question string | answer list |
|---|---|
What did Haruki Murakami publish due to owning so many T-shirts? | [
"a book about them",
"Murakami T"
] |
Which novel by Keri Hulme nearly ended up as a doorstop instead of winning a Booker Prize? | [
"The Bone People"
] |
Which region in Seoul experienced rapid development spurred by the 1968 North Korean assassination attempt on military dictator Park Chung-hee? | [
"Gangnam"
] |
What organization held meetings in school halls? | [
"Natives Representative Council"
] |
Who, despite being born with two club feet, now plays in the WNBA? | [
"Jaelyn Brown"
] |
What is the tallest building in the state of Nebraska, standing at 634 feet (193 meters)? | [
"First National Bank Tower"
] |
In which manga series were the reactions to food decided on through free association games? | [
"Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma"
] |
Whose message on November 29, 1941, warning the US Navy not to underestimate the Japanese, failed to reach Admiral Kimmel before the attack on Pearl Harbor? | [
"Stanley Washburn"
] |
During the filming of which episode of The Last of Us did Bella Ramsey struggle to hold a real rifle? | [
"the eighth episode",
"When We Are in Need"
] |
What did Queen Camilla describe as "perfect in every way" during her childhood? | [
"The Laines"
] |
What did Benjamin Britten compose for the tenor voice of Peter Pears, using poetry from A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles? | [
"Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his"
] |
Which company produced the System 16, one of the first computers in the tower form factor? | [
"Pronto Computers"
] |
What was the studio album released by Abbott Records in 1955, after the artist had already signed with RCA Victor? | [
"Jim Reeves Sings"
] |
Which company exported the only stained glass to the United States that had to pay import duty due to its low cost-to-size ratio? | [
"Barton, Kinder and Alderson"
] |
Which radio station's unmarried staff lived in a medieval tower? | [
"AFN Frankfurt"
] |
Who earned the nickname Dreschgraf ('Thrashing Count') due to his frequent use of violent, antisemitic language? | [
"Walter von Pückler"
] |
What drove sales of piña coladas in the Washington, D.C., area? | [
"You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?",
"a coconut tree meme"
] |
In which event related to Montana was Helena accused of copious Manhattan consumption? | [
"1894 Montana capital referendum"
] |
What work has been noted for its passages dealing with the Charge of the Light Brigade, a failed military action during the Crimean War? | [
"Ravenshoe"
] |
Which character created by Tolkien has been seen as analogous to Satan? | [
"Morgoth"
] |
Which volcano in Alaska distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America? | [
"Mount Churchill"
] |
Which Formula One car underwent 'one of the most impressive in-season development steps ever seen' according to a commentator? | [
"McLaren MCL60"
] |
What is the viral online word game that was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play? | [
"Wordle"
] |
What findings in 1978 caused a sensation in Germany for revealing that 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war died of ideologically motivated mistreatment? | [
"Keine Kameraden"
] |
Who have some faqih suggested should replace the Eid sacrifice with donations or fasting? | [
"Islamic vegetarianism",
"vegetarian Muslims"
] |
Which WAAF Corporal remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb? | [
"Elspeth Green",
"Elspeth Henderson"
] |
Who moved from recommendations of rigid scheduling to 'on-demand' scheduling in editions of the book Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies? | [
"Josephine Kenyon"
] |
What event featured dancing Phryges in its opening ceremony? | [
"2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony"
] |
What did John D. Rockefeller Jr., under the name 'David's Father', secretly authorize the purchase of? | [
"Ludwell–Paradise House",
"an $8,000 \"antique\""
] |
What aspect of The Simpsons have the producers discussed regarding representation? | [
"its LGBT characters",
"List of LGBT characters in The Simpsons"
] |
What location cannot view Mount Rainier despite having a trail considered 'possibly the best day hike' in Mount Rainier National Park? | [
"Panhandle Gap"
] |
What is the hymn that has been described as 'the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer'? | [
"At the Name of Jesus"
] |
Who finished their college career ranked second in Big Ten Conference career rebounds, behind Jerry Lucas? | [
"Jordan Murphy"
] |
What was the subject of the Toronto Star story with the headline 'Hebrews buy farm; build golf course' when it was founded? | [
"Oakdale Golf & Country Club"
] |
Which Romanian author rejected Marxism at the risk of unemployment, consoling himself that 'man eats 20 times more than what he needs'? | [
"Ion Biberi"
] |
Construction of what uncovered tracks from the California Street Cable Railroad? | [
"Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit"
] |
What is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across three centuries? | [
"28th Virginia battle flag"
] |
Which journalist was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters? | [
"Jack Berry"
] |
What did a Syrian filmmaker repurpose footage from in his last film to criticize his younger self? | [
"his first film",
"Film Essay on the Euphrates Dam"
] |
What contains more than 500,000 Star Wars collectibles? | [
"Rancho Obi-Wan"
] |
Which event in 2022 required a substitute referee due to the original referee's flight being canceled? | [
"2022 Quick Lane Bowl"
] |
Which football player was nicknamed the 'Gray Ghost' because when running 'it was like he wasn't there anymore'? | [
"Joe Gray"
] |
Which Soviet soprano performed alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975? | [
"Tamara Milashkina"
] |
Which basketball player became an Olympian 16 years after her WNBA career ended? | [
"Marcedes Walker"
] |
Which island has risen by 18 metres (59 ft) during the last 200 years? | [
"Curtis Island"
] |
What is the name of Alistair Darling's cat that met Margaret Thatcher in 2007? | [
"Sybil"
] |
Who, along with her team, used digitisation to preserve endangered Palestinian material culture? | [
"Adila Laïdi-Hanieh"
] |
What was toppled by people who described it as "a symbol of subordination, representation of slavery and an emblem of the Spanish genocide"? | [
"Monumento a los Constructores"
] |
Who, as the chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite? | [
"Volodymyr Kozhukhar"
] |
Who is the defenceman that holds the title of the Nashville Predators' single-season points leader? | [
"Roman Josi"
] |
What is the name of Iran's first three-stage satellite carrier that successfully passed its suborbital test? | [
"Qaem 100"
] |
Who signed to play soccer for the University of South Carolina despite the school not having a sign-language interpreter available? | [
"Felicia Schroeder"
] |
Which YouTube channel dedicated to life in 18th-century America has featured a 1784 recipe for macaroni and cheese? | [
"Townsends"
] |
Who considered leading Sacaba's largest drivers' union as their second choice of career, after teaching? | [
"José Mendieta"
] |
Who chartered an aircraft to search for motorists stranded after a blizzard? | [
"KOLT",
"a Nebraska radio station"
] |
Who was inspired by gas lighting to start a classical music festival? | [
"Stephen Gunzenhauser"
] |
What was installed despite the president of Mexico's opposition to cults of personality? | [
"a statue of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador",
"Statue of Andrés Manuel López Obrador"
] |
What was released after the main creator of Coffee Talk died in March 2022? | [
"Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly"
] |
What book discussing existential risk from AI was one of the five "books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" in 2021? | [
"The Alignment Problem"
] |
Which channel was mocked by an Edmonton politician for having frequent audio difficulties on its newscasts when a cameraman walked in? | [
"A-Channel"
] |
What high-capacity bus line in Portland, Oregon, was built by women- and minority-owned businesses? | [
"Frequent Express"
] |
Who purchased and reassembled the Wisconsin Pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair for use as their studios? | [
"two Wisconsin radio stations",
"WCCN"
] |
Who was sentenced to just two years' imprisonment for torturing a black employee to death in Kenya in 1920? | [
"a European settler in Kenya who tortured a black employee to death",
"Langley Hawkins murder case"
] |
Who won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for Young at Heart, a documentary about a romance between two octogenarians? | [
"Sue Marx"
] |
What manga series sold out multiple times after being self-published following a publisher's declination? | [
"Let's Go Karaoke!"
] |
What company, owned by Coors Brewing Company in the 1970s, provided newsfilm to North American TV stations? | [
"Television News Inc."
] |
What ceased two full months before the season officially ended in 1993? | [
"Timeline of the 1993 Atlantic hurricane season",
"Atlantic hurricane activity in 1993"
] |
In which U.S. Supreme Court case did Justice William Rehnquist say that public employees must accept 'the bitter with the sweet' in their due-process rights when contesting dismissal? | [
"Arnett v. Kennedy"
] |
Which country's flags featured the colors green, yellow, and red, as well as black stars, upon their independence from Portugal alongside Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau? | [
"flags of São Tomé and Príncipe",
"Flag of São Tomé and Príncipe"
] |
Who died at sea while carrying papers appointing him provincial superior? | [
"Joseph O'Callaghan"
] |
Where was a 1902 plan proposed to build a town that would have been known as Burlingwick? | [
"Dukes Meadows"
] |
What species, collected from China in 1983, was not formally described until 2014? | [
"Baeoentedon bouceki"
] |
What was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified? | [
"a portrait",
"Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest"
] |
What library in Philadelphia was closed after operating for 168 years and moving to three buildings due to concerns about asbestos? | [
"Mercantile Library",
"Mercantile Library Company"
] |
What reflects the country's Turkic heritage with a blue stripe? | [
"Flag of Azerbaijan",
"Azerbaijani flag"
] |
Who is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States? | [
"Erick Russell"
] |
Who hit a game-winning home run in the 1984 World Series and a playoff-clinching home run on the last day of the 1987 season? | [
"Larry Herndon"
] |
Whose writing about weightlifting is intended for people who feel their bodies are 'never hot enough'? | [
"Casey Johnston"
] |
Who joined the Fifth Crusade and died after being stripped of his Cornish landholdings? | [
"Henry Fitzcount"
] |
What was the last stop for the Comboio Presidencial, a train carrying the Portuguese head of state through the Linha do Douro starting in 1890? | [
"Pocinho railway station"
] |
Who is the artist of the song "Now You're Gone" that was played non-stop for 20 hours in a charity fundraising event? | [
"Basshunter"
] |
What isolated locations might have provided opportunities for 'sexual experiment[ation]'? | [
"shielings",
"Shieling"
] |
Who was the gay man that Beyoncé paid tribute to on her official website after he was killed for vogueing to her music? | [
"O'Shae Sibley",
"Killing of O'Shae Sibley"
] |
What was determined by U.S. regulators to have broadcast from unauthorized facilities for more than 15 years? | [
"a South Carolina radio station",
"WLMA"
] |
Whose training in mineralogy led them to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of the British Army during World War I? | [
"Walter Campbell Smith"
] |
Who is Ireland's 2024 Eurovision entrant that describes their musical genre as 'ouija pop'? | [
"Bambie Thug"
] |
Which Elamite queen has a statue inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals? | [
"Napir-Asu"
] |
Which vocalist was compared by a critic to a 'rabid wolf'? | [
"Riley Gale"
] |
Who was a tennis star and US Army captain before photographing military volunteers in Ukraine? | [
"J. T. Blatty"
] |
Who was the first African-American botanist to work at the U.S. National Arboretum and helped preserve the famous flowering cherry trees in Washington, D.C.? | [
"Roland Jefferson"
] |
What is the only surviving Nestorian Christian site in Fangshan, Beijing? | [
"Cross Temple",
"Cross Temple, Fangshan"
] |
What company relaunched only months after going out of business? | [
"Milkrun"
] |
What was the fake product image that became an Internet meme in June 2021, which Kraft Heinz was 'intrigued' by? | [
"Mayoreo"
] |
What did about 200 San Francisco police officers do in reaction to a peaceful protest in a gay neighborhood in 1989? | [
"led a 1989 riot",
"Castro Sweep"
] |
What plant's root have the Chippewa smoked in pipes to attract game? | [
"Symphyotrichum novae-angliae",
"New England aster"
] |
What study did alcohol manufacturers claim violated their freedom of expression? | [
"Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study"
] |
Who was the host of a wrestling television show before pursuing a career in music? | [
"Lauren Jenkins"
] |
What vindicated James Cook? | [
"Vindication Island",
"an island"
] |
Who developed the now-defunct virtual world MiniMonos and was awarded the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit? | [
"Melissa Clark-Reynolds"
] |
What place in Cyprus is described as 'not old' despite having Bronze Age tombs and a medieval castle? | [
"Gastria"
] |
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