CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is often thought of as the medieval forerunner of chemistry, especially seeking to turn base metals into gold or silver?
Answer: alchemy
Question: Which US vice presidential candidate made "The Checkers speech", an address on TV and radio on 23 September 1952, which was an early example of a politician using television to appeal directly to the electorate?
Answer: richard nixon
Question: Which guitarist collaborated with David Bowie on his music projects from 1988 to 1999?
Answer: reeves gabrels
Question: Born in Australia in 1898, Walter Lindrum was one of the greatest practitoners of what sport?
Answer: billiards
Question: The film 1953 Calamity Jane produced which hit for Doris Day that reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1954?
Answer: secret love
Question: Whom do Sikhs venerate as the founder of their religion?
Answer: guru nanak
Question: Who was the British Leader of the Opposition during the Abdication Crisis?
Answer: clement attlee
Question: Jim Carrey played which character in the 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"?
Answer: joel barish
Question: Wordsworth was inspired to write "Earth has not anything to show more fair" by the view from which London bridge?
Answer: westminster
Question: In the 14th century, what name was given to Edward, eldest son of Edward III and father of Richard II?
Answer: black prince
Question: In which country were constitutional reforms initiated in 1954, resulting in a new constitution when Britain granted self-government in 1964?
Answer: british honduras
Question: Thiamine, niacine and riboflavin belong to which vitamin group?
Answer: b
Question: What word is used to describe an illegal hunt of game or fish?
Answer: poach
Question: In the far past it has been a very large lake but is currently a brackish lagoon, the neck leading to the sea being bridged by the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge and carrying the second-largest city in its country. What is it called?
Answer: lake maracaibo venezuela
Question: Who was the leader of the Peasant's Revolt in England in 1381?
Answer: wat tyler
Question: Besides being a composer, philosopher, poet, artist and printmaker, John Cage was a leading authority on what?
Answer: mushrooms
Question: In 1921 Sir Arnold Lunn organised the first British national ski championship which included, as well as jumping and cross-country, a speed version of what other style?
Answer: slalom
Question: What is one of the main ingredients of marzipan, besides egg whites and sugar?
Answer: ground almonds
Question: At 9.00 a.m. on 27 August 1896, after Khalid bin Bargash ignored a British ultimatum to leave the Beit al Hukum Palace, Royal Navy ships opened fire. Khalid's troops returned fire. A cease fire was declared at 9.45 a.m., giving the bombardment the title of "The Shortest War in History". Where was this?
Answer: zanzibar
Question: Who principally studied transplant rejection and immunosuppression after World War II, which led him to perform the first kidney transplant in the UK on 30 October 1960?
Answer: michael woodruff
Question: Who retained his title as the World Chess Champion after a challenge from Veselin Topalov in 2010?
Answer: viswanathan anand
Question: The father of which ex prime minister of the UK was a trapeze artist and a garden gnome salesman?
Answer: john major
Question: Who was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 882 to 887 AD?
Answer: charles fat
Question: What is the nickname of Apsley House, the former London residence of the Dukes of Wellington, that stands alone at Hyde Park Corner on the south-east corner of Hyde Park?
Answer: number one london
Question: What series of comic strips first appeared in French in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtime Sicle on 10 January 1929?
Answer: adventures of tintin
Question: Who is a cartoonist, best known for his appearances in "The New Yorker" since 3 January 1977, which published 819 of his cartoons, many of which involved animals?
Answer: leo cullum
Question: A study of bacterial DNA through the 1960s and 1970s isolated and identified a new branch of the tree of life many of whose members live in places extremely hostile to other forms of life. What is it called?
Answer: archaea
Question: Who coined the expresssion "portmanteau words" for words made from combinations of other words, such as "brunch"?
Answer: lewis carroll
Question: What was the name of Paddington Bear's aunt, who sent him from Peru to London?
Answer: lucy
Question: Which South American country stretches over 3,000 miles from north to south and less than 300 miles from east to west?
Answer: chile
Question: Joe Calzaghe, known as "The Pride of Wales", was a boxing world champion in which category?
Answer: super middleweight
Question: What type of show is the US/Canada TV series Stargate SG-1?
Answer: scifi
Question: What is the small plain plastic or metal sheath on each end of a shoelace, cord or drawstring to stop the fibres from unraveling, and to make it easier to hold and feed through the guides?
Answer: aglet
Question: The ostrich, emu, rhea, kiwi and the extinct "elephant bird" of Madagascar and moa are all types of what diverse group of large, flightless birds?
Answer: ratite
Question: The singer Kimbra who featured on the Record of the Year for 2012 was born and grew up where?
Answer: new zealand
Question: In the 1950s, what was Jersey Joe Walcott known for?
Answer: boxing
Question: In a 2009 film James McAvoy plays the role of private secretary to whom, played by Christopher Plummer?
Answer: leo tolstoy
Question: What name is given to the individual leaves of grass, gladioli and irises?
Answer: blades
Question: What is most usually cited as the baroque pitch for the note A?
Answer: 415
Question: What was the name of Amy Johnson's plane in which she flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930?
Answer: jason
Question: Which country does not currently have a sultan as its political and/or religious head of state?
Answer: morocco
Question: Who, styling himself "Witch-Finder General" conducted witch-hunts mainly in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and occasionally in other eastern counties of England during the English Civil War?
Answer: matthew hopkins
Question: A popular myth which has been debunked by sports historians is that Abner Doubleday, a Union officer in the American Civil War, invented which sport?
Answer: baseball
Question: """Monticello"" was the mansion owned by which US president?"
Answer: thomas jefferson
Question: Founded in 914 AD by the Vikings who built on the banks of the River Suir, and with Reginald's Tower as its most recognisable landmark, what is the oldest city in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: waterford
Question: Which is recognised as the most massive bacterium so far discovered, reaching up to .75mm in length and large enough to be visible to the naked eye?
Answer: thiomargarita namibiensis
Question: Sine the mid 1990s the USA has banned what in hunting water fowl?
Answer: use of lead shot
Question: Bushido, developed between the 9th and 20th centuries relates to which culture?
Answer: japanese
Question: What was the name of Scrooge's clerk in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"?
Answer: bob cratchit
Question: Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park With George" was inspired by a painting by whom?
Answer: seurat
Question: After appearing in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", Jennifer Grey starred opposite Patrick Swayze as Frances "Baby" Houseman in what 1987 film?
Answer: dirty dancing
Question: Who was the first person to refuse an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: george c scott
Question: What replaced the Cyclops computer system, that helps to determine whether a serve is in or out, at the US Open in 2006 and the Wimbledon Championships in 2007?
Answer: hawk eye
Question: A traditional music ensemble from Indonesia, featuring instruments such as xylophones, gongs, bells, bamboo flutes, and strings is known as what?
Answer: gamelan
Question: What was named "Desire" in the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams?
Answer: streetcar
Question: What performer, a spokeswoman for Autism Speaks and the American Heart Association, named her children Denham and Diesel?
Answer: toni braxton
Question: The first uses of what on a large scale in civil engineering were the construction of the Canal du Midi in France (1681), the Erie canal in New York (1825), the Box Tunnel on the railway line between London and Bristol, England (1841), and the Mont Cenis Tunnel between France and Italy (1870)?
Answer: gunpowder
Question: Life on Mars, the popular UK TV series from BBC Wales 2006-7, with UK sequel and spin-offs in the USA, Spain and Russia, was earlier declined by the BBC for what reason?
Answer: it s going to be silly
Question: What type of beer takes its name from the German word for "storage"?
Answer: lager
Question: Frdric Chopin is best known for his compositions for which instrument?
Answer: piano
Question: Who has the line "Is this a dagger which I see before me" in a Shakespearean play?
Answer: macbeth
Question: Behourd, quintain, mle, and hastilude are terms relating to what?
Answer: martial games
Question: When the Chinese Nationalist Party lost the civil war to the Communist Party in 1949, it relocated to which island and established Taipei as the Republic Of China's provisional capital?
Answer: taiwan
Question: When SARS was discovered in 2003 it was only the third human coronavirus known, but by the end of 2012 a further three have been identified the last now known as MERS; what coronavirus is MERS most closely related to?
Answer: bat
Question: Who, when he took on the position, was the second-youngest US president to take office, the first US president born in the 20th century and, at age 43, the youngest elected to the office?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: What do the initials in the UK TV show "QI" represent?
Answer: quite interesting
Question: Where is the boat "The Maid of the Mist", originally designed to ply between USA and Canada and now a tourist facility for a world attraction?
Answer: niagara falls
Question: Which French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th century France and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition wrote the comedy "Les Plaideurs" and the tragedies "Alexandre le Grand", "Andromaque", "Athalie", "Bajazet", "Brnice", "Britannicus", "Esther", "Iphignie", "La Thbade", "Mithridate" and "Phdre"?
Answer: jean racine
Question: Ramn Emeterio Betances, Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Francisco Ramrez Medina were revolutionaries who attempted to free Puerto Rico from rule by which country?
Answer: spain
Question: Which British prime minister resigned as a result of the Suez Crisis?
Answer: anthony eden
Question: In 1840 Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom married her cousin. What was his name?
Answer: prince albert of saxe coburg and gotha
Question: What is the full name of the organism found in abundance in the mammalian gut, and used as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA, in early commercial work the bacterium of choice for cloning and mass-producing new materials?
Answer: escherichia coli
Question: What island off the coast of Iceland was formed in a volcanic eruption which began 130 m (426 ft) below sea level, reached the surface on 14 November 1963 and continued to 5 June 1967, when it measured 2.7 sq km (1 sq mile)?
Answer: surtsey
Question: When the UK version of the biographical documentary "This Is Your Life" TV series aired who was the first presenter?
Answer: eamonn andrews
Question: In December 2005, Amelle Berrabah became a member of which group?
Answer: sugababes
Question: A British comedy, first staged in London's West End in 1971 that ran for nearly a decade to packed audiences though unanimously panned by critics, was "No Sex, Please, We're " what?
Answer: british
Question: What country, including land from subtropical plains to sub-alpine peaks of over 7,000m (23,000 ft), and currently a monarchy, was rated in 2006 as the eighth happiest country in the world?
Answer: bhutan
Question: Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker and Peter Mayhew are reprising some of the most famous film roles, filming 2014-5, but although they will be seen their faces will never appear. They are, respectively, C-3PO, R2-D2 and which other character?
Answer: chewbacca
Question: The Book of Mormon, central book of the Mormon faith developed in the 1820s, was published in Palmyra, New York, on what date?
Answer: march 26 1830
Question: Who is one of the stars of the film "Frost/Nixon" (2008)?
Answer: michael sheen
Question: The Treaty of Brussels, the precursor to NATO and a basis for WEU, was signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, France, the UK, the Netherlands and which other nation?
Answer: luxembourg
Question: In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's companion?
Answer: chewbacca
Question: In which country did the USA provide information to a 1963 coup, against General Abd al-Karim Qasim the then Prime Minister of the country?
Answer: iraq
Question: What sort of pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan"?
Answer: veal and ham
Question: The three mascots for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics were a polar bear, a snow leopard and what other animal?
Answer: snow hare
Question: Which stringed instrument is named for its ability to convey a range of volume?
Answer: piano
Question: Who was instrumental in 1996 in bringing world attention to Dunblane Primary School?
Answer: thomas hamilton
Question: What club, the first of many bars with entertainment by big name drawcards, opened at 116 E. Walton in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA on 29 February 1960?
Answer: playboy
Question: What shape is the ground which has been home to the Surrey County Cricket Club since 1845?
Answer: oval
Question: What was the first finished product to roll off Henry Ford's moving assembly line established in 1913?
Answer: car
Question: The Jordan, Bear and Weber Rivers empty into which major lake in central USA?
Answer: great salt lake
Question: What is a form of asexual reproduction found in females, where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilisation by a male?
Answer: parthenogenesis
Question: Lieutenant General Aman Andom, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Brigadier General Tafari Benti, Major Mengistu Haile Mariam and Major Atnafu Abate were involved in the politics of which country between 1974 and 1987?
Answer: ethiopia
Question: Shane Lynch, Mikey Graham and Keith Duffy were members of which group?
Answer: boyzone
Question: Which poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742, was so popular in London literary circles that Gray was forced to publish the work on 15 February 1751 to pre-empt a magazine publisher from printing an unlicensed copy?
Answer: elegy written in country churchyard
Question: What saline basin in Central Asia, once the world's fourth largest lake with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,000 sq miles), has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s when the rivers feeding it were diverted by irrigation projects?
Answer: aral sea
Question: Who wrote "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"?
Answer: lawrence of arabia
Question: The name of the science, mathematics, derives from an ancient Greek word meaning what?
Answer: that which is learnt
Question: Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are associated with what style of music?
Answer: heavy metal
Question: If you are holding a musical instrument with F-holes what are you likely to be holding?
Answer: bowed string instrument
Question: A quote from Samuel Johnson is that "when a man is tired of London he is tired of ..." what?
Answer: life
Question: What is the first name of Capt. W E Johns's fictional flying hero, Biggles?
Answer: james
Question: If a Greek person calls "Eureka" what are they saying?
Answer: i have found it
Question: Richard, Duke of York, the father of the English kings Edward IV and Richard II, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in which ongoing campaign?
Answer: wars of roses
Question: In 1508-9 the British-born Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot led one of the first European expeditions to the north of North America to find what?
Answer: north west passage
Question: The miners affected by the 2012 strike and massacre in Marikana, South Africa, were workers from what type of mine?
Answer: platinum
Question: Clint Eastwood played the character of Rowdy Yates in which US TV series of the 1960s?
Answer: rawhide
Question: Which French novelist, critic and essayist is best known for his monumental " la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time"; or "Remembrance of Things Past" that was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927?
Answer: marcel proust
Question: What was the original name of the ship, the Golden Hind, used by Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe?
Answer: pelican
Question: Which country completely surrounds the Kingdom of Lesotho?
Answer: republic of south africa
Question: Which infective disease caused by toxins is characterised by the violent and prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibres?
Answer: tetanus
Question: In 2014 where is artist Ai Weiwei based?
Answer: china
Question: Who sang with Barbra Streisand on "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"?
Answer: donna summer
Question: What dye used in cooking for crimson tints is made from the body of a female insect inhabiting Peru and Mexico?
Answer: cochineal
Question: One of the top songs for 2012 featured Gotye and which other artist?
Answer: kimbra
Question: Who wrote the music for the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrushka", and "The Rite of Spring"?
Answer: stravinsky
Question: What is the name of a cross between broccoli and cauliflower?
Answer: broccoflower
Question: What is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City of Jerusalem which dates from the end of the Second Temple period, being constructed around 19 BCE by Herod the Great?
Answer: wailing wall
Question: Olympe de Gouges, a French playwright and political activist , is today best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men. How did she die?
Answer: guillotined
Question: Where in the UK is the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, a statue of James Cook as a boy by Nicholas Dimbleby, and a granite obelisk that marks the original site of the Cook family home?
Answer: great ayton north yorkshire
Question: Who was the co-winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics, for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars, and nephew of the 1930 Nobel Prize winner in Physics?
Answer: subramanyan chandrasekhar
Question: What film concerns the life story of 18 year old Jamal Malik, a former street child from the Juhu slums in Mumbai?
Answer: slumdog millionaire
Question: Who is popularly recognised as being the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
Answer: roger bannister
Question: Who were the majority of the people to feature in the death toll from the violent riots in Gujarat, India, in 2002?
Answer: muslim
Question: The southern US dish "chitlins" is made from the intestines of what animal?
Answer: pig
Question: The fossilised remains of a member of which extinct paleolithic race with heavy brow ridges and receding forehead were discovered in 1856?
Answer: neanderthal
Question: What YouTuber made a song called "Cookie Dance" in 2013 under the name ChipChocolate?
Answer: jesse wellens
Question: Who wrote "I Write the Songs", a 1976 chart-topping song by Barry Manilow?
Answer: bruce johnston
Question: Three immense carved images destroyed in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, by the Taleban in 2001 related to what faith?
Answer: buddhism
Question: To which part of the world are the Zulu people native?
Answer: southern africa
Question: What chemical materials does the process of photosynthesis depend on?
Answer: carbon dioxide and water
Question: According to Forbes as at June 2014, which is the second richest football club in the world?
Answer: barcelona
Question: What does the Water Festival mark in Burma/Myanmar?
Answer: burmese new year
Question: What name was given by Rudyard Kipling in one of his stories to a mongoose?
Answer: rikki tikki tavi
Question: What English folk singer, songwriter, and musician whose primary musical instruments are the violin, the tenor guitar, the banjo and the viola, was brought up in the village of Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, produced 4 solo studio albums ("The Punch Bowl", "Kitty Jay", "Freedom Fields" & "Poor Mans Heaven") between 2002 and 2008, and in February 2007 won Singer of the Year and Best Album awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards?
Answer: seth lakeman
Question: From which country is it currently thought that we get chicken tikka masala?
Answer: uk
Question: in tuning a snare drum, the resonant head is generally tunes more loosely than what?
Answer: batter head
Question: Big Daddy Pollitt is a character in which Tennessee Williams play?
Answer: cat on hot tin roof
Question: """Pomp and Circumstance"" is the title of 5 marches by which composer?"
Answer: edward elgar
Question: Which resort shares both the summit of Mont Blanc and the title of highest commune in France with Saint-Gervais-les-Bains?
Answer: chamonix
Question: The absent-minded Professor Calculus was a colleague of which fictional character?
Answer: tin tin
Question: In the fantasy novel series, The Throne of Fire, the characters must play what ancient Egyptian game?
Answer: senet
Question: Who had a hit record in 1960 with the song "Poetry In Motion"?
Answer: johnny tillotson
Question: Which English football team was both the last to win the FA Cup final at the old Wembley Stadium, and the first to win the FA Cup final at the New Wembley Stadium?
Answer: chelsea
Question: What is a mainly instrumental piece of music by Elton John, the closing track of his 1978 album, "A Single Man"?
Answer: song for guy
Question: Paraplegic New Zealand sportswoman Neroli Fairhall won Paralympics and Commonwealth Games golds and held medals and titles in international and World Championship contests for what discipline?
Answer: archery
Question: What is the common name for the seeds of horse-chestnut trees?
Answer: conkers
Question: Which people (besides the Rolling Stones) appeared on the cover of "Their Satanic Majesties Request", a 1967 album by The Rolling Stones?
Answer: beatles
Question: Which 20th century English author wrote "Ruined City", "A Town Like Alice" and "On The Beach"?
Answer: nevil shute
Question: Where was the first officially recorded baseball game held in the USA?
Answer: hoboken new jersey
Question: The "Libro de los Juegos", completed in Castilian in 1278 AD, contained texts, illustrations and miniatures describing and discussing the games of chess, dice and which other game?
Answer: backgammon
Question: From 1801 to 1812 Lord Elgin, under a controversial permit from the Ottoman Empire, removed many marble sculptures from a famous building in which country, and brought them to the UK?
Answer: greece
Question: Who is a British fashion designer, known for her work on pop art in fashion, opened a clothes shop called Bazaar on London's Kings Road with her husband, Alexander Plunkett-Greene, and a former solicitor, Archie Mcnair, in November 1955?
Answer: mary quant
Question: Besides a back complaint, what else did John F Kennedy suffer from?
Answer: addison s disease
Question: What is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves using the interaction of a stream of electrons with a magnetic field?
Answer: magnetron
Question: Who is the only NBA player to score 100 points?
Answer: wilt chamberlain
Question: What was the background for the UK TV series "Whitechapel"?
Answer: jack ripper
Question: In 1992, aged 56, Woody Allen became romantically involved with 21 year old Soon-Yi Previn, who was the adopted daughter of whom?
Answer: mia farrow
Question: In 1660, John Milton's books were burned in London because of his attacks on whom?
Answer: charles ii
Question: An "elegant, organic, and rigorously logical" game of strategy developed in China more than 2,500 years ago is called...?
Answer: go