CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the name of the system of lakes, canals and rivers that enables shipping to get from the Atlantic to as far as Duluth, Minnesota, on Lake Superior?
Answer: st lawrence seaway
Question: Which manufacturer of pens had a large production plant in Birmingham, UK, during the first half of the 20th century?
Answer: osmiroid
Question: Which calendar, introduced in 46 BC, had a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day added to February every four years?
Answer: julian calendar
Question: Which song was sung by Aretha Franklin just before Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the USA in 2009?
Answer: my country tis of thee
Question: Who, in 1936, was the last British man to win the singles event at Wimbledon until Andy Murray from Scotland won in 2013?
Answer: fred perry
Question: What is the coastal region of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Israel known as?
Answer: levant
Question: What were the people who were part of Elvis Presley's entourage known as?
Answer: memphis mafia
Question: What wood, a member of the walnut family, is often used in making tool handles, wheel spokes, drumsticks, lacrosse stick handles and skis?
Answer: hickory
Question: Who was the chief deity of the Romans, the equivalent to the Greek's Zeus?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Who was physician to James I and Charles I, and whose chief discovery was to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, which he published in 1628?
Answer: william harvey
Question: Where did Sherlock Holmes lose his struggle with Moriarty but did not die after all?
Answer: reichenbach falls
Question: The Union Jack, the British flag, is a combination of flags of different saints. Where does the blue come from?
Answer: st andrew
Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team in 1936?
Answer: boston braves
Question: Lake Huron is connected by the Sault Ste. Marie Canal to which other lake?
Answer: superior
Question: What is known in poker as "dead man's hand"
Answer: aces and eights
Question: For a constant sound wave, what is the distance between successive crests called?
Answer: wavelength
Question: Which character in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" appears frequently in drag?
Answer: frank n furter
Question: What is the next in the series: Innsbruck, Austria; Grenoble, France; Sapporo, Japan; Innsbruck, Austria?
Answer: lake placid united states
Question: Which Latin poet wrote "Satires", "Epodes", "Epistles" and "Carmen Seculare"?
Answer: horace
Question: What name is given to an ambassador to Great Britain who is representing a country that is a member of the British Commonwealth?
Answer: high commissioner
Question: Which species of llama from Peru and Chile is known for its soft, fine hair?
Answer: vicuna
Question: What was the name of the hurricane that badly damaged New Orleans in 2005?
Answer: katrina
Question: In the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, who did Gandalf fight at the Bridge of Khazad-dum before he fell into the abyss?
Answer: balrog
Question: Which Indycar racing driver married American actress Ashley Judd in 2001 at Skibo Castle near Dornoch, Scotland?
Answer: dario franchitti
Question: In cockney rhyming slang, what are "Apples and Pears"?
Answer: stairs
Question: The only original member, Ian Paice, still plays drums for which band?
Answer: deep purple
Question: What makes it necessary to drive through Alabama to take the shortest route from Miami, Florida to Houston, Texas?
Answer: gulf of mexico
Question: Who, according to legend, discovered the principles of buoyancy while having a bath?
Answer: archimedes
Question: In traditional English pantomime, which shrewd, witty, light-hearted character vied with Pierrot for the affection of Columbine, and was based on the Commedia Dell'Arte character Arlecchino?
Answer: harlequin
Question: The city of Miami, Florida, is at the mouth of which river?
Answer: miami river
Question: Competition for which cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, for international badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the Badminton World Federation, have been held every three years since 1948-1949 and every t
Answer: thomas cup
Question: While most juries can only provide a verdict of "Guilty" or "Not Guilty", in which country can a jury decide "Not Proven"?
Answer: scotland
Question: Which American television sitcom that ran for 7 years from 19 September 1970 spun-off three television series: Rhoda (1974-1978), Phyllis (1975-1977) and Lou Grant (1977-1982)?
Answer: mary tyler moore show
Question: Who was the pilot of the US Airways plane that landed on the Hudson River in January 2009?
Answer: chesley sullenberger
Question: The circuit at Parc Jean-Drapeau on le Notre-Dame, a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River, is named after which winner of the Formula One World Championship for drivers?
Answer: gilles villeneuve
Question: What name is given to the potential difference measured across a conductor of 1 ohm resistance when current of 1 ampere is flowing?
Answer: volt
Question: What is a word for giddiness, often associated with a disease of the inner ear?
Answer: vertigo
Question: Which English barrister, who wrote the play "Voyage Around My Father" and the TV series "Rumpole of the Bailey", died in January 2009?
Answer: john mortimer
Question: It is generally believed that which Ancient Roman festival, an archaic rite connected to fertility observed from 13 to 15 February, was converted by the Roman Catholic Church to honor the Virgin Mary which in turn became St Valentine's day?
Answer: lupercalia
Question: Which sport is played with a goal 12 ft wide by 7ft high, with a maximum of 11 players from each team able to be on the field at any time?
Answer: hockey
Question: Who, about to leave the Animals as bassist, brought Jimi Hendrix to London, signed him to a management and production contract and helped him form The Jimi Hendrix Experience?
Answer: chas chandler
Question: Who is the individual responsible for the cleaning and maintenance of the interior of a residence?
Answer: housekeeper
Question: Which award winning building was built directly underneath Waterloo Bridge, London, in the 1980s and has stalagtites (from water leaking through the Bridge) growing in it?
Answer: museum of moving image
Question: Broadcasting from Germany to England in English in 1940, by what name was William Joyce better known?
Answer: lord haw haw
Question: Which painter, designer of stained glass and engraver born in Ausburg, Germany, became painter to the court of Henry VIII and died of the plague in 1543?
Answer: hans holbein
Question: Which "Great Fire" is believed to have started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane?
Answer: london
Question: What conflict in 1935 resulted in Mussolini annexing a large African territory for Italy, withdrawing in 1941?
Answer: abyssinian war
Question: In 2008, the game of Cluedo was updated as Cluedo Reinvention" with some new weapons. Which one of these was in the original game?
Answer: lead pipe
Question: What town in South Australia has served a weapons-testing range since the 1950s, was the site of a detention facility for asylum seekers and refugees from 1999 to 2003, and was home to the Nurrungar satellite ground station until 1999?
Answer: woomera
Question: Who led the expedition that discovered The Titanic on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: robert ballard
Question: What infectious disease, caused by a virus, is characterised by the eruption of successive crops of blisters?
Answer: chickenpox
Question: What contest, held between 24 teams, was played in Dubai between 5 and 7 March 2009, and was won by Wales?
Answer: rugby sevens world cup
Question: On 15 May 2002, FIFA announced that which nation would host the Football (soccer) World Cup in 2010?
Answer: south africa
Question: """Chateau Snavely"", ""Amanda's"", and ""Payne"" were three attempts to remake which UK TV series for the US market ?"
Answer: fawlty towers
Question: Until 1992, TASS was the official news agency for which organisation?
Answer: soviet union
Question: Which 1940 film, a story of corruption in politics written and directed by Preston Sturges, is told in flashback by a bartender about his rise to, and fall from, being a state Governor?
Answer: great mcginty
Question: Which film starring The Beatles concerned the theft of a ring from Ringo Starr by a religious organisation?
Answer: help
Question: What were first established by St Bel at Lyons, France, in 1762, and at London in 1790?
Answer: veterinary colleges
Question: Who wrote the music for the musical (and later, film) "Cabaret"?
Answer: john kander and fred ebb
Question: What is the name of the swampy area in Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee?
Answer: everglades
Question: Motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with routines on a course consisting of multiple jumps of varying lengths and angles that generally occupy one to two acres (.4 to .8 hectares) in what sport?
Answer: freestyle motocross
Question: In which state of the USA would you find Yosemite National Park?
Answer: california
Question: Which empire, established in and around Cappadocia, was powerful in Asia Minor from 1400 to 1200 BC?
Answer: hittite
Question: Which sport, originated by native Americans and introduced to England in 1867, is played with a stick with a net on one end by 12 players per side on a field around 100 to 150 yards long?
Answer: lacrosse
Question: Which English lawyer wrote "Dulcamara", "Pygmalion and Galatea", and "The Wicked World" before he became a librettist and lyricist for comic operas?
Answer: w s gilbert
Question: What was the name of the home of Captain Haddock, a character in the "Tintin" books?
Answer: marlinspike
Question: In which 1940 film did the characters Adenoid Hynkel, Benzino Napolini, Garbitsch and Herring appear?
Answer: great dictator
Question: What small, oily fish, of which there are 15 species, found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North Pacific, and the Mediterranean, move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America?
Answer: herring
Question: Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is famous for leading resistance to the invasion of Britain by whom?
Answer: romans
Question: Which soprano, who had a highly successful opera career between 1968 and 2004, starred as Maria in the "operatic version" of Leonard Bernsteins "West Side Story"?
Answer: kiri te kanawa
Question: For administrative purposes, France is subdivided into 100 areas which are called what?
Answer: departments
Question: Which UK TV series based around the fictional Holby City Hospital, focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department?
Answer: casualty
Question: Which Norwegian playwright wrote "Hedda Gabler", "The Master Builder" and "Peer Gynt"?
Answer: henrik ibsen
Question: Which 1955 film was withdrawn from the Venice Film Festival when the US Ambassador to Italy, Clare Booth Luce, refused to attend because the film gave too alarming an impression of conditions in US schools?
Answer: blackboard jungle
Question: Who led the mutiny on HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789?
Answer: fletcher christian
Question: What is the name of the statue that was unveiled in October 1886, on Bedloe Island?
Answer: liberty enlightening world
Question: What name was given to the architectural style adopted in Britain from 1714 to 1820 largely due to the influence of Sir Christopher Wren?
Answer: georgian
Question: What is the Australian English word that means a small lake, such as is formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving a dead end?
Answer: billabong
Question: What is the only venomous lizard native to the USA?
Answer: gila monster
Question: Who created the English aviator "Biggles"?
Answer: captain w e johns
Question: Who became the King of Spain on 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco?
Answer: king juan carlos i
Question: In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
Answer: cape bojador
Question: What is the name for an artificial feature creating extra turns in a roadway, used in motor racing and on city streets, to slow cars?
Answer: chicane
Question: Where was the Congress held in 1814-15, chiefly between Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia, that adjusted frontiers after the fall of Napoleon?
Answer: vienna
Question: What game is played in 4 quarters between two teams of 18 outdoors on a large oval grass field with two goal posts and two behind posts at each end, where the primary aim of the game is to score by kicking a ball between the posts of the opposing goal?
Answer: australian football
Question: Which film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland, was about four days in the life of a chronic drunkard?
Answer: lost weekend
Question: What is the name for an intermittent hot spring, characterised by violent explosive eruptions of steam and boiling water, alternating with quiet periods?
Answer: geyser
Question: In 1996, it was rumoured that which company had influenced the International Olympic Committee to hold the Olympics in Atlanta?
Answer: coca cola
Question: The Dominican Republic and Haiti are the two countries that occupy which island?
Answer: hispaniola
Question: At the end of The War of 1812, the USA held Canadian territory near Detroit, and the British held parts of which Eastern state?
Answer: maine
Question: Which island fort, built to protect the port of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, was the site of the first action in the American Civil War?
Answer: fort sumter
Question: What is the name of the revised version of the game Cluedo, with changes to board, gameplay and characters, created in 2008?
Answer: cluedo reinvention
Question: Which 18th century painter and engraver is famous for his works "The Rake's Progress" and "Marriage la Mode"?
Answer: william hogarth
Question: Who painted mostly in egg tempera, is best known for "Christina's World", and whose common subject was Helga Testorf?
Answer: andrew wyeth
Question: Which poet is buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey?
Answer: ben jonson
Question: Who won a record six motorcycle speedway World Championships in 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977 and 1979?
Answer: ivan mauger
Question: Who was the illustrator for the Tintin series of books?
Answer: herg
Question: At which Olympic Games did a water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union end as a pitched battle between the teams?
Answer: 1956 melbourne
Question: Which British TV series, a contest to decide the best new pop singer in the UK based on viewer voting, debuted in October 2001 and became an international franchise?
Answer: pop idol
Question: Which country lies between Spain and France, in the Pyrenees?
Answer: andorra
Question: What is disrupted when "Jet lag" occurs?
Answer: circadian rhythms
Question: What bands most commercially successful line-up, in 1969-73, featured Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice?
Answer: deep purple
Question: Which country, after its Act of Union agreement expired, held a four-day plebiscite in 1944 and became an independent republic on 17 June 1944, with Sveinn Bjrnsson as the first President?
Answer: iceland
Question: Who, in the 16th century, was a member of the court of Ivan The Terrible and became Tsar on the death of Ivan's son, Feodor/Theodore?
Answer: boris godunov
Question: James Frederick Ferrier introduced which word to cover the branch of philosophy conerned with "the theory of knowledge"?
Answer: epistemology
Question: If Charlie Watts is playing drums, who is most likely to be singing?
Answer: mick jagger
Question: Which castle, when used as a prison for prisoners of war in World War II, was known as Oflag VII C?
Answer: colditz
Question: What was the capital of Italian East Africa between 1936 and 1941?
Answer: addis ababa
Question: Which archaeologist is famed for excavating the palace of Minos, Crete between 1900 and 1908?
Answer: sir arthur john evans
Question: Juan Manuel Fangio, Mario Andretti, James Hunt and Niki Lauda were world champions in which sport?
Answer: formula one
Question: At which Olympic Games were there new events including BMX (men and women), swimming marathon (10 km), and for the first time, women competed in the steeplechase and some team fencing events?
Answer: 2008 beijing
Question: Who was the British Prime Minister during the Falklands War of 1982?
Answer: margaret thatcher
Question: Which tree native to Mexico, South America and Central America, part of a family of flowering plants, produces a fruit (technically a large berry) that contains a pit which may be egg-shaped or spherical?
Answer: avocado
Question: The Gila Cliff Dwellings and Fort Union National Monuments are in which US State?
Answer: new mexico
Question: What name is given to the unit of electrical power represented by a current of 1 ampere flowing through a circuit whose potential difference is 1 volt?
Answer: watt
Question: In the British sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous", what is the name of Edina's daughter?
Answer: saffron
Question: Which German composer was assistant to Wagner at Bayreuth 1880-1, taught at Barcelona, Frankfurt and Berlin, and is best known for his opera "Hansel and Gretel"?
Answer: englebert humperdinck
Question: In which 20th century conflict did the "Tet offensive" take place?
Answer: vietnam war
Question: In which country is the area called "the Algarve"?
Answer: portugal
Question: By what name is Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans, who wrote "Adam Bede", "The Mill On The Floss" and "Silas Marner", better known?
Answer: george eliot
Question: Who first mentioned an "Iron Curtain" when discussing Soviet activities immediately after World War II?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: In November 1903, Panama declared its independence from which country to enable a treaty to be signed with the USA?
Answer: colombia
Question: Who, in 1977, was the last British woman to win the singles event at Wimbledon?
Answer: virginia wade
Question: The Khedive of Egypt commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to write which opera to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal?
Answer: aida
Question: 1.1 million square miles of land in North America were the subject of what agreement in 1803?
Answer: louisiana purchase
Question: What style of commercial vehicle body, incorporating an enclosed box body extended over the cab, takes its name from the town in Bedfordshire where the Bedford commercial vehicle plant was located?
Answer: luton
Question: Which American situation comedy TV series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993 had a core cast made up at various times of Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Gramm
Answer: cheers
Question: Which organisation, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was established as an agency of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became a specialized agency of the United Nations after the demise of the League in 1946?
Answer: ilo
Question: The trophy for the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Men's Singles is named after which champion?
Answer: norman brookes
Question: What is a 1 ounce gold coin minted in South Africa?
Answer: krugerand
Question: Which movie star was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on 5 August 1962?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: In which city was the Sri Lankan cricket team attacked with a bomb, grenade launcher and rifles in March 2009?
Answer: lahore
Question: Who coined the term "Big Bang" to explain the difference between it and his theory of the expanding universe?
Answer: sir fred hoyle
Question: Which of Shakepeare's plays was made into a film in 1953 starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr and Greer Garson?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: In rugby union, what is the name of the set play whereby eight members of each team pack together and attempt to heel the ball backwards?
Answer: scrum
Question: The musical "Kiss Me Kate" is based on which Shakespearean play?
Answer: taming of shrew
Question: In Greece, what is a dish that is mainly cucumber mixed with garlic and yoghurt called?
Answer: tzatziki
Question: By what name is Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960 in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland) better known?
Answer: bono
Question: What ancient Sumerian city stood on the banks of the Euphrates River between 3200 and 2300 BC?
Answer: ur
Question: On 4 June 2008 the International Olympic Committee announced that the finalists to host the 2016 Olympics were Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid and which other venue?
Answer: rio de janeiro brazil
Question: What name was given to a group of painters who first exhibited in Paris in 1906, including Matisse, Bracque, Derain, van Dongen and Dufy, who presented bold forms, brilliant colours and clearly defined patterns?
Answer: les fauves
Question: The repeating decimal of which number equals the real number 1?
Answer: 0 999
Question: The Rock of Gibraltar and Mt Abyla on the African coast were known as what?
Answer: pillars of hercules
Question: Which British music chart television programme was originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006?
Answer: top of pops
Question: Which two American track and field athletes, who finished first and third in the 200 metres, were sent home from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City after they performed the Black Power salute on the victory stand?
Answer: tommie smith and john carlos
Question: What word is used in mathematics to mean "if and only if"?
Answer: iff
Question: Which military academy was established in 1802 on the Hudson River, USA?
Answer: west point
Question: What is the name for the unit of work done by a force of 1 dyne moving through a distance of 1 centimetre?
Answer: erg
Question: Which British organisation, started in 1939 under Basil Dean and disbanded in 1946, represented the mobilisation of the entertainment industry?
Answer: ensa
Question: What is the acronym developed by the European Union as the geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes?
Answer: nuts
Question: The Gta Canal connects Gteborg, Sweden, with which body of water?
Answer: baltic sea
Question: Who started "Poor Richard's Almanac" in 1732, helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and invented the lightning conductor?
Answer: benjamin franklin
Question: What fictional Cincinnati radio station was the setting for a US TV sitcom starring Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner in 19781982?
Answer: wkrp
Question: Who emerged as the top Chinese Communist leader during the "Long March" in 1934?
Answer: mao zedong
Question: Henry Ford II's grandfather was Henry Ford. Who was Henry Ford II's father?
Answer: edsel ford
Question: What was created by the Lateran Treaty signed by Italy in 1929?
Answer: vatican city
Question: Which boxer was filmed striking a gong, that was used as an introduction to films from the J Arthur Rank studios?
Answer: bombardier billy wells
Question: In 2009, Heath Ledger was the second person to win an Oscar posthumously. Who was the first?
Answer: peter finch
Question: In which computer game is the player in the role of "The Stranger", who uses a special book to travel to an island and thence to several worlds known as "Ages"?
Answer: myst
Question: Which Formula One team, founded in 1963 by a New Zealander, were the first to design a car using a carbon fibre monocoque?
Answer: mclaren
Question: What is the common term for "pre-patellar bursitis"?
Answer: housemaids knee
Question: Who had a morning show from June to October 1980 and a late night show from 1982 to 1993 weeknights at 12:30 a.m. at NBC in New York, then moved to CBS where the show screens at 11:30 p.m.?
Answer: david letterman