zechen-nlp/triviaqa huggingface dataset:
Question: The 'Occupy...' movement started in September 2011 and now has camps in more than 80 countries. But which was the first camp?
Answer: OCCUPY WALL STREET
Question: Which city is near the Hawkesbury river and is served by Kingsford-Smith airport?
Answer: Sydney
Question: What was the name of the French government from 1870 to 1940 when it collapsed and was replaced by the Vichy Government?
Answer: Third Republic
Question: Treaty of Rome signed, establishing the EEC.
Answer: 1957
Question: The flight of which space shuttle in 2011 successfully concluded Nasa's space shuttle programme?
Answer: Atlantis
Question: At which Japanese power plant was a state of emergency declared after an earthquake in 2011?
Answer: Fukushima
Question: In literature, whose servant was Sancho Panza?
Answer: Don Quixote
Question: In which game are there variations such as 'Honest John', 'Into the Woods' and 'Fives and Threes'?
Answer: Dominoes
Question: In 1842, which German socialist came to work in one of his father's mills, where sewing threads were made, in Weaste, Salford?
Answer: Friedrich Engels
Question: Martello Towers derive their name from a fortress on which island?
Answer: Corsica
Question: Which former Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote 'The Chancellor' about all his predecessors from Randolph Churchill to Hugh Dalton?
Answer: Roy Jenkins
Question: Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate in 1984 on the death of John Betjeman, but which poet declined the offer to succeed Betjeman?
Answer: Philip Larkin
Question: By what pen-name do we better know the Belgian artist Georges Remy, whose work has sold over 350 million copies?
Answer: Herge
Question: In which part of the world are the Berber people indigenous?
Answer: North Africa
Question: In the American army, what is an M1 Abrams?
Answer: Tank
Question: Which prominent British politician has children named Lara Lettice, Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches and Theodore Apollo?
Answer: Boris Johnson
Question: Who was the only man to serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer under both Harold Wilson and James Callaghan?
Answer: Dennis Healey
Question: Russia is the largest republic which emerged from the former Soviet Union; which is the second largest?
Answer: Kazakhstan
Question: Up until 1959, Karachi was the capital of Pakistan. Which city was capital from 1959 to 1969 whilst Islamabad was being built?
Answer: Rawalpindi
Question: Pudong International Airport serves which Far Eastern city?
Answer: SHANGHAI
Question: The film 'De-Lovely' is a biopic on which musician's life?
Answer: COLE PORTER
Question: The town of Ystad and its area are largely the setting for the exploits of which literary and TV detective?
Answer: WALLANDER
Question: Which US boundary line was named after two English surveyors who surveyed the area in the 1760s?
Answer: MASON-DIXON LINE
Question: Miss Pross and Jarvis Lorry are characters in which of Dickens' novels?
Answer: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Question: In Greek mythology by what name are mountain nymphs known?
Answer: OREADS
Question: Which Greek hero married Andromeda?
Answer: PERSEUS
Question: The British hit parade was first published in 1952, what was the first record to be number one?
Answer: HERE IN MY HEART
Question: Who was Chancellor of Germany immediately before Angela Merkel?
Answer: Gerhard Schroeder
Question: Which battle took place on June 18th 1815?
Answer: Waterloo
Question: Which was Status Quo's only not hit single, which came in 1974?
Answer: Down Down
Question: Which Bradford Bulls Rugby League player scored a hat trick of tries in the 1996 Wembley Challenge Cup Final, and was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy?
Answer: Robbie Paul
Question: If you were to fly due east out of Brisbane, which country's coastline would you fly over first?
Answer: Chile
Question: Under which monarch did William Laud become Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: Charles I
Question: In comedian Tony Hawks' 1997 book with what domestic item did he hitchhike around Ireland to win a bet?
Answer: FRIDGE
Question: Which group had a number 3 hit.in 1959 with the record Red River Rock?
Answer: JOHNNY AND THE HURRICANES
Question: Which of the characters in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland asked Alice the riddle "why is a raven like a writing desk"(which there is no answer to)?
Answer: THE HATTER
Question: Which South African statesman had the Christian names Balthazar Johannes?
Answer: VORSTER
Question: The 'Laws of Robotics' appeared in a 1942 short story `Runaround' by which author?
Answer: Isaac Asimov
Question: Which boxer held various world titles at cruiserweight and heavyweight between 1986 and 2000 and was nicknamed 'The Real Deal'?
Answer: Evander Holyfield
Question: Reigning from 27BC to 14AD, who was the first Roman Emperor?
Answer: Octavian
Question: In the Ashes series in Australia 2010-11 in which city did the Australians achieve their only victory?
Answer: PERTH
Question: Admiral Nelson lost his right arm whilst attacking which Spanish island in 1797?
Answer: TENERIFE
Question: Beheaded in 1483, Anthony Woodville was the brother-in-law of which English Icing?
Answer: EDWARD IV
Question: Swaziland is bordered by South Africa and which other country?
Answer: MOZAMBIQUE
Question: The Duke of Wellington was born in which city?
Answer: DUBLIN
Question: Which Coalition Cabinet Minister resigned from office within three weeks of the general election of 2010 following revelation of financial irregularities?
Answer: DAVID LAWS
Question: 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' was the debut album of Pink Floyd; the title came from a chapter heading in which book?
Answer: Wind in the Willows
Question: Who wrote 'The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner'?
Answer: SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Question: How is French Somaliland now known?
Answer: DJIBOUTI
Question: Which vegetable has varieties including 'Prince Albert, Champagne and Victoria'?
Answer: RHUBARB
Question: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman became an 'item' following their roles in which 1990 film?
Answer: DAYS OF THUNDER
Question: What one word links a 1974 album by Sparks and the group who had hits in 1984-5 with 'Duel' and 'Dr Mabuse'?
Answer: PROPAGANDA
Question: Officially known as the Wooden Bridge, what is the popular name of the wooden footbridge linking two halves of Queens' College, Cambridge?
Answer: MATHEMATICAL BRIDGE
Question: What is the cathedral church of Rome?
Answer: St John Lateran
Question: How many people have held the office of British Prime Minister since Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne?
Answer: Twelve
Question: His birth name was Leslie Lynch King. How was he better known?
Answer: GERALD FORD
Question: Which elderly entertainer presenter 'hoofer' received a knighthood in 2011?
Answer: SIR BRUCE FORSYTH
Question: What is the official name of Walsall FC's ground, still known to some fans as the Bescot Stadium?
Answer: BANKS'S STADIUM
Question: What was the first name of the father of Frasier and Niles Crane in the TV series 'Frasier'?
Answer: MARTIN
Question: What collective name is often used for Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester and Strood?
Answer: THE MEDWAY TOWNS
Question: Who became Governor of New South Wales in 1806 where his conduct led to his imprisonment for two years?
Answer: CAPTAIN WILLIAM BLIGH
Question: What was the title of the only novel written by Oscar Wilde?
Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Question: What do we call what the Americans call a 'hickey'?
Answer: Love bite
Question: Who in Greek mythology was the cupbearer to the gods and Goddess of eternal youth and was later replaced by Ganymede?
Answer: Hebe
Question: Which every day edible vegetable is from the daucus genus of plants?
Answer: Carrot
Question: Who wrote the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage?
Answer: Byron
Question: The Battle of Ligny, June 1815 was which man's final military victory?
Answer: NAPOLEON
Question: Which German, together with Ernst Abbe, developed and produced many new lenses and heat resistant glasses?
Answer: (Carl) ZEISS
Question: Three Mile Island, scene of a 1979 radio-active disaster, is in which US state?
Answer: PENNSYLVANIA
Question: In the film 'The Wizard of Oz', what is Dorothy's surname?
Answer: Gale
Question: As well as white, what colour appears on the cap of a water polo goalkeeper?
Answer: Red
Question: The flag of which Asian country contain an image of the mythical Thunder Dragon holding jewels?
Answer: Bhutan
Question: Which nickname for Haydn's Symphony Number 94 comes from a sudden loud chord at the end of a quiet opening theme of the second movement?
Answer: Surprise Symphony
Question: Giving his name to an adjective meaning sanctimonious and hypocritical, Seth Pecksniff appears in which Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit
Question: Which geological period was named after the word for chalk?
Answer: Cretaceous
Question: What was the name of the first space shuttle?
Answer: Columbia
Question: Which famous scientist said "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"?
Answer: Albert Einstein
Question: Which US bridge was designed by John Roebling (who died of tetanus during its construction) and completed by his son in 1883, until 1903 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world?
Answer: Brooklyn Bridge
Question: At least one of which series of spacecraft is docked to the International Space Station at all times for use as an escape craft in the event of an emergency?
Answer: Soyuz
Question: The epitaph for which American singer who died in 1988 was 'The best is yet to come'?
Answer: FRANK SINATRA
Question: The last words of which American actor who died in 1957 are reputed to be 'I should never have switched from scotch to martinis'?
Answer: HUMPHREY BOGART
Question: In what year did the Relief of Mafeking take place during the Boer War?
Answer: 1900
Question: In shipping weather forecasting regarding wind direction, what is the opposite term to 'veering'?
Answer: BACKING
Question: Which painting technique generally involves the use of egg yolk as a binding medium?
Answer: TEMPERA
Question: Responsible for such films as 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Gladiator', which film Production Company was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in 1994?
Answer: DREAMWORKS.
Question: What is the name of Burma's Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader of the opposition National League for Democracy?
Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi
Question: Captain Jack Absolute is a character in which 1775 play?
Answer: The Rivals
Question: What is the super-hero alter ego of DC comic book character Billy Batson?
Answer: Captain Marvel
Question: What is the super-hero alter ego of Marvel comic book character Steve Rogers?
Answer: Captain America
Question: In the Bible, who was the father of Ishmael?
Answer: Abraham
Question: Who was the last German Kaiser?
Answer: Wilhelm II
Question: Which TV detective was assisted by Geoffrey Shawcross?
Answer: Hetty Wainthropp
Question: The inconclusive 'Battle of the Solent' against the French on July 18/19 1545 was most notable for the loss of which ship?
Answer: Mary Rose
Question: What was the Bronze Age civilisation based on Crete?
Answer: MINOAN
Question: In Arthurian legend, which knight accepts a challenge from the Green Knight?
Answer: Gawain
Question: What was first framed in 1864 and ratified in 1906 concerning the conduct of warfare?
Answer: Geneva Convention
Question: In Britain, what was the name of the cartoon character of WWII who peered over a wall and usually said something beginning with "Wot, no .. "?
Answer: (Mr) Chad
Question: What colour is the right hand vertical band on the flag of Afghanistan?
Answer: Green
Question: What name is shared by cities in Ontario and Bermuda as well as a town near Glasgow?
Answer: Hamilton
Question: Mekele and Adama are the 2nd/3rd most populous cities in which African country?
Answer: Ethiopia
Question: Which 1997 album, voted the best ever by readers of Q magazine, contains tracks let Down', 'No Surprises' and 'Paranoid Android'?
Answer: OK COMPUTER
Question: What TV detective was Pierce Brosnan contracted to play, which meant that he had to refuse the offer to play James Bond in 1986?
Answer: REMINGTON STEELE
Question: Which goddess in Greek myth helped to guide Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War?
Answer: ATHENA
Question: At which bay in East Sussex did William of Normandy land to start his invasion of England?
Answer: PEVENSEY
Question: Which US city was known as Yerba Buena until 1847?
Answer: SAN FRANCISCO
Question: What is the name of Nicholas Nickleby's rascally uncle in the eponymous novel by Dickens?
Answer: RALPH
Question: Bourbon whisky is produced mostly, though not exclusively, in an area known as Old Bourbon, in which US state?
Answer: Kentucky
Question: Which French Revolutionary leader said before his execution in 1794: "Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing"?
Answer: George Danton
Question: Which rock band formed in 1994, is named after unexplained lights seen by WW2 pilots?
Answer: Foo Fighters
Question: Who, now an Honorary Professor of Media Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, wrote the autobiography 'Mid Term Report'?
Answer: Phil Redmond
Question: In 2012, who became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound without vehicular power when he jumped from a helium balloon at a height of approximately 24 miles?
Answer: Felix Baumgartner
Question: In World War 2, what code name was given to the Allied airborne landings at Arnhem in 1944?
Answer: Market Garden
Question: Which war ended on 28 March 1939?
Answer: SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Question: Which hominid is named after the valley near Dusseldorf; where the first skull was found in 1957?
Answer: NEANDERTHAL
Question: How many countries joined together to create the original European Economic Community following upon the Treaty of Rome in 1957?
Answer: Six
Question: What was the name of the former British naval base just to the south of Cape Town, South Africa?
Answer: Simonstown
Question: Leviathan, the world's largest vessel of its type when built at Cammell Laird in 1909, was based at the Port of Liverpool, what type of vessel was she?
Answer: (Suction) Dredger
Question: The flag of which African country consists of three horizontal bands of orange, white and green (top to bottom), with an orange circle in the middle of the central white band?
Answer: NIGER
Question: In heraldry, what colour is gules, when emblazoned on a coat of arms?
Answer: RED
Question: """Uberrimae fidei"" is the motto of Lloyds of London. What does it mean?"
Answer: """UTMOST GOOD FAITH"""
Question: Which role in Parliament is held in 2012 by Amyas Morse?
Answer: (COMPTROLLER AND) AUDITOR GENERAL
Question: Which role in Parliament is held in 2012 by Dominic Grieve?
Answer: ATTORNEY GENERAL
Question: Who was the painter of the work The Treachery of Images, which includes the words "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"?
Answer: RENE MAGRITTE
Question: What was the name of the Roman festivities in mid to late December, elements of which were incorporated into Christmas?
Answer: SATURNALIA
Question: Which British landmark was climbed for the first time by Chris Bonnington, Rusty Baillie and Tom Patey over a three day period in 1966?
Answer: OLD MAN OF HOY
Question: What is the surname of Charlie, the Senior Charge Nurse played by Derek Thompson in 'Casualty'?
Answer: FAIRHEAD
Question: Which member of the tuba family is named after the American composer (1854-1932) who popularized its use in his band?
Answer: SOUSAPHONE
Question: This game park is so big it is divided into Tsavo East and Tsavo West, but in which country are they situated?
Answer: KENYA
Question: The novel 'A Good Year', about a City trader who inherits a vineyard in Provence, was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cottillard. Who wrote it?
Answer: PETER MAYLE
Question: The use of what widely used product was first demonstrated at Merstham Quarry, Surrey in 1867?
Answer: DYNAMITE
Question: Which poem by Keats and novel by Disraeli both have the same title?
Answer: ENDYMION
Question: Which sauce derives its name from the Italian for "pounded"?
Answer: PESTO
Question: What term is used to describe the furthest point of the moon from the Earth?
Answer: APOGEE
Question: Whose historical novels about the Royal Navy include the Richard Bolitho novels set during the Napoleonic era, written under the pseudonym Alexander Kent?
Answer: DOUGLAS REEMAN
Question: Ramsay McDonald was the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK. Who was the second?
Answer: Clement Atlee
Question: In which Dickens novel does Bob Sawyer appear?
Answer: Pickwick Papers
Question: Which bird of the pigeon family was found in huge numbers in North America until the 19th century but then went into decline due to hunting and became extinct in 1914?
Answer: Passenger pigeon
Question: Who wrote the play "The Rose Tattoo" in 1951?
Answer: Tennessee Williams
Question: During the Indian Mutiny in which town was the British Residency besieged by mutineers from June until November 1857 before being relieved by General Campbell?
Answer: Lucknow
Question: During World War 2 North American Aviation built a fighter with a single Rolls Royce Merlin engine which proved to be the best long range fighter of the war. What was its name?
Answer: Mustang
Question: In which year was HRH Prince Harry born; the first Apple Macintosh went on sale; the UK coal industry strike began?
Answer: 1984
Question: Lord Roy Jenkins chose which part of Glasgow as his title?
Answer: HILLHEAD
Question: What word was used by Billy Batson to change into Captain Marvel?
Answer: SHAZAM!
Question: What is the former name of the element Potassium, from which it takes its chemical symbol?
Answer: Kalium
Question: Who played headmistress Miss Fritton and her brother in the 2007 film 'St. Trinians"?
Answer: Rupert Everett
Question: Which African country has a flag which is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow and red, similar to the flag of Romania?
Answer: Chad
Question: What is a cricket umpire signalling when he holds out one arm horizontally?
Answer: No Ball
Question: What name is given to the slender glass tube used to deliver a fixed volume of liquid, especially used in chemistry?
Answer: Pipette
Question: Give either of the real forenames of 'Bix' Beiderbecke?
Answer: Leon Bismark
Question: The Headrow is a major street in which British city?
Answer: Leeds
Question: In which year did the following events occur; Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space, Tim Berners-Lee established the first website and Robert Maxwell died?
Answer: 1991
Question: Which coastal West African country lies between Ghana and Benin?
Answer: Togo
Question: Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding formed which Swindon band, whose albums include "Drums and Wire," "Oranges and Lemons" and "English Settlement"?
Answer: XTC
Question: What is the alternative name of vitamin B2, useful in breaking down protein, fat and carbohydrates?
Answer: Riboflavin
Question: Since September 1997, what has been the rate of VAT on domestic fuel, the lowest permitted under EU law?
Answer: 5%
Question: Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl were two thirds of which band, formed in Aberdeen (Washington State) whose albums include "Bleach" and "In Utero"?
Answer: Nirvana
Question: The 2010 Winter Olympic skiing and sliding events took place in what town, approximately 75 miles north of Vancouver?
Answer: Whistler
Question: Who raised the land speed record to over 394mph driving the Railton Special in 1947, he died on Loch Ness in 1952 in an attempt to break the water speed record?
Answer: John Cobb
Question: Who, in 1947 at the age of 31, became the youngest Cabinet Minister since Pitt the Younger when he was appointed President of the Board of Trade?
Answer: Harold Wilson
Question: In which sport or game is Judit Polgar the highest ranked female although she has never taken part in the Women's World Championship?
Answer: Chess
Question: Wyatt's rebellion was raised to oppose a proposed marriage involving which monarch?
Answer: Queen Mary
Question: What was the alias used by Salman Rushdie during his period in hiding after his 1989 fatwa? It is also the title of his latest book.
Answer: Joseph Anton
Question: Which former England cricket captain died in December 2012?
Answer: TONY GREIG
Question: Who is the male star of the 2000 film 'The Beach'?
Answer: LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Question: Which Scottish King died in 1329 from a skin disease, rumoured to have been leprosy?
Answer: ROBERT THE BRUCE
Question: Which Welsh group, fronted by Dave Edmunds, had a hit single in 1968 with a version of Khachaturian's 'Sabre Dance'?
Answer: LOVE SCULPTURE
Question: What is the title of the BBC drama series starring Dominic West which centres on a current-affairs TV show in the 1950s?
Answer: THE HOUR
Question: Taking its name from the Greek word for 'delight', which school of philosophy believes that pleasure is the only intrinsic good?
Answer: Hedonism
Question: In the Iliad, which Greek hero killed the Trojan leader Hector?
Answer: Achilles
Question: During the Trojan War, who was killed by the Trojans whilst wearing Achilles' armour?
Answer: Patroclus
Question: What is the 'collective name of the books included in the Roman Catholic Bible but not the Protestant Bible?
Answer: Apocrypha
Question: Which Russian city reverted to its former name, Nizhniy Novgorod, in 1990?
Answer: Gorky
Question: The Wachau (say Vak-ow) is a principal wine growing area of which country?
Answer: Austria
Question: Which 19th century French painter's works include The Gleaners and The Angelus , both of which were extensively reproduced at the time?
Answer: Jean-Francois Millet
Question: 'Descartes said "Cogito ergo sum". What does this Latin phrase mean?
Answer: I think, therefore I am
Question: The jazz classic Mood Indigo is particularly associated with whose orchestra?
Answer: Duke Ellington
Question: Dr Andrew Wakefield caused a stir when he associated the risk of autism with what?
Answer: MMR
Question: Derived from the Italian word for large loaf, what is the name of the Milanese fruit cake traditionally eaten at Christmas and New Year?
Answer: Panettone
Question: In fiction to which dub do Tracy Tupman, Nathaniel Winkle and Augustus Snodgrass belong?
Answer: The Pickwick Club
Question: Which character in a 1991 film said "I do wish we could chat longer but I'm having an old friend for dinner?
Answer: Hannibal Lecter
Question: What was the codename for the British/American landings in French North Africa, begun in November 1942?
Answer: Operation Torch
Question: In The Pickwick Papers, what is the name of Pickwick's landlady who sues him for breach of promise?
Answer: Mrs Bardell
Question: What device was once known as a 'Loiusette' after its inventor, surgeon Antoine Louis?
Answer: Guillotine
Question: London's Charing Cross Road is well known for which type of businesses?
Answer: Book shops
Question: Sanditon is an unfinished novel by whom?
Answer: Jane Austen
Question: In what year was the Russian submarine Kursk sunk and the USS Cole attacked in Aden?
Answer: 2000
Question: Philip K Dick's short story We Can Remember It For you Wholesale was the basis for which 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Total Recall
Question: Dave Gahan and Martin Gore are members of which British electronic band founded in the 1980s, they played the 02 Arena in 2013?
Answer: Depeche Mode
Question: Which TV series shown on BBC3 in 2013 stars Luke Newbury as "Kieren" a recovering zombie?
Answer: In the Flesh
Question: The astronauts "Dallas", "Ripley", "Kane", "Lambert", "Brett" and "Parker", are characters in which 1979 science fiction film?
Answer: Alien
Question: In which modern day country did the Axis forces construct the defensive "Gustav Line" in the second world war?
Answer: Italy
Question: Which World War II Operation 'Mincemeat' gave rise to a book and film of the same name?
Answer: THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS
Question: Swansea City now play their home games at The Liberty Stadium. What was the name of their previous home venue?
Answer: VETCH FIELD
Question: In the Old Testament, TWO books are named after women. Ruth is one - name the other.
Answer: ESTHER
Question: On which island is the city of Djakarta
Answer: JAVA
Question: Who had a number one hit in 1955 with 'Give me your word' and in 1956 with 'Sixteen Tons'?
Answer: TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD