CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: In honor of a story by Mark Twain, Calaveras County, California holds a yearly Jubilee in which what kind of animals are raced?
Answer: frogs
Question: Supported by a consortium of 26 organizations from all over the world, and unusual in that it holds both the mens and womens halls of fame, what sport has its HoF in St. Augustine, Fl?
Answer: golf
Question: Mary Ann Summers, one of the castaways stranded on TVs Gilligan's Island, hailed from what state?
Answer: kansas
Question: What are the official languages of our neighbors to the north, Canada?
Answer: english and french
Question: The youngest person in the world to earn $1,000,000,000, who is the CEO, President, and Co-founder of Facebook?
Answer: mark zuckerberg
Question: In 1976, on the 233rd birthday of its honoree, the US Mint released the $2 featuring whom on its' obverse?
Answer: thomas jefferson
Question: Dr. Sam Beckett jumps from person to person to "put things right that once went wrong" in what 90s TV series that had a 5 year run on NBC?
Answer: quantum leap
Question: The interrobang is a punctuation mark that consist of the superimposition of an exclamation mark and what other punctuation mark?
Answer: question mark
Question: April 10, 1912 saw a “moderately famous” ship, some called the Titanic, leave what English port on its’ first and only voyage?
Answer: southhampton
Question: ‘The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day;’ opens what 1888 poem by Ernest Thayer?
Answer: casey at bat
Question: April 12, 1861 saw the opening of the Civil War when confederate forces opened fire on what fort in the harbor of Charleston, SC?
Answer: fort sumter
Question: The first player (since 1880) to break the so-called color barrier in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson played his first major league game on April 15, 1947, for what team? And a bonus point if you can tell me what position he played.
Answer: brooklyn dodgers
Question: The most expensive book ever sold, the Codex Leicester (previously the Codex Hammer), was written by what Italian polymath, who was born on April 15, 1452?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: April 12 was the anniversary of the passing at age 62 of which US president, the 32nd office holder?
Answer: fdr
Question: The assassination of which Austrian royalty precipitated World War I?
Answer: archduke franz ferdinand
Question: On the US flag, are the more red stripes? Or white stripes?
Answer: red stripes
Question: Dying on April 12, 1981, what boxer, nicknamed the Brown Bomber, was named the greatest heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization?
Answer: joe louis
Question: What play was Abraham Lincoln watching at the time of his assassination?
Answer: our american cousin
Question: The largest electric power-producing facility and the largest concrete structure in the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake was created by the construction of what dam?
Answer: grand coulee dam
Question: Marked by a violent fear of watter, what is the common name for the disease hydrophobia?
Answer: rabies
Question: April 8, 1891 saw the birth of Ole Kirk Christiansen who founded a company whose name means either play well in Danish or I put together in Latin. What company are we talking about?
Answer: lego
Question: Made famous by Catherine Bach (and I guess later by Jessica Simpson), tight and very abbreviated cut-off jean shorts have come to affectionately known as what?
Answer: daisy dukes
Question: What does the DSM-IV define as:     A. Deliberate and purposeful fire setting on more than one occasion. B. Tension or affective arousal before the act.     C. Fascination with, interest in, curiosity about, or attraction to fire and its situational contexts. D. Pleasure, gratification, or relief when setting fires, or when witnessing or participating in their aftermath. E. The fire setting is not done for monetary gain, as an expression of sociopolitical ideology, to conceal criminal activity, to express anger or vengeance, to improve one’s living circumstances, in response to a delusion or a hallucination, or as a result of impaired judgment
Answer: pyromania
Question: In the pre-history of man, what age followed the Bronze Age?
Answer: iron age
Question: According to witnesses, what did John Wilkes Booth shout after shooting Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: sic semper tyrannis
Question: April 15, 1947 saw Jackie Robinson break the "color barrier" in major league baseball when he joined what club?
Answer: brooklyn dodgers
Question: Who's missing: Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis
Answer: endeavour
Question: Daughter of police commissioner Gordon, Batgirl's alter ego Barbara Gordon has what day time profession?
Answer: librarian
Question: To which island was Napoleon first exiled to in 1814?
Answer: elba
Question: Ultimately resulting in the deaths of over 620,000 soldiers, what war broke out on April 12, 1861?
Answer: american civil war
Question: What is the common name of the military base in southern Nevada that is supposedly home to alien spacecraft and little green men?
Answer: area 51
Question: If I've made a Faustian bargain, who have I made a deal with?
Answer: devil
Question: The first income tax in the United States, 3% on incomes over $800, was levied to finance what conflict?
Answer: civil war
Question: On April 19, 1971, Judge Charles H Older sentenced Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten, and what major asshat to death for their roles in the deaths of Sharon Tate and 6 others in Los Angeles on the nights of August 8 and 9, 1969?
Answer: charles manson
Question: Starting a mere 11,700 years ago, what is the current geological epoch?
Answer: holocene
Question: An integral part of the Old West wagon train, what did the chuck wagon carry?
Answer: food and cooking equipment
Question: In the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, what symbol of a heavy burden does the Mariner have to wear around his neck?
Answer: albatross
Question: Although not making it as an official EON production until the 21st film, what was the first James Bond novel published in April, 1953?
Answer: casino royale
Question: The fictional utopian valley known as Shangri-La first appeared in what 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton?
Answer: lost horizon
Question: Deerstalker, Homburg, and trilby are all types of what?
Answer: hats
Question: The humerus, paired radius, and ulna come together to form what joint?
Answer: elbow
Question: April 21 1962 saw the opening of Century 21 Exposition, the first worlds fair held in the US since the start of WWII, right here in the Emerald City. What was the name of the Elvis Presley movie filmed during the 6 months of the fair?
Answer: it happened at world s fair
Question: According to the comic books, Superman fights for Truth, Justice, and what?
Answer: american way
Question: The first income tax in the US, 3% of all incomes over US $800, was levied to pay for what war?
Answer: civil war
Question: According to the opening narration by one William Shatner, what, in the Star Trek universe, is Space?
Answer: final frontier
Question: In the world of the machinist, a die is used to create the male portion of the threads (e.g. the screw). What is used to create the female portion (e.g. the nut)?
Answer: tap
Question: What desert consists of ice cream placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake and topped with meringue, which is baked in a very hot oven just long enough to firm the meringue?
Answer: baked alaska
Question: What can be a NATO phonetic alphabet letter, a landform at the mouth of a river, or a plumbing fixture company?
Answer: delta
Question: Although made by a variety of manufacturers, what is the name of the appliances sold by Sears?
Answer: kenmore
Question: Although the younger of the two leagues by 25 years (and sometimes called the Junior Circuit), which league has won 62 of the 106 World Series games played since 1903? The National League? Or the American league?
Answer: american league
Question: What was the name of the Federal building destroyed by total asshats Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995?
Answer: alfred p murrah federal building
Question: April 19, 1987 saw the debut of The Simpsons as series of shorts on what prime time Fox series?
Answer: tracey ullman show
Question: Following the sinking of the USS Maine, April 23, 1898 saw the beginning of what conflict when war was declared on the United States following a 2 day naval blockade of Cuba?
Answer: spanish american war
Question: A precursor to today's United Nations, what inter-governmental organization was pushed by President Woodrow Wilson and disbanded itself on April 20, 1946?
Answer: league of nations
Question: What was the full character name of the movie star on TVs Gilligan's Island?
Answer: ginger grant
Question: The first world's fair in the United States since World War II, what city hosted the 1962 World's Fair, known as Century 21 Exposition?
Answer: seattle
Question: What TV staple had its debut on April 19, 1987 as a short on The Tracy Ullman Show?
Answer: simpsons
Question: What "important" day, started by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis), is celebrated in the U.S. on April 22, but by the U.N. on the day of the spring equinox?
Answer: earth day
Question: The second oldest ballpark in the Major Leagues, where do the Chicago Cubs play their home games?
Answer: wrigley field
Question: What comic strip, created by Lee Falk, tells the story of a line of costumed crime fighters who operate from the fictional African country of Bangalla?
Answer: phantom
Question: An erupting volcano in what country has blanketed most of Northern Europe with a layer of ash that is making air travel particularly difficult at the moment?
Answer: iceland
Question: Born Robert Matthew Van Winkle in Dallas, Tx, what rapper had his best known hit with 1990s Ice Ice Baby?
Answer: vanilla ice
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, what did Peter Piper pick?
Answer: peck of pickled peppers
Question: Commonly seen on clocks, what it the usual translation of the Latin phrase Tempus Fugit
Answer: time flies
Question: April 19, 1961 saw the CIA backed invasion of Cuba fall flat on it's face, when the invasion force met disaster at what southern Cuban location?
Answer: bay of pigs
Question: Which of the essential knots, used extensively in climbing, consits of two opposed half hitches?
Answer: clove hitch
Question: An official Disney Princess, what is the name of the princess of Agrabah, heroine of the film Aladdin?
Answer: jasmine
Question: That dietary staple of seafarers for over 400 years, hard tack is a type of what?
Answer: biscuit
Question: The oldest annual marathon in the world, what well known road race got its start on April 19, 1897 and attracts a world wide field of entrants each April?
Answer: boston marathon
Question: What authors books includes such works as The Pale Horse, The Body in the Library, The Man in the Brown Suit, and Death on the Nile
Answer: agatha christie
Question: What does the DSM-IV define as:     A. A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following: (1) suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him (2) is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates (3) is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him (4) reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events (5) persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights (6) perceives attacks on his character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack (7) has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner B. Does not occur exclusively during the course of Schizophrenia, a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features, or another Psychotic Disorder and is not due to the direct physiological effects of a general medical condition.
Answer: paranoid personality disorder
Question: According to the song, Davy Crockett was Born on a mountain top where(Greenest state in the land of the free.)?
Answer: tennessee
Question: What diet, developed by Dr. Arthur Agatston at the Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute, focus on foods with a low glycemic index and foods rich in unsaturated fats and omega-3 fatty acids?
Answer: south beach diet
Question: April 25, 1939 saw DC comics introduce what major super hero, their second major, who debuted in issue 27 of Detective Comics.
Answer: batman
Question: What jewelry firm is perhaps best remembered for the exquisite jeweled eggs that were popular Easter time gifts at the turn of the 20th century?
Answer: house of faberge
Question: Capable of flattening mountains with a single blow, who wields a hammer known as Mjollnir?
Answer: thor
Question: Monterey Jack, Manchego, and Wensleydale are all types of what?
Answer: cheese
Question: Which film director, who died today in 1980, directed the films “Marnie”, “Rear Window”, “The Trouble With Harry”, and “Frenzy”, among many others?
Answer: alfred hitchcock
Question: What state, known as The Volunteer State, was the 16th state to join the Union on June 1, 1796?
Answer: tennessee
Question: The Louisiana Purchase was signed today in 1803. Which country sold the land to the USA?
Answer: france
Question: On April 29, 1789, Lt William Bligh and 18 others were set adrift in a lifeboat as Fletcher Christian mutinied and took control of what famous ship?
Answer: hms bounty
Question: Representing the province of Sarangani, Philippines, what is the more famous day job of Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao?
Answer: boxer
Question: April 25 is celebrated as Anzac day in many parts of the world, a day to honor soldiers from what nations?
Answer: australia and new zealand
Question: April 24, 1800 saw the founding what institution when President John Adams sign an act of congress appropriating $5,000 “for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress …, and for fitting up a suitable apartment for containing them….”
Answer: library of congress
Question: This year's honor goes to Tim Toone of Weber State, who earned what coveted title by being the last person chosen in the NFL draft?
Answer: mr irrelevant
Question: The African countries of Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged on April 26, 1964 to form what new country?
Answer: tanzania
Question: In the Rocky film franchise, what town does Rocky Balboa call home?
Answer: philadelphia
Question: April 30, 1803 saw Robert R. Livingston sign a treaty in Paris that allowed the United States to spend $15 million for what?
Answer: louisiana purchase
Question: Known as the Gentle Giant, name the breed of dog that is recognized as the tallest of all dogs?
Answer: irish wolfhound
Question: What does the DSM-IV define as:     A. Recurrent episodes of abrupt awakening from sleep, usually occurring during the first third of the major sleep episode and beginning with a panicky scream. B. Intense fear and signs of autonomic arousal, such as tachycardia, rapid breathing, and sweating, during each episode.     C. Relative unresponsiveness to efforts of others to comfort the person during the episode. D. No detailed dream is recalled and there is amnesia for the episode. E. The episodes cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. F. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition.
Answer: sleep terror disorder
Question: The goal of what popular Nintendo game is to navigate through the Mushroom Kingdom on a quest to save Princess Toadstool?
Answer: super mario brothers
Question: Who's missing: Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, Adam Savage
Answer: jamie hyneman
Question: According to legend, who fell asleep in the Catskill Mountains for 20 years, following a game of 9-pins with the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew?
Answer: rip van winkle
Question: On the steps of Federal Hall, George Washington took the first ever Oath of Office on the 30th of April, 1789 in what city?
Answer: new york ny
Question: What comic strip, created by Mort Walker, tells the tale of a goldbricking US Army private?
Answer: beetle bailey
Question: Which scandal ridden singer, who married his 13 year old second cousin, is cousins with scandal plagued televangelist Jimmy Lee Swaggart?
Answer: jerry lee lewis
Question: What circus billed itself as “The Greatest Show on Earth”?
Answer: ringling brothers and barnum bailey
Question: Which frequent Saturday Night Live guest talent created such memorable characters as half of the Festrunk Brothers and Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber?
Answer: steve martin
Question: What kind of animal does “The Ugly Duckling” turn out to be in Hans Christian Andersen’s children’s story?
Answer: swan
Question: Who was the captain of the HMS Bounty, set adrift with 18 of his loyal officers by Fletcher Christian, on April 28, 1789?
Answer: william bligh
Question: Accounting for approximately 84% of the earths mass, what is the layer that falls between the core and the crust?
Answer: mantle
Question: April 25, 1939 saw the introduction by Bob Kane of what major comic book character, one of the most popular of all times, in issue #37 of Detective Comics?
Answer: batman
Question: Two titans in their field, Malcom Sargent (1895) and Thomas Beecham (1879) were both born on April 29th. What profession did they practice?
Answer: conductors
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, where did Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater put his wife?
Answer: in pumpkin shell
Question: The Treaty of San Francisco, which came into effect on April 28, 1952, officially ended what?
Answer: world war ii
Question: Who famously owned a bicycle shop at 22 South Williams Street, Dayton, Oh?
Answer: wright brothers
Question: May 7, 1915 saw German U-boat U-20 fired a single torpedo at what Cunard passenger liner, sinking it with the loss of 1,198 lives and helped turn public opinion against Germany and contributed to America's entry into WWI?
Answer: rms lusitania
Question: Named for the developer of the steel plow, what Moline, Il. company is the largest producer of agricultural machinery in the world?
Answer: john deere
Question: May 4, 1970 saw 4 students killed and an additional 13 wounded when National Guard soldiers opened fire on unarmed students at what mid-western University?
Answer: kent state
Question: Located in Holyoke, Ma, the town in which the sport was created, what Hall of Fame is located at 444 Dwight St?
Answer: volleyball
Question: A staple of the world's greatest sandwich, the Reuben, sauerkraut is made by fermenting what vegetable?
Answer: cabbage
Question: Although never seen in the comic book, which Peanuts character is in love with The Little Red-Haired Girl?
Answer: charlie brown
Question: Prior to adopting the euro, what was the name of the currency shared by Germany and Finland?
Answer: mark
Question: May 5, 1925 saw one John T. Scopes of Dayton, TN, charged with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of what?
Answer: evolution
Question: What Louisville, Ky track is home to the Kentucky Derby, the annual race known as “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports”?
Answer: churchill downs
Question: Which planet, which received its name on May 1, was named for the Roman god of the underworld, appropriate for such a presumably dark and cold world?
Answer: pluto
Question: What American author, a founding influence on the school of transcendentalism, is perhaps best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings?
Answer: henry david thoreau
Question: Played by Paul Johansson in the recent movie, what is the name of the hero in Ayn Rand's seminal classic Atlas Shrugged?
Answer: john galt
Question: What letter is The Scarlet Letter in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel of the same name?
Question: “But wait, there’s more!” May 3, 1935 saw the birth of what prolific inventor and marketing personality, known for such products as Mr. Microphone, Showtime Rotisserie, and GLH-9 Hair in a Can spray, among many others?
Answer: ron popeil
Question: Which bruising 19th century American, the last of the bare knuckle boxing heavyweight champions, was the first athlete to earn over one million dollars?
Answer: john l sullivan
Question: What NPR staple, set in a fictional Minnesota town "where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average", debuted in 1974?
Answer: prairie home companion
Question: The first issue of what women's magazine, known for its seal of approval, first appeared on May 2, 1885?
Answer: good housekeeping
Question: What Kentucky city plays host to the "fastest 2 minutes in sports", the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: louisville
Question: May 4, 1970 saw 4 students killed and an additional 13 wounded when National Guard soldiers opened fired on unarmed students at what mid-western University?
Answer: kent state
Question: Which comic strip, created by Bil Keane, focuses on parents Bill and Thelma, and kids Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J.?
Answer: family circus
Question: On Star Trek, Mr. Spock's mother hailed from earth. From what planet did his father hail?
Answer: vulcan
Question: May 7, 1945 saw which Axis member nation sign a treaty of unconditional surrender, ending their participation in WWII?
Answer: germany
Question: Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of May), is heavily celebrated in the US as an excuse to drink Corona. In Mexico, however, it's receives a minor nod as a day to commemorate an unexpected Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla over what European heavyweight?
Answer: french
Question: Steve Irwin, beloved Australian who died after a stingray mistook his chest for a dart board, was better known as whom?
Answer: crocodile hunter
Question: What is the name of the umbrella company under which local gabazillionaire Paul Allen does most of his work, such as owning the Seahawks, some of the Sounders, the Cinerama, and the Flying Heritage Collection, among others?
Answer: vulcan
Question: May 5, 1821 saw Emperor Napoleon I die of what was likely stomach cancer on what British possession?
Answer: saint helena
Question: What famed documentarian, a staple of PBS, has produced films on The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, World War II, and National Parks?
Answer: ken burns
Question: According to the company, the Arm and Hammer logo represents which Roman god, the god of fire and metalworking?
Answer: vulcan
Question: Although the 6th book written, what was the first James Bond film to be released (in 1969)?
Answer: dr no
Question: Who is missing: April O'Neil, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael
Answer: donatello
Question: What is the name of the single cell that results from the union of the parents sex cells at fertilization?
Answer: zygote
Question: Early prospectors often confused pyrite (FeS2) with what mineral they were seeking?
Answer: gold
Question: What name was given to the team consisting of Iron Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, Thor, and the Hulk?
Answer: avengers
Question: Who, along with fellow reporter Lois, acts as a mentor and role model for young photojournalist Jimmy Olsen?
Answer: clark kent
Question: What is the official call sign of the Boeing 747 that carries the president?
Answer: air force one
Question: Tattinger, Veuve Clicquot, and Delbeck are all makers of what?
Answer: champagne
Question: May 6, 1856 saw the birth of what Austrian neurologist, credited as the father of psychoanalysis?
Answer: sigmund freud
Question: Which US city is known as The Big Easy, the Crescent City, or NOLA?
Answer: new orleans
Question: Where do The Monkees take the last train to in their 1966 hit?
Answer: clarksville
Question: What would your astrological sign be if you were born today?
Answer: taurus
Question: With a membership of over 2.7 million members, the slogan for what youth organization is "Be Prepared"?
Answer: boy scouts of america