CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: To travel by sea from the British mainland to the Channel Islands, it is necessary to travel through the territorial waters of which country?
Answer: france
Question: Which team won the Fdration Internationale de Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan, that was held in October / November 2010?
Answer: russia
Question: What reaction did Bob Dylan receive to the second night of his performances at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday 25 July 1965?
Answer: booing
Question: In 1812, who was the first and only British Prime Minister to be assassinated?
Answer: spencer perceval
Question: It was released as a video game in 1994, was restructured as a subscription-based MMORPG in 2004, and in February 2012 had more than 10 million subscribers. Which is it?
Answer: warcraft
Question: The British conquest of which country began in 1824 in response to its attempt to invade India, and from 1886 to 1937 was administered as a province of British India when it became a separate, self-governing colony?
Answer: burma
Question: Raymond, Celia and Blanche were the real names of the subjects of which painting by David Hockney?
Answer: mr and mrs clark and percy
Question: The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942 in which US city?
Answer: chicago
Question: Indycar sportsman Scott Dixon, who won his first Indy championship in 2000 and whose ratio of wins to career starts is the best of all-time regular drivers in the IRL, comes from where?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Prithvi Narayan, Jung Bahadur Rana, King Mahendra, King Birendra, and King Gyanendra were all political leaders of which country?
Answer: nepal
Question: Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger played what unlikely pair in a 1988 film?
Answer: twins
Question: In 1720 speculation in a company's stock on the British stock market led to financial ruin for many investors; what was the event known as?
Answer: south sea bubble
Question: The 2nd and 4th presidents of the USA had the same surname. What was it?
Answer: adams
Question: The "venae cavae" are found in what part of the body?
Answer: heart
Question: Which island was sold by Genoa to France in 1764, was ruled by Britain for two years from 1794 to 1796, and then returned to France?
Answer: corsica
Question: Which fashion designer created Madonna's clothes for her 1990 "Blonde Ambition" tour, which included the "conical bra"?
Answer: jean paul gaultier
Question: Who became president of Afghanistan in December 2004?
Answer: hamid karzai
Question: Who was on the British throne when Balmoral Castle was purchased?
Answer: victoria
Question: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the official mistress of Louis XV of France from 1745 to 1750, lent her titled name to what hairstyle?
Answer: pompadour
Question: What was the occupation of Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003 while shopping in the ladies' department at the Nordiska Kompaniet store in Stockholm?
Answer: politician
Question: Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum. Who did the plant get its name from?
Answer: jean nicot de villemain
Question: What is the nationality of the actor wsho played Rumpelstiltskin in the TV series Once Upon a Time?
Answer: scottish
Question: What is the name for the range of limestone hills south of Bristol and Bath in Somerset, England which run east to west between Weston-super-Mare and Frome, and overlook the Somerset Levels to the south and the Avon valley to the north?
Answer: mendip hills
Question: First released in 2009 and based on stylised wingless fighters, the game is called what?
Answer: angry birds
Question: Who released the album "Tissues and Issues" in 2005?
Answer: charlotte church
Question: Which musical term means "sustained", and occasionally also implies "a slowing of tempo"?
Answer: sostenuto
Question: Which cricket ground was the home ground of the Manchester Cricket Club from 1856 until it became the home of the Lancashire County Cricket Club when that was founded in 1864?
Answer: old trafford
Question: Which long-running British TV series featured the characters Captain Peacock, Mrs. Slocombe, Mr. Humphries, Miss Brahms, Mr. Rumbold, Mr. Grainger and Mr. Lucas?
Answer: are you being served
Question: Where, in 1961, did US-supported Cuban exiles invade Cuba?
Answer: bay of pigs
Question: Who in 2011 won the unofficial event he hosts, the Chevron World Challenge, his first professional golf tournament win since 2009?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: After discovering a new planet, Herschel named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" in honour of King George III. The scientific community did not like the name, and decided to call it what?
Answer: uranus
Question: Which place between York and Knaresborough in the UK was the site of a decisive battle in 1642 when Cromwell defeated Royalist forces?
Answer: marston moor
Question: Pashto has been the official language of which country since 1936?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: What was Colin Powell's role in George W Bush's government from 2001 to 2005?
Answer: secretary of state
Question: In October 2005, a week before her 16th birthday, Michelle Wie announced that she was turning professional at what sport?
Answer: golf
Question: In 1871, Otto von Bismarck became the first what?
Answer: chancellor of german empire
Question: What song by Helen Reddy was subject to much debate about what it was really about?
Answer: angie baby
Question: What is the real name of the artist known as Fatboy Slim?
Answer: norman cook
Question: Queen Maude Land and Mount Erebus are on which continent?
Answer: antarctica
Question: In 1886, John Pemberton claimed that a certain concoction cured diseases, including morphine addiction, dyspepsia, neurasthenia, headache, and impotence. Which was it?
Answer: coca cola
Question: Which European country did not finally lose its territory in India until 1961?
Answer: portugal
Question: Snail fever is caused by organisms of which genus?
Answer: schistosoma
Question: Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey are the only surviving members of which pop group who had its first hit record in England in 1965?
Answer: who
Question: In surnames, e.g. Fitzwilliam, FitzGerald, Fitzherbert & Fitzhenry, what does "Fitz-" mean?
Answer: son of
Question: What mineral takes its name from the Greek word for "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable"?
Answer: asbestos
Question: The city was founded under the rule of King Byzas around 660 BC. What name was officially adopted for the city in 1930?
Answer: istanbul
Question: The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a shrine for which religion?
Answer: islam
Question: Who is credited with finding the cross used by Jesus and the remains of the Three Wise Men?
Answer: saint helena
Question: Why was Captain William Kidd hanged in 1701?
Answer: piracy
Question: Who wrote the novel "Wives and Daughters"?
Answer: elizabeth gaskell
Question: What wild animal appears in a traditional "Punch and Judy" show?
Answer: crocodile
Question: Who plays Bree Van De Kamp in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
Answer: marcia cross
Question: What is the English translation of the title of Mozart's opera "Die Zauberflte"?
Answer: magic flute
Question: Which cricket team was accused of being the subject of rigging the result of an international cricket game against England at Lords in August 2010?
Answer: pakistan
Question: Who popularised the phrase "The buck stops here"?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: Who was the first British monarch to make a Christmas broadcast to the nation?
Answer: george v
Question: The Fox Islands, Islands of Four Mountains, Andreanof Islands, Rat Islands, Buldir Island, Commander Islands and Near Islands are all part of which island chain?
Answer: aleutians
Question: Alfonso de Albuquerque took areas of which modern day country for Portugal in the early 1500s?
Answer: india
Question: What is a method of preserving and sterilizing food, in which a product is processed under very high pressure, leading to the inactivation of certain microorganisms and enzymes in it?
Answer: pascalisation
Question: The words "the", "a" and "an" are what parts of speech?
Answer: articles
Question: Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel "On the Road" was written in what style?
Answer: stream of consciousness
Question: Who was on the throne when Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, was appointed?
Answer: george i
Question: The Sargasso Sea, where ocean water is distinctive for its deep blue color and exceptional clarity with underwater visibility of up to 200 feet, is in which ocean?
Answer: atlantic
Question: Who played the title role in the 2004 film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"?
Answer: geoffrey rush
Question: Who was the criminal released by Pilate in preference to Jesus on the demand of the Jerusalem mob?
Answer: barabbas
Question: Which autonomous grouping of islands in the Caribbean was dissolved on 10 October 2010?
Answer: netherlands antilles
Question: What genus of bulbous flowering plants, native to the eastern Mediterranean region east to Iran and Turkmenistan has 3 species: litwinowii, orientalis and transcaspicus?
Answer: hyacinth
Question: Where are the headquarters of the Arab League, which currently has 22 members?
Answer: cairo
Question: What is Russia's largest port city on the Pacific Ocean at the head of the Golden Horn Bay not far from Russia's border with China and North Korea, and the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet?
Answer: vladivostok
Question: Tony and Maureen Wheeler began publishing what travel publications in the early 1970s?
Answer: lonely planet
Question: What was the cause of an epidemic of 355 cases (46% fatal) between March and June 2010 in Zamfara State, Nigeria?
Answer: lead poisoning
Question: The 328 metre high Sky Tower is in which city?
Answer: auckland new zealand
Question: Spaniards Vicente Yez Pinzn, Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre, Portuguese Pedro Teixeira and Antnio Raposo Tavares o Velho, and Frenchman Charles Marie de La Condamine were involved in the exploration of what area?
Answer: amazon
Question: Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: In 1965, who became the first non-American golfer to win the Masters, the US Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship?
Answer: gary player
Question: What jersey is awarded to the "King of the Hill", the best climber in the Tour de France?
Answer: polka dot
Question: What was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organisations, created by a decree issued on 20 December 1917 by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Felix Dzerzhinsky?
Answer: cheka
Question: Where is the palace called Istana Nurul Iman?
Answer: brunei
Question: What launcher was used by the European Space Agency, the first of which was sucessfully launched in 1979?
Answer: ariane
Question: Where is El Nino, a warm current that affects the world's weather?
Answer: pacific
Question: In golf, what is the term for "three strokes under par"?
Answer: albatross
Question: Who created the cartoon series called "Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero", "Bruce the Barbarian", "All the King's Comrades" and "Footrot Flats"?
Answer: murray ball
Question: Which future member of The Monkees pop group appeared on the TV series "Coronation Street"?
Answer: davy jones
Question: US President Bush sent 2,000 troops into which country to conduct regular military exercises and, after a US serviceman was shot by local forces in December 1989, ordered an additional 24,000 troops in to take control?
Answer: panama
Question: What word was coined by Charles Richet to denote a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorised" by physical mediums, said to be associated with formation of ghosts?
Answer: ectoplasm
Question: In 1803, part of which two Canadian provinces were bought by the USA from France with the Louisiana Purchase, and ceded to Great Britain in 1818?
Answer: alberta and saskatchewan
Question: Whose art exhibit "My Bed", a double bed in a dishevelled state with stained sheets, surrounded by detritus such as soiled underwear, slippers and empty drink bottles, was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize?
Answer: tracey emin
Question: Which UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mosel Valley, Germany, is known for its Roman architecture incuding the Porta Nigra, the best-preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps?
Answer: trier
Question: Who is credited with writing the software for Skype?
Answer: ahti heinla priit kasesalu and jaan tallinn
Question: The character of Mary Alice Young is heard but does not appear in which US TV series?
Answer: desperate housewives
Question: Where in Paris would you find the Arc de Triomphe?
Answer: place charles de gaulle
Question: The North German Federation together with Bavaria and other southern German states fought which other country in 1870 in what war?
Answer: france in franco prussian war
Question: British world champion, double Olympic gold medalist and extreme sportsman James Cracknell won his medals in what sport?
Answer: rowing
Question: Who was the governor of California from 1967 to 1975?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: What word refers to a length of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle someone or an execution device used in Spain until 1974?
Answer: garotte
Question: On 30 September 2010, the Allahabad High Court pronounced its verdict on four title suits relating to ownership of "Ayodhya land", which had been disputed since 1853. Which country was this land in?
Answer: india
Question: Playing a scenario close to the rise and assassination of real-life 1930s Louisiana Governor, Huey Long, the film won three Oscars (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Picture) and was nominated for four more. Which was it?
Answer: all king s men
Question: What English pop band, formed in Manchester in 1990 with Robbie Williams, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange and Mark Owen, achieved major success in the early to mid 1990s, split up in 1996, and in 2006 released the album "Beautiful World"?
Answer: take that
Question: What island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, comprising 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3,500,000 square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) was formerly called the Gilbert Islands?
Answer: republic of kiribati
Question: Who became Heavyweight world boxing champion after Riddick Bowe refused to fight him in 1992?
Answer: lennox lewis
Question: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the capital of which group of islands?
Answer: tristan da cunha
Question: Andrew Lloyd Webber stands in what relationship to Julian Lloyd Webber, the renowned cellist?
Answer: brother
Question: Despite its name it is square and contains the arena for boxing contests, what is it called?
Answer: ring
Question: Which British prime minister returned from Munich to London in 1938 with an agreement signed by Hitler, Mussolini and the French Premier that promised peace in Europe?
Answer: neville chamberlain
Question: By what name have Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sometimes been known since 1974?
Answer: glimmer twins
Question: Which play by Alan Bennett, set in Cutlers' Grammar School, Sheffield, in the early 1980s that follows a group of pupils preparing for examinations, premired in London in 2004?
Answer: history boys
Question: What is the name of needlework where pieces of fabric are sewn onto a fabric background?
Answer: applique
Question: We the People, which started a new direction in the wargame movement and is very influential in current wargame design, is what kind of game?
Answer: cards
Question: Jay Ward and Alex Anderson created which character which first appeared on American TV in 1959?
Answer: bullwinkle j moose
Question: Six states in the USA are split between two time zones, Eastern and Central. They are Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and which other?
Answer: alabama
Question: Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, was previously known as what?
Answer: longacre square
Question: Anthony Hopkins is a supporter and fundraiser for which British national park?
Answer: snowdonia
Question: What British town's pier was referred to in a book title by George Orwell?
Answer: wigan
Question: The Nazca Plate, part of the earth's lithosphere, lies under which ocean?
Answer: pacific
Question: When King George II of Great Britain and Ireland died in 1760, who succeeded him?
Answer: his grandson
Question: In the 18th century John Harrison solved the problem of determining longitude at sea using what instrument?
Answer: clock
Question: What is the name of the official proceedings of the UK's House of Commons?
Answer: hansard
Question: What is the resort area in the east of Long Island in New York state?
Answer: hamptons
Question: Who won all the Grand Slam major tennis tournaments in 1970?
Answer: margaret court
Question: What tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers and other garments, traditionally made from worsted wool fibre, was patented by Thomas Burberry in 1888?
Answer: gabardine
Question: Snowflake was the name of what albino animal that died in the Barcelona Zoo in 2003?
Answer: gorilla
Question: The military aeroplanes the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the F-22 Raptor, the F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Falcon, the C-17 Globemaster III, the EA-6B Prowler, and the F-111 are powered by engines from which manufacturer?
Answer: pratt and whitney
Question: The New Spitalfields Market in Leyton, East London, deals in what?
Answer: fruit vegetables and flowers
Question: With what profession was Vidal Sassoon most associated?
Answer: hairdressing
Question: What was the name given to the series of trials presided over by Judge Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 when hundreds were put to death or transported to the colonies?
Answer: bloody assizes
Question: Goose bumps (also called goose flesh or goose pimples), which may involuntarily develop when a person experiences cold or strong emotions is known as what?
Answer: horripilation
Question: Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at a stage performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre on Good Friday, 14 April 1865?
Answer: john wilkes booth
Question: From 1618 the Thirty Years War between Catholic and Protestant countries in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1632 became a fight between the Hapsburgs and Spain on one side against who on the other?
Answer: france
Question: What are the only arteries in the adult human body to carry deoxygenated blood?
Answer: pulmonary
Question: The English sovereigns Henry VII and Mary I were members of which Royal House?
Answer: tudor
Question: The Appenines is a mountain range that runs for 870 miles in what country?
Answer: italy
Question: What was the subject of the British TV programme "The South Bank Show"?
Answer: arts
Question: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes developed what online computer application?
Answer: facebook
Question: Where did King Charles II hide himself after the Battle of Worcester in 1651?
Answer: in oak tree
Question: What was the stage name of Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr., a singer and songwriter from 1957 until his accidental death in 1959, who is best known for his recording of "Chantilly Lace"?
Answer: big bopper
Question: Sledge, tack, claw, framing, upholstery, ball-peen, twist, dog-head and bush are all types of what?
Answer: hammer
Question: What is a word game played using a grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters?
Answer: boggle
Question: What is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed, that flows through central Russia, and has some of the largest reservoirs in the world?
Answer: volga
Question: Who, in 1969, was the first female prime minister of Israel?
Answer: golda meir
Question: Who, in 1982, while wearing his future wife's dress because she had hidden his clothes, was arrrested for drunkenly urinating on a cenotaph erected in honor of those who died at the Alamo in Texas, across the street from the actual building?
Answer: ozzy osbourne
Question: Who wrote the plays "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard"?
Answer: chekhov
Question: What was the first name of Mrs Dalloway, a fictional character created by Virginia Woolf?
Answer: clarissa
Question: In the late 1940s, a soldier named Constantin Esmont made detailed records of the various types of dog known as borzoi, concerned that the breed was degenerating. Where did the breed originate?
Answer: russia
Question: According to the Bible, who is the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth?
Answer: noah
Question: Who was the head of Nazi propaganda during World War II who committed suicide with his family in 1945?
Answer: paul joseph goebbels
Question: A plasma display panel contains many tiny cells between two panels of glass which hold a mixture of noble gases. The gas in the cells is electrically turned into a plasma which emits ultraviolet light which then excites what to emit visible light?
Answer: phosphorus
Question: Which US president was in office at the start of the Korean War?
Answer: truman
Question: What is the name of the waterway that connects the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Loch Ness?
Answer: caledonian canal
Question: According to legend, what was the name of Lady Godiva's horse?
Answer: aethenoth
Question: Where would one find a famous example of a campanile that is not properly vertical?
Answer: pisa
Question: Prior to its annexation by the USA in 1898, Hawai had been a republic for about four years. What was it immediately before that?
Answer: monarchy
Question: What is the title of George W Bush's political memoir, published in 2010?
Answer: decision points
Question: The films "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger" and "The Sum of All Fears" feature which character created by Tom Clancy?
Answer: jack ryan
Question: ETA, an armed nationalist and separatist organization, is based in which country?
Answer: spain
Question: Who, after splitting from a long term girlfriend in 2008, briefly dated actress Kate Hudson, and in 2012 was dating Serbian tennis star Ana Ivanovic?
Answer: adam scott
Question: Mah Drysdale, Rebecca Scown, Juliette Haigh, Hamish Bond, Eric Murray, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Ondrej Synek and Alan Campbell are international competitors in which sport?
Answer: rowing
Question: What is the common nickname for a steam-powered winch, widely used in logging, mining and maritime industries?
Answer: donkey engine
Question: Which war, which lasted for ten years, was fought between Agamemnon and Menelaus on one side and Priam on the other?
Answer: trojan war
Question: What branch of medicine deals with the cause, origin and nature of disease?
Answer: pathology
Question: Who sued Hootie and the Blowfish for plagiarism in their song "Only Wanna Be With You" in 1995, reaching an out-of-court settlement?
Answer: bob dylan
Question: Which is another name for the game variously called taca taca, kicker, baby-foot, langirt and futillo?
Answer: foosball
Question: What power is the main source of electricity for Baja California?
Answer: geothermal
Question: Edward Somerset, Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt are known for work in relation to what?
Answer: steam power
Question: In May 2010, a vending machine was installed in the foyer of the prestigious Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi to dispense what?
Answer: gold
Question: What is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases?
Answer: dermatology
Question: The line "Frailty, thy name is woman" is from what play?
Answer: hamlet
Question: What was Harry Buermeyer's club in 1878 when he became the first official amateur heavyweight boxing champion in America?
Answer: new york athletic club
Question: In 1917, who led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution, the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution?
Answer: vladimir lenin
Question: Up to the first half of 2013 who has won the most men's major golf championships, also known as majors (Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, The Open Championship (British Open) and US PGA Championship)?
Answer: jack nicklaus