CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What country co-hosted the Euro 2008 soccer competition with Switzerland?
Answer: austria
Question: The first time that Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes for a mile at an international meeting was at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C. Which country was he representing?
Answer: england
Question: A cummerbund is worn on which part of the body?
Answer: waist
Question: What is the oldest and southernmost city in Russia, with 7 miles of city wall?
Answer: derbent
Question: In which country did student protest leader Steve Biko die while in police custody in 1977?
Answer: south africa
Question: The success of which English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982 was based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey (vocals) and Johnny Marr (guitar), with the rhythm section of Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums)?
Answer: smiths
Question: What is the capital of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada?
Answer: st john s
Question: How many different Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were there between 1840 and 1900?
Answer: none
Question: The rules for which sport were originally drawn up by the Knickerbocker Club in New York in 1843?
Answer: baseball
Question: What does the Roman Catholic Church collectively call Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Penance, Ordination, Eucharist and Extreme Unction?
Answer: sacraments
Question: What character was played by Ronnie Barker in the TV series "Open All Hours"?
Answer: arkwright
Question: What word means the type of movement by normally walking on the soles of the feet?
Answer: plantigrade
Question: Which drummer was the band leader for his wife, Pearl Bailey?
Answer: louie bellson
Question: Which African country was never formally colonized, and resisted all kinds of European rule until 1920?
Answer: somalia
Question: What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952?
Answer: clarence house
Question: What law is "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
Answer: boyle s law
Question: Where is the world's oldest surviving bowling green, with the first recorded use being in 1299?
Answer: southampton england
Question: Among the works of which English landscape painter are "The Fighting Temeraire" and "The Sun of Venice Going to Sea"?
Answer: turner
Question: On the Isle of Man, the "House of Keys" is concerned with what?
Answer: government
Question: In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
Answer: kingdom of saudi arabia
Question: Composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713) is associated with which instrument?
Answer: violin
Question: What church, known as "the Irvingites" mainly due to the preaching of Edward Irving, was founded in Scotland in 1832?
Answer: catholic apostolic church
Question: During the American Civil War, what city was the capital of the Confederacy?
Answer: richmond virginia
Question: What is the largest and first discovered (by Piazzi at Palermo in 1801) of the minor planets?
Answer: ceres
Question: English is a subsidiary official language of India: what is the main official language?
Answer: hindi
Question: Most elite high jumpers used the Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or Scissors-Jump until the development of which technique, when its inventor's gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention?
Answer: fosbury flop
Question: Carlos Menem was the president of which country from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999?
Answer: argentina
Question: What was the name of the literary coterie that met regularly around 1750 that included Mrs Vesey, Mrs Ord, Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Mrs Hester Chapone and Benjamin Stillingfleet?
Answer: blue stockings
Question: Which brass musical instrument has a slide mechanism that enables the sounding length of the tube to be adjusted?
Answer: trombone
Question: What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
Answer: sri jayawardenapura kotte
Question: After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ... " what and "The Clothed ..." what?
Answer: maja
Question: Which British musical, based on a TV show and noted for its profanity, irreverent treatment of Judeo-Christian themes and surreal images such as tap-dancing Ku Klux Klan members, ran for 609 performances in London to February 2005 winning 4 Laurence Olivier Awards, and made its New York City debut in January 2008 at Carnegie Hall, starring Harvey Keitel?
Answer: jerry springer opera
Question: What is the name of the hall in which meetings of the Salvation Army are held?
Answer: citadel
Question: What amorphous form of graphite or pure carbon is used mainly as a lubricant for machinery?
Answer: blacklead
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury when women were first ordained as priests into the Church of England?
Answer: george carey
Question: What is the name given to horse racing over hedges, ditches and other obstacles set on a regular course?
Answer: steeplechase
Question: Which 17th century composer wrote the opera "L'Orfeo"?
Answer: claudio monteverdi
Question: John Williams said to Steven Spielberg, "You need a better composer than I am for this film" and got the reply "I know. But they're all dead!" What was the film?
Answer: schindler s list
Question: Which of the five Great Lakes of North America is the only one that does not border the US state of Michigan?
Answer: ontario
Question: The MacRobertson International Shield, competed for by Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States and known affectionately as "the MacRob", is the premier event in the world for which sport?
Answer: croquet
Question: After being called various names including the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Congo-Lopoldville, what was the (now) Democratic Republic of the Congo known as?
Answer: zaire
Question: Rachel Hunter, model and Rod Stewart's ex wife, posed nude for which magazine in 2004?
Answer: playboy
Question: According to the Bible, who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?
Answer: three wise men
Question: The technology industry centre known as "Silicon Valley" is in which state of the USA?
Answer: california
Question: Octavian and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42BC near which city in East Macedonia?
Answer: philippi
Question: Who, from 1940 to 1949 was Jane Wyman's third husband?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Which country has hosted the greatest number of world curling championships (of any kind: men's, women's and mixed championships) between 1959 and 2015?
Answer: canada
Question: Which part of the body is made up of a series of vertebra?
Answer: backbone
Question: Where is the International Gemological Institute and the World Diamond Centre, which play an important role in setting standards, regulating professional ethics, training and promoting the interests of the city as a centre of the diamond industry?
Answer: antwerp
Question: The invention of what sport is credited to Dr. S. A. Naismith in Massachusetts, USA, in 1891?
Answer: basketball
Question: In the 1908 Olympics, Jay Gould from the USA won a gold medal for competing in which sport?
Answer: jeu de paume
Question: Who was Mr Ed's owner in the TV series featuring a talking horse?
Answer: wilbur
Question: What was the name of the bottlenose dolphin who became famous in 1955-56 for playing with the children of the small town of Opononi, New Zealand, and performing with beach balls and bottles?
Answer: opo
Question: Which European city is built at the mouth of the river Tagus?
Answer: lisbon
Question: In 1885, who was the first person to attach a petrol fuelled internal combustion engine to a bicycle at Bad Cannstadt near the River Neckar?
Answer: gottlieb daimler
Question: Geoff Hunt, Jahangir Khan and Ross Norman were the only World Open Champions in the first ten years that the Championships were held, in which sport?
Answer: squash
Question: Leonardo di Caprio played multi-millionaire Howard Hughes in which film?
Answer: aviator
Question: Rod Blagojevich was alleged to have solicited personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the US Senate after Barack Obama resigned because he had been elected President of the USA. He was the Governor of which US state?
Answer: illinois
Question: Which alpine ski racer was World Cup champion in 1967 and 1968, won the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing with a sweep of the three gold medals for downhill, giant slalom and slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics, and then retired?
Answer: jean claude killy
Question: What is another name for "lateral epicondylitis"?
Answer: tennis elbow
Question: Which state of the USA, initially called New Connecticut, declared independence in 1777, issued its own coinage 1785-1788, exchanged ambassadors with France, the Netherlands and the USA, and in 1791 joined the US Federal union as the 14th state?
Answer: vermont
Question: In 1828 Casparus van Houten Sr. patented a hydraulic press that revolutionised the production of what?
Answer: chocolate
Question: What is the name of the daughter of Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell), born in 2006?
Answer: bluebell madonna
Question: What is the name of the raised bumps that cover the striking area of a table tennis bat?
Answer: pimples
Question: What sort of fish is in the Scandinavian dish called gravlax?
Answer: salmon
Question: The Basque country is centred mainly around which mountain range?
Answer: pyrenees
Question: The River Don flows 1,325 miles from near Tula, Russia, to which sea?
Answer: sea of azov
Question: Who has been engaged to US tennis player Jimmy Connors and married to British tennis player John Lloyd, Olympic downhill skier Andy Mill and Australian golfer Greg Norman?
Answer: chris evert
Question: Wick and Thurso are towns in the far north of which country?
Answer: scotland
Question: By the 15th century, coffee was known in the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. It first arrived in Europe in the area covered by what modern day country?
Answer: italy
Question: Which film about figure skaters starred Jon Heder and Will Ferrell?
Answer: blades of glory
Question: Who carried out his early experiments at Villa Grifone, Bologna, Italy, with his brother Alfonso?
Answer: guglielmo marconi
Question: Hattie McDaniel, an American actress, was the first black performer to win an Academy Award, in 1939 for Best Supporting Actress for her role of "Mammy" in which film?
Answer: gone with wind
Question: The CN Tower which in 1975 became the world's tallest free-standing structure on land is part of the skyline of which city?
Answer: toronto
Question: Who was Ron Hextall playing for when, on 8 December 1987, in a game against the Boston Bruins, he became the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal by actually shooting the puck into an open net?
Answer: philadelphia flyers
Question: What is the title of an American comedy-drama presented mostly as the daydreams of Dr. John "J.D." Dorian, that follows the lives of employees of Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital?
Answer: scrubs
Question: What is the medical term for abnormally low body temperature?
Answer: hypothermia
Question: What is the name of cities in Argentina and Spain that are both capitals of provinces of the same name?
Answer: cordoba
Question: Historian Richard B. Morris, in his book "Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny" (1973), identified Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton as the key what?
Answer: founding fathers
Question: What is the name of Joseph Heller's best known novel?
Answer: catch 22
Question: Artists William Harnett, Annibale Carracci, Abraham van Beyeren, Juan Snchez Cotn, Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Fernand Lger, Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Czanne and Pablo Picasso have all painted what style of painting?
Answer: still life
Question: Which company, founded in 1950, was the world's first independent credit card company?
Answer: diners club
Question: George Heppelwhite is famous for making what in the 18th century?
Answer: furniture
Question: Which item of clothing was named after an American women's rights and temperance advocate?
Answer: bloomers
Question: Trypanosomiasis is an infectious disease spread by what?
Answer: tsetse fly
Question: The islands of Skye and Mull are in which island group?
Answer: hebrides
Question: Which country dominated basketball at the Olympics, winning all the gold medals in the men's competition from 1936 to 1968 and, from when women's competition started in 1976, won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympics, a bronze medal in 1992, and a gold medal in all the other years?
Answer: usa
Question: With what was Edith Head, who was nominated for 35 Oscars (including every year from 1948 to 1966), associated?
Answer: costume design
Question: Who has been quoted as saying People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly?
Answer: banksy
Question: What is the study of the relation between the motion of a body and the forces acting on it?
Answer: dynamics
Question: What 1939 film starred Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara?
Answer: gone with wind
Question: According to Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, who, in Silene, Libya, saved a princess from a dragon by capturing it, and led it to the king, promising to kill it if his people converted to Christianity?
Answer: saint george
Question: Olympic gold medallists Gaetan Boucher, Donovan Bailey and Alex Baumann represented which country?
Answer: canada
Question: Which 16th century dramatist wrote plays for the Earl of Nottingham's company?
Answer: christopher marlowe
Question: Which country entered 129 archers in the first Olympic archery event in 1900, and has competed in archery at the Olympic Games the most times (12 of the 14 possible)?
Answer: france
Question: Complete the title of a book by Doctor Benjamin Spock: "The Common Sense Book of ..."?
Answer: baby and child care
Question: Which pantomime is about the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: dick whittington
Question: Who began directing with "Grand Theft Auto" (1977) and won his first Best Director Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" (2001)?
Answer: ron howard
Question: In August/September 2006, who replaced up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD Paris in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse, with track titles such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?"?
Answer: banksy
Question: What important discovery was made in 1964 by radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson?
Answer: cosmic microwave background radiation
Question: Cricketer W G Grace, a first-class cricketer from 1865 to 1908, was a member of what profession?
Answer: doctor
Question: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting "Monarch of the Glen" featured what animal?
Answer: deer
Question: What tourist facility, occupying more than 85 acres, opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955?
Answer: disneyland
Question: What retail chain is named after a character from Herman Melville's book Moby Dick?
Answer: starbucks
Question: Who set a water speed record of 225.6 m.p.h. at Coniston Water in September 1956?
Answer: donald campbell
Question: Who released the album "Rockferry" in 2008, that contained the singles "Mercy", "Warwick Avenue" and "Rain on Your Parade"?
Answer: duffy
Question: Which city, rebuilt in the Art Deco style after being largely razed by an earthquake in 1931, has become recognized as architecturally unique, and in 2007 was nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status?
Answer: napier new zealand
Question: Where was the 2008 Ryder Cup competition held?
Answer: valhalla golf club
Question: Who recorded the duet "Especially For You" in 1988?
Answer: kylie minogue and jason donovan
Question: Which 1957 film directed by David Lean was the story of the construction and demolition of a civil engineering work in Burma?
Answer: bridge on river kwai
Question: What is the name of the reverse image on film, from which a photograph is printed?
Answer: negative
Question: What was the main form of transport used by the Japanese army in their invasion of Singapore in World War II?
Answer: bicycles
Question: The oldest woman Olympic gold medalist is Queenie Newall, at London in 1908, when 53 years old. In which sport did she compete?
Answer: archery
Question: Which was the first of these four to be an Olympic 100 metres winner?
Answer: harold abrahams
Question: Which British journalist has written biographies of Princess Diana, Monica Lewinsky, David and Victoria Beckham, Madonna, and Tom Cruise?
Answer: andrew morton
Question: In the "Harry Potter" books, students board the train to Hogwarts at Platform 9+34. Which London railway station has erected a sign at a wall between tracks 9 and 10 to commemorate this?
Answer: king s cross
Question: France's third longest border, after Spain and Switzerland, is with which country?
Answer: belgium
Question: In the US presidential election, 2000, in which US state was there a controversy over requests for hand recounts of votes that went as far as the U.S. Supreme Court?
Answer: florida
Question: Presidents of the USA Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover had what religious upbringing?
Answer: quaker
Question: Sacr-Cur Basilica is in which European city?
Answer: paris
Question: Which play by John Osborne features a character called Archie Rice, a part written for Laurence Olivier, who played it on stage and in a 1960 film version?
Answer: entertainer
Question: According to the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Five Cities of the Plain near the Dead Sea were Adimah, Zebolim, Zour, Gomorrah and which other?
Answer: sodom
Question: Frank Langella and Anthony Hopkins have both played which historical character?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: Who won the Hockey Champions Challenge for Women played in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2009?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In 1949 the inaugural tournament of the Thomas Cup, the most important men's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
Answer: malaya
Question: The membership of which British intellectual socialist group formed in London in 1884 included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald, Emmeline Pankhurst and Bertrand Russell?
Answer: fabian society
Question: Carl Lewis won Olympic gold medals at 4 Olympic Games in 4 different events, including the 4x100m relay. He did not win gold for one of these sports. Which one?
Answer: high jump
Question: The Clipper ship "Dunedin" caused excitement when it arrived in London after a 98 day voyage in 1882. Where had it come from?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Who adopted Ziggy Stardust as an on-stage identity?
Answer: david bowie
Question: What is the name for the study of the advent and evolution of biological systems in the universe, with particular emphasis on the possibility of non-terrestrial life?
Answer: astrobiology
Question: Who holds the record for having received the most Grammy awards?.
Answer: sir georg solti
Question: Which village, now a suburb of Dublin, was famed for an annual rowdy fair that was held between 1204 and 1855?
Answer: donnybrook
Question: Who brought together dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and nurtured their collaboration on 13 operas from "Trial by Jury" (1875) to "The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel" (1896)?
Answer: richard d oyly carte
Question: What name did Pol Pot give to the ideology that he forced on the people of Democratic Kampuchea?
Answer: year zero
Question: Which sewing machine company has held a patent on the mechanism that creates the blanket stitch since its introduction in 1877 (the most recent patent renewal was in 2007), and is involved in litigation with several Chinese firms who are accused of violating their intellectual property rights?
Answer: merrow
Question: Godtfred Kirk Christiansen is credited with inventing what?
Answer: lego
Question: Which dictator was known as "Il Duce"?
Answer: mussolini
Question: What has been awarded to the winners of the Super Bowl since 1967?
Answer: vince lombardi trophy
Question: Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are associated with what?
Answer: fashion
Question: Who was the only golfer in the President's Cup tournament held at San Francisco in 2009 to win all 5 of his matches?
Answer: tiger woods
Question: What book was published by Immanuel Kant in 1781?
Answer: critique of pure reason
Question: According the Bible, who was the cousin of Mordecai?
Answer: esther
Question: In 1980, Nikolai Andrianov (USSR/RUS) broke the record for being awarded the most Olympic medals (15) ever. What was his sport?
Answer: gymnastics
Question: Which American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001, consisting of Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro and Bob Bryar, released the albums "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love", "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge", and "The Black Parade"?
Answer: my chemical romance
Question: In international flag signalling code, what is a rectangular flag centred with a white square?
Answer: letter p
Question: Who is the city of Charleston, the capital of South Carolina, named after?
Answer: king charles ii of england
Question: According to legend, who was the sweetheart of Robin Hood?
Answer: maid marian
Question: In June 2009 it was announced that the rats on Rat Island had finally been eradicated, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck caused an infestation. Where is Rat Island?
Answer: alaska
Question: What is a Mohammedan sect which reveres Ali, cousin of Muhammad, believing him to be Muhammad's rightful successor?
Answer: shiite
Question: What was an American post-World War II art movement baginning in New York City that was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence?
Answer: abstract expressionism
Question: The Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work on the foundations of mathematics published in 1910, 1912 and 1913, with a second edition In 1927, was co-written by Bertrand Russell and who else?
Answer: alfred north whitehead
Question: The Society for the Prevention of an Unwholesome Diet was a 19th century activist group dedicated to keeping what out of Britain?
Answer: potatoes
Question: Who was crowned King of Scotland in 1306 and defeated the forces of Edward II at Bannockburn in 1314?
Answer: robert bruce
Question: Prior to its independence in 1964, the Mediterranean island of Malta belonged to which country?
Answer: great britain
Question: Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis starred as Madeline "Maddie" Hayes and David Addison in which TV series (1985 to 1989) that revolved around cases investigated by Blue Moon Detective Agency?
Answer: moonlighting
Question: Where, since 1903, has been the headquarters of British polo, where polo is no longer staged since the polo fields were compulsorily purchased to build council housing?
Answer: hurlingham
Question: Who is the next in this series: Laue (1914), W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915), Barkla (1917), Planck (1918), Stark (1919), Guillaume (1920) ... ?
Answer: albert einstein
Question: What, according to John Lennon, "is just what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans"?
Answer: life
Question: Which 20th century Irish playwright wrote "Juno and the Paycock", "The Plough and the Stars", "Silver Tassie" and "Within the Gates"?
Answer: sean o casey
Question: What is the best known work of Danish-Icelandic sculptor Edvard Eriksen, which he completed in 1913, that sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour at Langelinie?
Answer: little mermaid
Question: What word was used by poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists in English as a romantic name for Ireland, that is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland?
Answer: erin
Question: Rugby union was included in 4 Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924. Which team won the most gold medals for it in that period?
Answer: usa