
Question: Which instrument, with a range of around 3 octaves, has its lowest string tuned to C below middle C, with the others to G, D and A?
Answer: viola
Question: What was the name of the river, 200 m north of Rome, where returning generals disbanded their armies when returning from campaigns to keep order in or expand the Roman Empire?
Answer: rubicon
Question: The "Zapruder film" is famous for being a colour film of which event?
Answer: assassination of john f kennedy
Question: What word best describes a triangle where one angle is greater than 90 degrees?
Answer: obtuse
Question: Which Venezuelan river has the same name as a Womble?
Answer: orinoco
Question: The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco on which day?
Answer: 26 june 1945
Question: In what board game do players compete to acquire wealth through buying, renting, and trading properties, with the object of bankrupting the other players?
Answer: monopoly
Question: William Crapo Durant merged Oldsmobile and what other car company to form General Motors?
Answer: buick
Question: In a popular children's story, what is the name of the young tugboat that saves an ocean liner?
Answer: little toot
Question: To whom did a crowd ouside the White House chant "Na, na, na, na - hey, hey - goodbye" in January 2009?
Answer: george w bush
Question: In which country was the Althing, a legislative and judiciary parliament, founded in 930?
Answer: iceland
Question: Which film from 1942 contains the lines "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine" and "Here's looking at you, kid"?
Answer: casablanca
Question: Which US film actress married and divorced both Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan?
Answer: rita hayworth
Question: What artificial international language invented by Dr Zamenhof was published in 1887?
Answer: esperanto
Question: What mechanical device allows the wheels of a vehicle to turn at different speeds when cornering?
Answer: differential
Question: Which Greek physician born in 460 BC to a family of priests and doctors lived most of his life on Cos and Cnidus and is generally considered to be the father of modern medicine?
Answer: hippocrates
Question: Who plays Mrs. Smith opposite Brad Pitt in the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"?
Answer: angelina jolie
Question: When Lieut Thomas E Selfridge became the first death in a crash of a powered airplane in 1908, who was the pilot?
Answer: orville wright
Question: L. Ron Hubbard is known as the founder of what movement?
Answer: scientology
Question: Who was the sister of film actress Joan Fontaine?
Answer: olivia de havilland
Question: Which book by Sir Thomas More, his view of an ideal society with community ownership, was written in Latin in 1516 and translated into English in 1551?
Answer: utopia
Question: Near what French town did Marie-Bernarde (Bernadette) Soubirous reportedly see visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858?
Answer: lourdes
Question: Which river, formed by the union of the Murad Nehri and the Karu Su, flows for 2781 km (1728 miles) through Turkey and Syria into Iraq, where it joins the Tigris to form the Shatt-el-Arab?
Answer: euphrates
Question: As of 2009, who is the only winner of a Formula One Drivers' championship to do so in a car bearing his own name?
Answer: jack brabham
Question: """My Heart Will Go On"" is the theme from what film?"
Answer: titanic
Question: Which 17th century English poet is famous for "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes"?
Answer: john milton
Question: Which UK TV series starred David Jason as market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his brother Rodney?
Answer: only fools and horses
Question: Who was the commander of the Luftwaffe during World War II and died by taking poison after being condemned to death at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946?
Answer: hermann wilhelm goering
Question: What is the name for an alcoholic preparation of opium widely used in the 18th and 19th centuries to treat a number of different complaints?
Answer: laudanum
Question: Which English composer, whose work was influenced by folk song and the music of the 16th century, wrote "London Symphony", "Pilgrim's Progress" and "Sinfonia Antarctica"?
Answer: ralph vaughan williams
Question: Which 1952 film, directed by Vittorio de Sica, was about a penniless old man (played by Carlo Battisti) and his dog, Flick?
Answer: umberto d
Question: Which flowering plant in the pea family, cultivated as feed for cattle, horses, sheep, and goats, is known in the UK, Australia and New Zealand as lucerne, as lucerne grass in south Asia and as Kuthirai Masal in Tamil?
Answer: alfalfa
Question: In architecture, what is the name for an ornamental vertical groove in a column?
Answer: flute
Question: Who served in the Crimean War (1854 - 56), was responsible for suppressing the Taiping rebellion in China in 1860, was governor of the Sudan 1877 - 79, and died there?
Answer: general charles gordon
Question: Which city would you go to to see "Grant's Tomb", a memorial to Ulysses S Grant, once President of the USA?
Answer: new york
Question: The foundations for which science were laid by Adam Smith in 1776 and followed up by people such as John Stuart Mill and David Ricardo?
Answer: economics
Question: Where was the war that began in 1998 and sometimes referred to as the "African World War", that has been called the world's deadliest conflict since World War II, with 5.4 million people killed?
Answer: congo
Question: In badminton, how many times may the shuttlecock be struck by each side before it passes over the net?
Answer: once
Question: Who, in 2004, riding the prototype KTM 250-SXF four stroke, won the MX2 World Championship?
Answer: ben townley
Question: The main ingredients of gunpowder are saltpetre, charcoal and what else?
Answer: sulphur
Question: Who became the King of Norway on 17 February 1937?
Answer: king harald v
Question: In cockney rhyming slang, what is "Trouble and Strife"?
Answer: wife
Question: Which English novelist wrote "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited" and "Officers and Gentlemen"?
Answer: evelyn waugh
Question: In 1985 the Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was bombed and sunk by French agents in which harbour?
Answer: auckland new zealand
Question: Which computer game takes place in Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas, which suffer from rampant crime, feuding between crime syndicates, random acts of violence from street gangs, organized thievery and murder, and corrupt city officials and police?
Answer: grand theft auto
Question: The rest is silence are the dying words of which Shakespearean character?
Answer: hamlet
Question: How did the theme song for the TV show "The Monkees" begin?
Answer: here we come
Question: Which Beatle played the role of Private Gripweed in Richard Lester's film "How I Won The War", co-starring Michael Crawford, released in 1967?
Answer: john lennon
Question: Where are The Prince Edward Islands, two islands named Marion Island and Prince Edward Island, which are politically part of South Africa?
Answer: indian ocean
Question: Which painter, born in Antwerp, was invited by Charles I to be the court painter, and was knighted in 1632?
Answer: anthony van dyck
Question: What defence treaty was signed by Great Britain, the USA, France, Siam, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and the Philippines in 1954?
Answer: seato
Question: Mr McGregor is the name of the farmer in which stories?
Answer: peter rabbit
Question: After a plague in 1633, in which German town did the villagers vow to present a living representation of Christ's Passion every tenth year?
Answer: oberammergau
Question: Which strong man appears in the Bible in the Book of Judges?
Answer: samson
Question: Which organisation founded by Lord Baden Powell and his sister Agnes was incorporated by Charter in 1915?
Answer: girl guides
Question: Which sculptor is famous for "Bronze Age" (1877), "Burgesses of Calais" (1889), "The Kiss" (1898), and is best known in England for "Le Penseur"?
Answer: auguste rodin
Question: What is the form of sugar called "dextrose" also known as?
Answer: glucose
Question: Which American is famous for her photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken the day of Lennon's death, Demi Moore nude when 7 months pregnant, and, later, nude with a suit painted on her body?
Answer: annie liebowitz
Question: Which English King signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, Surrey, England, in 1215?
Answer: king john
Question: The engines used in Formula One between 1960 and 1990 by Motor Racing Developments Ltd (known as Brabham) were Coventry-Climax, Cosworth DFV, Alfa Romeo, BMW, Yamaha, Judd and which other?
Answer: repco
Question: In Greek legend, who, the last king of Troy, was the father of Hector and Paris?
Answer: priam
Question: Which orange-seller became an actress, then mistress of King Charles II, died in 1687 aged 37, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields?
Answer: nell gwynn
Question: What name was given to groups of runaway slaves in Jamaica and Guiana in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Answer: maroons
Question: Which group of over 7000 islands has main islands called Luzon, Mindanao, Samar, Negros, Palawan, Panay, Mindora, Leyte, Cebu, Bohol and Masbate?
Answer: philippines
Question: Where did the "Mayflower", carrying the Pilgrim Fathers, early settlers to Massachusetts, America, sail from in 1620?
Answer: plymouth
Question: Calista Flockhart became engaged to whom in February 2009?
Answer: harrison ford
Question: What is the name of the major Greek stadium in Athens that was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, athletics events and the football (soccer) final at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Answer: olympic stadium
Question: The Night of the Long Knives is associated with which political figure?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: Who "made some tarts, all on a summer's day"?
Answer: queen of hearts
Question: Which painters aim to convey a state of mind rather than create a realistic representation, such as El Greco, Bosch, Goya, Grunewald and Munch?
Answer: expressionist
Question: The Soviet Union did not participate in the Olympics until 1952, and from 1928 organised an alternative international sports event. What were these games called?
Answer: spartakiads
Question: What name is given to the HQ of the USA's Department of Defence?
Answer: pentagon
Question: What position has Boris Johnson held from 4 May 2008?
Answer: mayor of london
Question: What is the name for the change of direction when a ray of light passes from one medium (e.g. water) to another (e.g. air)?
Answer: refraction
Question: Larry Mullins and Adam Clayton are the rhythm section for which band?
Answer: u2
Question: In the 19th century, Edward Gibbon Wakefield set up which organisation to colonise New Zealand?
Answer: new zealand company
Question: What was the name for a form of stencil duplicator used for making numerous copies of a document?
Answer: mimeograph
Question: Which inert gas with a density 2.8 that of air was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1895?
Answer: krypton
Question: What building, built between 1754 and 1790 as a church to St Genevieve, was set aside as a mausoleum for famous Frenchmen in 1792?
Answer: pantheon
Question: Who was shot at with poisoned bullets by Fanny Kepler in August 1918?
Answer: vladimir ilyich lenin
Question: The last words of which book of the Bible are "all is vanity"?
Answer: ecclesiastes
Question: Whose life was the 1980 film "Raging Bull" about?
Answer: jake lamotta
Question: In baseball, what is the name of the player who throws the ball to a batter of the opposing team?
Answer: pitcher
Question: What was the name of the group formed in London in February 1944 to plan the invasion of Europe under General Dwight D Eisenhower?
Answer: shaef
Question: What is the popular name for Sirius, which is 9 light years from Earth?
Answer: dog star
Question: What is the name of the Temple built to Pallas Athene around 480 BC, from which marble friezes and statues were removed by Lord Elgin in 1812?
Answer: parthenon
Question: Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer has been called the "Father of Modern Philosophy," through his books "Passions of the Soul", "Principles of Philosophy", "Discourse on the Method", and "Meditations on First Philosophy"?
Answer: ren descartes
Question: Who beat Roger Federer in the men's Wimbledon final in 2008?
Answer: rafael nadal
Question: Who had a hit in 2009 singing "Womanizer woman-womanizer youre a womanizer oh womanizer oh youre a womanizer baby you you you are you you you are womanizer womanizer womanizer"?
Answer: britney spears
Question: The theatres for which war included Odessa, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Kinburn?
Answer: crimean war
Question: Daniel Radcliffe is best known for playing which film role?
Answer: harry potter
Question: What is the name for the inherent property of matter to retain its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by external forces?
Answer: inertia
Question: In 2005, which championship had rounds in England, USA, France, Belgium, Turkey, Monaco, Germany, Bahrain, Australia, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, Canada, Hungary, Brazil, Japan and China?
Answer: formula 1
Question: Who was the Teutonic legendary hero who slew Fafnir the dragon?
Answer: siegfried
Question: In Great Britain, painted strips on the road to show where pedestrians should cross is named after which animal?
Answer: zebra
Question: Who was the proprietor of "New York World" who made a bequest to award 12 prizes annually to American authors and composers?
Answer: joseph pulitzer
Question: What 1966 Broadway musical was based on Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria"?
Answer: sweet charity
Question: The revolver, with a single barrel and a number of chambers for cartridges fired by a one-lock mechanism, was patented in 1835 by whom?
Answer: samuel colt
Question: Who, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk around 2700 BC, and became the central character in one of the best known works of early literature, where he was described as two-thirds god?
Answer: gilgamesh
Question: Most of Georgette Heyer's romance novels were set in which period?
Answer: regency
Question: What is the name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888?
Answer: jack ripper
Question: Hernn Corts de Monroy y Pizarro, known as Cortes, conquered which empire in the Americas?
Answer: aztec
Question: By what name is Saul Hudson, a Velvet Revolver guitarist and former Guns N' Roses guitarist, better known?
Answer: slash
Question: What is the name for an inflammation of the larynx characterised by coughing, harshness (or loss) of voice, choking sensation and difficulty in breathing?
Answer: laryngitis
Question: What religious sect that uses dancing as a form of worship was founded by Ann Lee, who migrated with her followers from England to New York in 1772?
Answer: shakers
Question: If you went to Bizet's "Carmen", what would you expect to see?
Answer: opera
Question: Which US state was the first to secede from the Union, in 1860, leading to the American Civil War?
Answer: south carolina
Question: The airliner built in 1931 and capable of carrying 40 passengers, the Hannibal, was made by which company?
Answer: handley page
Question: What reddish-brown bean-shaped organs lies in the abdomen just under the diaphragm, one on each side of the backbone?
Answer: kidneys
Question: Who is the eponymous lead character in a British mystery series starring Alan Davies as an eccentric magician's assistant who also solves seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and knowledge of illusionism?
Answer: jonathan creek
Question: Romulus, co-founder of Rome, was deified after his death and worshipped as which God?
Answer: quirinus
Question: Feta cheese sold in Europe must contain 70% of milk from what animal?
Answer: sheep
Question: By what name is an Ornithorhynchus better known?
Answer: platypus
Question: In World War I, the troops of New Zealand and what other country were formed into a single Army Corps called ANZACs?
Answer: australia
Question: The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, which became a popular name for the dividing line between the slave and free states, is the boundary between which two states of the USA?
Answer: pennsylvania and maryland
Question: Whose lifetime total of 714 home runs was a record in Major League Baseball for 39 years, until 1974?
Answer: babe ruth
Question: Which planet has a year of 687 days, a day of 24 hours 37 minutes, a diameter twice that of the moon and a mass one tenth of the earth?
Answer: mars
Question: What was the name given to rocks in the Straits of Messina opposite the whirlpool of Charybdis?
Answer: scylla
Question: Who wrote the plays "The Seagull", "The Cherry Orchard", "The Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya"?
Answer: chekhov
Question: Which Formula One team, based in Woking, Surrey, UK, and founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, has won over 160 races, 12 Drivers' Championships and 8 Constructors' Championships?
Answer: mclaren
Question: In 330 AD, Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome, moved the capital from Rome to where?
Answer: byzantium
Question: The French call it La Manche. What do the English call it?
Answer: english channel
Question: What was the name of the man and his adopted son who were Roman military leaders between 216 BC (the invasion of Italy by Hannibal) and 147 BC ( the destruction of Carthage)?
Answer: scipio
Question: According to Greek legend, the Sirens threw themselves into the sea and turned into rocks due to the beautiful singing of whom?
Answer: orpheus
Question: What is the name for the large bodies of water that are along the border between Canada and the USA and in southern Canada?
Answer: great lakes
Question: Who danced for King Herod and then asked for the head of John the Baptist?
Answer: salome
Question: In May 2009, publicist Raymone Bain announced that she was suing who for US$44 million for five years' work?
Answer: michael jackson
Question: The borders of which country which became independent in 1971 were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became the eastern wing of the newly formed Pakistan?
Answer: bangladesh
Question: Jacques Seguela wrote "Autobiographie Non Autorise" about Carla Bruni, supermodel-singer, and her most recent lover at the time, which was who?
Answer: french president nicolas sarkozy
Question: Who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference on 14 December 2008?
Answer: muntadar al zeidi
Question: What type of tree is the coolabah, found in Australia?
Answer: eucalyptus
Question: For a constant sound wave, what is the time interval between successive crests per second called?
Answer: frequency
Question: The show "Holby City" was a spin off from which UK TV series?
Answer: casualty
Question: Which Jewish sect whose revolt against Roman Emperor Justinian in 529AD was put down so severely that tens of thousands died or were enslaved?
Answer: samaritans
Question: Which Beatle wrote the music for the film "The Family Way", starring Hayley Mills and Hywell Bennett, released in 1967?
Answer: paul mccartney
Question: Who broke the world record for the pole vault at the Beijing Olympics?
Answer: yelena isinbayeva
Question: What is the term for the geological feature that includes Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Augusta and Columbus?
Answer: fall line
Question: What 2002 novel was made into a film starring Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah 6 years later?
Answer: secret life of bees
Question: Which structure of cantilever design, designed by Sir W. M. Arrol, was begun in 1883 and opened in 1890?
Answer: forth railway bridge
Question: What name was given to the political scandal in the USA 1970s that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 and the indictment and conviction of several of his officials?
Answer: watergate
Question: In April 2009, who was found guilty of the murder of Lana Clarkson?
Answer: phil spector