CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Pissouri, Paphos, and Protarus are seaside resorts in which Mediterranean island?
Answer: cyprus
Question: What is the only internal human organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue?
Answer: liver
Question: What model pioneered personal computing in the 1980s, selling over 20 million of its (then huge) 64k memory machines?
Answer: commodore 64
Question: Name the passenger vehicle famously lost with 36 fatalities on 6 May 1937 at New Jersey US?
Answer: hindenburg
Question: Earl Scruggs (1924-2012) pioneered and was master of the three-fingered technique for playing what?
Answer: banjo
Question: Introduced in the early 1900s, the internationally used Whyte Notation (representing the number of leading/driving/trailing wheels, via a numbers and dashes system) classifies what?
Answer: steam locomotives
Question: The Chinese (translated) 'Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists' which once instigated a famous rebellion against colonial and imperial presence in Peking (now Beijing) China, were better known by what name?
Answer: boxers
Question: The federation of which sport ruled in early 2012 that bikinis would not be compulsory for its competitors at the London Olympics?
Answer: volleyball
Question: Name Shanghai's financial area and China's commercial hub, literally meaning 'east bank'?
Answer: pudong
Question: Name Irvine Welsh's best selling 1993 novel about heroin addiction?
Answer: trainspotting
Question: Which country's leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, announced in 2012 the effective nationalisation of local oil assets owned by Spanish corporation Repsol?
Answer: argentina
Question: Italian for angry, what is the pasta sauce of garlic, tomatoes, and red chili cooked in olive oil?
Answer: arrabbiata
Question: Rib, stretcher, runner, ferrule, crook-handle and tube are parts of which common protective device?
Answer: umbrella
Question: What significant territory did President Richard Nixon call by telephone on 20 July 1969?
Answer: moon
Question: What spring 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix was held amongst violent civil unrest?
Answer: bahrain
Question: Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is an unhelpful reduction of what element in human blood serum?
Answer: sodium
Question: What creature is on the mission insignia or badge of the first moon landing, Apollo 11?
Answer: eagle
Question: Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne (1910-70) founded which psychotherapeutic/psychological methodology?
Answer: transactional analysis
Question: What 'anachronistic' word was proposed for removal from titles in official 2012 review of the UK state honours system?
Answer: empire
Question: Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 classic horror novel about split personality is called what?
Answer: strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
Question: Erected in 1989, what large geometric glass structure serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris?
Answer: pyramid
Question: Roots of the dandelion plant can be used to make a drink very like?
Answer: coffee
Question: Who was the last English monarch to win the throne on the battlefield?
Answer: henry vii
Question: In classical painting a putto (plural putti) is a baby what?
Answer: angel
Question: What was the previous brand-name of the Nissan automotive corporation?
Answer: datsun
Question: Name the Bosnian Serb army commander tried at The Hague in 2012 for war crimes against Bosnia 1992-95?
Answer: ratko mladic
Question: As at 2012 the official 'authorised version' of the Holy Bible is also known by what monarch's name?
Answer: king james
Question: The Beau Sancy, sold at a Geneva auction in 2012 for £5.3m, is a?
Answer: diamond
Question: Albedoza or albedo refers to a surface's what?
Answer: reflectivity
Question: What word, from French and Portuguese etymology meaning 'raised', in different variants refers to various peoples around the world who are born locally, of foreign origin?
Answer: creole
Question: Anthropomorphism refers to giving or attributing what qualities to something?
Answer: human
Question: Caputo '00' flour, fior di latte, and San Marzano plum tomatoes are typical authentic ingredients of what traditional food?
Answer: pizza
Question: Bacteria, fungi, and algae are among a broad classification of life called?
Answer: microorganisms
Question: Online auction of a vial of which deceased US president's blood, lost from a lab after a 1981 assassination attempt, was cancelled after family protest in 2012?
Answer: ronald reagan
Question: Which film originated the obsession/jealousy term 'bunny boiler'?
Answer: fatal attraction
Question: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was the ruthless dictator of which African nation for 23 years, before its 2011 uprising?
Answer: tunisia
Question: With what offence was Rebekah Brooks, former editor of The Sun and News of the World newspapers, charged in spring 2012?
Answer: conspiracy to pervert course of justice
Question: In chemistry, a 'homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase' (basically a mixed yet uniform substance) is called a?
Answer: solution
Question: Named after its inventor and significant electricity pioneer, a protective meshed enclosure giving electrical protection is called a 'what' cage?
Answer: farraday cage
Question: The famous Mesquita Mosque, within a Roman Catholic Cathedral, is in which country?
Answer: spain
Question: Name the English artist/sculptor famous for large public bronze works including 'Two Large Forms' and many reclining figures and mother and child abstracts?
Answer: henry moore
Question: In what sport did Swede Oscar Swahn become the oldest gold medallist at 64 years (1912), and the oldest medallist, at 72 (silver, 1920)?
Answer: shooting
Question: What is the common medical name for the increasingly popular recreational drug referred to as a 'horse tranquillizer'?
Answer: ketamine
Question: In which country did the mayor of Taranto, Ippazio Stefano, cause a fuss in 2012 after attending rallies with a pistol tucked in his trousers?
Answer: italy
Question: What vast (originally Spanish state monopoly) corporation owns the O2 and Movistar communications brands?
Answer: telefónica sa
Question: Name the great old rival company of the Harley-Davidson motorbike corporation, whose models included the Chief and Scout?
Answer: indian
Question: A compound which reduces liquid surface tension, or tension between two liquids or liquid and solid (as do detergents, foaming agents, and dispersants) is generally called a?
Answer: surfactant
Question: The Mansion House is the official residence of what London title-holder?
Answer: lord mayor
Question: Apitoxin is the scientific name for which sort of venom?
Answer: bee
Question: Northampton is generally regarded to have the largest what in England?
Answer: market square
Question: What product, invented by accountant Walter Diemer in 1928, was and remains conventionally pink, (it is said) because pink was the only dye available to its inventor at the time?
Answer: bubblegum
Question: Sicilian, Spanish and Ruy Lopez are types of tactical moves in what game?
Answer: chess
Question: What possession of 'wild west' star Annie Oakley sold at a 2012 auction for $143,000?
Answer: gun
Question: At 2012 what was the last manned mission to the moon?
Answer: apollo 17
Question: What is/was the BBC's teletext information service called?
Answer: ceefax
Question: Born George Jamieson in Liverpool 1935, name the 1960s model noted for her transgender equality campaigning?
Answer: april ashley
Question: In geometry, where every point of a shape is moved a constant distance and direction, this is called?
Answer: translation
Question: Name the chemical process for toughening rubber/polymer typically by adding sulphur (US, sulfur) using heat and pressure?
Answer: vulcanization
Question: What, from Latin 'to milk', is the technical name for a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally unblendable?
Answer: emulsion
Question: What three letters did comedy writer Armando Iannucci amusingly tweet back to Tony Blair's ex-spin-doctor Alistair Campbell following Campbell's jibe about Iannucci's acceptance of his OBE award '... your wit a bit tired and blunt already. Three little letters can have more impact than you realise..' ?
Answer: wmd
Question: Bees, Woozles, Jagulars, and the Backson are minor characters in which author's famous stories?
Answer: milne
Question: Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer Virginia Woolf, and newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell, shared what fate?
Answer: drowning
Question: What human hormone causes certain body cells to take up glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen?
Answer: insulin
Question: What word traditionally refers to a fictional inhabitant of the planet Mars, which extends loosely to aliens from elsewhere in space?
Answer: martian
Question: What conifer shrub is known traditionally and offensively as 'bastard killer', because its berries were used to procure abortion?
Answer: juniper
Question: The 'mast' of a beech tree refers to its?
Answer: nuts
Question: The popular TV talkshow Satyamev Jayate (Truth Alone Prevails) achieves viewing figures of 400 million in what country (as at 2012)?
Answer: india
Question: What is Python for Google, Yahoo, Youtube and many major online corporations?
Answer: programming language
Question: In the Christian Church of England, the title 'The Very Reverend' usually suggests what job title, also called a 'cathedral provost'?
Answer: dean
Question: The Millau Viaduct over the river Tarn valley near Millau in southern France holds what global bridge record (at 2012) ?
Answer: tallest
Question: Tuber aestivum is better known as a type of what foodstuff delicacy?
Answer: truffle
Question: Nexus is a brandname for a tablet computer belonging to which corporation?
Answer: google
Question: As at 2012 Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Japan, is officially regarded as being what world-record-holding business?
Answer: oldest
Question: What Shakespeare play features the line, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."?
Answer: henry v
Question: Racerback, Balconette, Bandeau, and Shelf are types of what?
Answer: bra
Question: Diverticulitis is a common disease of what human system?
Answer: digestive
Question: What north-eastern state of India (at 2012) accounts for more than 50% of the nation's tea production, and is said to be the world's biggest tea-growing region?
Answer: assam
Question: Pangaea, Laurasia and Gondwana are?
Answer: supercontinents
Question: Pinniped refers to a mammal with feet which are what?
Answer: fins
Question: What unit of enormous distance has the symbol pc and equates to about 3.26 light-years or 19.2 trillion miles?
Answer: parsec
Question: The traditional curly twisted Chinese tea (Camellia sinensis) produced by drying in the sun is called?
Answer: oolong
Question: What note is played on a guitar at the fifth fret of the first (highest pitch) string (conventional six-string guitar with standard tuning)?
Question: The capital of which US state is named after prospector (and discoverer of local gold in 1880) Joseph Juneau?
Answer: alaska
Question: Which Frenchman composed Clair de lune, the famous third movement of Suite bergamasque?
Answer: claude debussy
Question: A narrative/statement/question used in testing/developing student capability in Zen Buddhism is a?
Answer: koan
Question: A myringotomy is an incision in what part of the human body?
Answer: eardrum
Question: Rosneftegaz and Gazprom are vast energy corporations of which nation?
Answer: russia
Question: Petite Sirah, Tempranillo, Vespolina, and Gamay are varieties of what?
Answer: grapes
Question: Gatka, Mardani khel, Musti yuddha, and Silambam are?
Answer: indian martial arts
Question: In a block and tackle lifting system, what is a sheave? Pulley; Rope; Hook; or Brake?
Answer: pulley
Question: What creatures are T S Eliot's characters Mr Mistoffelees, Mungojerrie, Rumpelteazer, and Bustopher Jones, and what musical was inspired by the poem book in which they feature?
Answer: cats
Question: The Kabbalah wristband, in Yiddish 'roite bindele', is normally what colour/color?
Answer: red
Question: Brad, finish, clout, casing and horseshoe are types of what?
Answer: nails
Question: What state territory is named in Latin, meaning 'New Scotland'?
Answer: nova scotia
Question: Medically, miosis/myosis normally refers to the narrowing or constriction of the what?
Answer: pupil
Question: Name the female alter-ego featured in the life and vase artworks of English transvestite artist Grayson Perry?
Answer: claire
Question: What is the more common name of the incendiary weapon formulated from naphthenic and palmitic acids?
Answer: napalm
Question: Name the mythological Greek hero King of Salamis, son of Telamon and Periboea, and cleaning product?
Answer: ajax
Question: With blue, yellow, green and orange lines, which nation's busiest metro has stations including Rosemont, Snowdon, Saint-Michel, Monk, and McGill?
Answer: canada
Question: The Austrian metalworking company Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen founded in 1934 is nowadays better known as a manufacturer of what?
Answer: motorcycles
Question: When writing 'a millionth' in decimals (using numbers and a decimal point/dot), how many zeros are between the decimal point and the figure 1?
Answer: five
Question: What colour/color traditionally is the Michelin Guide for hotels/restaurants?
Answer: red
Question: 'Normal' or Gaussian distribution in a graph is informally called a what shape (two word answer)?
Answer: bell curve
Question: Colostrum, informally called beestings/bisnings, is a form of?
Answer: milk
Question: Spike, Dig, Set, and Block are found in which competitive sport?
Answer: volleyball
Question: Nuuk, population about 15,000, is the capital city of which country?
Answer: greenland
Question: What single vowel letter symbol generally refers in science to 'any element'?
Answer: e
Question: Boris Godunov, The Cunning Little Vixen, Wozzeck, and The Ballad of Baby Doe are popular?
Answer: operas
Question: In the musical story Brigadoon, the eponymous Scottish village appears one day every how many years?
Answer: hundred
Question: The 1726 novel 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts' is better known by what subsequently amended title?
Answer: gulliver s travels
Question: Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia, what nation owns the commercially available internet top-level domain .tv?
Answer: tuvalu
Question: The Trucial States became what Arab nation in 1971?
Answer: united arab emirates
Question: What creature is a Chinese 'shishi', called a 'foo dog' in some western cultures?
Answer: lion
Question: A stonemason commonly refers to unmetamorphosed limestone as what, whose name derives from Greek 'shining stone'?
Answer: marble
Question: With the symbol Sv what is the unit of ionizing radiation?
Answer: sievert
Question: Name the NASA Mars mission rover which landed on the planet in 2012?
Answer: curiosity
Question: The strongly featured character Alyson/Alys in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is better known as?
Answer: wife of bath
Question: The 'sub-kingdoms' Blastocladiomycota, Microsporidia and Dikarya belong to the kingdom of organisms commonly called what?
Answer: fungi
Question: Which city's metro system has lines including Pinar de Chamartín to Valdecarros and Villaverde Alto to Moncloa?
Answer: madrid
Question: The medical condition Strabismus affects what part of the human body?
Answer: eyes
Question: Upton Park Football Club won what notable international award in Paris, 1900?
Answer: olympic gold medal
Question: What country was created in 1949 with the local abbreviated name DDR?
Answer: east germany
Question: In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels what is Gulliver's first name?
Answer: lemuel
Question: The characters 11 in the binary numeral system equate to what number?
Answer: three
Question: What nation has the country code internet top-level domain (TLD) .se?
Answer: sweden
Question: What name is given to the age of human agricultural and technology revolution, from Greek 'new' and 'stone'?
Answer: neolithic
Question: Labanotation is a system for coding/recording/analyzing what movement?
Answer: human
Question: Which country gave diplomatic asylum/refuge to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in 2012?
Answer: ecuador
Question: Kinesics is more commonly known as what form of communication?
Answer: body language
Question: What is the common alternative abbreviated name for a Cannon plug/connector used in professional audio systems?
Answer: xlr
Question: What prestige car marque has a trident emblem design influenced by the Fountain of Neptune, Bologna?
Answer: maserati
Question: Nollywood refers informally to the huge cinema industry of which nation?
Answer: nigeria
Question: Rumtopf is a traditional Danish/German dish comprising rum and?
Answer: fruit
Question: What thickening agent found in gummy confectionery etc., defined as a food and produced from animal by-products, has the E Number 441?
Answer: gelatin
Question: What common substance is technically defined as "...an organic natural composite material of cellulose fibers/fibres, strong in tension, embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression..."
Answer: wood
Question: What word is used on Wikipedia referring to its pages which list and resolve "...conflicts in article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic..." (as at 2012)?
Answer: disambiguation
Question: Micturate is a medical term for expelling what from the human body?
Answer: urine
Question: Particularly related to a controversial foodstuff, the bodily intervention device/process called 'gavage' refers to what?
Answer: force feeding
Question: What nation has 27 states, most of which exceed the area of an entire moderately-sized country, and include Acre, Minas Gerais, Sergipe, and Amazonas?
Answer: brazil
Question: From Dutch meaning 'foolish gull', the Australian word mollymawk refers to what sort of bird?
Answer: albatross
Question: Dom Mintoff was prime minister of which country from 1955-8 and 71-84?
Answer: malta
Question: Aside from the Netherlands and Belgium what is the only country in which Dutch is an official language?
Answer: suriname
Question: The major UK, US and Canada organizations abbreviated to NFU represent which industry?
Answer: farming
Question: What Mr Men character is orange with ridiculously long arms and a blue hat?
Answer: mr tickle
Question: What notable ex-politician became the first female member of USA's Augusta golf club in 2012?
Answer: condoleeza rice
Question: What, meaning 'gentle way', did Jigoro Kano create in Japan in 1882?
Answer: judo
Question: Prior to Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world in 2012 (at $619bn) what corporation had held the record since 1999?
Answer: microsoft
Question: Used in the beauty industry, what is the most abundant protein in mammals, mainly found in flesh and connective tissues of vertebrates?
Answer: collagen
Question: What weapon was named by Finnish people after the Soviet foreign minister responsible for the partition of Finland during the Winter War between the two nations 1939-40?
Answer: molotov cocktail
Question: What large and complex nation contains varying geographical/ethnic/political regions called 'krais', 'oblasts', 'okrugs' and 'republics'?
Answer: russia
Question: The disgraced fraudulent head of failed monster corporation Polly Peck, Asil Nadir, fled to what country in 1993?
Answer: cyprus
Question: The 'Occam's Razor' (or Ockham's Razor) principle asserts that reliable theories and explanations tend to entail minimal?
Answer: assumptions
Question: What word, equating to check, is given to the amplified sound system for performers at a concert venue?
Answer: monitor
Question: Name the widely referenced Hindu god and eighth incarnation of Vishnu, from Sankrit meaning 'black'?
Answer: krishna
Question: Name the Spanish coastal region containing the city of Málaga, and towns including Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, and Marbella?
Answer: costa del sol
Question: What musical instrument generally having 17-23 strings derives its name from Persian meaning 'three strings'?
Answer: sitar
Question: A cicatrix on the skin is more commonly called a what?
Answer: scar
Question: Internet corporation Yahoo profited by $4.3bn in 2012 when it sold half its 40% stake in what vast Chinese web company?
Answer: alibaba
Question: Until London's New College of the Humanities opened in 2012, in what county town, since 1983, was the UK's only private university?
Answer: buckingham
Question: Swiss Peter Sauber established his eponymous brand in what sport in 1993?
Answer: formula one
Question: In old UK/US capacity measures how many pecks are in a bushel?
Answer: four
Question: For which art-form did Roman Vitruvius define the three principles of 'firmitas, utilitas, venustas' in the 1st century AD?
Answer: architecture
Question: What is the primary language spoken in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan?
Answer: russian
Question: The term 'art house' most widely refers to a genre of?
Answer: cinema film
Question: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City have since 2006 hosted five annual championship 'majors' of what sporting event?
Answer: marathon
Question: A 'supermassive (what?)' is generally believed to be at the centre/center of the (our) Milky Way galaxy?
Answer: black hole
Question: A geis (plural geasa) is a curse or taboo in which national mythology/language?
Answer: irish
Question: A study published in 2012 (by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) found that prolonged use of what tended to produce chronic ongoing tension headaches in sufferers?
Answer: painkillers
Question: Mount Danxia, the World Heritage Site containing spectacular red-striped sandstone landscape, including two bizarrely realistic (male and female) phallic rock formations, is in which country?
Answer: china
Question: A Podiatrist is traditionally more commonly called a?
Answer: chiropodist
Question: George Entwistle became director general of which global corporation in Sept 2012?
Answer: bbc
Question: Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is a problematical reduction of what in human blood serum?
Answer: sodium
Question: Manolete, Belmonte, Gallito and Tomas are famous names from what discipline?
Answer: bullfighting
Question: Name the Russian feminist rock-protest group, three of whom were jailed for two years in 2012 for performing an anti-state song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour?
Answer: pussy riot
Question: What SI unit (International System of Units) of measurement is defined as "The amount of substance that contains an equal number of elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of the isotope carbon-12"?
Answer: mole
Question: New York artist Vincent Castiglia is noted for painting with what unconventional substance?
Answer: blood
Question: The UK-based multinational media/advertising corporation Hibu plc was previously named and retains branding based on which colour/color?
Answer: yellow
Question: Skip James, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson and Son House are early exponents of?
Answer: blues music
Question: What French magazine was first to publish naked pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge in 2012?
Answer: closer
Question: What global retailer is associated with the late 1990s slogan "Chuck out your chintz"?
Answer: ikea
Question: Scientists announced in 2012 that more than 1,000 of what creatures (formica lugubris) had been fitted with tiny radio transmitters to study the species?
Answer: ants
Question: In writing or speech the Latin term 'non sequitur' means 'It does not (what?)'?
Answer: follow
Question: What global brand withdrew ('rested') its old red-jacketed striding man 104 years after its first appearance in 1908?
Answer: johnnie walker
Question: What word from French is a small maneuverable warship and iconic Chevrolet sports car?
Answer: corvette
Question: Hallertauer, Saaz, Cascade, and East Kent Goldings are varieties of what alcoholic drink ingredient?
Answer: hops
Question: A phlebotomist historically used what creature as a tool of the trade?
Answer: leech
Question: The Starbucks coffee corporation took its name from what classic novel?
Answer: moby dick