CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which is the seat of National Parliament and the legislative capital of South Africa?
Answer: cape town
Question: Who wrote, in 1894: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal a loaf of bread"?
Answer: anatole france
Question: In which field would the term "chiaroscuro" usually be applied?
Answer: painting
Question: What is the meaning of the German word "Gesundheit", said after a sneeze?
Answer: health
Question: Three quarters of the east boundary of the Republic of Malawi is what?
Answer: lake nyasa
Question: By the time Warcraft III was issued in 2003 the playable races were Orcs, Humans, Night Elves and which other?
Answer: undead
Question: Warren Beatty played what comic strip character in a 1990 film?
Answer: dick tracy
Question: Which was not a medium used by British artist J.M.W.Turner to create his works?
Answer: sculpture
Question: What is a common factor in the careers of Giacomo Puccini, Paul McCartney, and Arthur Sullivan?
Answer: opera
Question: Which all-girl group had hits with "Whole Again", "Eternal Flame", "It's OK!" and "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)"?
Answer: atomic kitten
Question: Hamlet in the play of the same name was a Prince of which country?
Answer: denmark
Question: Who wrote the aria "O mio babbino caro"?
Answer: puccini
Question: Who wrote the "Outlander" series of novels, in which the heroine, Claire Randall, travels in time?
Answer: diana gabaldon
Question: An computer game first released in 1993 and drawing inspiration from Rube Goldberg devices, or Heath Robinson or Storm P thinking, is what?
Answer: incredible machine
Question: Frida Kahlo, famous for her paintings, many of them self-portraits, was married to which other artist?
Answer: mexican painter diego rivera
Question: What satirical musical by Kyle Jarrow about L. Ron Hubbard that pokes fun at his science fiction writing and personal beliefs, was originally presented in 2003 in New York City by Les Freres Corbusier (winning an Obie Award) and received a Garland Award for the director for the 2004 Los Angeles production?
Answer: very merry unauthorized children s scientology pageant
Question: At the awards for "The Best of the Booker", a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary, it was noted that two authors had won the Booker twice, J.M. Coetzee and who else?
Answer: peter carey
Question: What government system is in place in Lesotho, an enclave in the Republic of South Africa?
Answer: parliamentary or constitutional monarchy
Question: Which one of these has no part to play in the ring at a bull fight?
Answer: ecuador
Question: The early Great Wall of China built in the tears following 221 BCE, new or by reinforcing existing remains of walls, by the Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was intended to protect the newly unified empire against whom?
Answer: xiongnu people from north
Question: Whose germ theory led to his devising a means to heat-treat milk to reduce disease?
Answer: pasteur
Question: Which country's territory includes a long narrow east-west tongue separating Zambia from Botswana?
Answer: namibia
Question: The 1987 record "La Bamba" was by which artist?
Answer: los lobos
Question: Epsom salts, traditionally used in bath salts and in agriculture, are what mineral compound?
Answer: magnesium sulphate
Question: Mathematicians or code breakers from what country were the first to break the codes in the Enigma machines used by the German military from the 1920s to the 1940s?
Answer: poland
Question: Characteristics of gothic church architecture include tall designs, flying buttresses, vaulted ceilings, light and air, gargoyles, decorative and ornate finishes, and what else?
Answer: pointed arches
Question: What is the overall subject of the sentence "UTC replaced GMT in most places in the world on 1 January 1972"?
Answer: time zones
Question: In which English city is "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4" by Sue Townsend, set?
Answer: leicester
Question: Which was the 2013 sci-fi film which scored an Oscar for Best Director and starred Sandra Bullock and George Clooney?
Answer: gravity
Question: Which film actress was born in Germany in 1904, went to America after appearing in the film "Blue Angel", and became an American citizen in 1937?
Answer: marlene dietrich
Question: What is a jury said to do when they leave the courtroom to decide on their verdict?
Answer: retire
Question: Which is the oldest of these religions to be recognised as a identifiable belief system?
Answer: zoroastrianism
Question: Who was the London-based Jewish music impresario who managed Gene Vincent, Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath?
Answer: don arden
Question: Prior to Kermit the Frog another Kermit was well-known; he accompanied his father Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the USA, on an expedition 1913-14 during which the River Kermit was named in his honour. Where was the expedition?
Answer: amazon basin
Question: What was referred to in the title of Bill Bryson's book "Notes From A Small Island"?
Answer: britain
Question: What member of the music and comedy duo "The Flight of the Conchords" was recently seen, under heavy disguise, as the Boris the Animal in the film "Men in Black 3"?
Answer: jemaine clement
Question: What is Pablo Picasso's 1967 work known as the "Chicago Picasso"?
Answer: sculpture
Question: In which continent did Allan Quatermain, the explorer in H. Ryder Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines", search for the mines?
Answer: africa
Question: Which of Henry VIII's wives was the mother of Mary I?
Answer: catherine of aragon
Question: What British motor car manufacturer, founded in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan and run by him until 1959 when his son Peter Morgan took over until 1999, is currently run by Peter's son, Charles Morgan?
Answer: morgan motor company
Question: The husband of Mumtaz designed and built what magnificent monument in India to her when she died in 1631?
Answer: taj mahal
Question: If a shawm were a member of the modern orchestra what section would it be in?
Answer: woodwind
Question: In 2014 what Formula One team was Lewis Hamilton driving for?
Answer: mercedes amg
Question: Emperor Bokassa was overthrown as ruler of what country in September 1979?
Answer: central african republic
Question: What fraction of a second is a nanosecond?
Answer: one thousand millionth
Question: The first Winter Olympics was held in conjunction with 1924 Olympic Games and was originally called what?
Answer: week of winter sports
Question: Who was re-elected President of the Republic of Germany in 1932 defeating Adolf Hitler?
Answer: von hindenburg
Question: A "prickly pear" is a type of what?
Answer: cactus
Question: The contents of "The Zimmermann Telegram" of 16 January 1917 revealed a German plan to offer Mexico what territory in return for a military alliance against the USA?
Answer: texas new mexico and arizona
Question: What was the first name of Inspector Maigret, a character created by George Simenon?
Answer: jules
Question: Crimea, over which multiple wars have been fought, was annexed from Ukraine in 2014 by which country?
Answer: russia
Question: Three great Siberian rivers are the Ob, Lena and which other?
Answer: yenisei
Question: Which 20th century novelist wrote "The Quiet American", "Stamboul Train", "Brighton Rock" and "The Power And The Glory"?
Answer: graham greene
Question: Who won the World Darts Championship 4 times in the 1980s?
Answer: eric bristow
Question: What is the name of the style of roasting meat, whereby it is skewered on a spit and slowly rotated over a flame?
Answer: rotisserie
Question: Which American jazz musician, clarinettist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman", in the mid-1930s led one of the most popular musical groups in America, which was also one of the first racially-integrated musical groups?
Answer: benny goodman
Question: The shores of the African continent are variously on the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and which other body of water?
Answer: red sea
Question: Josephus who lived in the 1st century AD was a military commander and scholar but is now known more for his work as what?
Answer: historian
Question: Who was one of the first female movie stars, called "The First Lady of the Silent Screen", who was the only star from the silent era to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, and who received a Special Academy Award in 1971?
Answer: lillian gish
Question: Which retired English jockey was popularly known as the Long Fellow?
Answer: lester piggott
Question: Brian Cox, who is known among other things for presenting science TV programmes in the UK, is a professor at the University of Manchester in what field?
Answer: particle physics
Question: Rosalind Franklin, a biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of DNA, RNA, and viruses, was what nationality?
Answer: british
Question: The Five Eyes security intelligence gathering group is an alliance between USA, New Zealand, Australia, UK and what other country?
Answer: canada
Question: Who hosted and won the 1995 Rugby Union World Cup?
Answer: south africa
Question: Since 2006 Spencer Kelly has been presenting what TV show for the BBC?
Answer: click
Question: Often celebrated as the first, and great, detective novel in English literature was "The Moonstone" by whom?
Answer: wilkie collins
Question: Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim are most usually associated with which work?
Answer: west side story
Question: Who directed the film "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"?
Answer: peter jackson
Question: Who takes part in the annual Umhlanga Reed Dance in Swaziland?
Answer: childless unmarried girls
Question: What was the fictional TV family, with children named John, Jason, Mary Ellen, Erin, Benjamin, James Robert and Elizabeth, that first came to US TV screens in 1972?
Answer: waltons
Question: What is the official language in Guyana, on the South America mainland and on the southern limits of the Caribbean?
Answer: english
Question: Where was the film "Angel At My Table" (1990), starring New Zealander Kerry Fox, directed by New Zealander Jane Campion, and based on books by New Zealand writer Janet Frame, made?
Answer: australia
Question: The UK TV channel BBC developed a crime drama series, featuring Kenneth Branagh as the lead detective; what was the series called?
Answer: wallander
Question: The pasta called "conchiglie" is in the shape of what?
Answer: seashells
Question: With whom did CM Punk hold the World Tag Team Championships?
Answer: kofi kingston
Question: On 24 June 2010 Julia Gillard was elected to the leadership of her party and therefore became Prime Minister of Australia. Who was the previous Prime Minister?
Answer: kevin rudd
Question: In Japan's feudal era, from 1185 onwards, a dominant warrior class emerged called what?
Answer: samurai
Question: Where did the Spring of Nations, or the Year of Revolutions, happen in 1848?
Answer: europe
Question: """In the Land of Blood and Honey"", set in Sarajevo in the 1990s in the Bosnian war, was the directorial debut of what USA actress?"
Answer: angelina jolie
Question: Which former President of the USA was the father of American actress and author Patti Davis, who was called the "black sheep" of the family and had many well publicised conflicts with her parents?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Pol Pot was overthrown as ruler of what country in 1979?
Answer: cambodia
Question: Which Winter Olympics sport has involved the use of a .30-06 Springfield?
Answer: biathlon
Question: Who wrote the books "Blott on the Landscape" and "Porterhouse Blue"?
Answer: tom sharpe
Question: Erik the Red from Norway founded the first successful Norse settlement on Greenland, and then his son Leif continued the tradition of exploring west and landed where?
Answer: north america
Question: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are known for their work in what area?
Answer: detective fiction
Question: Te Ika a Maui and Te Waipounamu are the two main islands of which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union as General Secretary then as Chairman of the Presidium, the longest term as leader since Josef Stalin; who was his immediate successor?
Answer: yuri andropov
Question: The .44 Magnum was made famous by which fictional TV policeman?
Answer: dirty harry
Question: The song "Why Does It Always Rain on Me" is by which band?
Answer: travis
Question: In 1968 the first Legoland was established where?
Answer: billund denmark
Question: Where in Australian is the Broncos rugby league team based?
Answer: brisbane
Question: Traditionally, mozzarella cheese is made from milk from which animal?
Answer: buffalo
Question: In the original Star Trek TV series which aired in the USA from 1966 to 1969, who played "Scotty"?
Answer: james doohan
Question: Who was the youngest person, at the time, to be elected to the office of president of the USA?
Answer: john kennedy
Question: What most nearly describes the position of the human spine in relation to the heart?
Answer: dorsal
Question: The civil rights advocate, published writer and singer, Pauley Perrette, is also known as Abbey Sciuto the forensic scientist in what US TV series (2003-present)?
Answer: n c i s
Question: Clematis vitalba, a plant of the Ranunculaceae family, is also known as Traveller's Joy and what other name?
Answer: old man s beard
Question: Based on a UK political drama TV series of the same name, the US version featuring the actor Kevin Spacey is called "House..." what?
Answer: of cards
Question: Which monarch presided in Great Britain over the time of the French Revolution, Britain's loss of its American colonies, and two decisive defeats of the French?
Answer: george iii
Question: Giovanni Boccaccio, who is best known for his work "Decameron" was involved in what type of activity?
Answer: poetry
Question: Vidkun Quisling, infamous in Europe, allied himself and his country for a time with what other European figure?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: """Fanny and Alexander"", a Swedish/French/German co-production classic about a Swedish family in Uppsala released in 1982, was directed by whom?"
Answer: ingmar bergman
Question: In which area is part or all of the Dakar Rally run since 2008?
Answer: south america
Question: What age (in years) does a horse have to be to run in the Epsom Derby?
Answer: three
Question: The government of the Andaman Islands archipelago is divided between India and which other country?
Answer: burma myanmar
Question: The US TV series "The In-Betweeners", the remake of the UK series of the same name, featured the writer of "My Name is Earl" Brad Copeland for several episodes, and director Taika Waititi from the 2004 Academy Award nominated short film called what?
Answer: two cars one night
Question: The podcast which grew out of "This American Life", and first aired in 2014, is called...?
Answer: serial
Question: From which country do the professional boxers, the Klitschko brothers originate?
Answer: ukraine
Question: Java, Borneo, Bali, and Sulawesi are what?
Answer: islands
Question: """General Sherman"" in California, USA, is the name of what?"
Answer: tree
Question: Who is singer and actor Miley Cyrus's godmother?
Answer: dolly parton
Question: English poet John Keats composed five odes in 1819: The "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode to Psyche" and which other?
Answer: ode on grecian urn
Question: The horse Red Rum finished second twice in the British Grand National, in 1975 and 1976; Rag Trade and which other were the horses that beat him?
Answer: l escargot
Question: Which sport is track designer Udo Gurgel most associated with?
Answer: bobsleigh
Question: Which major Roman road in England linked London to the Fosse Way, passing through Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring, Aylesbury and Bicester before changing direction towards the south-west, passing Woodstock and Witney to the north before heading into Cirencester?
Answer: akeman street
Question: Dame Barbara Hepworth is known mainly for her work in sculpture but later in her career was known for work in what other medium?
Answer: lithography
Question: Which comic character was introduced in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941?
Answer: aquaman
Question: Which country saw the closest finish in a World Rallly Championship event, when, in 2007, Marcus Gronholm beat Sebastian Loeb by 0.3 of a second?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Glenn Miller, famous as a band leader in the 1930s & 1940s, played which instrument?
Answer: trombone
Question: The most immediate sea to the east of Drake Passage, south of South America, is what?
Answer: scotia sea
Question: What is an epic poem from Ancient Iraq, originally titled "He who Saw the Deep" or "Surpassing All Other Kings", of which the most complete version exists on 12 clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BCE Assyrian king Ashurbanipal?
Answer: epic of gilgamesh
Question: Who hosted the travel programmes "Around the World in 80 Days" (1989), "Pole to Pole" (1992), "Full Circle" (1997), and "Hemingway Adventure" (1999)?
Answer: michael palin
Question: In 1985, Barbara Dickson released "I Know Him So Well" from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo, with what other singer?
Answer: elaine paige
Question: Who was the first soccer player to win 100 caps for England?
Answer: billy wright
Question: What fully-fledged fictional language, which has a number of typologically uncommon features, was deliberately designed to be "non-human" by Marc Okrand?
Answer: klingon
Question: In 2010, Veera Musikapong, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Khattiya Sawasdiphol, Suthep Thaugsuban, Prompong Nopparit, Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd, Natthawut Saikua and Buranaj Smutharaks were prominent in the politics of which country?
Answer: thailand
Question: Around the upper Coppename River a nature reserve in what South American country has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unspoiled forests and biodiversity?
Answer: suriname
Question: The 2002 FIFA World Cup was held in two countries simultaneously, the first time, being South Korea and which other?
Answer: japan
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "You Only Live ... "
Answer: twice
Question: Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), revered as a great poet, also wrote which play or drama?
Answer: boris godunov
Question: What is a species in the legume family, native to North and South America, an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm (1 to 1 1/2 feet) tall?
Answer: peanut
Question: Which Shakespearean play is the basis for films directed by Orson Welles in 1948, Roman Polanski (1971), Geoffrey Wright (2006), Akira Kurosawa (1958), Billy Morrissette (2001), and Vishal Bharadwaj (2004)?
Answer: macbeth
Question: Gotye, an Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter famous for award winning singles 2011 to 2013, including Grammy awards and Record of the Year, was born where?
Answer: belgium
Question: Louis Farrakhan, the National Representative of the Nation of Islam and an advocate for black interests, is an activist in which country?
Answer: usa
Question: In the musical "The King and I", who was "I"?
Answer: anna
Question: He is an alpine ski racer, who won four overall World Cup titles (1998, 2000, 2001, 2004), two Olympic gold medals (in 1998), and three World Championship titles (1999, 1999 and 2005). Who is he?
Answer: hermann maier
Question: The book "I know why the caged bird sings" was the first volume of the autobiography of an African-American poet, author, activist, academic, who died in May 2014 at the age of 86; who was it?
Answer: maya angelou
Question: Which town on the Isle of Wight has hosted an annual Regatta since 1851?
Answer: cowes
Question: Jimmy Somerville fronted which 1980s band?
Answer: bronski beat
Question: In 1815 the Congress of Vienna created United Netherlands, but in 1830 the restive south split off again to form what?
Answer: belgium
Question: The Camel Cup, first held in 1970 in the dry bed of a river, is held where?
Answer: alice springs australia
Question: One of the stars from each of the film "The Hobbit" and the TV film "Van Gogh: Painted with Words" front the UK detective series called what?
Answer: sherlock
Question: Who was the first British golfer to win the US Open Championship?
Answer: harry vardon
Question: The long-standing textbook, "Anatomy", by Henry Gray (1827-1861) owed much of its effectiveness to the illustrations which were drawn by whom?
Answer: henry vandyke carter
Question: What is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where its pressure falls below its vapour pressure?
Answer: cavitation
Question: Which painter was particularly known for depicting the fte galantes of 18th century France?
Answer: watteau
Question: The Abigar, Brown Swiss, Groningen, and Holstein are all types of what?
Answer: cattle
Question: The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands are part of what island grouping?
Answer: lucayan archipelago
Question: What is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric, the name Indonesian in origin, that is made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn?
Answer: gingham
Question: """Elia"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Answer: charles lamb
Question: If a lake is endorheic what can this imply?
Answer: saline lake
Question: The famous collection of music, "Songs from the Auvergne" arranged by Joseph Canteloube, is in what language?
Answer: occitan
Question: What 2002 film starred Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Myers?
Answer: bend it like beckham
Question: What was the first general-purpose electronic computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems which, though designed to calculate artillery firing tables for the US Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, was first used in calculations for the hydrogen bomb?
Answer: eniac
Question: The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist layers at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old layer on the Rim which is called what?
Answer: kaibab limestone
Question: What is the next in this series: Millie, Ranger, Buddy, Spot "Spotty" Fletcher, Barney, Miss Beazley ... ?
Answer: bo
Question: Brian Lochore was coach to the New Zealand team in the first World Cup in 1987 for what sport?
Answer: rugby
Question: When Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield competed in November 1999 what did they do to compete?
Answer: boxed
Question: The Council of Constance 1414-18 had the main purpose of ending the Three Popes Schism, and was convened by the Antipope John XXIII. John had two brothers who were sentenced to death for what?
Answer: piracy
Question: When is the Rabbinical Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, observed?
Answer: 163 days after first day of passover
Question: Which German composer wrote 16 operas including "Salome", "Electra" and "Der Rosenkavalier"?
Answer: richard strauss
Question: Where was the 251km Marathon des Sables run in 2015?
Answer: sahara desert
Question: The group "Smile", formed in 1968 by Roger Taylor, Tim Staffel and Brian May, changed their name to what after Tim Staffel was replaced as vocalist?
Answer: queen
Question: What is the name of the recording studio and record label established by Ray and Dave Davies, members of the British group "The Kinks"?
Answer: konk
Question: What cooking technique involves frying quickly in a small quantity of hot grease?
Answer: saut
Question: The first electric tramway in the former Russian Empire was established in 1892 where?
Answer: kiev
Question: The Venus Rosewater Dish is awarded to the winners of which tennis event?
Answer: wimbledon
Question: English artist, writer and musician Holly Johnson is best known as the lead vocalist of which 1980s band?
Answer: frankie goes to hollywood
Question: """The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" was originally written in what language?"
Answer: french