CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: What was the title of Good Charlotte's 2010 album?
Answer: cardiology
Question: In 1984, Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with what disorder?
Answer: parkinson s disease
Question: Who famously flew a kite in a thunderstorm in 1752 to demonstrate the effects of lightning?
Answer: benjamin franklin
Question: What name did Andy Warhol give to his original New York City studio from 1962 to 1968 in premises on the 5th floor of 231 East 47th Street, Madison Avenue?
Answer: factory
Question: According to Britain's Sea Fish Industry Authority, what is the name for a young pilchard?
Answer: sardine
Question: Wynton Marsalis is known for playing what type of music?
Answer: jazz
Question: Quasimodo is what book character?
Answer: hunchback of notre dame
Question: Who had the title role in the 2003 film 'Sylvia"?
Answer: gwyneth paltrow
Question: """Pruritus"" is a medical word for what?"
Answer: itching
Question: In Scandinavian mythology, who was the son of Odin that had a magic hammer called Miohir?
Answer: thor
Question: Which sculptor is famous for his work "The Thinker"?
Answer: rodin
Question: What name was given to a series of confrontations in the 1950s and 1970s between the UK and Iceland?
Answer: cod wars
Question: Billy Bob Thornton won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for which film?
Answer: sling blade
Question: Where in the USA are the La Brea tar pits?
Answer: los angeles
Question: What nest at Sandy Cape, the most northern point on Fraser Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, which is protected as part of the Great Sandy National Park?
Answer: turtles
Question: Which Channel Island is divided by a causeway called the Coupee, and has one port, Croux?
Answer: sark
Question: What part of the caper is salted and pickled and used as a seasoning or garnish?
Answer: bud
Question: In the TV series "Mork and Mindy", who was the mostly-unseen and long-suffering superior (voiced by Ralph James) who had sent Mork to Earth, and that Mork had to report to frequently?
Answer: orson
Question: Who captained the "Endeavour" and the "Resolution" on 3 voyages to the Pacific in 176871, 177275 and 177679?
Answer: james cook
Question: The warriors known as "berserkers" were legendary figures in which mythology?
Answer: norse
Question: What is the surname of twin brothers Mike and Bob, who became the world's number 1 ranked men's tennis doubles team in 2007?
Answer: bryan
Question: Double vision, the perception of two images from a single object, is properly called what?
Answer: diplopia
Question: Who designed Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress for her marriage to Aristotle Onassis (1968), Elizabeth Taylor's gown for the premiere of "Spartacus" in Rome (1961) and Julia Robert's & Cate Blanchett's "Oscars" gowns (2001 & 2005 respectively)?
Answer: valentino garavani
Question: Idi Amin, dictator in Uganda from 1951 to 1960, was a champion in his country in what sport?
Answer: boxing
Question: Where are Akrotiri and Dhekelia, allocated by treaty to the UK as sovereign military bases?
Answer: cyprus
Question: The traditional song "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is believed to describe which battle?
Answer: otterburn
Question: Court Philippe Chatrier, which has stands named after Jacques "Toto" Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, and Ren Lacoste, is the main court of an international tennis venue in which city?
Answer: paris
Question: At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on" which empire?
Answer: british
Question: The general assembly of which US state voted to express "profound regret" for its involvement with slavery?
Answer: virginia
Question: Where are the islands called Greene, Herschel, Jack, Kitchener, Russell, St. Joseph, Thibault and Tyson?
Answer: lake huron
Question: In mathematics, what is the name for the following sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765 ...
Answer: fibonacci numbers
Question: What is the meaning of the Russian word "bolshevik"?
Answer: majority
Question: What letters of the modern basic Latin alphabet do not occur in the Turkish alphabet?
Answer: q w and x
Question: What shape is a bar of Toblerone chocolate?
Answer: triangular prism
Question: What are Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Kohoutek, West, Hyakutake and McNaught?
Answer: comets
Question: What was the name most often used for the tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London?
Answer: st stephen s tower
Question: Which US state would you go to to see Niagara Falls?
Answer: new york
Question: Who released an album called "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player" in 1973?
Answer: elton john
Question: PADI Worldwide, which has its corporate headquarters in California, USA, is concerned with what?
Answer: diving
Question: Paul Young and Susan Boyle have covered "Don't Dream It's Over", which was written for (and was a US hit record for) which band?
Answer: crowded house
Question: Who entered Studio 54 in New York City in 1977 for her 32nd birthday party on a white horse, resulting in publicity that established it as the preferred nightclub for celebrities?
Answer: bianca jagger
Question: Goalkeeper Jens Ramme's debut for Dynamo Dresden was in the quarter-final of the 198586 European Cup Winners' Cup, when they were 31 up at half-time and he was brought on as a replacement. He let in six goals in 29 minutes: Dynamo lost. They were playing against which team?
Answer: bayer uerdingen of west germany
Question: What international news TV network is based in Doha, Qatar?
Answer: al jazeera
Question: In nursery rhymes, Tommy Tucker and Jack Horner are both referred to as what?
Answer: little
Question: What is the name of the line of latitude that is approximately 23 degrees 30 minutes North?
Answer: tropic of cancer
Question: In what field is "The Meisner Technique" used?
Answer: acting
Question: The 2006 film "A Cock and Bull Story" was about an attempt to film what book?
Answer: tristram shandy
Question: What was the original title of "The Goon Show"?
Answer: crazy people
Question: Charente, France, is famous for its production of what?
Answer: slippers
Question: There were two events called "The Siege of Sevastopol". One of them took place in which war?
Answer: crimean war
Question: In October 2009 a diplomatic incident arose between Albania, India and Macedonia about whether whose remains should be disinterred and where they should be reburied?
Answer: mother teresa
Question: What are found in only two places in Africa: on Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Kenya?
Answer: glaciers
Question: What country would you be in if you were where the Yukon River empties into the Bering Sea?
Answer: usa
Question: The nectarine, which has a smooth, fuzzless skin, is a type of what?
Answer: peach
Question: Harrison Ford was working as what before his first big break as a film actor?
Answer: carpenter
Question: What principal Dickens character wears a wedding dress throughout her appearance in the novel?
Answer: miss havisham
Question: Which army besieged Paris from 18 September 1870 for 4 months?
Answer: prussian
Question: In the Bible, whose return heralded the killing of "the fatted calf"?
Answer: prodigal son
Question: What animal is native to Russia, the USA (especially Alaska), Canada, the Carpathian region (especially Romania), and Finland, where it is the national animal?
Answer: brown bear
Question: In Greek mythology, who is the son of Chaos and the god of darkness?
Answer: erebus
Question: What is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacture of flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft?
Answer: aeronautics
Question: Gregor Johann Mendel, a 19th Century Augustinian priest and scientist, gained posthumous fame as the figurehead of which new science for his study of pea plants?
Answer: genetics
Question: What type of competition is "Western Pleasure", a popular type of competition in the USA?
Answer: equestrian
Question: Who made the statue "Alison Lapper Pregnant" that was erected in Trafalgar Square, London, between September 2005 and October 2007?
Answer: marc quinn
Question: What London landmark has served as the Royal Mint, the Public Records Office, a royal menagerie, a residence and a prison?
Answer: tower of london
Question: Which New York nightclub manager, who appeared on a cover of the New York Post holding a picture of her fianc who was killed in the September 11 attacks, was alleged by The National Enquirer in 2009 to have had an affair with Tiger Woods?
Answer: rachel uchitel
Question: On 10 May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted Fort Ticonderoga, a small British garrison, and took away cannons and other armaments to fortify which city that was under siege?
Answer: boston
Question: What was the occupation of Jules Leotard who popularised one-piece gymwear in the 19th century?
Answer: trapeze artist
Question: What does the word "Kendo", a modern Japanese martial art, mean?
Answer: way of sword
Question: The Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, a street theatre troupe that toured the USA between 1971 and 1993 as the self-described "world's smallest circus" was a ministry of what religious order?
Answer: jesuits
Question: A Soviet film adaptation of which Shakespearean play, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with black-and-white photography, a score by Shostakovich and a script based on a translation by Boris Pasternak, was made by Mosfilm in 1971?
Answer: king lear
Question: In May 2010, David Byrne, the former lead singer of 1980s band "Talking Heads", began a lawsuit claiming $1 million in damages against Florida governor Charlie Crist over the use of which song in an election commercial?
Answer: road to nowhere
Question: What US city is home to a basketball team called the Cavaliers and a football team called the Browns?
Answer: cleveland
Question: """The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"", a 2005 film based on the novel by C. S. Lewis, is set mainly in which land?"
Answer: narnia
Question: Who captained Bangladesh to their 4 - 0 series win over New Zealand in the one day international cricket series completed in October 2010?
Answer: shakib al hasan
Question: What car manufacturer was the first to design a car using a wind tunnel, the first to sell a car with a monocoque chassis, the first to offer a 5 speed gearbox as an option and the first to sell a car fitted with a V6 engine?
Answer: lancia
Question: What were reportedly the last words of Ned Kelly when he was hanged on 11 November 1880 at the Melbourne Gaol?
Answer: such is life
Question: What are traditionally hung up on Christmas night for Santa Claus to fill with presents?
Answer: stockings
Question: Who left the satiric poem "Don Juan" unfinished after his death in 1824?
Answer: byron
Question: Who plays Dalton Russell, who tells why he is in a cell, in the 2006 film "Inside Man"?
Answer: clive owen
Question: What was the name of the German troops that were sent to assist General Franco in the Spanish Civil War?
Answer: condor legion
Question: What is the name of the test cricket venue in Birmingham, England?
Answer: edgebaston
Question: The most southerly point of England is at the tip of what peninsula?
Answer: lizard
Question: Alaric I was the King of which group who sacked Rome in 410AD?
Answer: visigoths
Question: What is the most densely populated country that has English as an official language?
Answer: india
Question: The battles of Talavera and Salamanca took place during which war?
Answer: peninsular war
Question: What was the blue dye used by the ancient Britons as battle paint?
Answer: woad
Question: In the original version of the "Donkey Kong" computer game, the hero, Mario, attempted to rescue his girlfriend. What was her name?
Answer: pauline
Question: The game of Roulette was created by which mathematician, physicist, and Catholic philosopher in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine?
Answer: blaise pascal
Question: Which co-presenter of a programme for car enthusiasts has also presented "Braniac: Science Abuse", "The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend", "Blast Lab" and "Invisible Worlds"?
Answer: richard hammond
Question: Which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the shortest continuous period?
Answer: ramsay macdonald
Question: David Gest, a concert promoter, was the fourth husband of whom from March 2002 until their divorce in April 2007?
Answer: liza minnelli
Question: In Norway, in December 2010, it was announced that 2,000 of what animal had been fitted wth reflective collars or tags to reduce the chances of their being hit by cars?
Answer: reindeer
Question: What is the name for the rocks deposited by a glacier after it has passed by?
Answer: moraine
Question: Which team did Brett Faure play for in the NFL in 2010?
Answer: minnesota vikings
Question: Who has been romantically linked to Turkish-American actress Ayda Field since 2004?
Answer: robbie williams
Question: The IWC, established in 1946, is the International ... what ... Commission?
Answer: whaling
Question: In the 25 years from 1962 to 1986, which golfer won a record 18 professional major championships?
Answer: jack nicklaus
Question: Who was the first artistic director of the National Theatre in London?
Answer: laurence olivier
Question: Cobol, Basic and Fortran are types of what?
Answer: computer languages
Question: In 1891, Paul Gaugin left France to live where?
Answer: tahiti
Question: What word, invented by Pawe Ciompa in 1910 and first used by Ragnar Frisch in the sense that it is used today, is concerned with developing and applying quantitative or statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles, combining economic theory with statistics to analyse and test economic relationships?
Answer: econometrics
Question: The longest-running speech radio show in the world (58 years) that was discontinued in March 2004, was Alistair Cooke's "Letter from ..." where?
Answer: america
Question: What fishing method involves pulling a large fishing net through the water behind one or more boats?
Answer: trawling
Question: What was Shoemaker-Levy 9, that crashed into Jupiter in 1994?
Answer: comet
Question: In England, what is commonly known as "The Old Bailey"?
Answer: central criminal court
Question: Who first popularised the story of Dr Faustus in England?
Answer: christopher marlowe
Question: What phrase means means "a death blow intended to end the suffering of a wounded creature", literally "blow of mercy"?
Answer: coup de grace
Question: The wreck of which warship, one of the largest in the English navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century, was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in October 1982?
Answer: mary rose
Question: """Historia Naturalis"" was a major work by whom?"
Answer: pliny elder
Question: The annual RAF Airshow at Hendon was established in 1920 by the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, and grew into a major international event with exhibitors from all over the world. It is now held in mid-July in even-numbered years. Where has it been held since 1949?
Answer: farnborough
Question: What is the name of the vinegar made from Trebbiano grapes?
Answer: balsamic vinegar
Question: Reynald Temarii, president of the Oceania Football Confederation, was banned from soccer administration by FIFA because it was alleged that he had said that his vote for the election of hosts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2022 FIFA World Cup could be influenced through the construction of a sports academy. Where was it to be built?
Answer: tahiti
Question: The French horse race called the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is run at which race course?
Answer: longchamp
Question: What 2005 film, directed by Ang Lee, was based on a short story by Annie Proulx?
Answer: brokeback mountain
Question: According to the Bible, who was freed by Pontius Pilate, thus condemning Jesus Christ to crucifixion?
Answer: barabbas
Question: Sherpas and Gurkhas are native to which country?
Answer: nepal
Question: What Christian festival commemorates the coming of the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem?
Answer: epiphany
Question: What liner was destroyed in Hong Kong harbour while undergoing renovations in 1972?
Answer: queen elizabeth
Question: What was the name of the lion in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", a 2005 film based on the "Narnia" books by C S Lewis?
Answer: aslan
Question: What computer game was invented by Toru Iwatani, first released in Japan in May 1980?
Answer: pac man
Question: In British history, what "House" ruled after the House of Hanover?
Answer: saxe coburg and gotha
Question: What is the name collectively given to several groups of people in Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique, originally known as the Karanga?
Answer: shona
Question: In 1988, 290 people were killed when an Iranian airliner was shot down by a ship belonging to what navy?
Answer: usa
Question: In the 2004 film "Sideways", the character of Miles is disparaging about what?
Answer: merlot
Question: Where are the islands called Big Chicken, Chick, Hen, East Sister, Middle and Mohawk?
Answer: lake erie
Question: What British television programme starring Stephen Fry, based in a small Norfolk town (where the local pub is called the "Startled Duck"), was cancelled after 3 series?
Answer: kingdom
Question: Which King was less than a year old when he became King of England?
Answer: henry vi
Question: The "Pangboche Hand" is used as proof of the existence of what?
Answer: yeti
Question: What is the name for a two-edged sword traditionally used by Scottish highlanders?
Answer: claymore
Question: The British and the French fought a battle on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. In which country did it take place?
Answer: canada
Question: William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed for his anti-puritan views during what period of British history?
Answer: english civil war
Question: In "Silence of the Lambs", what was the nickname of the killer that Hannibal Lecter helped to catch?
Answer: buffalo bill
Question: Where was the English TV comedy series "Hi De Hi" set?
Answer: holiday camp
Question: Which country invaded Afghanistan on 24 December, 1979?
Answer: soviet union
Question: What fruit is mentioned in the official nickname of the US state of Georgia?
Answer: peach
Question: In 47 BC, after the war with Pharnaces II of Pontus in the city of Zela (now known as Zile, in Turkey), who is credited with saying "Veni, vidi, vici"?
Answer: julius caesar
Question: In the 6th century BC, where was the empire of Cyrus the Great?
Answer: persia
Question: What continent is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean?
Answer: north america
Question: What is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body, the most common form of which is a result of trauma to or infection of the joint, or age?
Answer: arthritis
Question: In the comic strip "Peanuts", whose father is a barber?
Answer: charlie brown
Question: The extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe, was known as what?
Answer: silk road
Question: Why was wrestler Ara Abrahamian of Sweden disqualified by the IOC and stripped of his rejected bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
Answer: disrupting award ceremony
Question: """Don't Cha"" and ""Stickwitu"" were #1 hit singles for which group?"
Answer: pussycat dolls
Question: What is the Spanish name for Saint James, son of Zebedee, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus?
Answer: santiago
Question: What is one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals, first published on 4 November 1869, one of the few that publish original research articles across a wide range of scientific fields?
Answer: nature
Question: What was the title applied by the Ottoman Empire and, later, Turkey, to their viceroy of Egypt?
Answer: khedive
Question: The hymn "I vow to thee, my country" was set by Gustav Host to which of his "The Planets" suite?
Answer: jupiter
Question: Whose novels "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" were published posthumously in 1818, and who died before completing one that was eventually called "Sanditon"?
Answer: jane austen
Question: David Broome was a succcesful competitor in what sport in the 1960s and 1970s?
Answer: show jumping
Question: What was Melanie Chisholm's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: sporty
Question: The islands of Funen, Zealand, Bornholm, Lolland, Falster, Mors and Langeland belong to which nation?
Answer: denmark
Question: Which city, originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century, built on the River Lee, became a major point of Irish emigration to North America after the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s?
Answer: cork
Question: Who became chairman of the Watford Football Club for the second time in 1997?
Answer: elton john
Question: James Chadwick discovered which sub-atomic particles in 1932?
Answer: neutrons
Question: Jeeves is butler to which fictional character created by P G Wodehouse?
Answer: bertie wooster
Question: What part of New York City is named for Catherine of Braganza?
Answer: queens
Question: London's Shaftesbury Avenue is known for what type of establishment?
Answer: theatres
Question: What are found, although in small amounts, in certain seeds and stones, such as those of apple, mango, peach, and bitter almonds?
Answer: cyanides
Question: When did the United Kingdom convert to decimal currency?
Answer: 15 february 1971
Question: What is the more common name for polytetrafluoroethylene?
Answer: teflon
Question: After 97 years since being installed on a rock in Copenhagen harbour, the statue of "The Little Mermaid" left its place in April 2010 to go where?
Answer: shanghai china
Question: The Jefferson Memorial, completed in 1943, is in which city?
Answer: washington dc
Question: In the British series of "The Office", the character of Gareth is played by which actor?
Answer: mackenzie crook
Question: What is the name for about 70 species of insect native to New Zealand that can grow as long as 100 mm (4 in) not including the legs and antennae, and weigh about 20-30 g (1 to 3/4 of an ounce)?
Answer: weta
Question: In 1997, who was appointed the first female US Secretary of State?
Answer: madeleine allbright
Question: Lotte Lenya, who played Rosa Klebb in "From Russia With Love" and the Contessa in "The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone", was married to whom?
Answer: kurt weill
Question: What is a disorder of the immune system (called "type I hypersensitivity") whereby the human body reacts adversely to normally harmless environmental substances?
Answer: allergy
Question: What medieval coin, first minted around 1140 by Roger II of Sicily, was adopted by Florence in 1252 and Venice in 1283, and was in use in Austria-Hungary until 1914?
Answer: ducat
Question: Which film was notable for the legal battle that ensued when first Madonna then Kim Basinger backed out of the title role, and for winning a "Worst Director" award for David Lynch at the Golden Raspberry Awards?
Answer: boxing helena
Question: Who, it is said, did similar deals with Dr Faustus, Robert Johnson and Niccol Paganini?
Answer: devil
Question: What name is given to the concept that an animal hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare?
Answer: infinite monkey theorem
Question: What workers make up the majority of the Teamsters Union in the USA?
Answer: truck drivers
Question: Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010, was the mother of whom?
Answer: rufus and martha wainwright
Question: The RMS "Lancastria" was the subject of the worst single loss of life in British maritime history and the bloodiest single engagement for UK forces in World War II; she was sunk by German bombers on 17 June 1940 when taking part in an operation to evacuate 150,000 troops from where?
Answer: st nazaire