CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Deluded by a legend, Francisco Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro departed from Ecuador in 1541 in a disastrous expedition towards the Amazon Basin; they did not find any gold or lost cities but Orellana became the first person to navigate the entire Amazon River. What were they seeking?
Answer: el dorado
Question: The name of which vast and arid area north of the Great Australian Bight is derived from the Latin for 'no trees' and the crossing of which is a seminal experience of the Australian Outback?
Answer: nullarbor plain
Question: With 34.8 percent salinity, Lake Assal is considered the most saline body of water outside Antarctica. In which tiny nation in the Horn of Africa is it located?
Answer: djibouti
Question: Easter Island in the South Pacific is well-known for its numerous moai, the stone statues located along its coastline. Which country does the island belong to?
Answer: chile
Question: As of April 2010, apart from Western Sahara, Tokelau is the only other non-self governing territory in the world that is not administered by the UK, US or France. Which country administers it?
Answer: new zealand
Question: A trans-boundary river is a river that crosses at least one political border (either a border within a nation or an international boundary). Which country has the greatest number of such rivers, including 58 that enter from India or Burma?
Answer: bangladesh
Question: Which borough of New York City is the only one of the city's five boroughs to be situated primarily on the US mainland rather than on an island?
Answer: bronx
Question: As of 2010, the ten highest active volcanoes are located in which continent?
Answer: south america
Question: Which famous bay in Sydney, Australia was the site of a landing by Captain James Cook and sparked Britian's interest in Australia?
Answer: botany bay
Question: A system of government called 'confessionalism' which distributes power proportionally among religious communities is currently prevelant in which tiny Middle-Eastern nation?
Answer: lebanon
Question: What is the collective name given to the 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their history of destructive eruptions and proximity to populated areas?
Answer: decade volcanoes
Question: Which feature that is 6380 kms long has traditionally been considered a dividing line between North and South China?
Answer: yangtze river
Question: Two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into a cliff and infamously destroyed by the Taliban in 2001 were located in which part of central Afghanistan?
Answer: bamyan valley
Question: What are the only two South American countries that do not border Brazil?
Answer: ecuador and chile
Question: Located in Botswana, which is the world's largest inland delta?
Answer: okavango
Question: Among US states with the highest number of national parks, California and Alaska come in first with 8 each. Which state comes next with 5 of them?
Answer: utah
Question: What is the beautiful onion-domed church situated in Red Square, Moscow that is often confused with the Kremlin?
Answer: saint basil s cathedral
Question: What is the only nation state of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America?
Answer: guyana
Question: Flemish Cap, an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic east of Newfoundland and Labrador is featured in which 2000 film as the final fishing grounds for Billy Tyne (George Clooney) and his crew?
Answer: perfect storm
Question: The city of DeKalb, Illinois is credited as the first manufacturing site of what 'restraining' invention that revolutionized ranching in the US?
Answer: barbed wire
Question: Which tiny landlocked European country, also the smallest German-speaking country in the world, has bordering countries that are also landlocked?
Answer: liechtenstein
Question: After Russia, what is the second largest country in area amongst the former Soviet republics?
Answer: kazakhstan
Question: The melting Furtwängler Glacier, sometimes used as an example of global warming is near which African geographic feature?
Answer: mount kilimanjaro
Question: Which group of islands in the Caribbean Sea are divided as? Greater ___: Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico Lesser ___: Leeward Islands, Windward Islands and Leeward ___
Answer: antilles
Question: Which Peruvian city was the historic capital of the sun-worshipping Inca empire?
Answer: cusco
Question: Which national capital is the only city entirely built in the 20th century to be considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
Answer: brasilia
Question: After the five oceans, what is the largest sea body in the world?
Answer: south china sea
Question: Which country became the first sovereign state of the 21st century when Indonesia relinquished control on it in May 2002?
Answer: east timor
Question: The Bridge of Sighs was given its name by Lord Byron from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of which beautiful city out of its window before being taken to their cells?
Answer: venice
Question: All the largest islands in the world are in oceans/seas and hence are surrounded by sea-water. Marajo, which has the distinction of being the largest island completely surrounded by fresh water is in which water body?
Answer: amazon
Question: By political definition, what is the essential difference between Great Britian and United Kingdom?
Answer: northern ireland
Question: Alfred Wegener was the first to publish the hypothesis that these had somehow 'moved' apart but he was unable to provide a convincing explanation for the physical processes which might have caused it. What are we talking about?
Answer: continental drift
Question: What is also known as Qomolangma or Sagarmatha or Chomolungma in the native tongues of the people around it?
Answer: mount everest
Question: The Shatt al-Arab waterway constitutes a part of the border between which countries?
Answer: iran and iraq
Question: What gorge in the Ngorongoro area of Tanzania is considered the seat of humanity after the discovery of the earliest known specimens of modern man?
Answer: olduvai gorge
Question: The Italian liqueur Galliano takes its name from a war hero who perished in the Battle of Adwa which not only secured what nation's sovereignty but is also one of the very few instances in which an African country defeated a European power?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: Alba gu bràth! The 15th century poet Blind Harry is best-known for his account eulogizing which person?
Answer: william wallace
Question: The Khalistan movement that was active in the later part of the 20th century sought to create an independent state for what religious group in a territory mostly in the North-West region of India?
Answer: sikhism
Question: Andinia plan, Fugu plan, Uganda proposal, and Madagascar plan are some of the attempts for the establishment of what entity in history?
Answer: jewish state
Question: During the US presidential elections of 1936, the magazine The Literary Digest conducted an opinion poll using millions of people but still ended up being wrong. Who bested the magazine with his scientific technique using only a small percentage of what the magazine had used?
Answer: george gallup
Question: Ted Sorenson, who was called by JFK as "intellectual blood bank" made his best-known contribution to the president in what capacity?
Answer: speechwriter
Question: The Khartoum Resolution of 1967 that was organized after the Six-Day War became famous for its "Three No's" rejecting what entity?
Answer: israel
Question: Alamut Castle, now in modern-day Iran, is remembered today as the home of what notorious group between 1090 and 1256 AD?
Answer: assassins
Question: The cartoon Dropping the Pilot was published when which world leader was forced to resign in 1890?
Answer: bismarck
Question: What is particularly common to King Charles II of England and the state of Connecticut's Royal Charter?
Answer: oak tree
Question: The Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, which now has a museum, was the scene of whose assassination?
Answer: malcolm x
Question: Historians speculate that China attacked India in 1962 as world attention was focused on what other episode?
Answer: cuban missile crisis
Question: As seen in the movie The Longest Day, paratrooper John Steele saw action during the D-Day invasion of WWII while dangling from where?
Answer: church tower
Question: An infamous ball in 14th century France hosted by the French King Charles VI is remembered as 'Ball of (what) Men' referring to an incident that occurred in it?
Answer: burning
Question: The phrase "two plus two equals five" ("2 + 2 = 5") popularized by George Orwell is plausibly derived from what developmental policy of the erstwhile Soviet Union?
Answer: five year plans
Question: The Twelve Tables is usually considered the first attempt of Romans to create what?
Answer: constitution
Question: Women groups that could not participate in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion of China organized themselves under what colorful name? Raise the ...
Answer: red lanterns
Question: The commander Subutai who is credited with conquering more territory than any other commander in history fought for which empire?
Answer: mongol
Question: The Cry of Dolores is regarded as the first event in the fight for independence in the history of what country?
Answer: mexico
Question: The Cassette Scandal of recent times has proved to be pivotal in shaping the political landscape of what country?
Answer: ukraine
Question: A group of fifteen ships called the Yellow Fleet was trapped in what part of the world from 1967 to 1975, a fall-out of a noted war?
Answer: suez canal
Question: How do we better know a list compiled in ancient times by Antipater of Sidon and by an observer identified as Philo of Byzantium?
Answer: seven wonders of ancient world
Question: The Three Pashas of the Ottoman Empire organized what 'fledgling' political group during the early 20th century whose name has now become synonymous with any internal reform group?
Answer: young turks
Question: When in 1862 did the Mexican army claim an unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla immortalizing the day in Mexican history?
Answer: 5th of may
Question: The Guayaquil Conference of July 22, 1822 saw the meeting of which two people regarded as the primary liberators of South America from Spain?
Answer: josé de san martín and simón bolívar
Question: Kniefall von Warschau (German for 'Warsaw Genuflection') is a 1970 incident involving which European statesman who paid homage to WWII's Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during his visit to the city?
Answer: willy brandt
Question: Talking about which country did the writer V. S. Naipaul write "No civilization was so little equipped to cope with the outside world; no country was so easily raided and plundered, and learned so little from its disasters"?
Answer: india
Question: The founding of the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt by Duke Leopold V in 1194 came about from the ill-gotten gains of whose kidnapping that probably yielded the highest ransom ever?
Answer: richard lionheart
Question: The 1940 book To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson that traces communism refers to the arrival of Lenin at the said railway station in what city?
Answer: st petersburg
Question: A woman named Pompeia was divorced in 62 BC in Rome after she was suspected of a crime despite there being no evidence of her wrongdoing. Whom was she married to?
Answer: julius caeser
Question: What European ethnicity marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302) fought in Flanders as its official holiday?
Answer: flemish
Question: The French military engineer Vauban (1633-1707) who advised Louis XIV on protecting his country's borders was well-known for his skill in constructing what?
Answer: forts
Question: Signed by three heads of states in the later part of the 20th century, what was the result of the Belavezha Accords?
Answer: dissolution of soviet union
Question: The brave Sophie Scholl who was beheaded in Nazi Germany for distributing pamphlets deriding the regime was part of what 'floral' non-violent movement?
Answer: white rose movement
Question: What word, also linked to President Kennedy's liking for a Broadway musical, was used for the first time in a 1963 Life magazine article to describe a 60's era?
Answer: camelot
Question: 700 private boats sailed from Ramsgate in England to what place in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo?
Answer: dunkirk
Question: Charter 77, a petition by writers and intellectuals demanding basic human rights played a big part in the anti-communist movement in what erstwhile country?
Answer: czechoslovakia
Question: Velupillai Prabhakaran, whose death in 2009 ended a bloody civil war in Sri Lanka sought to create an independent state for the people of what ethnicity?
Answer: tamil
Question: What was the code name of the war game that NATO conducted in Belgium in 1983 the events surrounding which led to the closest brush to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: able archer 83
Question: The magnificent Ishtar Gate constructed around 575 BC served as one of the entrances to what ancient city?
Answer: babylon
Question: Convoy SC-7 consisting of 35 merchant ships was the first major casuality of a tactic termed Rudeltaktik ('tactics of a pack') notably practiced by what entities during WWII?
Answer: german u boats
Question: In 1120 the sinking of what vessel, called the Titanic of the Middle Ages, caused the death of the legitimate heir to the throne of England and led to a period known as the Anarchy?
Answer: white ship
Question: What major 1915 campaign of the First World War is also called as the Battle of Çanakkale and is credited with shaping the consciousness of more than one country?
Answer: gallipoli campaign
Question: The ultra left-wing group Red Army Faction associated with the names Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof was active in what country in the later part of the 20th century?
Answer: germany
Question: The Wars of the Diadochi were a series of conflicts fought for the control of an empire after whose death?
Answer: alexander great
Question: The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 that was fought in places like Cawnpore, Lucknow before ending in Gwalior is said to be the first war of independence in the history of which country?
Answer: india
Question: Katharina von Bora, a nun who escaped convent life in 1523 by fleeing to Wittenberg hiding among fish barrels was married to which key figure of world history?
Answer: martin luther
Question: What name was given by pilots of the US Air Force to the area of North Korea considered the birthplace of jet fighter combat as it saw numerous dog fights during the Korean War?
Answer: mig alley
Question: The second most-studied case of genocide (after the Holocaust) is said to have begun on April 24, 1915 when Ottoman authorities arrested 250 intellectuals of what ethnicity?
Answer: armenian
Question: The 1792 Battle of Valmy in which a citizen army defeated the Prussian army is significant for saving/preserving what?
Answer: french revolution
Question: The 1889 constitution of which country recognized the divine power of its emperor deriving it from a native belief that the imperial family was the offspring of the sun goddess Amaterasu?
Answer: japan
Question: The Battle of Coral Sea in WWII in 1942 is notable for the first fleet action of what type of craft that are still in vogue?
Answer: aircraft carriers
Question: Owain Glyndŵr (died c. 1416) who was venerated by the 19th century Cymru Fydd movement is considered the national hero of what ethnicity?
Answer: welsh
Question: What diplomatic crisis ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in January, 1981?
Answer: iran hostage crisis
Question: In May 2011, Queen Elizabeth became the second-longest reigning British monarch in history overtaking which monarch?
Answer: george iii
Question: The philosopher Hegel who lived from 1770 to 1831 described which contemporary personality as 'world history on horseback'?
Answer: napoleon
Question: Andabatae, bestiarii, equites, hoplomachi, retiarii and sagittarii are some of what belligerent types?
Answer: gladiators
Question: The Trưng Sisters who successfully rebelled against the Chinese Han-Dynasty in the 1st century AD are regarded as national heroines in which country?
Answer: vietnam
Question: The Chaco War (1932-35) that was fought for a region (incorrectly) thought to be oil-rich is South America's bloodiest 20th century conflict. Which two land-locked countries were the participants?
Answer: bolivia and paraguay
Question: If Heinrich Schliemann is to Troy, the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley is to what ancient city?
Answer: ur in mesopotamia
Question: Which long-serving Italian prime minister of the 20th century was kidnapped and tragically killed by a group called the Red Brigades in 1978?
Answer: aldo moro
Question: Who was executed at Akershus Fortress, Oslo in 1945 along with Albert Hagelin and Ragnar Skancke after being convicted of high treason?
Answer: vidkun quisling
Question: In WWII, Germany's 6th army was destroyed in 'Operation Uranus' in 1943 after a bitter battle around which city?
Answer: stalingrad
Question: Traudl Junge, who wrote the book Until the Final Hour that was the basis for the 2004 film Downfall was the personal secretary of which historical figure?
Answer: hitler
Question: The 15th century figure Skanderbeg who is remembered for his struggle against the Ottoman Empire is considered the national hero of which country?
Answer: albania
Question: What is the famous four-letter phrase uttered by Ronald Reagan in his speech in June, 1987 at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin?
Answer: tear down this wall
Question: What political movement in first century Judaism that sought to incite people against the Roman Empire has now come to mean fanatical support for a cause?
Answer: zealotry
Question: If the Chinese are associated with the Long March in the 20th century, who are associated with the Great Trek in Africa in the 19th century?
Answer: boers
Question: In 1973, Libya went to war with which country to claim control of the Aouzou strip which was claimed to be rich with uranium deposits?
Answer: chad
Question: When he fell in the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, who became the last English king to die in battle?
Answer: richard iii
Question: What were the military units made up of volunteers from different countries who traveled to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) called?
Answer: international brigades
Question: The Ostend Manifesto was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase what island from Spain?
Answer: cuba
Question: Which Asian mountain pass of significant historical importance has been called "a sword cut through the mountains" by Kipling?
Answer: khyber pass
Question: Sengbe Pieh (1813–ca.1879), later known as Joseph Cinqué was a West African man and the most prominent defendant in which 1841 case in American history named for a ship?
Answer: amistad case
Question: What groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy get their name from the Italian for 'charcoal burners'?
Answer: carbonari
Question: What 1943 WWII battle between Germany and the Soviet Union remains to this day the largest series of armored clashes ever?
Answer: battle of kursk
Question: During World War I, which Belgian city that was the centre of intense battles was nicknamed 'wipers'?
Answer: ypres
Question: What term refers to the stage of the journey that saw the forcible passage of Africans to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade?
Answer: middle passage
Question: What is the name of the fictional woman who is depicted as the national emblem of the French Republic?
Answer: marianne
Question: What 'fruity' term for a small and unstable country dependent on agriculture was first used by O. Henry in reference to Honduras?
Answer: banana republic
Question: Because foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution, what was created by Louis Philippe, the King of France in 1831?
Answer: french foreign legion
Question: Mimar Sinan (1489-1588) is considered the greatest architect of the classical period and was responsible for the Suleiman mosque in Istanbul and many other magnificent constructions. Which political entity benefited from his genius?
Answer: ottomon empire
Question: In ancient Greece, the bematists who accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns were trained to measure what?
Answer: distances by counting their steps
Question: If you have to associate one person with the 'Kuomintang Party' between 1929 and 1948, who would it be?
Answer: chiang kai shek
Question: What are 'Potemkin villages' which were purportedly erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Potemkin to impress Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787?
Answer: fake settlements
Question: What was the name of the notorious biological research unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and WWII?
Answer: unit 731
Question: On 31 October 1984, the English actor Peter Ustinov was waiting to interview which Asian leader when that person was assassinated?
Answer: indira gandhi
Question: Waitangi Day held each year on February 6 is the national day of New Zealand as a treaty instrumental in the country's history was signed at that place in 1840. The name 'Waitangi' means 'weeping waters' in which language?
Answer: māori
Question: Kåre Kristiansen, a member of the Nobel Committee resigned in 1994 in protest at the awarding of the Peace Prize to which person, calling the awardee a terrorist?
Answer: yasser arafat
Question: Who was executed by hanging at Ramla prison in 1962 and remains the only person to have been executed by an Israeli civilian court?
Answer: adolf eichmann
Question: What two countries fought the six-day 'Football War' or the '100-hours War' in 1969?
Answer: el salvador and honduras
Question: What sporty term popularized by Rudyard Kipling in Kim was used to describe the rivalry between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in their quest for supremacy in Central Asia in the 19th century?
Answer: great game
Question: Literally called 'The Righteous and Harmonious Society Movement', what is the more popular western name for the Chinese rebellion took place from 1899 to 1901 against foreign influence during the final years of the Manchu rule?
Answer: boxer rebellion
Question: What generic term for all African American soldiers was originally applied to the members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment by the native Apache Indians?
Answer: buffalo soldiers
Question: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson. Historian Plutarch remarked that the goddess was preoccupied with the birth of whom that occurred on the same day to save her temple?
Answer: alexander great
Question: What 1990s theory proposed by the political scientist Samuel Huntington contends that cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world?
Answer: clash of civilizations
Question: What is the name of the Polish trade union founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard that was originally led by Lech Wałęsa?
Answer: solidarity
Question: In 1954, which country suggested that it should join NATO to preserve peace in Europe but this proposal was rejected as the other countries felt that it would weaken the alliance?
Answer: soviet union
Question: What was the famous one-word reply of General McAuliffe of the US to a German demand for surrender during the Battle of the Bulge in WWII?
Answer: nuts
Question: In 1948, which Latin American country became the first in the world to constitutionally abolish its army?
Answer: costa rica
Question: Whose last words before he drank poison reportedly were "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it."?
Answer: socrates
Question: What is the name of the village on the border between North and South Korea where the 1953 armistice that halted the Korean War was signed?
Answer: panmunjeom