CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Begun in 1897 and inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon at the 1896 Olympics, what is the world's oldest annual marathon?
Answer: boston marathon
Question: The Belgian Blue, British White, Canadian Speckle Park, Galloway, Lincoln Red, South Devon, Welsh Black and White Park are all types of what?
Answer: cattle
Question: Which 2001 musical film based on the Orphean myth and on Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" stars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman?
Answer: moulin rouge
Question: Niagara Falls is between the state of New York, USA, and which province of Canada?
Answer: ontario
Question: What is one of the deadliest pandemics in history, believed to have first reached Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 and peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350?
Answer: black death
Question: The chemical messenger that transports signals from one cell to another, called phytohormones in plants, are called what in animals?
Answer: hormone
Question: Abyssinian, Balinese, British Shorthair, Birman, Bombay, Burmese, California Spangled, Devon Rex, Egyptian Mau, Himalayan, Japanese Bobtail and Javanese are all breeds of what?
Answer: cat
Question: The Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 led by men such as John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, and the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history, was about what?
Answer: taxation
Question: Which company ran a promotion entitled "When the US Wins, You Win" during the 1984 Olympic Games, where customers scratched off a ticket, and if the US won that event, they would be given a free item from the menu?
Answer: mcdonald s
Question: Irish milliner Philip Treacy made the wide-brimmed cream-coloured hat worn by whom at her wedding on 9 April 2005?
Answer: camilla parker bowles
Question: On 19 June 1975, an inquest jury named whom as the murderer of Sandra Rivett, the last time that an inquest was allowed to name the person they suspected of committing such a crime?
Answer: lord lucan
Question: What device, a tool for studying astronomical phenomena, uses the fact that when a material is heated to incandescence it emits light that is characteristic of the atomic makeup of the material?
Answer: spectroscope
Question: Which character in the comic strip Charlie Brown often carries a cat with her?
Answer: frieda
Question: Which US President was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau in the Sixth Street Station of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in Washington, D.C.?
Answer: james garfield
Question: What expression that probably comes from a description of the components of a musket means "everything"?
Answer: lock stock and barrel
Question: What complex, once the residence of the Muslim rulers of Granada that became a Christian palace, was "rediscovered" in the 19th century and now exhibits Islamic architecture, together with Christian 16th century buildings and gardens?
Answer: alhambra
Question: Who, in 1970, became the first woman during the open era and the second woman ever to win all four Grand Slam singles titles in the same calendar year and became a Pentecostal minister in 1991?
Answer: margaret court
Question: In the USA between 1852 and 1883, who were Reelfoot Williams, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick and Charles Bolles (a.k.a. "Black Bart")?
Answer: stagecoach robbers
Question: What is the stage name of Alecia Beth Moore, whose hits include "There You Go", "Stupid Girls", "Who Knew", "Funhouse"and "So What"?
Answer: pink
Question: What was the last of these Star Wars films to be released?
Answer: revenge of sith
Question: In statistics, what term is applied to techniques for modeling and analysing several variables to understand how the typical value of the dependent variable changes when one of the independent variables is varied, and the other variables are fixed?
Answer: regression analysis
Question: According to the Bible, which country was hit by ten plagues, including of frogs and locusts?
Answer: egypt
Question: Club Atltico Boca Juniors, known simply as Boca Juniors or Boca, a sports club best known for its football team, is based in which country?
Answer: argentina
Question: A "steamer", that covers the torso and the full length of the arms and legs, is a type of what?
Answer: wetsuit
Question: Prints of which 1927 silent German expressionist science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang were discovered in Australia, the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the National Film Archive of New Zealand, to become the basis for a restoration project for a DVD/BD?
Answer: metropolis
Question: Which state of the USA is divided into 64 parishes in the same way that 48 of the other states are divided into counties?
Answer: louisiana
Question: What organisation was founded in London in July 1961 by English labour lawyer Peter Benenson?
Answer: amnesty international
Question: Whose famous books include "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex", "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals", " The Power of Movement in Plants" and "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms"?
Answer: charles darwin
Question: What kind of ship was the British ship HMS Hermes, laid down in January 1918, launched on 11 September 1919 but not commissioned until 1923, the first ship of its kind to be designed and built anywhere in the world?
Answer: aircraft carrier
Question: What is the only state flag in the USA that incorporates the Battle Flag of the Confederacy (also called the "rebel", "Southern Cross, or "Dixie" flag)?
Answer: mississippi
Question: Which car company logo was based on the coat of arms of Free People's State of Wrttemberg of the former Weimar Germany?
Answer: porsche
Question: 11 November is marked in many countries as Remembrance Day, Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in time of war. Why has that date been selected?
Answer: end of world war i
Question: What is the popular name of light green apples that originated in Australia in 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Maria Ann Smith?
Answer: granny smith
Question: Who is M's secretary in the James Bond series?
Answer: miss moneypenny
Question: What was the nickname of ski jumper Michael Edwards, who first represented Great Britain at the 1987 World Championships and, as the sole British applicant, qualified for the 1988 Winter Olympics where he finished last in both the 70m and 90m events?
Answer: eddie eagle
Question: Tom Lehrer, an American singer-songwriter, whose work contained much black humor and risque lyrics, often parodying popular song forms, taught which subject from 1972 to 2001 at the University of California, Santa Cruz?
Answer: mathematics
Question: Which 1987 film set during the Vietnam War was based on the career of Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockey on Armed Forces Radio Service who was popular with the troops but infuriated his superiors?
Answer: good morning vietnam
Question: Which TV comedy series featured agents 86 and 99 and "Chief"?
Answer: get smart
Question: The Dunnart, Bandicoot, Cuscus and Potoroo are native to which country?
Answer: australia
Question: Which British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet who had strong views on matters such as immigration, national identity, monetary policy, and the UK's entry into the EEC, was a Conservative Party MP 1950 to 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP 1974 to 1987?
Answer: enoch powell
Question: Olympic gold medallists Nedo Nadi, Enrico Fabris, Domenico Fioravanti and Alberto Tomba represented which country?
Answer: italy
Question: Newton Marshall, who won the 1600 km Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska in March 2010 was born where?
Answer: jamaica
Question: The musical "Fiddler on the Roof" is set in what country?
Answer: russia
Question: In the final of the Basketball competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the last 3 seconds of the game were ordered to be played again, which resulted in which team being awarded the gold medal?
Answer: ussr
Question: Which of the Great Lakes is the only one located entirely within the USA?
Answer: lake michigan
Question: Who won Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Awards in 2006 and 2008 for abridged audiobook versions of his books "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope"?
Answer: barack obama
Question: Elizabeth Ashton, Fritz Ligges, Josef Neckermann, Bridget Parker, Mark Phillips and Harvey Smith competed in what sports at the 1972 Olympic Ganes?
Answer: equestrian
Question: What do the notes for the currency "euro" have on the back (verso)?
Answer: bridges
Question: What name was given to the night when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in November 1938?
Answer: crystal night
Question: What US federal agency that was founded on 3 March 1915 was dissolved on 1 October 1958?
Answer: national advisory committee for aeronautics naca
Question: What is the thick watery substance filling the space between the lens and the cornea of the eye?
Answer: aqueous humour
Question: What is prohibited by an unusual law that has been passed in Lanjarn, Spain, in three settlements in southern France: (Cugnaux, Le Lavandou & Sarpourenx), and has been proposed for Biritiba-Mirim, Brazil?
Answer: death
Question: What country was established on 1 December 1918 by the union of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia (which included the Kingdom of Montenegro) and lasted until it was invaded by the Axis powers in 1941?
Answer: kingdom of yugoslavia
Question: When Russia became a communist state in 1918 with Lenin as dictator, who was his foreign secretary?
Answer: leon trotsky
Question: The first Telstar satellite, that relayed the first television pictures, telephone calls and fax images through space, was designed to provide satellite communications over what area?
Answer: atlantic ocean
Question: What is the first name of the woman that Tiger Woods married on 5 October 2004 and was officially divorced from on 23 August 2010?
Answer: elin
Question: What is the name for the numerous tiny flowers that comprise a flower head of, for example, a daisy or sunflower?
Answer: florets
Question: What fashion in French architecture had much to do with the regency of Marie de' Medici? (The greatest architects of the style were Salomon de Brosse and Jacques Lemercier.)
Answer: louis xiii
Question: Before becoming president of the USA in 1977, and after being discharged from the Navy in 1953, Jimmy Carter took over and expanded his family business in Plains, Georgia. What was the business?
Answer: peanut farm
Question: The American version of the TV series "The Office" is set in what city?
Answer: scranton
Question: What author's non-fiction work includes "The Fate of Man", "The Future in America: A Search After Realities", "Little Wars", "The New World Order", "The Outline of History", "Russia in the Shadows" and "A Short History of the World"?
Answer: h g wells
Question: Which Russian composer, after writing "The Firebird" for the Russian ballet, became a US citizen in 1945?
Answer: igor stravinsky
Question: The counties of Alameda, El Dorado, Fresno, Marin, Mariposa, Nevada, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Sonoma and Ventura are in what state of the USA?
Answer: california
Question: The following were influential in developing which subject in China: Liu Hui, Zu Geng, Li Chunfeng, Yang Hui, Shen Kuo, Liu Xin, Zhang Heng, Liu Hui, Zu Chongzhi and Wang Xiaotong?
Answer: mathematics
Question: What large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of the state of California USA and stretches approximately 800 kilometres (500 miles) has the northern half called the Sacramento Valley, and the southern half the San Joaquin Valley, which meet at the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta?
Answer: central valley
Question: Which department store headquartered in Piccadilly, London was founded as a grocery store in 1707?
Answer: fortnum mason
Question: What is the name of the water sports that originated in Australia in the early 20th century, that has become popular in New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and the USA?
Answer: surf lifesaving
Question: What autism spectrum disorder was first identified in 1944 due to a study of children who lacked nonverbal communication skills, demonstrated limited empathy with their peers, and were physically clumsy?
Answer: asperger syndrome
Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Licence To ... "?
Answer: kill
Question: What is the stage name of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, who was born on 28 March 1971?
Answer: lady ga ga
Question: What compound is also known as vitamin B9 or folacin?
Answer: folic acid
Question: The early works of which American playwright (best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") reflect an "Americanisation" of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugne Ionesco?
Answer: edward albee
Question: What book was to have been called, in translation, "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"?
Answer: mein kampf
Question: What science features in "The Man In The White Suit", a 1951 film starring Alec Guinness?
Answer: chemistry
Question: What method of writing, consisting of wedge-shaped and rectangular marks, was used from around 30th century BC to the 1st century AD?
Answer: cuneiform
Question: The Golden Raspberry Awards have been running since 1980. Who had won the award for Worst Supporting Actress the most times until 2005?
Answer: madonna
Question: What is the nationality of former US Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali?
Answer: egyptian
Question: What was the first Asian country to hold a Formula 1 Grand Prix?
Answer: japan
Question: The boundary of which territory, disputed by the USA and Canada, that had started between the Russian and British Empire in 1821, was resolved by arbitration in 1903?
Answer: alaska
Question: Which small island in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb at the south end of the Red Sea was administered as part of Aden during British occupation until 1967, when it was given to the Democratic People's Republic of Yemen?
Answer: perim
Question: What is the connection between the computer programming language ADA, developed in 1980, and the daughter of poet Lord Byron?
Answer: charles babbage s analytical engine
Question: Rembrandt painted a number of paintings of himself, all containing what title?
Answer: self portrait
Question: In Greek legend, who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter?
Answer: persephone
Question: Who is the next in this series: Adolf von Baeyer (1905), Henri Moissan (1906), Eduard Buchner (1907), Ernest Rutherford (1908), Wilhelm Ostwald (1909), Otto Wallach (1910) ... ?
Answer: marie curie
Question: Who is the father of actress Lucy Davis, who played receptionist Dawn Tinsley in the UK TV series "The Office" (2001), junior writer Lucy Kenwright in the US TV series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and Dianne in the film "Shaun of the Dead" (2004)?
Answer: jasper carrott
Question: Argentina became the world champions in Taekwondo at the World Championships in Argentina in 2009. Which country came second?
Answer: new zealand
Question: Who won the 500cc Motorcycle World Championship in 1976 & 1977 and retired from racing in 1984?
Answer: barry sheene
Question: Which Austrian, the brother of Franz Joseph, was crowned Emperor of Mexico in 1864, and shot in 1867?
Answer: maximillian
Question: Which venomous snake is able to dilate its neck into a hood?
Answer: cobra
Question: What is the stage name of the Scottish singer-songwriter, actress and model born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie who is most famous for her hits "To Sir, With Love" and "Shout"?
Answer: lulu
Question: Which British long running (27 years) police TV drama that began in 1983 ended in 2010?
Answer: bill
Question: What is a meal of bread, cheese and pickle known as?
Answer: ploughman s lunch
Question: What long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow to connect the scapula and the lower arm consists of 3 sections?
Answer: humerus
Question: Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, which country is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, which also divides it in two?
Answer: brunei
Question: In 1990, who became the first son and father to play on the same Major League Baseball team at the same time (the Seattle Mariners), and the only father and son pair to hit back to back home runs?
Answer: ken griffey
Question: Which American blues, soul, R&B;, rock & roll and jazz singer/songwriter has won 4 Grammys, 17 Blues Foundation Music Awards, and been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1993), the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame (2001) and the Grammy Hall of Fame (both 1999 & 2008)?
Answer: etta james
Question: Jocky Wilson, an unemployed coal delivery man and miner, was World professional Champion in 1982 and 1989 in what sport?
Answer: darts
Question: Which New Zealander, known as "The White Mouse", was a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance, and became one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of World War II?
Answer: nancy wake
Question: In "The Terminator", a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger had the famous line: "I'll be ... " what?
Answer: back
Question: In the English nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock", what ran up the clock?
Answer: mouse
Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called "The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)"?
Answer: death or glory boys
Question: Who was the lead singer of the band "Joy Division" who committed suicide in 1980 aged 23?
Answer: ian curtis
Question: Between 1973 and 1979, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Nur Mohammad Taraki, Hafizullah Amin and Babrak Karmal were presidents of which country?
Answer: afghanistan
Question: The Spicebush Swallowtail, Small White, Common Jezebel, Karner Blue, Red Pierrot and Duke of Burgundy are varieties of what?
Answer: butterfly
Question: In India in the 1930s, the left wing nationalist party was run by Subhas Chandra Bore, and Ghandi's followers were in the centre. What was the main right wing party?
Answer: muslim league
Question: What strike of 1,400 women and girls was caused by poor working conditions in the Bryant & May factory in 1888?
Answer: london matchgirls strike
Question: With which sport do you associate "Flushing Meadow"?
Answer: tennis
Question: In 1989, there was a peaceful transfer of power to non-Communist governments in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and which other country?
Answer: bulgaria
Question: A "bodice ripper" is a type of what?
Answer: historical romance novel
Question: Who is the only All Black (New Zealand rugby) captain to have been inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame?
Answer: wilson whineray
Question: Pingping, who died aged 21 in March 2010, was reputed to be what?
Answer: world s shortest man
Question: What sport is featured in "The Defense", a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1930?
Answer: chess
Question: Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves after seeing a (presumably, too) flattering portrait of her by whom?
Answer: hans holbein
Question: Which comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks that first appeared in 1897 in the "American Humorist", the Sunday supplement of the New York Journal, is still distributed, making it the oldest comic strip still in syndication?
Answer: katzenjammer kids
Question: Which lake, the largest in Central Europe, is sometimes referred to as the "Hungarian Sea"?
Answer: balaton
Question: Who caused a scandal when, on 2 February 1950, she gave birth to the son of Italian film director Roberto Rossellini while married to neurosurgeon Peter Lindstrom?
Answer: ingrid bergman
Question: What is another name for the Southern Boobook owl, also called the Mopoke or Ruru?
Answer: morepork
Question: The most renowned oracles were Zeus (at Dodona) and Apollo. Where was Apollo based?
Answer: delphi
Question: The documentary film "This Is It" centred around the backstage preparations for a tour by which pop star?
Answer: michael jackson
Question: What style of music was made popular in the early 1970s largely due to the fame of Bob Marley, who incorporated nyabinghi and Rastafarian chanting into his music, lyrics and album covers?
Answer: reggae
Question: Who plays Lexie Grey in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: chyler leigh
Question: What phenomenon was discovered by Frenchman Joseph Fourier in 1824, reliably experimented on by Irishman John Tyndall in 1858, and first reported quantitatively by Swede Svante Arrhenius in 1896?
Answer: greenhouse effect
Question: What is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Armenia?
Answer: am
Question: The theme tune of what TV show was Frank Sinatra's version of "Love and Marriage"?
Answer: married with children
Question: Where was "the Aberfan Disaster" where the collapse of a colliery spoil-tip in 1966 killed 144 people, including 116 children?
Answer: wales
Question: What word refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India, which are associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism?
Answer: yoga
Question: Which pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the "little princes in the Tower" who, legend has it, was executed by Richard III?
Answer: perkin warbeck
Question: What device emits light (electromagnetic radiation), which is usually spatially coherent, through a process called stimulated emission?
Answer: laser
Question: The Wright Brothers' first powered flight, in 1903, took place where?
Answer: kitty hawk
Question: What was the title of Kylie Minogue's tenth album, released in 2007?
Answer: x
Question: Which river runs through the cities of Shanghai, Chongqing, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Nantong?
Answer: yangtze
Question: The word "Newspeak" was coined in which novel?
Answer: nineteen eighty four
Question: What name was given to a group of racing drivers that included Woolf Barnato, Glen Kidston, Henry Birkin, Bernard Rubin, Dudley Benjafield & Sammy Davis, who were responsible for four consecutive victories at the Le Mans 24 hours from 1927 to 1930?
Answer: bentley boys
Question: What was the title of Susan Boyle's hit record at the end of 2009?
Answer: i dreamed dream
Question: In the James Bond film "Die Another Day" who played Bond girl Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson?
Answer: halle berry
Question: In June 2008, Duran Duran played as part of a fundraising effort for building restoration at a venue that had not allowed a rock concert there before. What was the venue?
Answer: louvre paris
Question: The Arapawa Island, California Red, Corriedale, East Friesian, Hampshire, Oxford, Romney, South Dorset, Swifter and Yemeni are all types of what?
Answer: sheep
Question: What did Goldilocks eat when she visited the Three Bears house?
Answer: porridge
Question: What name was popularly given to the event on 6 December 1989 when Marc Lpine killed 14 women and injured 10 women and 4 men, now commemorated annually in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women?
Answer: cole polytechnique massacre
Question: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Motherwell, Peter Voulkos & Jackson Pollock painted in what style?
Answer: abstract expressionism
Question: The plant soleirolia soleirolii of the nettle family has a number of common names, including baby's tears, angel's tears, mind-your-own-business, peace-in-the-home, pollyanna vine, the Corsican curse, Irish moss and which other?
Answer: mother of thousands
Question: Croatia won their first ever Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996 in which event?
Answer: handball
Question: In October 2009 it was announced that director Sam Taylor-Wood was to marry Aaron Johnson, 23 years her junior, who were director and star respecitively of "Nowhere Boy", a film about whom?
Answer: john lennon