CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Founded in 1769, name the specialist British publisher of guides to aristocracy, etiquette, and correct forms of address?
Answer: debrett s
Question: What weapon's dangerous part is defined in two sections, namely the forte and the foible?
Answer: sword
Question: Vogue magazine's front cover featured for the first time a model wearing what in November 1988?
Answer: jeans
Question: A birthstone of March, the mineral heliotrope is commonly called what, due to its red inclusions?
Answer: bloodstone
Question: Turgescence or tumefaction, affecting parts of the human body, is more commonly called what?
Answer: swelling
Question: What religion takes its name from the Greek for 'universal', from the root words meaning 'in respect of [the] whole'?
Answer: catholicism
Question: In Manhattan, NYC, what is famously the oldest public hospital in the US?
Answer: bellevue
Question: Warning symbols for radioactivity and biological hazards employ a three-part icon called a what, originally referring to a three-leaved plant?
Answer: trefoil
Question: Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio made the news in 2013 as a?
Answer: pope
Question: The word 'haram' refers to both a sanctuary and a forbidden act in which religion?
Answer: islam
Question: Which travel guide publisher was acquired by the BBC's commercial division BBC Worldwide Ltd for £130m in 2007, and sold for £51m in 2013?
Answer: lonely planet
Question: Where is the coastal village of Pugwash, famous for thought leadership and peace conferences?
Answer: canada
Question: What volatile metallic element forms the nitrate compound Sr(NO3)2 commonly used in red fireworks?
Answer: strontium
Question: What reductive metaphor refers to a percentage subtraction from the market value of an asset, which became a description for the EU-imposed tax on Cyprus bank deposits in 2013?
Answer: haircut
Question: Which US corporation sold its personal computer business including Thinkpad brand to the world-leading Chinese manufactuer Lenovo in 2005?
Answer: ibm
Question: What medical/industrial sterilization equipment is named from the meaning 'self-fastening'?
Answer: autoclave
Question: What item of apparel metaphorically (with colour prefix, usually black or white) refers informally to an internet hacker?
Answer: hat
Question: Founded as Thames Ironworks FC in 1895, which football club (later renamed) will occupy the London Olympic Stadium from 2016 (a clue is in club nickname and badge)?
Answer: west ham united fc
Question: Which famous smoker is associated with the expression 'three pipe problem'?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: In 1998 who was the first 'First Lady' to appear on the cover of Vogue?
Answer: hilary clinton
Question: The unrecognized state of Biafra existed from 1967-1970 in the south-east of which country?
Answer: nigeria
Question: The Christian Eucharist ceremonial act is based on what event from religious scripture?
Answer: last supper
Question: Named after US economist Arthur Laffer, his eponymous Curve refers graphically to notional/optimal government revenues according to levels of?
Answer: taxation
Question: Provenance, originally relating to an artwork, now extending widely to other created or collectible works, refers specifically to?
Answer: history
Question: The French word 'derailleur' is also used in English referring to a mechanism on what sort of machine?
Answer: bicycle
Question: The German Bavarian occupational name Hitler (originally Hüttler) referred to a builder of?
Answer: huts
Question: Screeno, Keno, and Housey-Housey are name variations of what more commonly known gambling game?
Answer: bingo
Question: What is an unrealistically optimistic person, after the title-character of Eleanor Porter's famous 1913 novel?
Answer: pollyanna
Question: With the headline 'Simply the Best' who at 73 became Vogue's oldest front cover model (April 2013 German edition)?
Answer: tina turner
Question: What is the common name for the electrically excitable cells of the brain which process data via electrical and chemical signals?
Answer: neurons
Question: Ashtanga Vinyasa, Bikram, and Hatha Vidya are styles of what?
Answer: yoga
Question: The American 1893 Nix v Hedden court case determined (and still), for US customs taxation purposes, based on conventional usage, what to be a vegetable and not a fruit?
Answer: tomato
Question: What word prefixes business, room, case, and down to produce four other words?
Answer: show
Question: What was salvaged from HMS Lutine after it sank in 1799 and is still used on the main underwriting floor at Lloyd's of London? Compass; Captain's desk; Bell; or Globe?
Answer: bell
Question: The ancient Roman silver coin called fully/originally 'denarius nummus' meant and equated to a 'Coin containing [worth] ten (what?)'?
Answer: asses
Question: What time-related term was given to the American Patriot 'rapid response' militia forces assembled before and active during the American Revolutionary War of 1775-83?
Answer: minutemen
Question: Bob, bowl, bun, chignon, and tonsure are types of what?
Answer: hairstyle
Question: Clio, typically holding a scroll, is the ancient Greek muse of?
Answer: history
Question: What, resembling a tomato and pepper hybrid, is the edible fruit produced by Diospyros trees, source of ebony wood?
Answer: persimmon
Question: What physics term, a metaphor for meaningfulness, is the tendency of something to oscillate (with greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others)?
Answer: resonance
Question: The moral code, 'Treat others as you like to be treated', is known as the 'Ethic of (What)' - a principle of exchange for mutual effect/benefit, and word used variously in science and mathematics?
Answer: reciprocity
Question: What descriptively prefixes a species of bear, cobra, and caiman (like an alligator), referring to something worn by some people?
Answer: spectacled
Question: Who famously became leader of the vast and powerful US Teamsters trade union in 1957, imprisoned in 1967, missing in 1975, and declared dead in 1982?
Answer: jimmy hoffa
Question: What river in SW Europe rises in the Swiss Alps and flows over 500 miles through Lake Geneva, Lyons, to the Mediterranean west of Marseilles?
Answer: rhône
Question: The 'bacronym' (a reverse acronym) 'Query Newlyn Harbour' is used as a mnemonic in what field?
Answer: aviation
Question: Who, founder of the Mongol Empire, was the grandfather of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan (1215-94)?
Answer: ghengis khan
Question: Which people originated the game lacrosse? Dutch; Scottish; Native Americans; or Chinese?
Answer: native american
Question: Previously called Ezo/Yezo/Yeso/Yesso, what is Japan's north and second-largest island?
Answer: hokkaido
Question: The North Atlantic Drift ocean current over NW Europe starts as what at the US Florida Strait?
Answer: gulf stream
Question: Chordata, Echinodermata, Anthropoda, and Anelida are four phyla (subgroups) of?
Answer: animals
Question: Serpula lacrymans is the technical name for what affliction of wood, notably in buildings?
Answer: dry rot
Question: What two-faced Roman god of beginnings and transitions is a name for a word which has two opposite meanings, and the derivation of the first month of the year?
Answer: janus
Question: What is the common name for the northern hemisphere tree genus Betula, having catkins, winged nuts, and bark that peels in strips?
Answer: birch
Question: Name the prehistoric 'humanoid species' found near Lewes UK 1912 and shown to be a hoax in 1953?
Answer: piltdown man
Question: What South Honshu city in Japan, associated with international climate change agreement, was its nation's capital 794-1192?
Answer: kyoto
Question: Kingda Ka, Takabisha, X2, Steel Dragon 2000, and Millennium Force are famous what?
Answer: roller coasters
Question: The US city of Memphis, Tennessee, was named after the ancient (c.3000BC) Memphis city capital of which nation?
Answer: egypt
Question: What original 1960s surfer's slang expression of thrill or delight was popularized by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles children's cartoon?
Answer: cowabunga
Question: Atoms of the same elements with the same number of protons and electrons, but different numbers of neutrons, are called what?
Answer: isotopes
Question: Which children's TV animated character, named 'Pollux' in the original French version, is based on a 'drop-eared Skye terrier'?
Answer: dougal
Question: Which word, broadly synonymous with 'typeface', derives from French 'to melt'?
Answer: font
Question: ASCII (referring to computer language) means what in full?
Answer: american standard code for information interchange
Question: A traditional light-bulb containing a glowing filament is technically called what, from the Latin 'glow white'?
Answer: incandescent
Question: What colour/color flag was historically first displayed to indicate sickness aboard a ship?
Answer: yellow
Question: Central to Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is a huge what, connected to the cosmos?
Answer: tree
Question: The Indian currency the Rupee takes its name from Hindi and Sanskrit, 'wrought (what metal)'?
Answer: silver
Question: The significant 18th century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-83) is noted for solving the 'Seven (What?) of Königsberg problem'?
Answer: bridges
Question: The green gemstone peridot is known in its mineral form by what edible coloured/colored name?
Answer: olivine
Question: What air mattress genericized trademark is a portmanteau of its two-word description?
Answer: lilo
Question: What is the English translation of the German carmaker's name Volkswagen?
Answer: people s car
Question: Erich Kästner's famous 1929 children's novel set in Berlin is called 'Emil and the (What?')?
Answer: detectives
Question: According to majority scholarly opinion, what was Jesus Christ's main spoken language?
Answer: aramaic
Question: Batwing, Corkscrew, Hammerhead turn, Heartline roll, Horseshoe and Immelmann are elements of what form of entertainment?
Answer: roller coasters
Question: What sugar substitute, also known as glucitol, is named after the sorb fruit of the sorbus tree?
Answer: sorbitol
Question: What are the fatty compounds/derivatives which store energy, signal, and provide structure in the cells of living things?
Answer: lipids
Question: The western part of the US/Mexico border runs through which desert, named after the Mexican state it adjoins?
Answer: sonoran
Question: The 'degree' symbol ° indicates what variation of a musical chord?
Answer: diminished
Question: A chalice - as in the expression 'poisoned chalice' - is literally a?
Answer: goblet
Question: Apples, plums, cherries, apricots, raspberries and strawberries all belong to which plant family?
Answer: rose
Question: D'addario, Elixir, Rotosound and Ernie Ball are leading makers of what musical accessory?
Answer: strings
Question: The expression 'sour grapes', from one of Aesop's Fables, involves which creature?
Answer: fox
Question: In motion-detection and automated lighting sensors what does PIR mean?
Answer: passive infrared
Question: The diacritical mark resembling a wavy hyphen (here shown above the letter ñ) is called a?
Answer: tilde
Question: What note is produced at the twelfth fret of the top (highest pitched) string on a conventionally tuned guitar?
Answer: e
Question: What intangible communication aid did Dr Ludwig Zamenhof create c.1880, 'to foster harmony between people of different nations'?
Answer: esperanto
Question: Which country's name, existing 1929-2003, meant 'South Slavs'?
Answer: yugoslavia
Question: The human brain's frontal lobe, chiefly processing cognitive functions relating to reward, attention, short-term memory tasks, planning, motivation, etc., is fully mature at (very) approximately what age?
Answer: thirty
Question: Muscovite, used in electrical capacitors, is a processed form of what geological mineral?
Answer: mica
Question: Which nation's 'national anthem' is known as 'Qaumi Tarana' and alternatively 'Pak Sarzamin' (sacred land)?
Answer: pakistan
Question: The base of Pimm's No1 Cup liqueur is?
Answer: gin
Question: Pales, Fesses, Canton, and Saltire are types of designs of what?
Answer: flags
Question: Carborundum and Corundum are compounds/minerals traditionally used in?
Answer: abrasives
Question: Langlauf (literally 'long-term' in German) refers to an endurance form of which sport?
Answer: skiing
Question: Pavilion, girdle, table, and culet are aspects of a what?
Answer: gemstone
Question: What is the traditional trade surname for a person who made or sold (typically knitted) legwear and socks?
Answer: hosier
Question: Quark, clabber, twaróg, and viili are international variations of a food made from?
Answer: milk
Question: Which famous current Nestlé confectionery brandname, established 1936, was named after J M Barrie's popular London stage comedy, originally unsuccessfully launched on Broadway in 1901?
Answer: quality street
Question: Cadence in music and language technically and originally referred to rhythmic or tonal effect associated with a?
Answer: end
Question: Nephrite, Ca2(Mg, Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2, is one of two minerals more commonly known as what anciently treasured green gemstone, and once considered China's 'imperial gem'?
Answer: jade
Question: In which country is the most remote (farthest away) place from any sea or ocean?
Answer: china
Question: Name the vast South Korean conglomerate including car-maker which went bankrupt in 1999?
Answer: daewoo
Question: What iconic genus of fish (technical name Hippocampus) is considered the slowest swimming of all fish, whose dwarf species achieves no more than about 1.5metres per hour?
Answer: seahorse
Question: (At 2013) the 230m high Heron Tower is the tallest skyscraper of which historical financial city centre district?
Answer: london
Question: Ingvar Kamprad founded what famous modern-day organization?
Answer: ikea
Question: What is the main ingredient of the modern breakfast food and energy bar called granola?
Answer: oats
Question: What term refers to the off-putting banter directed by bowlers/fielders to opposing batsmen on a cricket pitch?
Answer: sledging
Question: The Bugatti car logo features which reversed capital letter in a ligature with B, standing for the founder (Bugatti's) first name?
Answer: e
Question: The term forensic refers to investigative technologies and sciences in relation to?
Answer: law and crime
Question: The 'morna' is the national music and dance style of which central Atlantic archipelago island nation?
Answer: cape verde
Question: Name the CIA employee who famously became a whistleblower in 2013, revealing details of US/UK mass public surveillance?
Answer: edward snowden
Question: Botija, udu, and ghatam are types of?
Answer: musical instruments
Question: US composer/artist John Cage's most famous and controversial 1952 work, called 4'33", requires the musician(s) to play for its entire three-movement 4mins 33secs duration?
Answer: nothing
Question: According to legend, the Gordian Knot, cut by Alexander the Great, tethered a what?
Answer: cart
Question: A plantar wart is more commonly known as a what?
Answer: verruca
Question: The 'Bechdel Test' is an informal measure of what in films and other fictional entertainment?
Answer: gender bias
Question: In physics a tachyon is a hypothetical particle which has what characteristic?
Answer: faster than light
Question: A proliferation of new Catholic saints followed the removal of which metaphorical real job role from Vatican canonization in 1983?
Answer: devil s advocate
Question: What is the popular old name for a dog's thumb; the obsolete inner toe on some dogs's legs; also a false hoof of deer?
Answer: dewclaw
Question: The US Presidential official state guest house in Washington DC is called '(What?) House'?
Answer: blair
Question: The 180th meridian (antimeridian), dividing east and west hemispheres, passes through which island nation, named after main isle Viti Levu?
Answer: fiji
Question: The Italian bread ciabatta is named literally (actually) after what footwear?
Answer: slipper
Question: What mountain range makes moist winds rise and precipitate causing the monsoon of SW Asia?
Answer: himalayas
Question: The lollipop brandname Chupa Chups is based on the Spanish verb to what?
Answer: suck
Question: What is the famous weaponry invention of Israeli army officer Uziel Gal (1923-2002)?
Answer: uzi submachine gun
Question: Which traditional southern US drink is strongly associated with the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: mint julep
Question: What was Italian scientist Aloysius Lilius' globally significant chronological creation of 1582?
Answer: gregorian calendar
Question: The South American tradename 'chiclero' refers to a worker who collects the raw material for which hugely popular confectionery product?
Answer: gum
Question: The bird group Merops Apiaster is more commonly named after what creature that it eats?
Answer: bee
Question: The construction term 'soffit' refers to what aspect of an arch or overhang?
Answer: underside
Question: An insect of the order Diptera is more commonly called a what?
Answer: fly
Question: The Fresnel lens (in which concentric steps maximise light focus and minimise lens weight), popular in the 1900s in vehicle lights, was first devised c.1820 for what application?
Answer: lighthouses
Question: Which car manufacturer produced the models Giulietta, Berlina, Brera and Spider?
Answer: alfa romeo
Question: What popular superhero is also the largest land-dwelling member of the Mustelidae (weasel) family?
Answer: wolverine
Question: What vegetable's thinner lighter variant has an established alternative name 'Tenderstem'?
Answer: broccoli
Question: The traditional legal term 'tort' is commonly and technically a?
Answer: civil wrong
Question: What social networking website attracted regulatory attention in summer 2013 after threats to female rights campaigners?
Answer: twitter
Question: The Gregorian Calendar, introduced in 1582, is named after Gregory, a?
Answer: pope
Question: On the birth of Prince George of Cambridge in 2013 who was relegated to 6th in line to the British throne?
Answer: princess beatrice of york
Question: What is the measurement unit for linear mass density of fibres/fibers, commonly used in grading tights/stockings?
Answer: denier
Question: Which nation in 2013 became the first to legalize marijuana production and sale?
Answer: uruguay
Question: Before 1967 BBC Radio 2 was called the '(What?) Programme'?
Answer: light
Question: A pilaster is an ornamental architectural feature made to resemble a?
Answer: column
Question: Alma, Brown Turkey, Desert King, Italian Black, and Kadota are types of what fruit/plant?
Answer: figs
Question: In which part of the human body do red blood cells develop?
Answer: bone marrow
Question: What comet is responsible for the Perseid meteor shower, through which Earth passes every July/August?
Answer: swift tuttle
Question: What traditionally provides the flavour/flavor in a frangipane cake filling?
Answer: almond
Question: Which English surgeon saved King Edward VII and Joseph Merrick?
Answer: sir frederick treves
Question: What business is the Saks Fifth Avenue chain, named after its Manhattan NYC site?
Answer: department store
Question: The terms/concepts of kaitiaki and kaitiakitanga referring to guardianship of sky, sea and land originated in which indigenous culture?
Answer: maori
Question: The Rod of Asclepius, a serpent and rod symbol from Greek mythology, is a widely used logo icon in?
Answer: medicine
Question: What herb used in alternative medicine as a tonic and aphrodisiac is named from Chinese 'man plant root' because its root resembles a human leg?
Answer: ginseng
Question: The commune (township/parish) Les Baux-de-Provence in south-central France is associated with what metallic element?
Answer: aluminium
Question: What/who was Yahweh, (expanded from Hebrew YHWH), in the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah?
Answer: god
Question: What is the traditional flavour/flavor additive in cream soda?
Answer: vanilla
Question: On which island is the popular Caribbean resort abbreviated to 'Mobay'?
Answer: jamaica
Question: What highly symbolic term refers to a meteor typically defined as "a meteor brighter than any of the planets"?
Answer: fireball
Question: Arnova, made by the French corporation Archos, is an 'entry level' brand of what?
Answer: tablet computers
Question: Harold Pinter's famous 1957 play The Dumb Waiter is about two?
Answer: hit men
Question: What dental term refers to the appearance of new teeth in the mouth?
Answer: eruption
Question: What is the old common name for Hamamelis or Winterbloom and its extract, used for skin/bruises/acne treatment (and dowsing)?
Answer: witch hazel
Question: Who sat in the 'Loose Box' of Edward VII's coronation at Westminster Abbey, his?
Answer: mistresses
Question: What letters traditionally occupy the 6 button on a standard 'western' telephone keypad (no cheating)?
Answer: mno
Question: The informal term nomophobia refers to anxiety from being without one's?
Answer: mobile phone
Question: Name the type of chemical compound which shrinks body tissues, whose properties are associated with the puckering mouth sensation from tannins and bitter berries?
Answer: astringent
Question: Coach, Hex cap, Lag, and Machine are types of what?
Answer: screws
Question: What army rank (English/US/etc) equates to the naval Lieutenant Commander?
Answer: major
Question: Millefiore is a highly detailed and colourful decorative art of what material?
Answer: glass
Question: A season in which woodland trees produce extraordinarily big volumes of fruit/nuts/seeds is called a '(What?) Year'?
Answer: mast
Question: What 'First' was French (1792-1804), Austrian (1919-34), Portuguese (1910-26) and Roman c.508BC?
Answer: republic
Question: What is the common name of the frottoir percusssion instrument (from Cajun French 'frotter', rub)?
Answer: washboard
Question: Satellite is a computer notebook/tablet model brand of which corporation?
Answer: toshiba
Question: Elisabeth Beresford devised what fancifully famous litter recycling franchise in 1968?
Answer: wombles
Question: The Cadbury Report of 1992 established the first major code for what regulatory aspect of business/economics?
Answer: corporate governance
Question: What is the trade-related pseudonym of the German-Finnish internet entrepreneur and founder of Megaupload, sought early 2000-2010s by US authorities in relation to filesharing and copyright charges?
Answer: kim dotcom
Question: In the modern early 2000s Barclays Bank logo which two letters are joined?
Answer: la
Question: What resin is secreted by India's female Kerria lacca insect, used in old 78rpm records and a cosmetic nail treatment?
Answer: shellac
Question: A 'Passion Play' is a dramatic work about whose life?
Answer: jesus christ
Question: Gemini Force One is a 21st century extension of what secretive organization?
Answer: thunderbirds
Question: In which city are the 11sqkm Nazi party rally grounds and buildings which hosted Hitler's vast gatherings 1933-38?
Answer: nuremberg
Question: In the early 2010s which country was judged to have the world's biggest oil reserves given the viability of the Orinoco River Belt heavy crude deposits?
Answer: venezuela
Question: In music the term descant (or discant) normally refers to a melody or instrument in what range?
Answer: high
Question: What is the traditional English word best describing Gnocchi in Italian cuisine?
Answer: dumplings
Question: The music genre 'Musique d'Ameublement' originated by Erik Satie in 1917 is commonly called '(What?) music' in English?
Answer: furniture
Question: Telltale, Mainsheet, Crosstree, Shroud and Forestay are parts of what?
Answer: yacht
Question: Which Spanish corporation bought the UK O2 phone corporation in 2005?
Answer: telefónica
Question: What is a rock containing a mineral/element, and is also a sub-unit of Scandinavian currencies?
Answer: ore
Question: What is the common name of the lighter/fuel gas, formula C4H10?
Answer: butane
Question: What sort of artworks are the Cloth of St Gereon, Hunt of the Unicorn, Apocalypse, Wawel, and New World?
Answer: tapestries
Question: The European rebec/rebeck, Arabic rebab/rebeb, and Cretan lyra, are old instruments played with?
Answer: bow
Question: Which sea, with ports Venice and Split, is the northernmost part of the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: adriatic sea