CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What is the next in this series: 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy ... ?
Answer: titus
Question: Which 31 minute documentary made in 1938, which asked for better housing, farm techniques and flood control and more electrical power, showed a great flood in the Mississippi River?
Answer: river
Question: Who played Dorothy in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: judy garland
Question: The first recorded fatality of a car accident in the USA was Henry Bliss, on 13 September 1899. Where was it?
Answer: new york city
Question: In 2008, Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton began dating Nicole Scherzinger, who made her name with which American pop/R&B; girl group and dance ensemble?
Answer: pussycat dolls
Question: What was the stage name of American jazz singer and songwriter Eleanora Fagan?
Answer: billie holiday
Question: What is a British comic strip character created by Reg Smythe, first published in August 1957, now written by Roger Mahoney (artist) and Roger Kettle (writer)?
Answer: andy capp
Question: What book was published by Florence Nightingale in 1860?
Answer: notes on nursing
Question: Where was the annual G8 leaders summit held in the year 2000?
Answer: japan
Question: What sport is associated with Vladimir Putin, the second President of the Russian Federation?
Answer: judo
Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a set of scales?
Answer: libra
Question: In the James Bond film "Thunderball" who played Bond girl Domino Derval?
Answer: claudine auger
Question: What is the only US state that touches both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: new york
Question: What scale is used for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation?
Answer: fujita scale
Question: Which UK television series starred Ross Kemp as a tough SAS officer?
Answer: ultimate force
Question: Gee Jon. a member of the Hip Sing Tong criminal society from San Francisco, California, sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly member from another gang in Nevada, was the first person in the US to do what?
Answer: be executed by lethal gas
Question: Which jazz musician was known for his voluminous cheeks and "bent" trumpet?
Answer: dizzy gillespie
Question: Who played eventual winners Chelsea in the FA Cup final in May 2010?
Answer: portsmouth
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "On Her Majesty's ... "
Answer: secret service
Question: The House of Representatives of which country unanimously voted to become a secular and inclusive democratic republic on 28 May 2008, giving the King 15 days to vacate the palace, to re-open it as a public museum?
Answer: nepal
Question: Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey were involved with the launch of what computer application?
Answer: twitter
Question: The cities of Ciudad Jurez, El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville are on the banks of which river?
Answer: rio grande
Question: After the mutiny on the "Bounty", Fletcher Christian and his men took women from where to colonise Pitcairn Island?
Answer: tahiti
Question: Which album by the Arctic Monkeys was the fastest selling album in UK chart history?
Answer: whatever people say i am that s what i m not
Question: Which Stoke City, Blackpool and England player was the first European Footballer of the Year in 1956?
Answer: stanley matthews
Question: What series of books would you go to to read about Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and Thomson and Thompson?
Answer: adventures of tintin
Question: What is the name for the hair that surrounds a lion's neck?
Answer: mane
Question: Who holds the records as the youngest and oldest winner in the Men's singles at the Australian Open tennis tournament?
Answer: ken rosewall
Question: Olympic gold medallists Vilhelm Carlberg, Gunde Svan, Agneta Andersson, Sixten Jernberg, Tomas Gustafson, Thomas Wassberg, Ingemar Stenmark, Gert Fredriksson, Henri Saint Cyr, Alfred Swahn, Eric Lemming and Oscar Swahn represented which country?
Answer: sweden
Question: On 14 November 1910, Eugene Burton Ely was the first to do what in an aeroplane?
Answer: take off from ship
Question: The song "Invisible Sun" was banned by the BBC in 1981. Who was the artist?
Answer: police
Question: The Sabine River forms the border of Texas with what other area?
Answer: louisiana
Question: The song "I Whistle A Happy Tune" is from which musical?
Answer: king and i
Question: The Volstead Act, that became law in the USA on 28 October 1919, concerned what?
Answer: prohibition of alcohol
Question: According to the Edward Lear, before "they danced by the light of the moon", the Owl and the Pussycat "dined on mince, and slices of quince". What did they eat with?
Answer: runcible spoon
Question: Who painted the famous paintings known as "Children at the Beach at Guernsey", "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette", "The Swing" and "The Theater Box"?
Answer: renoir
Question: What film character was created by Paul Hogan?
Answer: crocodile dundee
Question: The Wimbledon tennis tournament that takes place annually in late June and early July runs for how long?
Answer: two weeks
Question: What is the name of a famous concerto by Vivaldi?
Answer: four seasons
Question: Benjamin Franklin is usually credited with the creation of the first pair of what items of optical equipment in the early 1760s?
Answer: bifocals
Question: What sport is featured in the film "Field of Dreams" starring Kevin Costner?
Answer: baseball
Question: In the phoenetic alphabet, what is represented by the letter "J"?
Answer: juliet
Question: Who played Neil, the hippie, clinically depressed, pacifist, vegetarian and environmentalist who is victimised by other housemates in the UK TV series "The Young Ones"?
Answer: nigel planer
Question: Where was the Maguindanao massacre on 23 November 2009, when 58 victims, including a politician's wife, his two sisters, journalists, lawyers, aides, and motorists who were witnesses, were kidnapped and brutally killed?
Answer: philippines
Question: What dish would you expect if you asked for "funghi" in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: mushrooms
Question: Who played "Sandy" in the 1975 film "Grease"?
Answer: olivia newton john
Question: In a general election in 1990, the National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 80% of the seats in Parliament, but did not get into power. Which country was this?
Answer: myanmar
Question: US baseball player Pete Rose was accused in 1989 of (and he confessed in 2004 to) what, that has made him ineligible to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Answer: betting on baseball
Question: What constellation is sometimes called "the Chained Lady", "the Chained Woman" "Perseus's wife" or "Cepheus's daughter"?
Answer: andromeda
Question: Which moon of Jupiter is named after a divine hero in Greek mythology whose homeland was Troy who was abducted by Zeus in the form of an eagle to serve as cupbearer to the gods and as Zeus's beloved?
Answer: ganymede
Question: Basel, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Mainz, Koblenz, Bonn, Cologne and Dsseldorf are on which river?
Answer: rhine
Question: Ansel Adams and Terence Donovan were prominent in what field?
Answer: photography
Question: Who plays Meredith Grey in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: ellen pompeo
Question: What was the name of the last of the six space shuttles that was built?
Answer: endeavour
Question: The US Civil War was fought between the Union Army and which other?
Answer: confederate
Question: In online gaming, what is the term for a multi-user real-time virtual world described in text that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat that were the forerunners of modern games like World of Warcraft, and social virtual worlds such as Second Life?
Answer: mud
Question: In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", what was Mr Darcy's first name?
Answer: fitzwilliam
Question: Which dog appears in comics with Shaggy, Fred, Velma & Daphne?
Answer: scooby doo
Question: In the James Bond film "From Russia with Love" who played Bond girl Tatiana Romanova?
Answer: daniela bianchi
Question: Which claimant to the Kingdoms of England and Ireland was de facto monarch of England after the death of Edward VI for just over a week in July 1553, and was executed in 1554?
Answer: lady jane grey
Question: What is the closest city to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator?
Answer: geneva switzerland
Question: The Mason-Dixon line, which came to symbolise the cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern United States, was originally surveyed to define the border between Maryland and which other state?
Answer: pennsylvania
Question: What award is the equivalent of the Oscars for the music industry?
Answer: grammys
Question: What name is given to the group of elements that includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine?
Answer: halogens
Question: What was the name of Michael Jackson's pet chimpanzee?
Answer: bubbles
Question: In which war was the napalm incendiary bomb first used?
Answer: world war ii
Question: What TV sitcom was originally intended to be called "The Fighting Tigers"?
Answer: dad s army
Question: Who appeared in the films "Gigli", "Jersey Girl", "El Cantante" and "The Back-Up Plan"?
Answer: jennifer lopez
Question: Mstislav Rostropovich is most associated with which musical instrument?
Answer: cello
Question: What film about racial prejudice in the USA by Clarence Brown, from a novel by William Faulkner, involved a black boy, a white boy and an old woman assisting a black man accused of murder?
Answer: intruder in dust
Question: Which vehicle maker has marketed models called Corolla, Corona, Celica and Camry?
Answer: toyota
Question: The islands of Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Brecqhou, Burhou, Lihou and Sark are administered directly by a government based where?
Answer: island of guernsey
Question: In 1970, who began to popularise a style of journalism known as "Gonzo journalism"?
Answer: hunter s thompson
Question: Who was Attorney General of the USA from 1961 to 1964, US Senator for New York from 1965 to 1968, and was assassinated while running for president in 1968?
Answer: robert kennedy
Question: Who created the statue of "David", which is held in Florence's Academia Gallery?
Answer: michelangelo
Question: Who played gangster Don Logan in the 2000 film "Sexy Beast"?
Answer: ben kingsley
Question: The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, the Uffizi, the Pitti Palace, the Fontana del Nettuno and the Boboli Gardens are in what city?
Answer: florence
Question: What is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the islands of Tuvalu?
Answer: tv
Question: Which constellation, that lies between Cancer and Virgo, contains the stars called Regulus, Denebola, Regulus, Wolf 359, Gliese 436, and Algieba?
Answer: leo
Question: What was the occupation of Samuel Ryder, after whom The Ryder Cup is named?
Answer: seed merchant
Question: According to the Guinness Book of Records, what film became, in 1995, the biggest box office failure?
Answer: cutthroat island
Question: Which virus, which interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and coagulation causing hypovolemic shock, first emerged in 1976 in Zaire and came to international attention in 1989 after a widely publicized outbreak in Virginia, USA?
Answer: ebola
Question: The main aims of which society in Great Britain between 1838 and 1850 were, basically: a vote for every man 21 years of age, a secret ballot, no property qualification for Members of Parliament, payment of MPs, equal Constituencies, and annual parliaments?
Answer: chartists
Question: Which Caribbean country, consisting of two main islands, is the smallest nation in the Western hemisphere?
Answer: st kitts and nevis
Question: Over 40% of the population of the US state of Alaska live in which city?
Answer: anchorage
Question: What is the evening prayer service in the Western Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches?
Answer: vespers
Question: Who has played (on film) Queen Elizabeth I twice, Galadriel three times, Katharine Hepburn and Veronica Guerin?
Answer: cate blanchett
Question: On a Monopoly board, what is the symbol for the electric company?
Answer: light bulb
Question: Elk Island National Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, and the Columbia Icefield are in which Canadian province?
Answer: alberta
Question: What area of Tokyo is one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world?
Answer: ginza
Question: Who was the Princess of Tyre who, after her brother Pygmalion killed her husband Sichaeus, fled to Africa where she founded Carthage?
Answer: dido
Question: From 1956 to 1968 Al Oerter won gold medals in every Olympics in what sport?
Answer: discus
Question: Where was the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Frances Spencer on 29 July 1981, held?
Answer: st paul s cathedral
Question: Marcel Duchamp, whose work was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, abandoned his successful career as an artist in the later part of his life to do what?
Answer: play chess
Question: By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Rodrigo Daz de Vivar?
Answer: el cid
Question: What was "the worlds first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses," that went online in 1957?
Answer: shippingport
Question: What was the only painting that Vincent van Gogh sold while he was alive?
Answer: red vineyard
Question: According to a quote from William Congreve's play "The Mourning Bride" (1697), spoken by Zara in Act 3, Scene 2, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman ... " what?
Answer: scorned
Question: In 1951 and 1952, American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meetings and set four world records in what sport?
Answer: shot put
Question: In which 2001 film is the death of Sir William McCordle, Bt (played by Sir Michael Gambon) investigated by Inspector Thomson (Stephen Fry) and Constable Dexter (Ron Webster)?
Answer: gosford park
Question: What was the name of the 1571 sea battle when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Spain (including Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and others, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: battle of lepanto
Question: What was the nickname for the German L14 Howitzer, used in World War I?
Answer: big bertha
Question: The area that was known as "Cimarron Territory" to 1890 is now known as what part of the USA?
Answer: oklahoma panhandle
Question: What is the setting for the Steven Spielberg film "Jaws"?
Answer: amity island
Question: Who created the character of Dame Edna Everage?
Answer: barry humphries
Question: What was the Watergate building that was the subject of a US political scandal that began in 1972?
Answer: office building
Question: According to the Islamic calendar, during which month were the first verses of the Qur'an revealed to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad?
Answer: ramadan
Question: Who married tennis player John McEnroe in 1986?
Answer: tatum o neal
Question: A live episode of which TV soap opera was broadcast on BBC One on 19 February 2010, to celebrate 25 years since the broadcast of the first episode?
Answer: eastenders
Question: Which of Little Red Riding Hood's relations was eaten by a wolf?
Answer: grandma
Question: What name is given to the 4 mile (6.4 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard which is mainly in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester?
Answer: strip
Question: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is mainly set in what city?
Answer: verona
Question: The John F. Kennedy International Airport is located in what American city?
Answer: new york
Question: In 1999, who became Britain's first undisputed boxing heavyweight world champion?
Answer: lennox lewis
Question: The followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th century were known as what?
Answer: lollards
Question: What fishing method used to catch salmon, mackerel and kingfish, involves drawing one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, through the water?
Answer: trolling
Question: What causes the deposit of rocks and other matter called moraine on the earth's surface?
Answer: glaciers
Question: What is the name of the character played by Charlie Sheen in the TV series "Two and a Half Men"?
Answer: charlie harper
Question: Bill and Hilary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were implicated in what financial scandal that was investigated by the US Justice Department in 1994?
Answer: whitewater
Question: In 2001, which actor was re-elected president of the USA's National Rifle Association for a fourth term?
Answer: charlton heston
Question: The First Lady of which US president was known as "Lady Bird"?
Answer: lyndon b johnson
Question: What is it called when all the pins fall on the first bowl of an Indoor Bowling game ?
Answer: strike
Question: What character is played by Michael Douglas in two films released in 1987 and 2010?
Answer: gekko
Question: Who was the manager of the English national football team from 1963 until he was sacked in 1974?
Answer: alf ramsey
Question: Archimedes' name is still used today to describe what type of mechanical device?
Answer: screw
Question: Built in 1765, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, still manned by the British Royal Navy?
Answer: victory
Question: What is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition?
Answer: paradox
Question: Mickey Hargitay, the second husband of leading blonde sex symbol of the 1950s Jayne Mansfield, was famous for winning what in 1955?
Answer: mr universe
Question: Who led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, led the 1963 March on Washington and, in 1964, became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means?
Answer: martin luther king jr
Question: According to the Brothers Grimm, what was the name of the dwarfish creature who appeared to a young woman shut in a tower to spin straw into gold?
Answer: rumpelstiltskin
Question: In Walt Disney's "Snow White", which dwarf was completely bald, with not even a beard?
Answer: dopey
Question: Argentinian David Nalbandian is a professional player of what sport?
Answer: tennis
Question: Who was the first British monarch to visit the United States of America?
Answer: king george vi
Question: Which singer recorded "Unforgettable" in 1951, which his daughter, Natalie Cole made into a duet with herself in 1991?
Answer: nat king cole
Question: Bags, Burrino, Casareccio di Gorreto, Crema, Double Gloucester, Gioda, Lancashire, Pierino, Sakura and Tabor are all types of what?
Answer: cheese
Question: In 1987, competing in "Star Search", a US talent competition on which she used the name Alanis Nadine, she lost after one round. She is now better known as Alanis who?
Answer: morissette
Question: What transparent, biconvex structure changes shape to change the focal distance of the eye so that it can focus on objects at different distances?
Answer: lens
Question: What city has more than one hundred kilometres of canals (the main ones called Herengracht, Prinsengracht, and Keizersgracht), which were dug in the 17th century to form concentric belts around the city, known as the grachtengordel?
Answer: amsterdam
Question: Which comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, first run from 1985 to 1995, follows the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger?
Answer: calvin and hobbes
Question: What international yachting regatta organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, competed for between 3 boats for each national team, based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight off southern England, was a biennial event from 1957 to 1999?
Answer: admiral s cup
Question: In 1692, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Rebecca Nurse, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, John Procter and others were executed in connection with what?
Answer: witchcraft
Question: Which river flows through or forms the border of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine?
Answer: danube
Question: By what name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano heavyweight boxing world champion from September 1952, to April 1956 better known?
Answer: rocky marciano
Question: Who was the principal villan in the 2004 movie 'Spider-Man 2'?
Answer: dr otto octavius
Question: What is the road featured in the "Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: yellow brick road
Question: What is the name for a net of fine lines or fibers in the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescope, a telescopic sight, a microscope, or the screen of an oscilloscope?
Answer: reticle
Question: Frank Dekum, a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, contributed money to import what to Oregon?
Answer: german song birds
Question: A "pass" is the way that the ball is put into play in which game?
Answer: hockey
Question: What is the popular name for Beethoven's piano sonata in C Sharp Minor?
Answer: moonlight sonata
Question: What musical instrument is used to indicate that someone has "cooked the books"?
Answer: fiddle
Question: What film starred Michael Caine in the 1966 version and Jude Law in the 2004 version?
Answer: alfie
Question: 16 of what pieces are on a chess board at the start of a game?
Answer: pawns
Question: What was the name of the result of a nationwide census of virtually everything in Britain that was ordered by William I in 1085?
Answer: domesday book
Question: Pete Wentz is best known for being the bassist for which American rock band?
Answer: fall out boy
Question: The islands of Fiji, Tonga, Hawaii and New Caledonia are in which ocean?
Answer: pacific
Question: Where was Eric "Butterbean" Esch's mixed martial arts bout with Mariusz Pudzianowski on 18 September 2010, where an incomplete rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner", with wrong and incomplete words, made news around the world?
Answer: lodz poland
Question: Which US city has the same name as the state that it is in?
Answer: new york
Question: What was the name of the character played by Michael Caine in a 2009 film, an elderly former Royal Marine and Northern Ireland veteran who tries to be indifferent about his violent neighbourhood on an Elephant and Castle housing estate?
Answer: harry brown
Question: In September 2010 Lady Gaga attracted attention by posing in a bikini for the cover of Japan's Hommes Vogue magazine and appearing on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards wearing a dress made of what?
Answer: meat
Question: What is the word for the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates?
Answer: epicentre
Question: In the UK, General Elections are usually held on what day of the week?
Answer: thursdays
Question: What name is given to the unnatural fear of death?
Answer: thanatophobia
Question: Which boxer bit both of Evander Holyfield's ears in a fight for the WBA World Heavyweight Championship on 28 June 1997?
Answer: mike tyson
Question: According to a musical by Gilbert and Sullivan, whose "lot is not a happy one"?
Answer: policeman s
Question: After his defeat at Waterloo, to where was Napoleon exiled?
Answer: st helena
Question: In Britain, a portcullis has been used on whose stationery since 1967?
Answer: house of commons
Question: Which English novelist was arranged to be released from prison in 1703 by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, and was employed by him as a spy?
Answer: daniel defoe
Question: Who is the only person to receive 2 Oscars for the same role?
Answer: harold russell
Question: In 2009, Kelly Clarkson released a song that included the lyric: "You got a piece of me, And honestly, My life would ... "what" ... without you'"?
Answer: suck
Question: Ophanin, piscivorin, ablomin, latisemin and triflin, cysteine-rich secretory proteins that can reduce muscle contractions, are naturally found where?
Answer: snake venom