CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Che Guevara was among the revolutionaries who invaded which country with the intention of overthrowing its US-backed dictator in December 1956?
Answer: cuba
Question: Billy Piper played the travelling companion to the lead role in which TV series that played in Great Britain in 2005?
Answer: dr who
Question: What legendary land was between the Scilly Isles and Cornwall before it was overwhelmed by the sea?
Answer: lyonesse
Question: Which American singer who starred in "The New Mickey Mouse Club" from 1993 to 1994 and released her debut album "...Baby One More Time" in 1999 was ranked by Forbes in 2009 as the 13th most powerful celebrity and the 2nd biggest-earning young musician?
Answer: britney spears
Question: A five block area of which city was permanently closed to traffic in May 2009 in an attempt to make the city "more liveable"?
Answer: new york
Question: The legend of Robin Hood, which dates from the 14th century and includes tales of Friar Tuck, Little John and Alan Adale, is centred on which forest?
Answer: sherwood
Question: Who was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection?
Answer: charles darwin
Question: What is the most prestigious event at the Henley Royal Regatta, for a cup which has been awarded since the regatta was first staged?
Answer: grand challenge cup for men s eights
Question: Where were tanks used for the first time in battle?
Answer: somme 1916
Question: What term is used to describe Western European architectural style for the period from the late 10th to the 12th century which was identifiably Medieval and prefigured the Gothic, yet maintained the rounded Roman arch?
Answer: romanesque
Question: In the nursery rhyme, who sat on a wall and had a great fall?
Answer: humpty
Question: Who claimed to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and worked to achieve the independence of Abyssinia?
Answer: menelek ii
Question: Which country has borders with the Central African Republic, Sudan, Zambia, Angola, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (with Tanzania across Lake Tanganyika)?
Answer: democratic republic of congo
Question: What is the common name for Herpes Zoster?
Answer: shingles
Question: Which country was the setting for the novels of Neville Shute?
Answer: australia
Question: What is the term for the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated, common examples of which include the behaviour of light, sound and water waves?
Answer: reflection
Question: The publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 aroused much public feeling about what issue in the USA?
Answer: slavery
Question: Who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)?
Answer: anthony hopkins
Question: Where did Jonathan Swift set his imaginary island of Lilliput?
Answer: indian ocean
Question: What are the Yeoman Warders, who have guarded the Tower of London since 1485, commonly called?
Answer: beefeaters
Question: Braslia has been the capital of Brazil since 1960. Where was the capital before that?
Answer: rio de janeiro
Question: Who was the previous King of Spain before King Juan Carlos I succeeded on 22 November 1975?
Answer: alfonso xiii
Question: Roswell, the "UFO crash site", is in which US state?
Answer: new mexico
Question: Which British sculptor and artist of the 20th century, whose work was said to exemplify Modernism, was made a Dame in 1965 and died aged 72 in a fire in her studio at St Ives, Cornwall, in 1975?
Answer: barbara hepworth
Question: In which British sitcom does a draughtsman give up his job to live a self-sufficient lifestyle, planting fruit and vegetables, and running chickens, pigs and a goat in the garden, to the horror of their next-door neighbours?
Answer: good life
Question: The Hong Kong Sevens, a competition for seven-a-side rugby, has been held at what venue since 1994?
Answer: hong kong stadium
Question: What was the name of eleven rulers of the 19th and 20th Egyptian dynasties?
Answer: rameses
Question: The chief rivers of which country are the Ebro, Jucar, Guadalquivir, Tagus, Douru and Minho?
Answer: spain
Question: In the episode of Coronation Street that aired in Britain on 3 March 2008, who pushed Gail Platt down the stairs, leaving her hospitalised and suffering short term amnesia?
Answer: david platt
Question: Which country, governed by the Danish government as its colony, was made an equal part of the Danish Kingdom in 1953?
Answer: greenland
Question: In which country is the Plateau of the Great Karroo?
Answer: south africa
Question: What is the name of the bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, which forms the first part of their Constitution Act, 1982?
Answer: charter of rights and freedoms
Question: Which country became a separate state in 1890 after having been, since 1443, part of Burgundy, Spain, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands?
Answer: luxembourg
Question: In astronomy, what is the next letter in the sequence O, B, A, F, G, K
Answer: m
Question: Who directed the films Cocoon, Willow, Parenthood, Backdraft and Apollo 13 between 1985 and 1995?
Answer: ron howard
Question: An expression that means to leave things as they are when there is no immediate problem is "let sleeping dogs ..." what?
Answer: lie
Question: Who married Liam Neeson in 1994 after they met on the set of the film "Nell"?
Answer: natasha richardson
Question: The Union of South Africa was formed in 1910: which area did not join the Union until 1919?
Answer: south west africa
Question: What is the name of Morocco's capital, which is 60 miles north of Casablanca?
Answer: rabat
Question: What is the name for the private office in the White House of the President of the USA?
Answer: oval office
Question: What was the name of the first nuclear-powered submarine, launched on 21 January 1954?
Answer: nautilus
Question: Who began dating cyclist Lance Armstrong in 2003, and announced their engagement in September 2005 and their split in February 2006?
Answer: sheryl crow
Question: Which painter's most famous works include "Portrait of Mrs. Graham", "Mary and Margaret: The Painter's Daughters", "William Hallett and His Wife Elizabeth, nee Stephen", known as "The Morning Walk", and "Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher"?
Answer: thomas gainsborough
Question: Which word was coined by Karel Capek in his play "R. U. R." in 1929?
Answer: robot
Question: Which English playwright ("The Conscious Lovers") founded the "Tatler", the "Spectator" and the "Guardian"?
Answer: sir richard steele
Question: Olympic gold medallists Fanny Blankers-Koen, Inge de Bruijn, Leontien van Moorsel, Yvonne van Gennip, Ard Schenk, Jochem Uytdehaage, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Gianni Romme, Marianne Timmer, Wim Ruska, Charles Pahud de Mortanges and Adolph van der Voort van Zijp represented which country?
Answer: netherlands
Question: In which country was there a civil war between 1861 and 1865, which was lost by the Confederate forces?
Answer: usa
Question: What is the English chalk plain crossed by the Avon that includes the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Amesbury?
Answer: salisbury plain
Question: Six Korfball World Championships were held last century, the first in 1978. Which country won them the most times?
Answer: netherlands
Question: Who had a team of Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Robert Chase, and Dr. Allison Cameron and replaced them with Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley, Dr. Chris Taub and Dr. Lawrence Kutner?
Answer: dr gregory house
Question: What film, sub-titled "The Story of Christy Brown", is a 1989 drama directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee and Cyril Cusack, that tells the true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy?
Answer: my left foot
Question: Where was the British ship Royal Oak sunk by German submarine U47 in October 1939?
Answer: scapa flow
Question: What organisation, set up to encourage scientific research, was founded in 1648 and obtained a charter from King Charles II in 1660?
Answer: royal society
Question: Which 1943 film concerns the lynching of three suspected murderers (played by Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn and Francis Ford) by a mob (played by Frank Conroy, Marc Lawrence and Jane Darwell, among others)?
Answer: ox bow incident
Question: The Honda Formula One team was taken over by which team for the 2009 season?
Answer: brawn
Question: Which President of the USA was involved in a scandal concerning Monica Lewinsky?
Answer: bill clinton
Question: What device, with a scale of 60 degrees was used in marine navigation for measuring the altitude of a celestial object above the horizon?
Answer: sextant
Question: Sasha and Malia are the daughters of which political figure?
Answer: barack obama
Question: Which former American football star was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping?
Answer: o j simpson
Question: Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and Paul Klee are classified in what school of painting?
Answer: surrealist
Question: In the finals of the 3000 metre track event 1984 Summer Olympics, who was accused of colliding with Mary Decker, who was unable to complete the race?
Answer: zola budd
Question: Who directed himself in his last western film in 1992, which also starred Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris?
Answer: clint eastwood
Question: On what date on the Christian calendar is the day of the Annunciation or Lady Day?
Answer: 25 march
Question: Which warship captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships (HMS Guerriere, HMS Java, HMS Pictou, HMS Cyane and HMS Levant) in the War of 1812 against Great Britain?
Answer: uss constitution
Question: Which canal allows ships to travel from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean?
Answer: suez
Question: Who was a British dog trainer, author and television personality who introduced the catch-phrases "walkies" and "sit!" in her 1980 television series?
Answer: barbara woodhouse
Question: The modern version of what code-breaking board game for two players, that resembles an old pencil and paper game called Bulls and Cows, was invented in 1970 by Mordecai Meirowitz, an Israeli postmaster and telecommunications expert?
Answer: mastermind
Question: The film "Bright Star", directed by Jane Campion, released in May 2009 and starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, is a period drama about Fanny Brawne's romance with whom?
Answer: keats
Question: According to Greek mythology, who accompanied Jason on his journey to find the Golden Fleece?
Answer: argonauts
Question: Who was the female co-star with Elvis Presley in the film "Viva Las Vegas"?
Answer: ann margret
Question: Which country won the Men's World Championship in softball the most times between 1996 and 2004?
Answer: new zealand
Question: What is the term for the measure of the brightness of a star as it appears on earth?
Answer: apparent magnitude
Question: Who fronted the BBC 2 specials Gambling in Las Vegas, The Most Hated Family in America, Under The Knife, Behind Bars, African Hunting Holiday, Law and Disorder in Philadelphia and A Place for Paedophiles?
Answer: louis theroux
Question: In Greek legend, who was the son of Daedalus who fell to his death?
Answer: icarus
Question: What apple-like fruit containing pulp covered seeds with a golden-red rind is formed from (usually scarlet) flowers?
Answer: pomegranate
Question: Who fell out of favour with Queen Elizabeth I over his intrigue with Elizabeth Throgmorton, was imprisoned and eventually beheaded?
Answer: sir walter raleigh
Question: Which newspaper, originally called "The Daily Universal Register" was founded by John Walter in 1785?
Answer: times
Question: Whose film career from 1932 to 1966 included starring roles in films such as "To Catch A Thief", "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "North By North West"?
Answer: cary grant
Question: What sort of animal was "Bambi", the main role in a Walt Disney cartoon released in 1942?
Answer: deer
Question: From 1922 to 1937, what name was given to the area of Ireland that was more independent than the rest of the island ?
Answer: irish free state
Question: What is an Italianate resort village on the coast of Snowdonia in Wales, near Penrhyndeudraeth, two miles southeast of Porthmadog?
Answer: portmeirion
Question: What Irish dramatist, whose first produced play was "Widowers' Houses" in 1892, won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926?
Answer: george bernard shaw
Question: What event applies to Charles II of England in 1660 and the Bourbons in 1814 and 1815?
Answer: restoration
Question: What name is given to poetry written in lines of 12 syllables in 6 metrical feet?
Answer: alexandrine
Question: Who commissioned film-maker Leni Riefenstahl to make Olympia, the first documentary film on the Olympic Games at the 1936 Berlin Games?
Answer: international olympic committee
Question: Which entertainer uses various names, including "Puff Daddy", "P. Diddy" and "Diddy"?
Answer: sean combs
Question: Under the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which followed the War Of The Spanish Succession, Spain ceded Minorca and which other area to Britain?
Answer: gibraltar
Question: Which band, which at the time comprised Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Michael MacNeil, Mel Gaynor and John Giblin, had hit records with "Alive & Kicking", "Sanctify Yourself", "Ghostdancing" and "All the Things She Said"?
Answer: simple minds
Question: Which nation established the first settlement in what is now South Africa at Table Bay in 1652?
Answer: holland
Question: What palace / monastery covering 10 acres (4.05 hectares), in the shape of a grid iron as a monument to St Lawrence, was built 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of Madrid by Philip II?
Answer: el escorial
Question: What is the official process whereby one nation or state requests and obtains from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal?
Answer: extradition
Question: The idea of an Olympic Flame burning throughout the Games was reintroduced during which Games, when an employee of the local Electric Utility lit the flame in the Marathon Tower of the Olympic Stadium?
Answer: amsterdam 1928
Question: The city previously known as Byzantium and Constantinople is in what modern day country?
Answer: turkey
Question: Anton Gregorovitch Rubinstein, the 19th century musician who founded a conservatoire of music in St Petersburg, is associated with which instrument?
Answer: piano
Question: What transport artery runs for 13 miles between Brig, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy?
Answer: simplon tunnel
Question: Who was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London for aiding the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie after the Battle of Culloden to Portree, Skye and thence to Glam on the island of Raasay?
Answer: flora macdonald
Question: With the history of which country is Davy Crockett associated?
Answer: usa
Question: Renee Zellweger played which author in a 2007 film?
Answer: beatrix potter
Question: The Sunda Trench is the deepest part of which ocean?
Answer: indian ocean
Question: What is the biological term for T H Huxley's theory that all living cells and organisms orginate from pre-existing living matter, not as the result of spontaneous generation?
Answer: biogenesis
Question: Who was the Cornish inventor who is famous for building a high pressure non-condensing steam engine for general industrial use in 1880, and in 1801 for building a steam car that carried passengers?
Answer: richard trevithick
Question: What is the name for the fitting together of the masticating surfaces of the upper and lower teeth in biting?
Answer: occlusion
Question: Which team won the Hockey World Cup the most times in the first 30 years of competition, which has been held every 2 to 3 years since 1971?
Answer: pakistan
Question: The Roman Empire was at its widest extent, including Dacia, Mesopotamia, Armenia and Assyria, under which Emperor?
Answer: trajan
Question: According to the Bible, which Moabitess married Boaz in Jerusalem and had two sons, Jesse and David?
Answer: ruth
Question: What singing game show that premiered on Fox in July 2007 and was confirmed as cancelled in August 2009 where contestants competed to win one million dollars by correctly recalling song lyrics from a variety of genres was hosted by Wayne Brady?
Answer: don t forget lyrics
Question: Which concert pianist became the first President of the Polish Republic in 1919?
Answer: ignaz jan paderewski
Question: Who did Tom Cruise propose to at the Eiffel Tower in 2005?
Answer: katie holmes
Question: Which area was declared a "free territory" in 1947 and administered by the US, UK and Yugoslavia until 1954 when it was partitioned between Italy and Yugoslavia?
Answer: trieste
Question: What structure was designed by John A Roebling, who supervised construction until his death when the project was taken over by his son, Washington?
Answer: brooklyn bridge new york
Question: Which fictional characters appear in plays by Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard and W S Gilbert?
Answer: rosencrantz and guildenstern
Question: What character was the child of the character played by Tom Hanks in the film "Sleepless in Seattle"?
Answer: jonah
Question: The Exxon Valdez oil spill, considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea, happened on 24 March 1989 in the Prince William Sound, in which state of the USA?
Answer: alaska
Question: What is the title of the BBC sitcom starring Mathew Horne and Joanna Page, written by and co-starring Ruth Jones and James Corden?
Answer: gavin stacey
Question: Which one of the signs of the zodiac is inanimate?
Answer: libra
Question: What modern-day country was ruled between 1902 and 1964 by Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud and his son, Emir Saud?
Answer: saudi arabia
Question: George Harrison was deported from which city where the early Beatles had long term engagements, because of his youth?
Answer: hamburg
Question: Who began as a Broadway actor, made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and had lead roles in "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Ox-Bow Incident", "Mister Roberts" and "12 Angry Men"?
Answer: henry fonda
Question: The origins of which country can be traced to the forming of a defensive league by Uri, Schwyz and Lower Unterwalden in 1521?
Answer: switzerland
Question: Which English steeplechase is held annually at Aintree near Liverpool?
Answer: grand national
Question: What is an alternative name for a hydrolaccolith, a mound of earth-covered ice found in the Arctic and subarctic that can reach up to 70 metres (230 ft) in height and up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in diameter?
Answer: pingo
Question: What instrument consisting basically of a telescope that can be rotated vertically and horizontally on graduated scales was designed for use in land surveying for measuring by triangulation ?
Answer: theodolite
Question: Which war between Austria, France and Russia versus England and Prussia ended with the ceding of Silesia to Prussia by Austria and the ceding of French territory in Canada to Britain?
Answer: seven years war
Question: The pineapple is native to which part of the world?
Answer: south america
Question: Which Chief of Staff of the US Army retired in 1937 but returned to lead the defence of the Philippines in WWII, and to direct both the occupation of Japan and the allied effort early in the Korean War?
Answer: douglas macarthur
Question: What genus of grass is also known as kaffir corn, dhurra, Guinea corn and Indian millet?
Answer: sorghum
Question: What was the name of the character played by Bill Cosby in "The Bill Cosby Show"?
Answer: cliff huxtable
Question: On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which led to the start of which war?
Answer: world war i
Question: What is the name of the French national flag adopted during during the French Revolution, consisting of three equal vertical bands of red, white and blue?
Answer: tricolor
Question: Who became President of the USA on the death of Franklin D Roosevelt and remained in office until 1953?
Answer: harry s truman
Question: Traditionally, what can women do on 29 February that they cannot do on any other date?
Answer: propose marriage
Question: George Fox is associated with the founding of which religion?
Answer: religious society of friends quakers
Question: Which civilisation left clearly identifiable traces dating from 2600 BCE, with cities on what are now the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Honduras and Southern Mexico and still survives in language today?
Answer: maya
Question: What is the British group of islands in the South Atlantic that consists of two main islands, together with 776 smaller ones?
Answer: falkland islands
Question: What 1956 film, that satirises the U.S. occupation of Japan following World War II, starred Glenn Ford & Marlon Brando?
Answer: teahouse of august moon
Question: Barbi Benton was famous as whose girlfriend from 1969 to 1976 ?
Answer: hugh hefner
Question: From the 15th century onward, which country took control of Ceuta (North Africa), Madeira, the Azores, Goa (India), Brazil, Ormuz (in the Persian Strait), Malacca (now part of Malaysia) and Macau (China)?
Answer: portugal
Question: Which highly contagious disease, characterised by the sudden onset of rigor, headache, delirium and fever, followed by a rash, is caused by a virus conveyed by lice?
Answer: typhus
Question: What creatures in Scandinavian folklore have evil powers and malevolent dispositions?
Answer: trolls
Question: In 1935, which city was chosen to replace Livingstone as the capital of the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, and is now the capital of Zambia?
Answer: lusaka
Question: What is the lining membrane of the cavity of the eyeball connected to the optic nerve which forms the receptor surface for light rays?
Answer: retina
Question: Which 2002 play by Neil LaBute that takes place around 11 September 2001 concerns an extra-marital affair between a man (Sam) and his boss (Abby) who worked in the World Trade Centre?
Answer: mercy seat
Question: Ed Moses (United States) and Martina Moravcov (Slovakia) won World Cups for which sport in 2001/2002 and 2003/2004?
Answer: swimming
Question: What is the name of the branch of the Pacific Ocean between China and Korea?
Answer: yellow sea
Question: What was the acronym for the organisation that was set up in 1950 to co-ordinate the armed forces of NATO?
Answer: shape
Question: Who wrote "Raindrops Are Fallin' On My Head", the theme from the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"?
Answer: burt bacharach
Question: Who had a hit with the song "The Rainbow Connection"?
Answer: kermit frog
Question: In the English nursery rhyme, who fell down and broke his crown?
Answer: jack
Question: What object, containing 14 lines of hieroglyphs, 32 of demotic and 54 of Greek, was a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt?
Answer: rosetta stone
Question: Which American abolitionist was one of a group who seized the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in October 1859, was wounded, captured and, in December, hanged at Charleston?
Answer: john brown
Question: Who announced his engagement to New Zealand cellist Jiaxin Cheng, to be his fourth wife, in June 2009?
Answer: julian lloyd webber
Question: The yellow, brown and red pigments known as ochres are oxides of which metal?
Answer: iron
Question: Which Greek philosopher was accused by the Sophists of corrupting the youth of Athens and was condemned to death by drinking hemlock?
Answer: socrates
Question: Who held the record for the number of Grand Slam tennis tournaments before it was beaten by Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009?
Answer: pete sampras
Question: What name was given to the loyal refugees that settled in Ontario after the American War of Independence?
Answer: united empire loyalists
Question: The song "My Kind Of Town", written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen in 1964, was about which city?
Answer: chicago