CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Who set out his political ideas in Mein Kampf?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: What name is shared by the chairs of the UK House of Commons and the US House of Representatives?
Answer: speaker
Question: Of what electoral system are "single transferable vote" and "party list" forms?
Answer: proportional representation
Question: Which prime minister took Britain into the European Community in 1973?
Answer: edward heath
Question: Which publication was the vehicle for John 'Wilkes's attacks on the Tories for which he was imprisoned in 1768?
Answer: north briton
Question: What was enforced by Parliament in 1379 and was the trigger that caused the Peasants' Revolt?
Answer: poll tax
Question: In which country did Pol Pot lead the feared Khmer Rouge?
Answer: cambodia
Question: Israel was proclaimed an independent state in 1948. Who was its prime minister from then until 1963?
Answer: ben gurion
Question: Who did Margaret Thatcher succeed as leader of the Conservative Party?
Answer: edward heath
Question: Who said 'A week is a long time in politics'?
Answer: harold wilson
Question: Which Elizabethan politician, philosopher and essayist was fined L40,000 for taking bribes?
Answer: frances bacon
Question: Who succeeded Clement Attlee as Labour Party leader in 1955?
Answer: hugh gaitskell
Question: Which American economist is the foremost advocate of monetarism?
Answer: milton friedman
Question: Who was Italy's Fascist lender from 1925-43?
Answer: mussolini
Question: Which human-rights organization campaigns for the release of political prisoners worldwide?|
Answer: amnesty international
Question: Which British company was effectively the ruler of much of India until the India Act of 1858?
Answer: east india company
Question: What offence was former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega tried for in the USA?
Answer: drug trafficking
Question: Which British prime minister fell from office because of his repeal of the Corn Laws?
Answer: robert peel
Question: Which Conservative MP was a middle-distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals and set eleven world records during the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: sebastian coe
Question: What was the racial segregation policy practiced by South Africa's National Party until 1994?
Answer: apartheid
Question: Which party was led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945?
Answer: nazi party
Question: How many readings does an act of Parliament have in the House of Commons before being given royal assent?
Answer: three
Question: Which party did F W de Klerk represent as South African president?
Answer: national party
Question: Who played the part of Piers Fletcher Dervish, personal assistant to MP Alan B'stard, in the television comedy series The New Statesman?
Answer: michael troughton
Question: Which MP entered Parliament as a Tory in 1833, but became Liberal prime minister in 1868?
Answer: gladstone
Question: Who was "Britain's first ever Labour prime minister in 1924?
Answer: james ramsey macdonald
Question: Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour in the 1992 General Election?
Answer: glenda jackson
Question: Which US president introduced the New Deal in 1933 to counter the depression?
Answer: franklin roosevelt
Question: Mario Soares became the first socialist president of which country in 1986?
Answer: portugal
Question: What is the title of the member of the upper house equivalent to that of the Speaker in the lower house?
Answer: lord chancellor
Question: Who was dismissed from office as Australian prime minister in 1975 after refusing to call a general election?
Answer: gough whitlam
Question: Which word, meaning "I forbid" in Latin, means the right to prevent a law being enacted or an action being taken?
Answer: veto
Question: What collective name is given to the first ten amendments to the US constitution?
Answer: bill of rights
Question: What is the collective name of the international agreements signed by all the member states of the European Community?
Answer: treaties of rome
Question: Which political commentator has presented both Weekend World and A Week in Politics?
Answer: peter jay
Question: Who was Pope for only 33 days in 1978?
Answer: john paul i
Question: Who was the Lord Chancellor beheaded for refusing to recognize Henry VIII as head of the church?
Answer: thomas more
Question: Which battle of 1876 was Custer's last stand?
Answer: little bighorn
Question: Which actor, comedian and singer was born David Daniel Kaminski?
Answer: danny kaye
Question: What pen name was used by the Spanish orator Dolores Ibarruri, who said "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"?
Answer: la pasionaria
Question: Who was the film star who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco?
Answer: grace kelly
Question: What was the first name of the politician Gladstone, the composer Walton, and the reformer Wilberforce?
Answer: william
Question: What nickname was given to General Thomas Jackson because of his stern defense at the battle of Bull Run?
Answer: stonewall
Question: Which religious grou0p migrated westward to the Great Salt Lake, Utah, in 1847?
Answer: mormons
Question: Who was president of the USSR from 1985-91?
Answer: mikhail gorbachev
Question: What was the name of the Thracian slave who led an ultimately unsuccessful gladiator revolt against Rome in 73 BC?
Answer: spartacus
Question: Who was the first man in space in 1961?
Answer: yuri gagarin
Question: What invention made the fortune of Alfred Noel, founder of the Nobel prize?
Answer: dynamite
Question: Whose circus did General Tom Thumb join at the age of five in 1843?
Answer: p t barnum
Question: Of which country was de Valera the prime minister, and later the president?
Answer: ireland
Question: Which actress starred opposite Alan Ladd in the film "The Blue Dahlia"?
Answer: veronica lake
Question: Which French fashion designer created the "Little black dress"?
Answer: coco chanel
Question: What is the trade name for the non-stick material used for coating cooking pans?
Answer: teflon
Question: What name is given to the brittle kind of iron used for making engine blocks and manhole covers?
Answer: cast iron
Question: What is the name given to the molten rock beneath the surface of the Earth?
Answer: magma
Question: What is the strong inelastic material found in a human tendon?
Answer: collagen
Question: What material forms the hard outermost layer of a human tooth?
Answer: enamel
Question: By which name is the drug acetylsalicylic acid better known?
Answer: aspirin
Question: Which flower has the same name as a diaphragm in the eye?
Answer: iris
Question: Chlorine, fluorine and bromine belong to which family of elements?
Answer: halogens
Question: What is the generic term for the mechanical, electrical and electronic components of a computer?
Answer: hardware
Question: Whose research on X-ray diffraction of ?DNA crystals helped Crick and Watson during the race to discover the structure of DNA?
Answer: rosalind franklin
Question: What did Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes discover?
Answer: superconductivity
Question: What are classified by their measurement in degrees as "right", "reflex", "obtuse", or "acute"?
Answer: angles
Question: What is the name given to the longest side of a right-angled triangle?
Answer: hypotenuse
Question: What is the study and use of frequencies above 20 khz?
Answer: ultrasonic s
Question: Which physicist's law states that equal volumes of all gases, measured at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules?
Answer: amadeo avogadro
Question: What is described as an ionized gas with approximately equal numbers of positive and negative charges?
Answer: plasma
Question: What name is given to the very serious chain of events which can follow the failure of the cooling system in a nuclear reactor?
Answer: meltdown
Question: What was the name of the unit of heat now replaced by the joule?
Answer: calorie
Question: What is a cylindrical coil of wire in which a magnetic field is created when an electric current is passed though it?
Answer: solenoid
Question: Whose 'unified field theory' tried to explain the four fundamental forces in terms of a single, unified force?
Answer: einstein
Question: What is the product of the mass of a body and its linear velocity?
Answer: momentum
Question: What is the SI unit of magnetic flux density, named after a Croatian electrical engineer?
Answer: tesla
Question: Which flightless marine birds of the southern hemisphere live in rookeries?
Answer: penguins
Question: Which species of decapod has varieties called "fiddler', 'spider' and 'hermit'?
Answer: crab
Question: Which digestive organ is well-developed in grass-eating herbivores, but is only vestigial in humans?
Answer: appendix
Question: Photosynthesis is carried out in which part of the cell?
Answer: chloroplast
Question: Which bird, a member of the cuckoo family, is often seen dashing along the highways of the southern USA and Mexico... hence its name?
Answer: roadrunner
Question: What grow as parasites and saprotrophs, contain no chlorophyll, and reproduce by means of spores?
Answer: fungi
Question: What are the nocturnal, herding herbivores of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea?
Answer: kangaroos
Question: Which antipodean bird is the largest member of the kingfisher family?
Answer: kookaburra
Question: Which bird feeds with its head upside-down and its beak held horizontally beneath the water?
Answer: flamingo
Question: The maidenhair tree is the sole survivor of which class of plant?
Answer: ginko
Question: What is the state of inactivity through the dry, summer season, as hibernation is the dormancy of the winter months?
Answer: aestivation
Question: Which part of the common valerian is used to make a sedative?
Answer: root
Question: Which acid is contained in rhubarb leaves, making them poisonous to eat?
Answer: oxalic acid
Question: What kind of an organism causes a 'rust' attack on plants?
Answer: fungus
Question: What is the name of the lustrous substance that forms pearl and mother-of-pearl?
Answer: nacre
Question: What is the Latin word for 'liquid' which we use to mean the fluid produced by the tree Ficus elastica?
Answer: latex
Question: What is the main use of the tree Citrus bergamia?
Answer: perfume
Question: Machiavelli used which plant's name as the title of one of his books?
Answer: mandrake
Question: What is the name of the evolutionary theory suggesting that evolution has an uneven pace?
Answer: punctuated equilibrium
Question: Which step in photosynthesis is responsible for splitting water molecules?
Answer: light reaction
Question: Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the body?
Answer: hypothalamus
Question: What are the two main veins in the neck, returning blood from the brain to the heart?
Answer: jugular veins
Question: What name is given to the small bones which form the spinal column?
Answer: vertebrae
Question: Where in the body are the cerebellum, the medulla and the hypothalamus?
Answer: brain
Question: What are the very narrow blood vessels which form a network between arteries and veins?
Answer: capillaries
Question: What is the name of the structural tissue found in the ear, the nose, and in between the vertebral discs?
Answer: cartilage
Question: What is the scientific name for the tube connecting the mouth with the stomach?
Answer: oesophagus
Question: Which parts of the body are formed by the bones of the metatarsals and phalanges?
Answer: feet
Question: What is the fluid that lubricates and cushions the movable joints between the bones?
Answer: synovial fluid
Question: What is the oxygen-carrying protein found in the red blood cells of the body?
Answer: hemoglobin
Question: What are the chemicals produced by the endocrine glands to control body functions?
Answer: hormones
Question: What name is given to the genetic make-up of an individual?
Answer: genotype
Question: Which of the retina's cells can distinguish between different wavelengths of light?
Answer: cone cells
Question: What is an overgrowth of fibrous tissue, usually produced at the site of a scar?
Answer: keloid
Question: Which is the only vein in the body to carry oxygenated blood?
Answer: pulmonary vein
Question: What is the substance that the body over-produces in an allergic reaction to pollen?
Answer: histamine
Question: The pituitary controls many hormones, but what controls the pituitary?
Answer: hypothalamus
Question: Which tissue secretes progesterone during the second half of the menstrual cycle?
Answer: corpus luteum
Question: What is the substance produced by hard exercise and oxygen debt, causing stiffness in the muscles?
Answer: lactic acid
Question: Which gas released by car exhausts, stops the blood hemoglobin from working correctly?
Answer: carbon monoxide
Question: What device is added to a car's exhaust system to reduce pollution?
Answer: catalytic converter
Question: What is the name given to the outermost layer of the Earth?
Answer: crust
Question: Which country produces the world's largest quantity of municipal waste per person per year?
Answer: usa
Question: Which sea is so highly polluted that the Barcelona Convention was set up in 976 to try and clean it up?
Answer: mediterranean sea
Question: What is the scientific scale for measuring the hardness of rocks?
Answer: mohs scale
Question: What is the term for the energy obtained from hot, underground rocks?
Answer: geothermal
Question: Which animal has been hunted almost to extinction because of its horn?
Answer: rhinoceros
Question: Which chemical, commonly used to increase crop yield, sometimes contaminates drinking water?
Answer: nitrate
Question: When you recycle a drink can, which metal is it you are recovering?
Answer: aluminum
Question: What is the name of the liquid rock which pours from a volcano?
Answer: lava
Question: What is the collective name for rain hail, snow, and sleet?
Answer: precipitation
Question: Which Indian state is at the eastern end of the Himalayas?
Answer: assam
Question: What is the name of the atmospheric gas which screens out the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation?
Answer: ozone
Question: Which inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is fast disappearing because the rivers that feed it have been diverted and dammed?
Answer: aral sea
Question: The damaged Chernobyl nuclear power station is situated in which country?
Answer: ukraine
Question: What is the collective term for substances such as coal, oil and natural gas, the burning of which produces carbon dioxide?
Answer: fossil fuel
Question: What contributes to the greenhouse effect at lower atmospheric levels, but in the upper atmosphere protects life on Earth?
Answer: ozone
Question: Who was director of the environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth 1984 - 90?
Answer: jonathon porritt
Question: Which Canadian city gave its name to the 1987world agreement on protection of the ozone layer?
Answer: montreal
Question: Which common water pollutant is believed to be harmful to newborn babies?
Answer: nitrate
Question: What name is given to the huge growths of algae sometimes seen in polluted lakes and rivers?
Answer: bloom
Question: What was the name of the dioxin-containing defoliant used during the Vietnam war by the USA army?
Answer: agent orange
Question: CITES is an international agreement on which environmental problem?
Answer: trade in endangered species
Question: Which quarry in the Italian region of Tuscany is renowned for the quality of its marble?
Answer: carrara
Question: What is the name given to the geological time period of 363-290 million years ago during which coal measures were formed?
Answer: carboniferous
Question: Which is further north, the tropic of cancer or the tropic of Capricorn?
Answer: tropic of cancer
Question: What name is given to your angular distance on the Earth's surface relative to the equator?
Answer: latitude
Question: Which landlocked Asian country is described as the world's 'highest rubbish dump' because of all the refuse left behind by expeditions?
Answer: nepal
Question: What name is given to the layer of the atmosphere closest to the surface of the Earth?
Answer: troposphere
Question: What name is given to the Earth's single continent, which existed 250 million years ago?
Answer: pangaea
Question: What is the term for a fold of the Earth's crust in which the layers of rock dip inwards?
Answer: syncline
Question: Which gas in the atmosphere can be turned into fertilizer by some microbes?
Answer: nitrogen
Question: Which layer of the Earth is believed to be formed of molten iron and nickel?
Answer: outer core
Question: What is a very hard, naturally-occurring mineral, of which ruby and sapphire are gem quality varieties?
Answer: corundum
Question: What is the name of the force which keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?
Answer: gravity
Question: Which two planets take less time than Earth to orbit the sun?
Answer: mercury and venus
Question: What is almost halfway through its 10-billion-year life, will expand to become a red giant and then shrink to become a white dwarf?
Answer: sun
Question: Where, theoretically, might one find objects squeezed to an infinite density?
Answer: black hole
Question: Which is the brightest comet in the solar system?
Answer: halley s comet
Question: What would you find if you travelled to the centre of the solar system?
Answer: sun
Question: What kind of extraterrestrial objet has been named after the 17th-century astronomer Edmond Halley?
Answer: comet
Question: What is the name of the space shuttle destroyed in midair 28 Jan 1986?
Answer: challenger
Question: What is the most distant object visible to the naked eye?
Answer: andromeda galaxy
Question: What is the name given to the super dense stars that sometimes result form a supernova?
Answer: neutron stars
Question: Which planet id named after the sky-god who was father of the Titans?
Answer: uranus
Question: Visible sunspots vary in number according to a cycle of how many years?
Answer: eleven
Question: Which planet is usually the furthest form the Sun, but sometimes is not?
Answer: pluto
Question: What travels around the Sun at an average speed of 185 miles per second.
Answer: earth
Question: What is the name of the thousands of small bodies which orbit the Sun?
Answer: asteroids
Question: What is the name for the study of the structure of the universe?
Answer: cosmology
Question: Scientists study the red shift to investigate which aspect of cosmology?
Answer: expansion of universe
Question: Who developed the 'aperture synthesis' method of radio astronomy?
Answer: martin ryle
Question: What are the clouds of interstellar dust, said to be the birthplace of stars?
Answer: nebulae
Question: What is the astronomical unit equal to 32,616 light years?
Answer: parsec
Question: In the general theory of relativity what causes space-time to be modified?
Answer: mass
Question: What two letters are worth the most in a game of Scrabble?
Answer: q and z
Question: St Johnstown was once the capital city of Scotland. By what name is St Johnstown now known?
Answer: perth
Question: In which English County can you find 4 towns with the suffix Regis?
Answer: dorset
Question: Which film about Vietnam won the best picture at the 1978 Oscars?
Answer: deer hunter
Question: What became the tallest building in the world when it opened in 1931?
Answer: empire state building
Question: Which famous character was created by Michael Bond in a series of books for children?
Answer: paddington bear
Question: Becky Sharp is the name of a character in which famous novel, which is also the title of a famous magazine?
Answer: vanity fair
Question: In George Orwell's Animal Farm what type of animal was Napoleon?
Answer: pig
Question: All children, except one, grow up is the opening line from which famous story?
Answer: peter pan
Question: Which famous book, published in 1816, is sub-titled The Modern Prometheus?
Answer: frankenstein
Question: Which British monarch was on the throne at the beginning of the 20th Century?
Answer: queen victoria
Question: Which American President ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: What were the surnames of Bonnie and Clyde?
Answer: bonnie parker and clyde barrow
Question: Maximus Decimus Meridius was the main character in which film?
Answer: gladiator
Question: In which 1955 film does Frank Sinatra play Nathan Detroit?
Answer: guys and dolls
Question: What is the full title to the sequel to the film Home Alone?
Answer: home alone 2 lost in new york
Question: On the set of what film did Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman fall in love and then got married later in the same year?
Answer: days of thunder
Question: If a month has a Friday the thirteenth then on what day of the week would that month begin?
Answer: sunday
Question: If the cheetah is the fastest thing on four legs, what is the fastest on two legs?
Answer: ostrich
Question: Which is the only country to have played in every World Cup since it started in 1930?
Answer: brazil
Question: Which male singer sang the opening line of the original Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas?
Answer: paul young s
Question: By what name is Graham McPherson better known as in the music world?
Answer: suggs
Question: What was Blondie's first UK number one single?
Answer: heart of glass
Question: What single by Wet Wet Wet spent 15 weeks at number one in the UK charts in 1994?
Answer: love is all around
Question: Which comedy duo had a number one hit in the UK with The Stonk in 1991?
Answer: hale and pace
Question: What song was the Christmas number one in the UK in both 1975 and 1991?
Answer: bohemian rhapsody
Question: What type of headgear was named after a battle in the Crimean War?
Answer: balaclava
Question: Who in 1961 made the first space flight?
Answer: yuri gagarin
Question: In the novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea what was the name of the captain of the submarine Nautilus?
Answer: captain nemo
Question: In the series of children's Noddy books, what is the name of the policeman?
Answer: mr plod
Question: To what animal was Robert Burns referring in his poem with the lines Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie?
Answer: mouse
Question: What novel by Ray Bradbury was named for the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns?
Answer: fahrenheit 451
Question: Who wrote The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes?
Answer: hans christian anderson
Question: The popular British pub name The Royal Oak is named after which King?
Answer: charles ii
Question: In which British city was Guy Fawkes born and Dick Turpin killed?
Answer: york
Question: What is the largest mammal in the world and can reach a length of 100 foot?
Answer: blue whale
Question: What is the hottest, driest, and lowest place in North America called?
Answer: death valley
Question: In which hand does the Statue Of Liberty hold a torch? Left or Right?
Answer: right
Question: Which scientist was born in Germany in 1879, became a Swiss citizen in 1901 and later became a US citizen in 1940?
Answer: albert einstein
Question: Who provided the voice of the genie in the 1992 animated film Aladdin?
Answer: robin williams
Question: What 1968 film features the characters Caractacus Potts and Truly Scrumptious?
Answer: chitty chitty bang bang
Question: What was the first film that Alfred Hitchcock made in Hollywood and the only one that won a Best Picture Oscar?
Answer: rebecca
Question: Which actor provides the voice for Rocky in the film Chicken Run?
Answer: mel gibson
Question: Who created havoc in 1938, when his radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds was believed to be true?
Answer: orson welles
Question: Which major British newspaper closed down for almost a year in 1978?
Answer: times
Question: Which American President saw active service in both the first and second World Wars?
Answer: eisenhower
Question: Which famous novel was based on the real-life exploits of Alexander Selkirk?
Answer: robinson crusoe
Question: Which of Shakespeare's plays has a title which is also a proverb?
Answer: all s well that ends well
Question: What were the christian names of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
Answer: henry jekyll and edward hyde
Question: Who had a hit in 1987 with the single Tonight, Tonight, Tonight?
Answer: genesis
Question: Richard Starkey is the real name of which famous musician?
Answer: ringo starr
Question: Who was the lead singer of the 1960s Irish group, Them?
Answer: van morrison