CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: A landmark legislation in the 1930s in the US that is designed to protect a child actor's earnings by depositing some of them in trust funds was named after which 'kid'?
Answer: jackie coogan
Question: What 2004 sci-fi film starring Vin Diesel that was a sequel to Pitch Black received poor reviews from critics who called it 'riddickulous'?
Answer: chronicles of riddick
Question: In the 1984 adventure film Romancing the Stone set in Columbia, what type of precious mineral is the stone?
Answer: emerald
Question: While shooting a movie in 1981, Warren Beatty lectured his extras on the capitalist exploitation of labour, attempting to inspire them. A magazine called it the 4th dumbest decision in movie history because the extras went on strike, demanding higher wages! What film was Beatty making?
Answer: reds
Question: What 2005 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn that deals with African politics has been banned by President Mugabe of Zimbabwe?
Answer: interpreter
Question: Which 1975 cult movie has taken in over $139 million since its release making it the highest grossing movie to have never played in more than 1,000 theatres at the same time?
Answer: rocky horror picture show
Question: On which 1953 film poster are Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr sharing a passionate kiss on a beach?
Answer: from here to eternity
Question: Referring to a character in which film did Malcolm X say "When Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug"?
Answer: gone with wind
Question: Which 1972 movie musical has the distinction of winning the most Oscars (eight) without winning the Best Picture award?
Answer: cabaret
Question: In 1966, which scientist was asked to contribute an interview to a proposed introduction to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey? He wasn't offered billions and billions though!
Answer: carl sagan
Question: In the movie Rain Man, what airline does Raymond insist on flying as it has a perfect safety record?
Answer: qantas
Question: Spoiler alert. Skip this question if you haven't seen The Shawshank Redemption. In the climax of that movie, which bombshell's poster does warden Norton rip to reveal the secret behind the escape of Andy Dufresne?
Answer: raquel welch
Question: Which 1985 film starring Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and John Candy has a cult following among many generations of Peace Corps personnel?
Answer: volunteers
Question: When he won an Oscar for Philadelphia, Tom Hanks gave a speech thanking two people and inspired the 1997 comedy In and Out. What is the missing word in the following excerpt from the speech? "... two of the finest ___ Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with ..."
Answer: gay
Question: Burkittsville in Maryland, USA gained notoriety in 1999 after the release of which 'fake real' film that supposedly took place there?
Answer: blair witch project
Question: Tataouine in Tunisia was the setting for many scenes in the movies of which blockbuster franchise?
Answer: star wars franchise
Question: What 2000 film tells the fictional story of a teenage journalist writing for the Rolling Stone magazine while covering the rock band Stillwater?
Answer: almost famous
Question: Which epic 1960s film is unique in the sense that the only female featured in the entire film is a camel named Gladys?
Answer: lawrence of arabia
Question: Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming, USA features prominently in which landmark 1977 science fiction film?
Answer: close encounters of third kind
Question: A flatbread called injera that is traditionally eaten in Ethiopia is made from the flour of what grain that is now being called as the new quinoa?
Answer: teff
Question: Compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century AD and sure to delight gourmets, what is Apicius?
Answer: collection of roman cookery recipes
Question: The consumption of Touareg tea which is tea flavored with which herb is widely prevalent in several Arab countries?
Answer: mint
Question: Englishman Albert Howard who had publications like Manufacture of Humus by the Indore Process among others is considered a pioneer of what?
Answer: organic agriculture
Question: Just like Americans like to call a full-course meal 'from soup to nuts', citizens of the Roman empire used the expression 'from the egg to the ___' what?
Answer: apple
Question: Water-bath and pressure are two types of techniques for food preservation in what process?
Answer: canning
Question: The Cypriot dish ambelopoulia that is the subject of much controversy in the country is made from what?
Answer: songbirds
Question: In 2011, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion upended the Naga Bhut Jolokia for what culinary distinction?
Answer: world s hottest chili pepper
Question: The 18th century English nobleman John Montagu who was so fond of gambling that he played even while eating was the earl of what town in Kent?
Answer: sandwich
Question: If 'single malt' describes a whisky made at one distillery, what is the word for a wine that is made from a single grape type?
Answer: varietal
Question: The name of what distinctive Nordic dish translates as 'buried salmon'?
Answer: gravlax
Question: Pule cheese, said to be the world's most expensive was in the news in Dec 2012 when Novak Djokovic bought the world's supply for his restaurant chain. It is made from the milk of what animal?
Answer: donkey
Question: What fried street food popular with vegetarians is claimed by the Copts of Egypt as their invention to be a replacement for meat during Lent?
Answer: falafel
Question: What meat dish got its name when a chef got an order for raw meat and remembered a Venetian painter whose work was dominated by reds and yellows?
Answer: carpaccio
Question: Edmond Albius, a 19th century slave working on the island of Réunion is known for inventing the pollination technique for the cultivation of what flavoring delight?
Answer: vanilla
Question: Yamadanishiki, Gohyakumangoku, Miyamanishiki and Omachi are the popular varieties of rice used for making what?
Answer: sake
Question: What popular condiment in which egg yolk is the chief emulsifier originates from it being called as the 'sauce of Mahon'?
Answer: mayonnaise
Question: What salad made from mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil is also the name of the town in Tuscany where Michelangelo was born?
Answer: caprese
Question: Claret is the name used in England for red wine from what region of France that is also the capital of Aquitaine?
Answer: bordeaux
Question: The four main types of what luxury delicacy are Beluga, Sterlet, Ossetra, and Sevruga?
Answer: caviar
Question: According to the book The History of Science and Technology, the origin of what snack can be traced to the shape of folded arms of children in prayer?
Answer: pretzels
Question: The French Paradox is the observation that the French suffer a relatively low incidence of heart disease, despite having a diet rich in saturated fats. After a description of it aired on 60 Minutes in 1991, there was a significant spurt in the sale of what item?
Answer: red wine
Question: In 1981, in a move that met with considerable controversy, the Agriculture Department in the US proposed classifying pickle relish and what other condiment as vegetables in order to save money on school lunch programs?
Answer: ketchup
Question: What Chinese dipping sauce that is common in Cantonese cuisine derives its name from a word meaning 'seafood' (though it contains none)?
Answer: hoisin
Question: What is the term for the food preparation in which an ingredient, usually in a shallow dish, is topped with a browned crust?
Answer: gratin
Question: What vegetable that is also called a Swedish turnip is avoided by many older Germans as they consider it 'famine food'?
Answer: rutabaga
Question: Because they spoil at high temperatures, what were once assumed to be safe for eating only in the months with the letter 'r' in their English/French names?
Answer: oysters
Question: What is the better known 'national' name of the confection called lokum that is a gel of starch and sugar with nuts usually mixed in?
Answer: turkish delight
Question: Which hazelnut liqueur comes in a bottle with a knotted white cord around its waist that is meant to mimic the religious garments of a friar?
Answer: frangelico
Question: What term used by California wineries denotes red and white Bordeaux-style wines and is intended to not infringe on the 'heritage' of Bordeaux's legally protected designation of origin?
Answer: meritage
Question: 'Umami' is a Japanese word that translates as 'good flavor' and is used as a fifth category of what by those who think that the existing four basic categories are insufficient?
Answer: taste
Question: Which potent potable acquired the nickname 'Nelson's Blood' as Lord Nelson's body was purportedly placed in it for preservation after the Battle of Trafalgar (1805)?
Answer: rum
Question: In early 2014, Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani achieved a unique and highly meritorious distinction. What subject does she teach at Stanford University?
Answer: mathematics
Question: Since doctors are meant to 'cure-all', the first line of the Hippocratic oath appropriately mentions what other goddess along with Apollo, Aesculapius, and Hygeia?
Answer: panacea
Question: Travis Tygart was chiefly instrumental in leading the expose of whom, now a fallen hero, in 2012?
Answer: lance armstrong
Question: Who created the comic strip called Dykes to Watch Out For which featured in 1985 a character who watches a movie only if it has two women who talk to each other about something besides a man?
Answer: alison bechdel
Question: A group of people in Cairo, Egypt who are collectively called the Zabbaleen are known for their association with what material?
Answer: garbage
Question: Bicycle mechanic Charlie Taylor is best known for his collaboration with which two gentlemen in the early part of the 20th century?
Answer: wright brothers
Question: The legendary Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, also the site where an all-time great mystery novel was conceived, was built in 1892 for passengers who arrived in the city by what specific transport?
Answer: orient express
Question: What one word connects the following? 1. In a certain comics universe, the dimension in which criminals are held in a state of suspended animation. 2. Lee Falk's popular creation with the nickname The Ghost Who Walks. 3. Erik, who haunts the Paris Opera House.
Answer: phantom
Question: The Montreal Convention signed by several countries in 1999 concerns rules surrounding the compensation for the victims of what? (hint: likely to be in focus till an object missing since 8th March 2014 is found)
Answer: air disasters
Question: Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan is known for his role in establishing what seminal institution in Great Britain?
Answer: national health service
Question: Photographer Walter Iooss who also shoots swimsuit models among others is known for his contributions to which magazine?
Answer: sports illustrated
Question: Try your 'fortune' and take a guess. What is the name of the Maltese dog owned by celebrity Wendy Diamond that holds a Guinness record for posing with celebrities?
Answer: lucky
Question: The words burcad badeed mean "ocean robber" in what African language?
Answer: somali
Question: Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind (1949) is a critique of the notion propounded by Descartes that the mind is distinct from the body. What phrase did Ryle famously use to describe his concept?
Answer: ghost in machine
Question: A memorable phrase in the annals of American polity, who was called a 'bloviating ignoramus' by columnist George Will in 2012?
Answer: donald trump
Question: The Berne Convention of 1886 was an international agreement that established rules governing what?
Answer: copyright
Question: The names of the command module and lunar module of Apollo 10 were named for the characters of what story that was told in nearly 18,000 strips?
Answer: peanuts
Question: Who is the icon of linguistics who composed the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" to demonstrate the difference between structure and meaning?
Answer: noam chomsky
Question: What was the subject of French sociologist Émile Durkheim's 1897 work that studied Catholic and Protestant populations and that resulted in sociology getting established on its own?
Answer: suicide
Question: Can you connect the Dalai Lama with Curious George with a colorful 2-word term?
Answer: yellow hat
Question: The writing system of Elder Futhark (that was later simplified to Younger Futhark) is the oldest form of what alphabet?
Answer: runes
Question: Hibakusha is an Asian language term for the people effected by either of what violent incidents?
Answer: atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki
Question: Which entity headquartered in Lyon, France is the second largest intergovernmental organization after the UN by member states count (190)?
Answer: interpol
Question: Pitman, Gregg and Teeline are all forms of what type of 'writing'?
Answer: shorthand
Question: What type of relationship first explored in Symposium by a famous philosopher was described as 'Christian apology' of Greek love?
Answer: platonic love
Question: The term 'flensing' is used to describe the processing of what creatures?
Answer: whales
Question: Imagine a society and decide on its principles for the distribution of rights, positions and resources. You must do this without knowing your position in this society. What is the term for this method of determining the morality of an issue that was first proposed by John Harsanyi and later made famous by John Rawls?
Answer: veil of ignorance
Question: If traditional Chinese women practiced foot binding, what anatomical feature did the Padaung/Kayan women of Burma seek to highlight? Easy, this is a family site!
Answer: necks
Question: What nuclear weapon policy was first declared by China in 1964, later adopted by India and North Korea, dropped by Russia in 1993 and has been rejected repeatedly by NATO?
Answer: no first use
Question: According to its chief architect Adrian Smith, the triple lobed footprint of what iconic new millennium construction was inspired by the flower Hymenocallis?
Answer: burj khalifa in dubai
Question: The traje de luces that means 'suit of lights' in its native tongue is the traditional costume of whom?
Answer: bullfighters
Question: The policy of Songun that emphasizes the role of military guides the political and economic life in what country?
Answer: north korea
Question: What ubiquitous feature of television sitcoms was invented by sound engineer Charley Douglass who noticed that live audiences were unreliable for providing something?
Answer: laugh track
Question: Attention megalomaniacs! What theory popularized in the 1840s by Thomas Carlyle states that history can be explained by the impact of just a few?
Answer: great man theory
Question: Similar to thread count, mommes are units of weight traditionally used to measure the density of what?
Answer: silk
Question: What school of philosophy of ancient Greece associated with Aristotle takes its name from a legend that he meandered while lecturing?
Answer: peripatetic school
Question: Loop, bight, elbow, standing end and working end are the components of what, the varieties of which are the subject of a 1944 encyclopedic work The Ashley Book of ___?
Answer: knots
Question: The German word ahnentafel is a term for a numbering system used in what particular field? (hint: using it eliminates the need to draw a tree)
Answer: genealogy
Question: What popular assessment that is based on the theories of Carl Jung was created during WWII to help women identify the type of war-time jobs where they would be 'most comfortable and effective'?
Answer: myers briggs type indicator mbti
Question: A 2003 book by Gian J. Quasar subtitled Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery focuses on a region with vertices at Florida, Puerto Rico and what other island?
Answer: bermuda
Question: What architectural term originated from the 16th century after Renaissance revived Classical construction and created a perception of past styles as a product of barbarous tribal cultures?
Answer: gothic
Question: Who is the 1st century BC Roman architect who wrote that the figure of a man can be inscribed both in a circle and a square in his best known work De architectura?
Answer: vitruvius
Question: Following a famous crime, the United States Congress adopted a statute in 1932 that was dubbed the Lindbergh Law. The legislation made what act a federal offense?
Answer: kidnapping
Question: In maritime law, what chaste term denotes the passage of a vessel through the territorial waters of another state subject to certain restrictions?
Answer: innocent passage
Question: In 2008, Islamabad International Airport was renamed as a tribute to which person who passed away in 2007?
Answer: benazir bhutto
Question: When dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, a Chinese businessman proposed the creation of an equivalent prize to 'promote world peace from an Eastern perspective.' In whose name was the prize created? (hint: not Buddha)
Answer: confucius
Question: In a 2005 vote, Father Damien, Jacques Brel, Mercator and Peter Paul Rubens all finished in the top-10 list of the greatest people of what country?
Answer: belgium
Question: Ahmed Yassin who was killed by an Israeli helicopter gunship in 2004 is best known as the founder of what organization?
Answer: hamas
Question: Kryptos is a 1990 sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn that is famous for its four encrypted messages, three of which have been solved. Where is it located?
Answer: central intelligence agency cia in langley virginia
Question: The JIM suit, which is designed to maintain a pressure of one atmosphere regardless of external conditions is used by members of which profession?
Answer: diving
Question: Dr. Conrad Murray whose trial started in September 2011 in the US was tried for giving a fatal dose of a sedative to which talented celebrity?
Answer: michael jackson
Question: Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds co-founded what Nobel Peace Prize winning organization that is named for a Canadian village?
Answer: pugwash conferences on science and world affairs
Question: What was the Soviet government agency that administered the country's forced labor camps which were compared to 'a chain of islands' by a Nobel Prize winning author?
Answer: gulag
Question: You've surely heard about the Stockholm syndrome. But what is the opposite of this condition where the hostage takers become more sympathetic to the hostages? It is named after a South American city where it was observed after the Japanese Embassy hostage crisis in 1996.
Answer: lima syndrome
Question: What building whose construction started in 1792 was once described by one of its residents as "... big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama ..."?
Answer: white house
Question: What is the name of the photograph taken by Voyager 1 of the Earth against the vastness of space which lent itself to the title of a 1994 book by Carl Sagan?
Answer: pale blue dot
Question: A lazaretto which can be an isolated island or a ship at anchor near a harbor is used for what purpose for maritime travelers?
Answer: quarantine station
Question: In 2007, which celebrity started a charitable organization called SixDegrees.org?
Answer: kevin bacon
Question: Which anthropomorphic cartoon character whose parsimony typifies the stereotype of miserly Scotsmen was possibly modeled after the Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie?
Answer: scrooge mcduck
Question: The German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel who recognized that children have unique needs and capabilities introduced what concept of modern education?
Answer: kindergarten
Question: In navigation, what is the process of estimating one's current position based upon a previously determined position and advancing it using estimated speed over elapsed time, and course?
Answer: dead reckoning
Question: While recovering from wounds received in World War I, Dewitt Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of articles from various publications; this resulted in the birth of what popular magazine?
Answer: reader s digest
Question: In December 2010, which country unveiled a new passport design with a picture of a nude Aphrodite on it that raised many eyebrows? (hint: where was Aphrodite born?)
Answer: cyprus
Question: What ubiquitous font created by designer Vincent Connare was said to have been inspired by the graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen?
Answer: comic sans
Question: What is the common name of the computational problem whose task, when given a list of cities and the distances between them is to find the shortest possible tour that visits each city once?
Answer: travelling salesman problem
Question: Which web application on Yahoo! that translates text between different languages is named after a fictional animal used for a similar purpose in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: babel fish
Question: Which great philosopher corresponded with Queen Christina of Sweden in his final years and died in 1650 in Stockholm where he had been invited as a teacher for her?
Answer: rené descartes
Question: Biograph Theater in Chicago is notable as the site of the killing of which notorious personality in 1934?
Answer: john dillinger
Question: Groote Schuur estate in South Africa was the site for the signing of a historic agreement between Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk in 1990. The estate originally belonged to which tycoon?
Answer: cecil rhodes
Question: Apart from writing Tom Jones, the English author Henry Fielding also founded which the organization the Bow Street Runners which is seen as the first attempt at creating what unit of London?
Answer: police force
Question: What is the American English term for a voting system in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, most commonly in single-winner elections?
Answer: instant runoff voting irv
Question: The Dickin Medal that bears the words 'For Gallantry' and 'We Also Serve' was instituted in 1943 by Maria Dickin to honour the work of whom/what in war?
Answer: animals
Question: Named for the fictional town in the radio series A Prairie Home Companion, what is the Lake Wobegon effect? (Hint: According to Garrison Keillor, the presenter of the show, here "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average")
Answer: tendency to overestimate one s achievements and capabilities
Question: What is the correct term for the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest?
Answer: gleaning
Question: If you were at the home of Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, New York on November 14, 1957, I'd be very wary of you. Who met there?
Answer: american mafia
Question: Located at 1651-1653 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., what is the official state guest house for the President of the United States?
Answer: blair house
Question: The Bodleian Library, one of the oldest libraries in Europe, is the main research library of which seminal institution?
Answer: university of oxford
Question: Usually associated with monarchical and aristocratic titles, what is the term for a widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband?
Answer: dowager
Question: Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989), who was born George William Jorgensen was famous for having been the first wordly-known individual to have undergone what procedure?
Answer: sex change surgery
Question: What does the Japanese word 'karoshi' translate to, which workaholics must be aware of?
Answer: death from overwork
Question: The Ryugyong Hotel, a partially constructed concrete skyscraper that was intended to be a hotel was called 'The Worst Building in the History of Mankind' by Esquire in 2008. Where is it located?
Answer: pyongyang north korea
Question: What were found in a cave near Qumran, Jordan by Mohammed Ahmed el-Hamed in 1947 that significantly impacted the world's understanding of religion and history?
Answer: dead sea scrolls