CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: A washboard scraped with a thimble features as an instrument in what kind of music?
Answer: skiffle
Question: Gene Hackman did not appear with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder in which of the "Superman" film series released between 1978 and 1987?
Answer: superman iii 1983
Question: The inability or near inability in colour blindness to differentiate between some colours is, in the most common form of it, between red and which other colour?
Answer: green
Question: In February 2014 which sought after film actor married opera director Sophie Hunter?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch
Question: What is the peptide hormone produced in all vertebrates and some others to promote the absorption of glucose from the blood to muscles and fat tissue?
Answer: insulin
Question: Who took the lead role in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game"?
Answer: benedict cumberbatch
Question: Bartizan, stylobate, breastsummer are terms found in what discipline?
Answer: architecture
Question: On Christmas Day 1914 during World War I, there was an unofficial truce between British and German troops at various places along the lines. In sub-zero temperatures in no-man's land near Armentieres, France, the soldiers played what game?
Answer: football
Question: Which city, established in 1849 as a protective Army outpost situated on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River, is the home of a NASCAR track called The Texas Motor Speedway?
Answer: fort worth
Question: In 1936, Anastasio Somoza became the dictator of which country?
Answer: nicaragua
Question: Who had a tea party with the Mad Hatter and the March Hare?
Answer: alice
Question: What country was briefly led by Emperor Maximilian - a puppet of France?
Answer: mexico
Question: What did the U.S. buy from Russia for just two cents an acre?
Answer: alaska
Question: What mountain on the Swiss / Italian border was climbed for the first time?
Answer: matterhorn
Question: What was the deadliest battle of the American Civil War?
Answer: battle of gettysburg
Question: In what country did 20 million die after a man proclaimed himself as the brother of Jesus?
Answer: china
Question: What city was briefly ruled by a socialist "commune" of the people?
Answer: paris
Question: What kingdom, led by Otto von Bismarck, united Germany under its leadership?
Answer: prussia
Question: What tower, built for the World's Fair, became the tallest man-made structure?
Answer: eiffel tower
Question: What serial killer killed prostitutes in Whitechapel, London?
Answer: jack ripper
Question: What character made his first appearance in the story "A Study in Scarlet"?
Answer: sherlock holmes
Question: What author wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
Answer: mark twain
Question: What U.S. state was opened up to a land rush?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: What Apache leader finally surrended after 30 years of fighting?
Answer: geronimo
Question: In what country did "bushranger" Ned Kelly meet his end?
Answer: australia
Question: What "nerve tonic" was created by John Pemberton of Atlanta, Georgia?
Answer: coca cola
Question: What Christmas ballet was written by Pyotr Tchaikovsky?
Answer: nutcracker
Question: What famous hotel in Paris opened? ( The only reason not to stay there was if you couldn't afford it )
Answer: hôtel ritz
Question: What future President led a group of soldiers called the Rough Riders?
Answer: theodore roosevelt
Question: What composer wrote his most famous march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" ?
Answer: john philip sousa
Question: What art movement was started by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso?
Answer: cubism
Question: What civil rights organization was founded by W.E.B. DuBois?
Answer: naacp
Question: What musical genre was exemplified by Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"?
Answer: ragtime
Question: Who was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz?
Answer: william mckinley
Question: What city was devastated by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius?
Answer: naples
Question: In what modern-day country was the Second Boer War fought?
Answer: south africa
Question: What group of people were the victims of genocide in the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: armenians
Question: What ballet by Igor Stravinsky shocked audiences when it premiered in 1913?
Answer: rite of spring
Question: What Native American athlete won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon?
Answer: jim thorpe
Question: What movie by D.W. Griffith glorified the Ku Klux Klan?
Answer: birth of nation
Question: What was the nickname of pilot Manfred von Richthofen?
Answer: red baron
Question: What escape artist died after being punched in the stomach?
Answer: harry houdini
Question: Who wore a bowler hat, had a mustache, and often carried a cane?
Answer: charlie chaplin
Question: Who wrote "Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises"?
Answer: ernest hemingway
Question: What type of movie declined after the release of "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson?
Answer: silent movie
Question: In what sport did Gene Tunney defeat Jack Dempsey?
Answer: boxing
Question: What country's civil war was called a "dress rehearsal" for WWII?
Answer: spain
Question: What building became the world's tallest in 1931?
Answer: empire state building
Question: What book by John Steinbeck was about poor Okies looking for work in California?
Answer: grapes of wrath
Question: Who starred as Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind"?
Answer: clark gable
Question: What character from "The Wizard of Oz" lacked a brain?
Answer: scarecrow
Question: What child actress delighted audiences in "Curly Top" and "Heidi"?
Answer: shirley temple
Question: What instrument was played by bandleaders Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw?
Answer: clarinet
Question: In what movie did Sam play the song "As Time Goes On"?
Answer: casablanca
Question: Who said "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat"?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: Who was assassinated in New Delhi in 1948?
Answer: mahatma gandhi
Question: At what university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach?
Answer: oxford
Question: What bebopping saxophonist was known as "Bird"?
Answer: charlie parker
Question: What musical featured the songs "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Bali Ha'i"?
Answer: south pacific
Question: What was Norma Jeane Mortenson better known as?
Answer: marilyn monroe
Question: Who starred as Moses in "The Ten Commandments"?
Answer: charlton heston
Question: What rich chocolately product allowed kids to send in for "secret decoder rings"?
Answer: ovaltine
Question: What rocker died in a plane crash along with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens?
Answer: buddy holly
Question: What were 78's, 45's, and 33's?
Answer: records
Question: In what (modern-day) country did The Mau Mau Uprising occur?
Answer: kenya
Question: What gang provided security for the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Free Concert?
Answer: hells angels
Question: Who wrote the true crime novel "In Cold Blood"?
Answer: truman capote
Question: What country had massive student and worker protests in May of 1968?
Answer: france
Question: What event did Bob Beamon win at the 1968 Summer Olympics?
Answer: long jump
Question: Who was the only black member of the Rat Pack?
Answer: sammy davis jr
Question: On what magazine's cover did Alfred E. Neuman frequently appear?
Answer: mad
Question: What did Nikita Khrushchev bang against his desk at a meeting of the United Nations?
Answer: his shoe
Question: What was hosted by Seattle in 1962, New York City in 1964, and Montreal in 1967?
Answer: world s fair
Question: Who was the President of France for most of the decade?
Answer: charles de gaulle
Question: What Asian city hosted a "thriller" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier?
Answer: manila
Question: What term refers to an economy with high inflation and low growth?
Answer: stagflation
Question: What was the nickname of the anonymous source who leaked the Watergate scandal?
Answer: deep throat
Question: What became the world's tallest building in 1973?
Answer: sears tower
Question: What city fell to the Communists on April 30, 1975?
Answer: saigon
Question: In what country did Augusto Pinochet seize power?
Answer: chile
Question: Who wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"?
Answer: hunter s thompson
Question: Who scored "The Goal of the Century" in the 1986 World Cup?
Answer: diego maradona
Question: Whose rookie card was the first baseball card printed by Upper Deck in 1989?
Answer: ken griffey jr
Question: What did Pac-Man eat to make the ghosts turn blue?
Answer: power pellet
Question: What brand of sunglasses were worn by Tom Cruise in "Risky Business" and Don Johnson in "Miami Vice"?
Answer: ray ban
Question: What cola was advertised as "all the sugar and twice the caffeine"?
Answer: jolt
Question: What blundering politician was "no Jack Kennedy" according to Lloyd Bentsen?
Answer: dan quayle
Question: What brand of over-the-counter medication was tampered with, killing seven?
Answer: tylenol
Question: Terrorists from what country blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland?
Answer: libya
Question: What sprinter shattered the women's record in the 100 meter dash?
Answer: florence griffith joyner
Question: What special prosecutor released prurient details about Bill Clinton's personal life?
Answer: ken starr
Question: What 6'4" drag queen gain notoriety?
Answer: rupaul
Question: What city's Petronas Towers became the world's tallest buildings?
Answer: kuala lumpur
Question: What policy allowed closeted gays to serve in the U.S. military?
Answer: don t ask don t tell
Question: Who became, in 1999, the most muscular governor in Minnesota history?
Answer: jesse ventura
Question: If an egg is your brain, what is a fried egg?
Answer: your brain on drugs
Question: What brand of soccer shorts were incredibly popular, and worn by Brazil's national team?
Answer: umbro
Question: What video game ended with a "Fatality", or rarely "Friendship"?
Answer: mortal kombat
Question: What thin Motorola phone was the best-selling clamshell phone of all time?
Answer: razr
Question: What "fake mohawk" hairstyle was worn by David Beckham?
Answer: fauxhawk
Question: Who won 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics?
Answer: michael phelps
Question: What version of poker was played at the "World Series of Poker"?
Answer: texas hold em
Question: What British company made vacuum cleaners, hand dryers, and bladeless fans?
Answer: dyson
Question: What was the first social networking site to have 1 million members?
Answer: friendster
Question: What philosopher is credited with the phrase "I think therefore I am"?
Answer: rené descartes
Question: What 17 year old Brazilian scored twice in the 1958 World Cup final?
Answer: pelé
Question: Matthew McConaughey won an Oscar in 2014 for his role in what movie?
Answer: dallas buyers club
Question: What real-life person is the inspiration for the character Napoleon in the book "Animal Farm"?
Answer: joseph stalin
Question: What weapons are known as "poor man's grenades"?
Answer: molotov cocktails
Question: Which country has the world's only non-quadrilateral national flag?
Answer: nepal
Question: What relation are TV characters Phineas and Ferb to each other?
Answer: stepbrothers
Question: Which country contains the cities of Bacolod, Cebu, and Davao?
Answer: philippines
Question: The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of which Australian state?
Answer: queensland
Question: In the film "Cast Away", what company does Tom Hanks work for?
Answer: fedex
Question: What famous novel invented the terms "thoughtcrime" and "doubleplusgood"?
Answer: nineteen eighty four
Question: What Scottish poet wrote "Auld Lang Syne"?
Answer: robert burns
Question: """Grande Fratello"" is the Italian version of what television franchise?"
Answer: big brother
Question: According to the nursery rhyme, how many men did the Grand Old Duke of York have?
Answer: ten thousand
Question: With which crooner did Lady Gaga collaborate on the 2014 album "Cheek To Cheek"?
Answer: tony bennett
Question: Who owns Springfield's local tavern in "The Simpsons"?
Answer: moe szyslak
Question: What supermodel married Tom Brady in 2009?
Answer: gisele bündchen
Question: What American politician won a Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change activism?
Answer: al gore
Question: What Englishwoman wrote just one novel, "Wuthering Heights"?
Answer: emily brontë
Question: What real-life person was the subject of the movie "The Theory of Everything"?
Answer: stephen hawking
Question: What percussion instrument did Blue Öyster Cult need more of in a "Saturday Night Live" sketch?
Answer: cowbell
Question: In what modern-day country did the Anglo-Zulu war take place?
Answer: south africa
Question: What celebration was outlawed by Puritans in the English Parliament in 1647?
Answer: christmas
Question: What singer was married to Christie Brinkley between 1985 and 1994?
Answer: billy joel
Question: What Carly Simon song has the lyric "You probably think this song is about you"?
Answer: you re so vain
Question: What is the real name of rapper P. Diddy?
Answer: sean combs
Question: Inside what fortress was Anne Boleyn beheaded?
Answer: tower of london
Question: What Paris prison was stormed by the mob in 1789?
Answer: bastille
Question: According to Franklin D. Roosevelt, what is the only thing we have to fear?
Answer: fear itself
Question: Who composed the "Moonlight Sonata"?
Answer: ludwig van beethoven
Question: What gladiator led a slave revolt against Rome starting in 73 B.C.?
Answer: spartacus
Question: In the book "Animal Farm", what real-life dictator was a model for Napoleon the pig?
Answer: joseph stalin
Question: Who wrote "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929?
Answer: ernest hemingway
Question: What disease is caused by the Yersinia Pestis bacteria?
Answer: bubonic plague
Question: What 1978 film featured the songs "You're the One That I Want" and "Born to Hand Jive"?
Answer: grease
Question: During which sea battle was Horatio Nelson killed?
Answer: battle of trafalgar
Question: Who most famously painted "The Last Supper"?
Answer: leonardo da vinci
Question: What is the name of Simba's uncle in "The Lion King"
Answer: scar
Question: What TV show featured characters named Tinky-Winky and Laa-Laa?
Answer: teletubbies
Question: What tropical island chain was famously visited by Charles Darwin?
Answer: galápagos islands
Question: Whose twelve labors included slaying a hydra and cleaning stables?
Answer: hercules
Question: What language was invented in 1887 and has over 100,000 fluent speakers?
Answer: esperanto
Question: What is the the only US state whose name contains only one syllable?
Answer: maine
Question: What is the colloquial name for a myocardial infarction?
Answer: heart attack
Question: What country used the Drachma as its currency, before switching to the Euro in 2001?
Answer: greece
Question: What weapon is used in Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"?
Answer: cannon
Question: What city-state did Rome battle during the Punic Wars?
Answer: carthage
Question: """Some animals are more equal than others"" is a quote from what book?"
Answer: animal farm
Question: In chess, what results when a player is not in check but cannot make a legal move?
Answer: stalemate
Question: What make of car did James Bond drive in the movie "Goldfinger"?
Answer: aston martin
Question: In what mountain range would you find the Matterhorn?
Answer: pennine alps
Question: What type of animal is Timon from the Lion King?
Answer: meerkat
Question: What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid better know as?
Answer: dna
Question: On what website would you find users Smosh and PewDiePie?
Answer: youtube
Question: On which city did the Enola Gay drop "Little Boy"?
Answer: hiroshima
Question: What is either the longest river in Italy or the main character in "Kung-Fu Panda"?
Answer: po
Question: What dog breed is half labrador retriever, half poodle?
Answer: labradoodle
Question: What country did Ingólfr Arnarson become the first person to settle in the year 874?
Answer: iceland
Question: The cravat was a predecessor to what modern garment?
Answer: necktie
Question: What U.S. territory lies about 1,600 miles south of Japan?
Answer: guam
Question: What is the only country in Central America that has English as its official language?
Answer: belize
Question: What vestigial organ caused the death of Harry Houdini?
Answer: appendix
Question: What word, starting with R, means "bird of prey"?
Answer: raptor
Question: From what sea does the United Kingdom extract most of its crude oil?
Answer: north sea
Question: What language has two written forms: Bokmål and Nynorsk?
Answer: norwegian
Question: What was St. Petersburg called between 1924 and 1991?
Answer: leningrad
Question: What city, starting with the letter I, is the northernmost official city in the United Kingdom?
Answer: inverness
Question: What capital city lies just 55 km west of Bratislava?
Answer: vienna
Question: What is the full name of the English city of Hull?
Answer: kingston upon hull
Question: What are Neuschwanstein and Balmoral?
Answer: castles
Question: Other than the Vatican, what micronation is entirely surrounding by Italy?
Answer: san marino
Question: It's the second biggest city in Northern Ireland. Some people call it Derry. What do others call it?
Answer: londonderry
Question: What is the nearest major city to the tourist attraction of Pompei?
Answer: naples
Question: What country is part of the EU, but often considered to be part of Asia?
Answer: cyprus
Question: What sea is located on the eastern end of the Bosphorus?
Answer: black sea
Question: What region, starting with T, includes parts of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey?
Answer: thrace
Question: From what Greek island do "Lesbians" come from?
Answer: lesbos
Question: Other than Cyprus, what island country can be found in the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: malta
Question: What island chain in the Atlantic was first settled by Portugal in the 1400's?
Answer: azores
Question: Who was John Lennon's 2nd wife?
Answer: yoko ono
Question: The West Bank is one Palestinian territory. What is the other one?
Answer: gaza strip
Question: Pillbox, Panama and Fez are types of what?
Answer: hats
Question: Big Boi and Andre 3000 are members of what rap group?
Answer: outkast
Question: In what city does the movie "Robocop" take place?
Answer: detroit
Question: Whose embalmed body has been on display near Red Square since 1924?
Answer: vladimir lenin
Question: On what planet did the movie "Planet of the Apes" take place?
Answer: earth
Question: What is the English name for the group "Médecins Sans Frontières"?
Answer: doctors without borders
Question: Croissants are usually associated with France. But which country are they from originally?
Answer: austria
Question: What legendary "steel-driving man" died after defeating a steam-powered hammer?
Answer: john henry
Question: What is the name for the art of preparing and stuffing animal skins?
Answer: taxidermy
Question: What Japanese cartoon cat has appeared on dolls, greeting cards, toasters, and even a commercial jet?
Answer: hello kitty
Question: What is the official name of the city of Derry, in Northern Ireland?
Answer: londonderry
Question: What "supercontinent" contained nearly all the world's land during the age of the dinosaurs?
Answer: pangea
Question: On what river do Oxford and Cambridge compete in a "Boat Race"?
Answer: thames
Question: What is the most widely-produced assault rifle of all time?
Answer: ak 47
Question: Tenerife, La Palma, and Fuerteventura are part of what Spanish island chain?
Answer: canary islands
Question: What 2013 film is the highest-grossing animated movie of all-time?
Answer: frozen
Question: In the year 1800, what was the Earth's largest undiscovered landmass?
Answer: antarctica
Question: In the book "Great Expectations", what did Miss Havisham wear every day?
Answer: wedding dress
Question: What Paris cabaret was famous for the can-can dance, and was the subject of a 2001 movie starring Nicole Kidman?
Answer: moulin rouge
Question: What was the name of the comic strip that featured Charlie Brown and Snoopy?
Answer: peanuts
Question: What island chain at the tip of South America can be translated as "Land of Fire"?
Answer: tierra del fuego
Question: Which country contains the cities of Cairo, Oxford, Berlin, and Athens?
Answer: united states
Question: If I drive from Toulouse to Zaragoza, what mountain range will I likely cross?
Answer: pyrenees
Question: What green stone was prized in ancient China, and used to make burial suits for royalty?
Answer: jade
Question: What iconic album cover featured the four band members walking across a street in single file?
Answer: abbey road
Question: What elite scholarship is given to foreign students for post-graduate study at Oxford?
Answer: rhodes scholarship
Question: Whose effigy is burned on "Bonfire Night" in the UK?
Answer: guy fawkes
Question: What Olympic event was won by Kim Kardashian's step-father, Bruce Jenner?
Answer: decathlon
Question: What devilish creature of European lore can be described as an "anti Santa Claus"?
Answer: krampus
Question: What figurative "curtain" separated Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War?
Answer: iron curtain
Question: What sauce is made with basil, pine nuts, garlic, cheese, and olive oil?
Answer: pesto
Question: Which U.S. President had the shortest lifespan, just 46 years?
Answer: john f kennedy
Question: What type of alcohol, known as "the green fairy", was once banned in most of Europe?
Answer: absinthe
Question: Impalas and Springboks are types of what?
Answer: antelope
Question: What was the last name of literary sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne?
Answer: brontë
Question: What are Peach, Xena, and Mononoke?
Answer: princesses
Question: Laphroaig, Glenfiddich, and Aberfeldy are types of what?
Answer: scotch whisky
Question: What country is projected to become the world's largest oil producer in the year 2014?
Answer: united states
Question: What is either Superman's home planet or an element starting with K?
Answer: krypton
Question: What country, to Winston Churchill, was "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"?
Answer: russia
Question: What film director has parodied Frankenstein, Star Wars, and Robin Hood?
Answer: mel brooks
Question: What food is sometimes called the French version of a pancake?
Answer: crêpes
Question: Australia has two national animals. One is the kangaroo. What's the other one?
Answer: emu
Question: What city has been called "The Paris of the Pampas"?
Answer: buenos aires
Question: What was the name of the rabid Saint Bernard in the Stephen King book of the same name?
Answer: cujo
Question: What is either a type of tree or an expensive ski resort in Colorado?
Answer: aspen
Question: Which Greek god could supposedly be reached by the Oracle of Delphi?
Answer: apollo
Question: What was the name of the dog in the children's book series "Dick and Jane"?
Answer: spot
Question: What traditional dish is made with sheep organs and oatmeal, encased in an animal stomach?
Answer: haggis
Question: What country is on the exact opposite end of the globe from Beijing, China?
Answer: argentina
Question: What type of eyewear is associated with the old rich people - and also Mr. Peanut?
Answer: monocle
Question: On what island did the term "Mafia" originate?
Answer: sicily
Question: In whIch Dutch city would you find the International Court of Justice?
Answer: hague
Question: Other than Puerto Rico, what is the most populous U.S. Territory?
Answer: guam
Question: What British comedian partnered with Stephen Fry before starring as Dr. House?
Answer: hugh laurie
Question: What country defeated Brazil 7-1 in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: germany
Question: What genre of music was played by Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters?
Answer: blues
Question: What is the name of the geographical line runs through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London?
Answer: prime meridian
Question: What is the profession of Alfred Pennyworth and Jeeves?
Answer: butler
Question: Who did Ringo Starr replace as drummer for The Beatles?
Answer: pete best
Question: What "shaping" garment of the 19th century was meant to give women an hourglass figure?
Answer: corset
Question: What Scottish pattern is often called "plaid" in the United States?
Answer: tartan
Question: What stereotypical naval beverage was made with water, rum, and lemon juice?
Answer: grog
Question: What movie from the 1980's featured a cute little creature named Gizmo?
Answer: gremlins