CharlesMoslonka/trivia_qa_rc_wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Question: Since the late 1930s, what date has been reserved for the inauguration of a President of the USA?
Answer: 20 january
Question: According to the song, where did Molly Malone "wheel her wheelbarrow"?
Answer: dublin
Question: After leading a rebel army for 20 years, Ahmed Sukarno was elected the first president of which country after it was granted independence in 1949?
Answer: indonesia
Question: The Tri Nations Championship played between South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, is in what sport?
Answer: rugby union
Question: What was the stage name of Jean Franois Gravelet, a French acrobat who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859 on a tightrope 160 feet above the water?
Answer: charles blondin
Question: Which 19th century French artist is best known for his illustrations for the "Bible", "Paradise Lost", Dante's "Inferno", "Don Quixote" and the works of Rabelais and Balzac?
Answer: gustave dor
Question: The Epcot Centre is part of which tourist attraction?
Answer: walt disney world
Question: What is the common name for a lepidoptera pupa and its silky cocoon?
Answer: chrysalis
Question: What name was given to 6 labourers in Dorset, England, who formed a "Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers" and in 1834 were sentenced to 7 years transportation for "administering unlawful oaths"?
Answer: tolpuddle martyrs
Question: The "pre-Raphaelite movement" was about what?
Answer: painting
Question: What was a negative term US Southerners gave to Northerner speculators in the South soon after the Civil War?
Answer: carpetbaggers
Question: """The World Series"" has been the annual championship series of the highest level of professional players of which sport in the USA and Canada since 1903?"
Answer: baseball
Question: Which animal appears in the opening credits of the British TV series "Coronation Street"?
Answer: cat
Question: Cleopatra is reputed to have killed herself because of the death of whom?
Answer: mark antony
Question: Who holds the record for being the world heavyweight boxing champion at 11 years 8 months and 9 days?.
Answer: joe louis
Question: What is the name for 40 foot (12 meters) high round forts, designed to accommodate a small garrison with cannon, constructed on the English coast and the Channel Islands at the time of threatened invasion by Napoleon?
Answer: martello towers
Question: What TV programme opens with the words "In the criminal justice system the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups"?
Answer: law order
Question: The Superclsico is contested between Boca Juniors and River Plate in Buenos Aires, in what sport?
Answer: soccer
Question: What is the name of the small village near Calcutta where the first hollow-nosed rifle bullets were made?
Answer: dum dum
Question: What is the first name of the British fashion designer Westwood?
Answer: vivienne
Question: Who wrote the tale "The Princess and the Pea"?
Answer: hans christian andersen
Question: What name is given to the period of British history between 1901 and 1910?
Answer: edwardian
Question: In April 2009 citizens of the Swiss canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes in the Alps voted overwhelmingly to pass legislation banning what?
Answer: naked hiking
Question: A peace camp was established at which RAF base in Berkshire, England from 1981 to 2000 to protest at nuclear weapons being sited there?
Answer: greenham common
Question: What is the relationship between Ukrainians Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko, who have dominated the IBF, WBO, WBC and IBO world heavyweight championships since 1999?
Answer: brothers
Question: Which team won the inaugural tournament for the FIFA World Cup (Soccer) in 1930?
Answer: uruguay
Question: Actress Nicole Kidman married which country singer in 2006?
Answer: keith urban
Question: Where was nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale ("the lady with the lamp") born?
Answer: florence italy
Question: Which country that achieved independence in 1962 has had leaders named Milton Obote and Idi Amin Dada?
Answer: uganda
Question: Who is the only member of the current membership of Fleetwood Mac who does not play an instrument regularly on stage?
Answer: stevie nicks
Question: A 1999 James Bond film was entitled "The World is not ... " what?
Answer: enough
Question: Which country has won the most medals at the European Beach Volleyball Championship (later known as the Nestea European Championship Final) between 2000 and 2008 inclusive?
Answer: switzerland
Question: On 29 March 1971, Lieutenant William Calley was found guilty by a court martial for murdering 20 civilians in 1968 - where?
Answer: my lai vietnam
Question: John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport all serve which city?
Answer: new york
Question: What book was written by Alexandre Dumas about Edmond Dantes' imprisonment in the Chateau d'If?
Answer: count of monte cristo
Question: The Drake Equation calculates the potential number of what?
Answer: extraterrestrial civilizations in milky way
Question: Which biblical personality was called Jekuthiel, Heber, Jered, Avi Zanoah, Avi Gedor, Avi Soco, Shemaiah ben Nethanel, Toviah, Levi, Heman, Mechoqeiq and Ehl Gav Ish?
Answer: moses
Question: Jacqueline du Pr was famous for playing what instrument?
Answer: cello
Question: What word is used in the UK for chicken less than 28 days old at slaughter and usually weighing 400-450 grammes and in the USA for the Rock Cornish game hen, which is twice as old and twice as large?
Answer: poussin
Question: What is the nationality of 2007 IndyCar Series champion George Dario Marino Franchitti?
Answer: scottish
Question: The large wrinkled leaves of which plant provide digitalin, used in the treatment of heart conditions?
Answer: foxglove
Question: What did Sir Robert Peel establish in London in the late 19th century?
Answer: metropolitan police force
Question: A United Nations report published in July 2007 placed which country first in the industrialized world in marijuana use, at 14.1% of the population?
Answer: canada
Question: Who discovered the moon of Saturn called Titan in 1655?
Answer: huygens
Question: Who was the heroine who rescued 9 people from the wreck of the "Forfarshire", taking them to the lighthouse on the Longstone, one of the Farne Islands, on 7 September 1838?
Answer: grace darling
Question: Which archipelago, formerly administered by Madagascar, includes the islands of Mayotte, Anjouan, Grande Comore and Moheli?
Answer: comoro
Question: Who was the British general who took Charleston, South Carolina, 1779 during the American War of Independence?
Answer: sir henry clinton
Question: Joanna Lumley and David McCallum played which pair in a TV series?
Answer: sapphire and steel
Question: Andalusia, Catalonia, Galicia, Aragon, Castilla y Len, Castile-La Mancha, and Extremadura are "autonomous communities" in which nation?
Answer: spain
Question: What title was taken by Napoleon Bonaparte on 2 December 1804?
Answer: emperor of french
Question: What form of singing involves an extended note which rapidly repeatedly changes in pitch from the chest register to falsetto, making a high-low-high-low sound?
Answer: yodeling
Question: Which early 20th century American novelist wrote "The Crisis", "Crossing", "Coniston", "Mr Crewe's Career" and "Far Country"?
Answer: winston churchill
Question: What was the name of the first British jet bomber built in 1949 by English Electric?
Answer: canberra
Question: What was founded in 1560 and, except for intervals in the 17th century, became and continues to be the established church in Scotland ?
Answer: church of scotland
Question: Which country ended the USA's 132 year hold on the America's Cup?
Answer: australia
Question: George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards were well known in the British American colonies in the mid 18th century for being what?
Answer: methodist preachers
Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays did the Montague and Capulet families appear?
Answer: romeo and juliet
Question: Who was King of Hungary from 1000 to 1038, changed his name from Wajk on becoming Christian, and is Hungary's patron saint?
Answer: stephen
Question: What, with the sickle, is a symbol of communism?
Answer: hammer
Question: An outbreak of what in Nigeria affected 5,323 people and killed 333 in the first 3 months of 2009?
Answer: meningitis
Question: The Maoist organisation Sendero Luminoso is based in which country?
Answer: peru
Question: Beat Mndli, Daniel Deusser, Markus Beerbaum and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum are world ranking competitors in which sport?
Answer: show jumping
Question: What voting system for General Elections was first implemented in the Australian colony of Tasmania on 7 February 1856 and introduced to Britain in 1872 by the Ballot Act?
Answer: secret ballot
Question: The best known works of which sculptor who aroused hostility over the depiction of sexuality, are 18 large nude sculptures in 1908 for the British Medical Association building on The Strand, the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, "Rush of Green" in Hyde Park, London, and "St Michael's Victory over the Devil" in Coventry Cathedral?
Answer: jacob epstein
Question: """The Warden"", ""Barchester Towers"", ""Dr Thorne"", Framley Parsonage"", ""The Small House of Allington"" and ""Last Chronicle of Barset"" are collectively known as what?"
Answer: barsetshire novels
Question: Who was defence counsel at the Oz conspiracy trial in 1971 and defended the Sex Pistols in a 1977 obscenity trial over the title of their album "Never Mind The Bollocks"?
Answer: john mortimer
Question: Which Commedia dell'arte character was servant to the Inamorata, and the daughter of Pantaloon and courted by Harlequin?
Answer: columbine
Question: Who was the star of "High Noon", the American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann that tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself?
Answer: gary cooper
Question: What pieces occupy all four corners of the board at the start of a chess game?
Answer: rooks
Question: What was organised by Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother, France, to crush the Huguenots in August 1572 at the wedding of Henry of Navarre to Marguerite, sister of Charles IX, that resulted in the death of around 30,000 people?
Answer: massacre of st bartholomew
Question: Where would you find the Koh-I-Noor and the Cullinan?
Answer: british crown jewels
Question: Who were Mr and Mrs Munster in the 1960s TV series?
Answer: lily and herman
Question: Who wrote a book about the US car industry, published in 1965, called "Unsafe at Any Speed"?
Answer: ralph nader
Question: What shape are the 4 faces of a tetrahedron?
Answer: triangles
Question: What is the only joint rule in the history of England?
Answer: william iii and mary ii
Question: Who was the world snooker champion in 1998, 2007 and 2009?
Answer: john higgins
Question: Which 1987 thriller film involves a spurned lover killing and boiling a pet rabbit?
Answer: fatal attraction
Question: In 1996, who joined Paavo Nurmi, Larysa Latynina and Mark Spitz, tied for the record numer of Olympic gold medals (9) ever?
Answer: carl lewis
Question: Daryl Hannah starred with Tom Hanks and John Candy as what in the 1984 film "Splash"?
Answer: mermaid
Question: Who, on 2 October 1925, transmitted a picture of William Taynton, an office boy from the offices on the floor below his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in Soho, London, from one room to another?
Answer: john logie baird
Question: What was the setting for the 1998 film starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, "Sliding Doors"?
Answer: london
Question: Which sport, played by 2 teams of 8 who use a rope, is marked with a "centre line" and two markings four metres either side of the centre line?
Answer: tug of war
Question: On 17 September 1862, where was The Battle of Antietam, the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil and the bloodiest single-day battle in American history (with about 23,000 casualties)?
Answer: near sharpsburg maryland
Question: Who was jailed for 150 years in June 2009 for investor fraud after being reported to federal authorities by his sons?
Answer: bernie madoff
Question: In the film Spiderman 2 (2004), which New York newspaper does Spiderman's alter ego take photographs for?
Answer: daily bugle
Question: Who, in 1794, patented the cotton gin, that enabled cotton fibres to be plucked from seeds mechanically?
Answer: eli whitney
Question: What is the name used in the USA for the board game that the English call "draughts"?
Answer: checkers
Question: According to the tagline for a film musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, what "is the word"?
Answer: grease
Question: James, son of Mary Queen of Scots (who was executed for treason during the reign of Elizabeth I) was the first to use which title?
Answer: king of great britain
Question: What is the first geological period of the Paleozoic era?
Answer: cambrian
Question: What military strategy involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while passing through an area, first used by the Scythians against King Darius the Great of Persia around 500 BC., and best known for its use by both sides when Germany attacked and then retreated from the USSR in World War II?
Answer: scorched earth
Question: Which character in a play has a soliloquy that begins "To be or not to be, that is the question."?
Answer: hamlet
Question: What range of hills runs 50 miles from the Worcestershire border through Gloucestershire to the Avon?
Answer: cotswolds
Question: What is the term used to describe the collection of flowers in species that have more than one flower on an axis (sometimes called "composite flowers"?
Answer: inflorescence
Question: What figure of Apollo stood from around 280 BC until destroyed by an earthquake around 224 BC?
Answer: colossus of rhodes
Question: If someone is referred to as a "liverpudlian", which city do they come from?
Answer: liverpool
Question: What is the name for the point on the earth's surface that is directly above an earthquake?
Answer: epicentre
Question: Who was behind the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to overthrow the government?
Answer: adolf hitler
Question: Which Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who published many articles on bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy, discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and an antibiotic substance from a fungus in 1928?
Answer: alexander fleming
Question: Which Olympic sport was contested in only 1900 and 1908, by teams from only 3 countries (Canada, USA and Germany) altogether?
Answer: lacrosse
Question: What is the collective name for the islands with a land area of 4,167 squ km (1,622 squ miles) over 2,500,000 squ km (965,255 squ miles) of ocean, made up of several groups of islands, including the Austral Islands, the Marquesas, the Society Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago?
Answer: french polynesia
Question: Which element, with a melting point of 3,370 degrees C was discovered in 1783 by Jos and Fausto Elhuyar?
Answer: tungsten
Question: Salvador Allende, General Augusto Pinochet and the "Caravan of Death" are all connected with the history of which country in the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: chile
Question: Where did United Airlines flight 93, hijacked by terrorists on 11 September 2001, crash?
Answer: pennsylvania
Question: What was the title of the novelty single released by the Israeli duo Esther and Abi Ofarim, number one for 3 weeks in the UK in 1968, that features yodelling and 1920s-style lyrics and music?
Answer: cinderella rockefeller
Question: What book published in 1864 by William Wallace Mitchell, a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, became the basis of the rules of a modern game?
Answer: manual of bowls playing
Question: What was worn by the leader of the first Tour de France?
Answer: green armband
Question: In 1959, the Soviet space probe "Luna Two" became the first man-made object to do what?
Answer: reach moon
Question: Which TV series had the slogan "The Truth Is Out There"?
Answer: x files
Question: What is the name given to the code of Roman law that was "published" with the approval of the Roman Republic in 450 BC?
Answer: twelve tables
Question: Who printed his own translations of a French romance "The Recwyell of the Historyes of Troy" and "The Game and Plays of the Chesse" in Bruges in 1474?
Answer: william caxton
Question: Where do the rivers Dart, Tavy, Teigh and Okement rise?
Answer: dartmoor
Question: General Victoriano Huerta, Emiliano Zapata and "Pancho" Villa feature in the history of which country?
Answer: mexico
Question: What is the surname of Rebecca in the novel by Daphne du Maurier?
Answer: de winter
Question: Duke Kahanamoku, who won Olympic gold in Swimming (100 m freestyle) in 1912 at Stockholm and 1920 at Antwerp popularised what sport?
Answer: surfing
Question: Who, in 2004, was nominated for two academy awards: Best Supporting Actor in "Collateral"and Best Actor in "Ray" (which he won)?
Answer: jamie foxx
Question: The song "Shall We Dance" is from which musical?
Answer: king and i
Question: Which sport has been included in only one Olympic Games, in Paris in 1900, when competition was between the Devon and Somerset Wanderers (representing England) and a team from the British embassy in Paris (representing France)?
Answer: cricket
Question: In the human body, the adrenal glands are directly above which organ?
Answer: kidney
Question: In which country does over half of the population live on reclaimed land?
Answer: netherlands
Question: What shape are the 12 faces of a dodecahedron?
Answer: pentagons
Question: Who set a world land speed record of over 400 miles per hour at Bonneville, Utah, USA, and was killed attempting a new water speed record on Loch Ness in September 1952?
Answer: john cobb
Question: Mary Quant became famous in the 1960s for designing what?
Answer: clothes
Question: Professional sidekick Dick Grayson is better known as who?
Answer: robin
Question: What was the name of the plane that Amy Johnson flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930?
Answer: jason
Question: Which country came first second and third in the golf teams event at the 1904 Olympic Games at St Louis?
Answer: usa
Question: What central London street is famous for containing the main government offices?
Answer: whitehall
Question: Who wrote "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"?
Answer: mary baker eddy
Question: What type of building is famous in Milan, Venice, Florence, Seville, Paris, Chartres, Amiens, Rheims, Cologne, Mainz and Trves?
Answer: cathedral
Question: At which cricket ground, in 1953, did England win the Ashes for the first time since 1933?
Answer: oval
Question: What is the name of the sand bank in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark that is famous as a fishing ground?
Answer: dogger bank
Question: Who was the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until 1991, and the only Soviet leader to have been born after the October Revolution of 1917?
Answer: gorbachev
Question: Who was the mother of Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XIV of France?
Answer: maria theresa of austria
Question: Which sport is played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of ice, whereby teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones towards the "house" while two sweepers with brooms accompany each one to help direct them to their resting place?
Answer: curling
Question: What 19th century English draughtsman became known for illustrations of "exquisite decoration, morbidity and decadence", especially his illustrations for "The Rape of the Lock"?
Answer: aubrey beardsley
Question: Between 1955 and 1970, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Angela Davis were significant people in which movement in the USA?
Answer: civil rights movement
Question: Which TV series follows Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation in Sacramento, California, who solves serious crimes by using his skills of observation?
Answer: mentalist
Question: What is the name for the order of insects with 2 membranous, usually transparent, wings such as mosquitoes, house flies and gnats?
Answer: diptera
Question: What are the sculptures at the foot of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London?
Answer: lions
Question: The final of which sport at the 1900 Olympics in Paris attracted 6,000 spectators, the largest crowd at any event at that Olympics?
Answer: rugby union
Question: What example of a clipper ship built in 1869 is preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, London?
Answer: cutty sark
Question: What was the title of Graham Norton's autobiography, published in 2004?
Answer: so me
Question: What is the number of points required to win a game of Canasta?
Answer: 5 000
Question: Passiflora edulis, a vine native to South America, is also called passionfruit, maracuj or maracuy in South America, lilikoi in Hawaii and by what name in South Africa?
Answer: granadilla
Question: Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County are all in the north west of which US state?
Answer: oklahoma
Question: Who sings: "But with nothing to consider they forget my name. They call me 'Hell', They call me 'Stacey', They call me 'her', They call me 'Jane', That's not my name"?
Answer: ting tings
Question: Which cup was originally known as the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, the RYS Cup for One Hundred Sovereigns, the One Hundred Guinea(s) Cup and the Queens Cup?
Answer: americas cup
Question: The refugee camps Shatila and Shabra, the scenes of a massacre in 1982, were in which country?
Answer: lebanon
Question: What is the name of the former island in the East End of London that is bounded on three sides by one of the largest meanders in the River Thames, with the West India Docks to the north?
Answer: isle of dogs
Question: In her "Adventures in Wonderland", where did Alice first meet the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse?
Answer: tea party
Question: Which French playwright, writing in the 20th century, produced "Les Parents Terribles", "Les Monstres Sacrs" and "Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde"?
Answer: jean cocteau
Question: What is the name of the London theatre named after a mineral spring discovered in 1683 when a music house was built there?
Answer: sadler s wells
Question: What instrument is used to measure the specific gravity (or relative density) of liquids such as beer and wine?
Answer: hydrometer
Question: King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the 9th king of the House of Chakri, became the longest reigning current monarch in the world during his reign of which country from 1946?
Answer: thailand
Question: Pepys, Wesley, Evelyn and Greville have what famous items in common?
Answer: diaries
Question: Which film was banned for 8 years in the Republic of Ireland and for a year in Norway, and was marketed in Sweden as '"The film so funny that it was banned in Norway"?
Answer: monty python s life of brian
Question: What is the official name of the spectator area at Wimbledon at the side of No. 1 Court known as Henman Hill or Murray Mound?
Answer: aorangi terrace
Question: What is a tabular display of the chemical elements, the invention of which is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, who intended the table to illustrate recurring trends in the properties of the elements?
Answer: periodic table
Question: In the TV series "Boston Legal", who played the character of Denny Crane?
Answer: william shatner
Question: Which country gained its independence from Australia on 16 September 1975?
Answer: papua new guinea
Question: What is changed at Buckingham Palace regularly, that is a tourist attraction?
Answer: guard
Question: What is the "national" and "first official" language of The Republic of Ireland?
Answer: irish
Question: Where was the landing of the main invasion force on the Italian peninsula in World War II by the allied army (comprising the U.S. Fifth Army and the British Eighth Army) on 9 September 1943?
Answer: salerno
Question: Who was the spouse of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark when she ascended to the throne on 14 January 1972?
Answer: prince henrik
Question: Which country launched an attack against the US naval base at Pearl Harbour in 1941?
Answer: japan
Question: A Shiite terrorist group founded by Masan Sabbah in 1090 dedicated to the murder of enemy leaders led to which word in the English language?
Answer: assassin