CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Which white metal that burns in air forms more of the earth's crust than carbon, sulphur, copper or lead?
Answer: titanium
Question: Which 20th century playwright wrote "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night",
Answer: eugene o neill
Question: What is the name for the individual leaves of the calyx or outer whorl of a flower?
Answer: sepal
Question: Sacha Baron Cohen created which character which first appeared on "The Eleven O'Clock Show" on Channel 4 in Great Britain on 8 September 1998?
Answer: ali g
Question: The Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes, based on the Isle of Wight, started a competition in 1851 now known by what name?
Answer: america s cup
Question: The 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", with Amanda Bynes as the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by Colin Firth, was a remake of which 1958 film starring Rex Harrison and Sandra Dee?
Answer: reluctant debutante
Question: Who is a mythological lumberjack who appears in tall tales of American folklore, usually believed to be a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, who was first documented in the work of American journalist James MacGillivray?
Answer: paul bunyan
Question: Peter Snell, who set 5 individual world running records, was part of a team that set a new four by 1 mile relay record and won 2 Olympic golds for 800 metres (1960 Rome & 1964 Tokyo) and a gold for 1500 metres (1964 Tokyo), represented which country?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Which movement was founded by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell?
Answer: boy scouts
Question: Which Greek philosopher and mathematician, born on Samos around 582BC, established a school at Crotana?
Answer: pythagoras
Question: H2SO4 is the chemical symbol for what?
Answer: sulphuric acid
Question: Who, though he died at 35, wrote over 600 works including 23 string quartets, 5 string quintets, 21 piano concertos and 19 operas?
Answer: mozart
Question: Where are the Crown Jewels for Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain stored?
Answer: tower of london
Question: Where was the World Netball Series held in October 2009?
Answer: manchester england
Question: Which pair of films directed by Quentin Tarantino were originally conceived as one film?
Answer: kill bill
Question: Who provided the voice of "Charlie" for Charlie's Angels in the original TV series and the films made in 2000 and 2003?
Answer: john forsythe
Question: What was the last position that Lyndon B Johnson held when he became President of the USA?
Answer: vice president
Question: What trophy, designed by the Italian designer Silvio Gazzaniga, is 36 cm (14.2 in) high, made of solid 18 carat (75%) gold and weighs 6.175 kg (13.6 lb), with a base containing two layers of semi-precious malachite?
Answer: fifa world cup trophy
Question: What is the name for what is basically an induction coil whereby the voltage of an alternating current can be increased or decreased without changing the frequency?
Answer: transformer
Question: What is the traditional name for a Spanish white wine made near Cadiz, popular varieties of which are Manzanilla, Amontillado, Vino Fino, Olorosa and Montilla?
Answer: sherry
Question: Who discovered Uranus and one of its moons, Titania, between 1781 and 1787?
Answer: herschel
Question: Which country has Nukualofa, on the island of Tonjatabu, as its capital?
Answer: tonga
Question: In two films made in 2000 and 2003, what was the collective name of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu?
Answer: charlie s angels
Question: What is the common name for Chorea, a disease characterised by irregular involuntary movements, commonly found in children?
Answer: st vitus s dance
Question: Which single company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England, controls a significant proportion of the trade in diamonds?
Answer: de beers
Question: Which river, 210 miles long, whose principal tributaries are the Wye, Avon and Teme, empties into the Bristol channel?
Answer: severn
Question: What was the name of the first turbo prop airliner, built in 1950?
Answer: vickers viscount
Question: Donald Campbell, the car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s, was born in which country?
Answer: england
Question: What is the conifer native to the west coast of North America that grows to over 300 feet high?
Answer: sequoia
Question: By what name is Iosif Vissarionovich Izhugashvili better known?
Answer: joseph stalin
Question: Rimsky-Korsakov named a piece of music "The Flight of the ..." what?
Answer: bumblebee
Question: What artificial stretch of water in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London was made by order of Queen Caroline in 1730?
Answer: serpentine
Question: Which Belgian novelist wrote the "Maigret" stories between 1930 and 1935?
Answer: georges simenon
Question: Who was the last President of the Fourth Republic of France, and the first President of the Fifth Republic?
Answer: charles de gaulle
Question: What event brings a group of old friends together in the 1983 film "The Big Chill"?
Answer: funeral
Question: Since women's water polo was introduced for the 2000 Olympics, which country has won more gold medals than the next two highest countries combined?
Answer: hungary
Question: The Serbian Empire came under Turkish domination after which battle in 1389?
Answer: battle of kossovo
Question: The clove hitch, the reef and the granny are types of what?
Answer: knot
Question: Who has been called His Purple Majesty, His Royal Badness, TAFKAP, The Artist, Symbol, Love Symbol and The Purple One?
Answer: prince
Question: What "Commonwealth" was formed on 1 January 1901, with Lord Hopetoun as Governor-General and Edmund Barton as Prime Minister?
Answer: australia
Question: Which play by Alan Ayckbourn calls for a set with three double beds on stage simultaneously?
Answer: bedroom farce
Question: Who was the great great great grand uncle of the singer/composer known as "Moby"?
Answer: herman melville
Question: Which political party won victories in the Canadian governments of Alberta in 1935 and British Columbia in 1952?
Answer: social credit party
Question: Who, the highest paid of any performer in music hall in the early 20th century and knighted in 1919, wrote "I Love A Lassie", "Stop Yer Ticklin' Jock" and "Roamin' in the Gloamin'"?
Answer: harry lauder
Question: What phrase appeared on screen at the end of Warner Brothers cartoons?
Answer: that s all folks
Question: For what were medals competed for at Olympic Games from 1912 until discontinued after the competition in 1948?
Answer: art competitions
Question: Where was the decisive battle on 24 June 1314 where Robert Bruce defeated Edward II's army and secured the independence of Scotland at that time?
Answer: bannockburn
Question: Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction, that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees?
Answer: ren descartes
Question: In which book of the Christian Bible is the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead?
Answer: john
Question: In June 2009, who was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok, where he had gone to begin work on his role in the film "Stretch"?
Answer: david carradine
Question: In "Coronation Street", what did Tracey Barlow name her daughter, born in 2004?
Answer: amy
Question: Who won an Oscar for directing "Slumdog Millionaire", which also won an Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: danny boyle
Question: What sweet syrup is produced when sugar is refined and, when fermented, produces rum?
Answer: molasses
Question: In which country was there a civil war which lasted several decades following independence in November 1975, when three main guerrilla groups, the FNLA, MPLA and UNITA, fought each other?
Answer: angola
Question: Who played Paris in the film "Troy", released in 2004?
Answer: orlando bloom
Question: To end The War of 1812, the USA and Great Britain signed which treaty on 24 December 1814?
Answer: treaty of ghent
Question: What term is applied to the fusion of Roman, Greek and Persian cultures that reached its peak after the 4th century AD during the reign of Justinian, and is seen in mosaics, frescoes, metal work, ivory carving and silk weaving?
Answer: byzantine
Question: Which city is built on both sides of the Tigris, 200 miles from the Persian Gulf?
Answer: baghdad
Question: What was first brought to Europe by Francisco Fernandes, and sent as a treat by Jean Nicot to Catherine de Medici?
Answer: tobacco
Question: Which American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994?
Answer: friends
Question: In the Christian calendar, what is the name for the Sunday before Easter, the first Sunday of Holy Week?
Answer: palm sunday
Question: Which perennial herb, crocus sativus, has purple flowers and orange coloured stigmas?
Answer: saffron
Question: Pol Pot became the de facto leader of which country in mid-1975, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero", which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the population?
Answer: cambodia
Question: Who, in Greek legend, stole fire from the sun to give life to man?
Answer: prometheus
Question: Which capital city is situated on the mainland and 13 islands at the outlet of Lake Malar on the Baltic Sea?
Answer: stockholm
Question: What is the common name for a mixture of calcium silicates and aluminium, prepared by prolonged heating of limestone with clay, which slowly hardens when mixed with water?
Answer: cement
Question: Whose life was the 2004 film "Ray" about?
Answer: ray charles
Question: With which sport is Michael Jordan, who represented the USA at the Olympic Games in 1984 & 1992, associated?
Answer: basketball
Question: Songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar and piano) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals) make up which American rock duo who produced three Grammy Award (Best Alternative Music Album) winning albums ("Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan" & "Icky Thump")?
Answer: white stripes
Question: Who was the first president of the Turkish Republic after the overthrow of the Sultan in 1922?
Answer: mustapha kemal ataturk
Question: Except for a short break from 1492 to 1512, which merchant family effectively ruled Florence from the 13th century to 1737?
Answer: medici
Question: In the first decade of the 1900s, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in which city of the USA?
Answer: detroit
Question: Historically, what is the name of an official having authority for fiscal and other purposes within a defined area of England, typically a borough, port or shire?
Answer: reeve
Question: In 2001, Count Jacques Rogge replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch as head of what body?
Answer: international olympic committee ioc
Question: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tr Cool are collectively known as which band?
Answer: green day
Question: The members of which Christian organisation do not take the oath in a court of law, oppose military service, and believe that individuals can have a personal relationship with the divine without the need for intermediaries, such as priests, rituals or sacraments?
Answer: quakers
Question: Which cold, low-salinity ocean current flows north-westward along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru and can extend 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) offshore?
Answer: humboldt current
Question: Who was the Iranian-US citizen who was jailed early in 2009 in Evin Prison, Teheran with an 8 year sentence for alleged spying?
Answer: roxana saberi
Question: Robbie Coltrane played a psychologist in which British TV series?
Answer: cracker
Question: The mnemonic Roy G. Biv is an aid to remembering what?
Answer: colours of rainbow
Question: Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Mimas and Enceladus between 1781 and 1789?
Answer: herschel
Question: Where is the island of Tristan da Cunha?
Answer: south atlantic ocean
Question: With which sport is Florence Griffith-Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, associated?
Answer: sprinting
Question: Which model was engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music before she married Mick Jagger?
Answer: jerry hall
Question: What is the name given to a bone fracture when the bone bends and splinters rather than breaks in two?
Answer: greenstick
Question: In the 18th century, Capability Brown popularised the naturalistic style of what?
Answer: landscape gardening
Question: Which Russian revolutionary became Foreign Commissar, lost the battle for leadership to Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party and lived in exile thereafter?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: Before the 2008 Olympics, teams from which country caused a scandal by posing for a pre-Olympic newspaper advertisement pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes, to mimic the typical Asian?
Answer: spain
Question: Who was an American gangster, the leader of a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era, whose criminal career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income-tax evasion?
Answer: al capone
Question: Who became King of England after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Answer: henry vii
Question: Which 20th century French writer and philosopher wrote the plays "Huis Clos", "Les Mouches" and "Les Mains Sales" and the novels "La Nause" and "Chemins de la Libert"?
Answer: jean paul sartre
Question: What is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume?
Answer: lake baikal
Question: Where is the classic English horse race, the One Thousand Guineas for 3 year old fillies, run?
Answer: newmarket
Question: What architectural term was applied by the Romans to any public building built in a rectangle twice as long as it was broad with an internal 2 storied colonnade?
Answer: basilica
Question: What is the name for the use of X Rays in medicine?
Answer: radiology
Question: Which English duo had hits between 1984 and 1987 that included West End Girls", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", "Love Comes Quickly", "Suburbia", "It's a Sin", "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", "Rent" and "Always on My Mind"?
Answer: pet shop boys
Question: Which father and son, 17th and 18th century composers, between them lived in Rome, Naples, Florence and Madrid and composed over 120 operas, 600 chamber cantatas, and 500 harpsichord sonatas?
Answer: scarlatti
Question: In 1695, John Trevor was forced to stand down as Speaker of the British House of Commons. Who was the next Speaker to be ousted?
Answer: michael martin
Question: The convention of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Olympia to the Olympic venue began with which Olympic Games?
Answer: berlin 1936
Question: What is the term for the greenish oxide formed on copper?
Answer: verdigris
Question: What is a device that allows electric current to pass through it in one direction only, used for converting AC to DC?
Answer: rectifier
Question: For administrative purposes, Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, formerly termed vilayet, which are now called what?
Answer: iller
Question: One of Hannibal's most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy with the intention of attacking Rome. What city was he from?
Answer: carthage
Question: Who won a (then) record seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich?
Answer: mark spitz
Question: Who, at the age of 50, had become the world's richest man through the activities of the Standard Oil Company?
Answer: john davison rockefeller
Question: According to legend, what did Alexander the Great cut with his sword after an oracle said that the person who released it would be master of Asia?
Answer: gordian knot
Question: Who constructed railway lines between Stockton and Darlington (in 1821) and Manchester and Liverpool (in 1829), and designed and built railway engines, including "The Rocket".
Answer: george stephenson
Question: Suspension, hump and cantilever are all types of what?
Answer: bridges
Question: Emperor Quetzalcoatl ruled which ancient people in Mexico in the 10th century CE?
Answer: toltecs
Question: Whose hit records include "I Feel Love", Love to Love You Baby", "Starting Over Again" and "On the Radio"?
Answer: donna summer
Question: Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri and Gary Valentine, originally billed as "Angel and the Snake", achieved fame under what name?
Answer: blondie
Question: What spirit is traditionally made from maize grain, flavoured with juniper berries?
Answer: gin
Question: The Battle of the River Plate was between the "Ajax", the "Achilles", the "Exeter" and which other ship?
Answer: admiral graf spee
Question: The painting medium "tempera" has what as a base?
Answer: egg yolk
Question: Who was alleged to have choked pop star Rhianna until she was unconscious in a rented Lambhorgini shortly before the 2009 Grammy Awards?
Answer: chris brown
Question: In England, which fish, when caught in a river, traditionally belongs to the Sovereign?
Answer: sturgeon
Question: Anton Geesink represented which country in Judo between 1951 and 1967, winning 21 European titles, was World Champion in 1961 in the open class, and won gold in the open weight division at the 1964 Summer Olympics?
Answer: netherlands
Question: What is the name for a small single-headed drum, in the rim of which are fitted pairs of small circular metal plates, called "jingles"?
Answer: tambourine
Question: Who asked the question "Are We Human or Are We Dancers?"?
Answer: killers
Question: What city, heavily bombed in the Spanish Civil War, was featured in a painting by Picasso?
Answer: guernica
Question: Wilberforce, Clarkson, Zachary, Macauley and Brougham were instrumental in ending what practice in the British Empire from 1807?
Answer: slave trade
Question: Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?
Answer: mark twain
Question: Rowan Atkinson created which character that first appeared on British TV in 1990?
Answer: mr bean
Question: Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times between 2000 and 2010?
Answer: germany
Question: Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of which country, ruling from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918?
Answer: germany
Question: What is a textile fabric, usually of linen or cotton with simple geometric or conventional pattern uniformly repeated?
Answer: diaper
Question: Whose career, from 1922 to 1946, included World Billiards Champion 4 times and World Snooker Champion 20 times?
Answer: joe davis
Question: What term was popularized in the books "The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964) by Marshall McLuhan to describe how the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time has heightened human awareness of responsibility?
Answer: global village
Question: What is the name for the dome or arched roof at the top of a building that is a distinctive part of Byzantine architecture and characteristic of mosques?
Answer: cupola
Question: In Othello, of whom does Iago say "Forsooth, a great arithmetician"?
Answer: cassio
Question: Which team broke Germanys decade-long stranglehold on the Rowing World Cup in 2007?
Answer: great britain
Question: The "seven Champions of Christendom" were St George, St Andrew, St David, St Patrick, St Denys, St James and which other?
Answer: st anthony
Question: What name is given to the eastern part of a Christian church, sometimes known as the choir, which is usually separated from the nave by a screen or railing?
Answer: chancel
Question: In Shakespeare's "Hamlet", who was Ophelia's father?
Answer: polonius
Question: What ancient people, whose major cities were Tyre and Sidon, founded Carthage?
Answer: phoenicians
Question: Who, with husband Chris Martin, called their child Moses when he was born in 2006?
Answer: gwyneth paltrow
Question: Whose film career began in 1993 with "The Piano" and whose roles have included Jane Eyre, Queen Isabella II of Spain, a teenage mutant, and a human in a vampire TV series?
Answer: anna paquin
Question: In 1915, Rev Philip (Tubby) Clayton founded which organisation as a club and church for returned soldiers?
Answer: toc h
Question: About which conflict did Winston Churchill say "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"?
Answer: battle of britain
Question: In which city was US president John F Kennedy assassinated on 22 November 1963?
Answer: dallas texas
Question: What song by Kings of Leon gave them their first number 1 single in the UK, charting at the top-spot on digital downloads alone, before its physical release?
Answer: sex on fire
Question: What was the name of George Stephenson's first steam engine, which first ran on the Manchester and Liverpool Railway in 1830?
Answer: rocket
Question: In musical notation, what is the name for the short lines drawn for notes that are too high or too low to fit on the stave?
Answer: ledger lines
Question: By what name is the modern game that was published by Milton Bradley Company in 1943 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy"?
Answer: battleships
Question: What is the name for the phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere?
Answer: rainbow
Question: What caused it to snow in New England at least once every month during 1816?
Answer: eruption of tambora
Question: What was the title of Gary Barlow's autobiography, released in 2006?
Answer: my take
Question: In probability theory and statistics, what is a measure of the variability or dispersion of a population, a data set, or a probability distribution?
Answer: standard deviation
Question: With what sport do you associate sponsor's trade names "Ping" and "Titleist"?
Answer: golf
Question: Which US president was known as "Tricky Dicky"?
Answer: nixon
Question: Which country was under the influence of the USSR immediately following World War II until 1990, when Wojciech Jaruzelski resigned as president and was succeeded by Lech Wasa?
Answer: poland
Question: The highest temperature at which a liquid can have a stable existence is known as what?
Answer: boiling point
Question: In which TV series did the characters Crockett and Tubbs appear?
Answer: miami vice
Question: Radovan Karadzic is associated with genocide between 1992 and 1995 in which country?
Answer: bosnia
Question: Coney Island, the pleasure resort off Long Island, is part of which New York borough?
Answer: brooklyn
Question: Which city was founded in 763, ravaged by the Mongols in 1258, taken by the Turks in 1636, and occupied by the British from 1917 to 1932?
Answer: baghdad
Question: The winner of the second Formula One World Championship in 1951 also won the title in 1954, 1955, 1956 & 1957, a record of five World Championship titles which stood until 2003. Who was he?
Answer: juan manuel fangio
Question: The first goal in Football World Cup history was scored on 18 July 1930 by Lucien Laurent of France. France won 41. Who were they playing against?
Answer: mexico
Question: Who was rumoured to be reunited with ex-husband Brad Pitt in June 2009?
Answer: jennifer aniston
Question: The first women's Olympic competition for gymnastics, at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, involved only which type of activity?
Answer: synchronized calisthenics
Question: The main characters in James Goldman's play "The Lion in Winter" are Henry II, his sons John, Geoffrey & Richard, his mistress Alais Capet, and which other?
Answer: eleanor of aquitaine
Question: Antoni Stradivari is associated with the design and building of what instrument?
Answer: violin
Question: What is the silt-formed delta of the River Rhone?
Answer: camargue
Question: Juan Antonio Samaranch was the head of which organisation from 1980 to 2001?
Answer: international olympic committee ioc
Question: The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?
Answer: helium