kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: people
Question: She was a successful Hollywood actress and he was the president of the USA.  They never managed to be together legally, but their relationship was a public secret.
Choices: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMagio; Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy; Ava Gardner and Bobby Kennedy; Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra
Answer: Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy
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Question: Being romantic poets, these two had a really romantic relationship. They knew how to do it, including all the elements a romantic story needs: secret courtship, love poems and everything necessary for their love to thrive.
Choices: Charles and Katherine Dickens; Robert and Elizabeth Browning; Marie and Pierre Curie; Sappho and Homer
Answer: Robert and Elizabeth Browning
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Question: He was a famous French conqueror,  but this wasnt enough for her to accept the marriage proposal immediately. She hesitated at first, but finally agreed.
Choices: Napoleon and Josephine Baker; Napoleon and Josephine; Alexander the Great and Cleopatra; Amenhotep and Nefertiti
Answer: Napoleon and Josephine
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Question: The most famous gangster couple in history, her last name was Parker and he was the anti-authoritarian criminal Barrow.
Choices: Bonnie and Clyde; Cuocolo and Cutinelli; Barre and Lebiez; Lou Jean Poplin and Clovis
Answer: Bonnie and Clyde
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Question: On April 9, 2005 their marriage ended years of speculation on a relationship which has spanned the decades since they first met in 1970.
Choices: Charles and Camilla; Kate Beckingsale and Len Wisemen; Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas; Jason Priestley and Naomi Lowde
Answer: Charles and Camilla
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Question: Babe Ruths nickname
Choices: The Crusher from Conrad; The Yankee menace; The Sultan of Swat; The Prince of Power
Answer: The Sultan of Swat
Category: people
Question: Red Grange
Choices: The Galloping Ghost; The Illini Rocket; Greased Lightning; The Wheatfield Warrior
Answer: The Galloping Ghost
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Question: Jerry West
Choices: Mr. Gearhead; Mr. Amazing; Mr. Fantastic; Mr. Clutch
Answer: Mr. Clutch
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Question: Edson Arantes Do Nascimento
Choices: Maradonna; Carmingo; Barloli Dominguez; Pele
Answer: Pele
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Question: Jack Nicklaus
Choices: The Golden Eagle; The Golden Buckeye; The Golden Swing; The Golden Bear
Answer: The Golden Bear
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Question: Rod Laver
Choices: Booster; Rocket; Ram; The Australian Lion
Answer: Rocket
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Question: Joe Namath
Choices: White Shoes; 5th Avenue Joe; Broadway Joe; Smooth as Silk
Answer: Broadway Joe
Category: people
Question: Willie Mays
Choices: The Kansas Kid; Fearless; The Say-Hey Kid; The Frisco Phenom
Answer: The Say-Hey Kid
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Question: Bobby Hull
Choices: The Golden Blackhawk; The Golden Flash; The Golden Goose; The Golden Jet
Answer: The Golden Jet
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Question: Paavo Nurmi
Choices: The Finnish Flash; The Turko Wonder; The Flying Finn; The Turko Turbo
Answer: The Flying Finn
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Question: Gary Leon Rigway is known as the Green River Killer, responsible for at least 48 murders.  What kind of people did he target?
Choices: Nurses; Prostitutes and runaways; Schoolboys; Schoolgirls
Answer: Prostitutes and runaways
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Question: This serial killer, known as The Ripper of Rostov, roamed Russia in the late 1900s.  He was later found guilty of 52 murders and sentenced to death.
Choices: Anatoly Onoprieno; Vadim Yershov; Nikolai Dzhurmongaliev; Andrei Chikatilo
Answer: Andrei Chikatilo
Category: people
Question: The Monster of the Andes, as Pedro Lopez is known, terrorized Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. How many people did he victimize?
Choices: More than 300; More than 100; More than 50; More than 200
Answer: More than 300
Category: people
Question: Certainly one of the most dreadful serial killers in US history. Even though he performed as a clown at neghborhood childrens parties, he killed 33 teenagers.
Choices: Joe Ball; John Wayne Gacy; Marie Besnard; Albert Fish
Answer: John Wayne Gacy
Category: people
Question: Bruno Ludke was born in 1909. When he was young, he tortured animals for fun. He strangled or stabbed to death 85 women.  Where was he from?
Choices: Russia; Great Britain; America; Germany
Answer: Germany
Category: people
Question: This serial killer terrorized Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida. His death sentence was executed in Florida on 24 January 1989.
Choices: Richard Ramirez; Richard Iceman Kuklinski; Juan Corona; Ted Bundy
Answer: Ted Bundy
Category: people
Question: This mans rampage lasted from 1979 to 1981. He roamed Atlanta and Georgia, taking the lives of 27 innocent boys. At first the police thought he was a white supremacist, because he targeted black boys, but it turned out he was black himself.  He was caught on 22 May 1981.
Choices: Kendall Francois; Wayne Williams; Guy Georges; Robert Berdella
Answer: Wayne Williams
Category: people
Question: This serial killer was known as The Candy Man. His partner,  Wayne Henley, eventually shot him.
Choices: Richard Angelo; Dean Corll; Clifford Robert Olson; Abdallah al-Hubal
Answer: Dean Corll
Category: people
Question: Henry Lee Lucas confessed to more than 500 murders. How many murders was he actually convicted of?
Choices: 600; 201; 255; 11
Answer: 11
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Question: There are many theories about the identity of this mysterious British serial killer. He marks the dawn of the modern age of serial murders. Although the number of his victims is not high, compared to others on our list (5), he is probably the worlds most famous serial murderer.
Choices: Earl Frederick; Jack The Ripper; The Toledo Clubber; Joel Rifkin
Answer: Jack The Ripper
Category: people
Question: He disliked Jews and accused them of causing all disasters in German history.
Choices: Mussolini; Lenin; Stalin; Hitler
Answer: Hitler
Category: people
Question: He delivered the famous I have a dream speech.
Choices: Mao Zedong; Martin Luther King Jr.; Ho Chi Minh; Pope John Paul II
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
Category: people
Question: She was the only woman to become Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Choices: Diane Julie Abbott; Queen Victoria; Margaret Thatcher; Elizabeth Furse
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Category: people
Question: He was the only Pope of non-Italian origin since the Dutch-German Pope Adrian VI.
Choices: John Paul I; Benedict XVI; Blessed John XXIII; Pope John Paul II
Answer: Pope John Paul II
Category: people
Question: He was the only actor to become US President.
Choices: Teddy Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Ronald Reagan; Bill Clinton
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Category: people
Question: He was the first democratically-elected President of South Africa.
Choices: Nelson Mandela; Martin Luther King; Mao Zedong; Lech Walesa
Answer: Nelson Mandela
Category: people
Question: He brought the cause of Indias independence to world attention.
Choices: Ho Chi Minh; Lech Walesa; Nelson Mandela; Mohandas Gandhi
Answer: Mohandas Gandhi
Category: people
Question: Which British Prime Minister is considered to have saved his country during WW2?
Choices: Edward Heath; Neville Chamberlain; Edward Churchill; Winston Churchill
Answer: Winston Churchill
Category: people
Question: He established the first fascist party.
Choices: Hitler; Winston Churchill; Benito Mussolini; Stalin
Answer: Benito Mussolini
Category: people
Question: The name he is known as means Awakened One, Enlightened One.
Choices: Jesus Christ; Dalai Lama; Buddha; Mohamed
Answer: Buddha
Category: people
Question: Before becoming an important political figure, this George was a businessman, involved with the oil industry and then with professional sports.
Choices: George Washington; George W Bush; George Orwell; George Eliot
Answer: George W Bush
Category: people
Question: This George is one of the greatest English novelists. The term Big Brother comes from his book 1984.
Choices: George Eliot; George Sand; George Bernard Shaw; George Orwell
Answer: George Orwell
Category: people
Question: This George was the first president of the USA. Although the American capital city was named after him, he never lived there.
Choices: George Orwell; George Washington; George Lucas; George Bush
Answer: George Washington
Category: people
Question: This George was actually a woman and her real name was Mary Ann Evans. She used a male pen name because she wanted the publishers to take her works seriously.
Choices: George Sand; George Bernard Shaw; George Orwell; George Eliot
Answer: George Eliot
Category: people
Question: This George received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1925 but he didnt take the prize money. Instead, he gave the money for funding the translation of Swedish literature into English.
Choices: George Bernard Shaw; George Sand; George Fox; George Orwell
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Category: people
Question: In 1997 this George was voted Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. His first TV role was in the TV series E/R.
Choices: George Fox; George Clooney; George Lucas; George Herbert
Answer: George Clooney
Category: people
Question: This George lived for only 40 years - from 1593 until 1633. Nevertheless, he became a great poet. However, none of his works was published while he was alive.
Choices: George Gordon Byron; George Herbert; George Fox; George Eliot
Answer: George Herbert
Category: people
Question: His most famous works were Childe Harolds Pilgrimage and Don Juan. His fame rests not only on his romantic poems; he was known for his lifestyle, which included extravagant living, debts, separation, claims of incest, etc.
Choices: George Eliot; George Gordon Byron; George Lucas; George Sand
Answer: George Gordon Byron
Category: people
Question: This George was also a woman. Her real name was Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin. She was a feminist before the invention of the word. She had a romantic relationship with Chopin.
Choices: George Herbert; George Sand; George Eliot; George Fox
Answer: George Sand
Category: people
Question: This George is the director of one of the most famous movie sagas. However the script for this saga was initially turned down by every major Hollywood studio because no one would want to see it.
Choices: George Orwell; George Clooney; George Michael; George Lucas
Answer: George Lucas
Category: people
Question: This John was a writer. He received the Nobel price for literature in 1962 for his realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humour and keen social perception.
Choices: John Tolkien; John Steinbeck; John Wayne; John Milton
Answer: John Steinbeck
Category: people
Question: This famous English poet is the author of Paradise Lost. The long hours of writing under the light of a candle cost him his eyesight. He then started using a scribe.
Choices: John Tolkien; John Milton; John Denver; John Steinbeck
Answer: John Milton
Category: people
Question: This John was a member of one of the most popular bands from the 60s.  Earlier, he has formed his own band called The Quarrymen.
Choices: John Lennon; John Major; John Secada; John Bon Jovi
Answer: John Lennon
Category: people
Question: This John majored in philology, which triggered his interest in linguistics. This enabled him to invent 15 artificial languages. Two of them are most popular: Quenya and Sindarin, the two Elvish languages in The Lord of the Rings.
Choices: John Steinbeck; John Donne; John Tolkien; John Milton
Answer: John Tolkien
Category: people
Question: This John is the one who said Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Choices: John Doe; John Smith; John Major; John Kennedy
Answer: John Kennedy
Category: people
Question: This John was one of the greatest English poets in the 17th century. He belonged to the group of the so-called metaphysical poets. It was his meditations that gave Hemingway the idea about the title of For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Choices: John Secada; John Tolkien; John Donne; John Milton
Answer: John Donne
Category: people
Question: Besides being an actor, this Pulp Fiction John is a certified pilot and owns a couple of planes.
Choices: John Goodman; John Travolta; John Wayne; John Smith
Answer: John Travolta
Category: people
Question: The real name of this John was Marion Robert Morrison. When his brother was born, the name Robert was given to him and the former became Marion Michael Morrison. Then he got the nickname Duke. Most sources state that his first movie was Words and Music (1929).
Choices: John Wayne; John Goodman; John Bon Jovi; John Travolta
Answer: John Wayne
Category: people
Question: This man is also known as Karol Wojtyla and Juan Pablo II. His reign as a Pope was the third-longest in the history of the Papacy. He named himself after his predecessor, who died suddenly after only 33 days of service to God.
Choices: John Donne; John Paul II; John Major; John Paul I
Answer: John Paul II
Category: people
Question: This seafarer John was captured by the Indians around 1600. He reported in his account that the Indian chief wanted to club him to death. He was saved by the 11-12 year old daughter of the chief, who stood between her father and the Englishman.
Choices: John Bravo; John Mcenroe; John Smith; John Brown
Answer: John Smith
Category: people
Question: This great Spanish explorer conquered what is now central and southern Mexico.
Choices: Christopher Columbus; Vasco Da Gama; Ferdinand Magellan; Hernando Cortes
Answer: Hernando Cortes
Category: people
Question: This mans voyages were the base for Frances claim to Canada. His initial intention was to search for the Northwest Passage to the Orient.
Choices: Marco Polo; Francis Drake; Samuel de Champlain; Jacques Cartier
Answer: Jacques Cartier
Category: people
Question: He is famous for sailing around the world twice. He became the first European to visit the coasts of Hawaii and Australia. Due to his voyages  some colonies were established throughout the Pacific region by several European nations.
Choices: John Franklin; Martin Frobisher; Henry Hudson; James Cook
Answer: James Cook
Category: people
Question: This great explorer is famous for his fulfilment of the first all water trade route between India and Europe .
Choices: Vasco da Gama; Gaspar Corte Real; Henry the Navigator; Marco Polo
Answer: Vasco da Gama
Category: people
Question: Along with his brother, this famous explorer reached Kaifeng, the capital of Kublai Khans Mongol Empire in 1265.
Choices: Gaspar Corte Real; Hernando Cortes; Marco Polo; Ferdinand Magellan
Answer: Marco Polo
Category: people
Question: This great explorer found a new continent thinking he had found a new way to India.
Choices: Hernando Cortes; Henry the Navigator; Christopher Columbus; Gaspar Corte Real
Answer: Christopher Columbus
Category: people
Question: This great explorer spent years searching for a seaway to China in order to trade Spains New World gold, thus contributing with information about America before its Indian cities were destroyed by foreign diseases.
Choices: John Franklin; Samuel de Champlain; John Nicolas; Hernando de Soto
Answer: Hernando de Soto
Category: people
Question: By his circumnavigation around the world, which took three years, from 1577 to 1580, this explorer gave a more accurate picture of the true geography of the world.
Choices: Sir Francis Drake; Christopher Columbus; Ferdinand Magellan; Horatio Nelson
Answer: Sir Francis Drake
Category: people
Question: He was the first man to explore Antarctica by land. He led two expeditions with the intention to find out more about the animals, weather and geology of the Antarctic.
Choices: Captain James Cook; Ferdinand Magellan; Captain Scott; Sebastian Cabot
Answer: Captain Scott
Category: people
Question: Famous for his sea explorations, this man helped develop the first self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA).
Choices: Neil Armstrong; Ernest Shackleton; David Livingstone; Jacques Cousteau
Answer: Jacques Cousteau
Category: people
Question: People who do this job are responsible for making 3-D films look so real.  They create the hairstyles of the animated characters.
Choices: Computer Hair Stylist; Animation Hair Consultant; Hair Simulation Supervisors; Hair Care Animator
Answer: Hair Simulation Supervisors
Category: people
Question: What does a Wrinkle Chaser do?
Choices: Irons wrinkles from shoes; Chase wrinkles from your face; Studies the wrinkles on someones face; Performs plastic surgeries
Answer: Irons wrinkles from shoes
Category: people
Question: As a Banana Gasser, what gas would you use to catalyze the ripening of bananas?
Choices: Ethylene; Methyl; Helium; Saline
Answer: Ethylene
Category: people
Question: Are your taste buds working over time?  If so, this job might be perfect for you. John Harrison is doing this job for the Dreyers.
Choices: Candy Licker; Drugs Tester; Ice Cream Taster; Fruit Tester
Answer: Ice Cream Taster
Category: people
Question: Have you ever noticed that not all onions are created equal? Some are bigger, some smaller, some differ in color and this person has to sort them.
Choices: Onion Graders; Onion Janitors; Grocers; Onion Cleaners
Answer: Onion Graders
Category: people
Question: What does a Golf Ball Marshal do?
Choices: They carry golf sticks; They search for lost golf balls; They win golf championships; They are retired golf players
Answer: They search for lost golf balls
Category: people
Question: These guys provide the primary ingredient for life-saving serums to people who have been bitten by poisonous snakes.
Choices: Snake Doctors; Zoo Keepers; Snake Milkers; Snake Taxidermist
Answer: Snake Milkers
Category: people
Question: A Vermiculturist uses this animal to produce compost?
Choices: Worms; Flies; Ticks; Bacteria
Answer: Worms
Category: people
Question: Who made this popular statement in July 1969: Thats one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.?
Choices: John McKay; Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldren; John Glenn
Answer: Neil Armstrong
Category: people
Question: Which US President said: I am not a crook.?
Choices: Abraham Lincoln; John F Kennedy; John Glenn; Richard Nixon
Answer: Richard Nixon
Category: people
Question: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. These words were delivered by which US President?
Choices: John F. Kennedy; George Washington; Richard Nixon; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: John F. Kennedy
Category: people
Question: Which famous boxer said that he would float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.?
Choices: Muhammad Ali; Leon Spinks; Sugar Ray Leonard; Mike Tyson
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Category: people
Question: Which scientist is credited with the following quote: I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.?
Choices: Sir Issac Newton; Albert Einstein; Jack Parr; Thomas Edison
Answer: Albert Einstein
Category: people
Question: Which famous politician said: We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.?
Choices: Thomas Jefferson; Theodore Roosevelt; John Hancock; Benjamin Franklin
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Category: people
Question: Who made a speech, known by the popular name I Have a Dream?
Choices: Willie Ricks; Roy Wilkins; Martin Luther King Jr; James Farmer
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr
Category: people
Question: What famous person delivered these words: I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.?
Choices: John Hancock; Abraham Lincoln; Mahatma Gandhi; Mother Teresa
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Category: people
Question: Which fashion designer made this statement: Fashion passes, style remains.?
Choices: Paco Rabanne; Coco Chanel; Ralph Lauren; Donatella Versace
Answer: Coco Chanel
Category: people
Question: Which US President said the following words: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.?
Choices: Thomas Jefferson; George Washington; Richard Nixon; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Category: people
Question: Who is credited with delivering the following words: 100% of the shots you dont take dont go in.?
Choices: Larry Bird; Mike Tyson; Michael Jordan; Wayne Gretzky
Answer: Wayne Gretzky
Category: people
Question: These words belong to which famous writer: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.?
Choices: Benjamin Franklin; Charles Schultz; Mark Twain; Dr Seuss
Answer: Mark Twain
Category: people
Question: One of the following terrorist leaders can be described as a tall and thin man with an olive complexion and a cane, who is left-handed and always wears a plain white turban.
Choices: Abdullah Sungkar; Osama bin Laden; Tohir Yuldashev; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Answer: Osama bin Laden
Category: people
Question: The Roman emperor, Tiberius, was a left-handed ruler, who belonged to what dynasty?
Choices: Julio-Claudian dynasty; Severan dynasty; Valentinian dynasty; Flavian dynasty
Answer: Julio-Claudian dynasty
Category: people
Question: Raphael was a left-handed painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance. One of these works does not belong to him.
Choices: Woman with a veil (La Donna Velata); The Marriage of the Virgin; The School of Athens; The Night Watch
Answer: The Night Watch
Category: people
Question: Ronald Reagan was a left-handed President.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Both rappers, 50 Cent and Eminem, are left-handed.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Which of these rulers / politicians was not left-handed?
Choices: Benjamin Franklin; Julius Caesar; Bill Clinton; They were all left-handed
Answer: They were all left-handed
Category: people
Question: During her trial, Joan of Arc was accused of being left-handed.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Nelson Rockefeller, the left-handed 41st Vice President of the United States of America, was a governor of this state before becoming Vice President.
Choices: Pennsylvania; Massachusetts; Connecticut; New York
Answer: New York
Category: people
Question: Jay Leno is a left-handed American comedian, who suffers from what disease?
Choices: Diabetes; Dyslexia; Mild deafness; Epilepsy
Answer: Dyslexia
Category: people
Question: The left-handed actor, Jim Carrey, played what character in the 2004 Hollywood production, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
Choices: Frank; Stan; Patrick; Joel
Answer: Joel
Category: people
Question: This is the last movie in which the lefty, Charlie Chaplin appeared.
Choices: The Great Dictator; Limelight; Modern Times; A Countess from Hong Kong
Answer: A Countess from Hong Kong
Category: people
Question: The left-handed Hollywood actor, Morgan Freeman, was born in which city?
Choices: Memphis; Nashville; Pittsburgh; Philadelphia
Answer: Memphis
Category: people
Question: After achieving success with his horror stories, this writer called himself Richard Bachman because he wanted to see if his novels would sell without his already famous name on them.
Choices: D.B. Wyndham-Lewis; Stephen King; Bruce Frederick Cummings; John Bingham Morton
Answer: Stephen King
Category: people
Question: Lewis Carroll conceived Alices Adventures in Wonderland as nursery tales for the daughter of a friend.
Choices: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; EugÃ¨ne Grindel; D.B. Wyndham-Lewis; Sue Denim
Answer: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Category: people
Question: Paul Eluard was a major exponent of surrealism.  Many of his poems reflect the hardship after his separation with his first wife Gala, who left him for Salvador Dali.
Choices: Jacques Anatole FranÃ§ois Thibault; Lucy Beatrice Malleson; Harry Hart Frank; EugÃ¨ne Grindel
Answer: EugÃ¨ne Grindel
Category: people
Question: Besides a poet, Pablo Neruda was also a diplomat and a Communist leader.  He changed his original name because he didnt want his father to find out he was a poet.
Choices: Hector Hugh Munro; Louis Cha; Ricardo Eliecer NeftalÃ­ Reyes Basoalto; Eric Arthur Blair
Answer: Ricardo Eliecer NeftalÃ­ Reyes Basoalto
Category: people
Question: Anatole France was probably the most famous French man of letters of his time.  In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Choices: Jacques Anatole Thibault; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; William Sidney Porter; John Dickson Carr
Answer: Jacques Anatole Thibault
Category: people
Question: Stendhal hated his father so he took the first opportunity to leave for Paris, where he became a lieutenant in Napoleonâs army.  He began his literary career after the fall of Napoleon in 1814.
Choices: Marie Henri Beyle; Paul M. A. Linebarger; Dan Perkins; Johann Kaspar Schmidt
Answer: Marie Henri Beyle
Category: people
Question: Moliere became famous as the father of French high comedy. He coined the phrase castigat ridendo mores (to criticise customs through humour) which is sometimes mistaken for a genuine Latin proverb.
Choices: Jean Baptiste Poquelin; Georges Remi; James Oliver Rigney, Jr.; GÃ©rard Labrunie
Answer: Jean Baptiste Poquelin
Category: people
Question: Saki was a master of short stories.  It is said that his pen name could be a reference to a monkey with the same name.
Choices: Hector Hugh Munro; Frederic Dannay; Theodore Seuss Geisel; Natsume Kinnosuke
Answer: Hector Hugh Munro
Category: people
Question: O. Henry was working as a bank teller when he was sent to jail for embezzlement.  He spent 3 years in jail where he started writing his short stories.
Choices: Georges Remi; William Sydney Porter; Harry Hart Frank; Stanley Martin Lieber
Answer: William Sydney Porter
Category: people
Question: Both in the year when Mark Twain was born and the year when he died, the Halleys Comet passed by Earth.
Choices: Johann Kaspar Schmidt; Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Don Novello; Charles Farrar Browne
Answer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Category: people
Question: This Roman dictator proclaimed himself a god and built statues and temples to himself in Rome. He even ordered his statue to be placed in Jerusalem, so Jews can worship him.
Choices: Caligula; Caesar; Claudius; Cassius Chaerea
Answer: Caligula
Category: people
Question: This Russian dictator was given the name Grozniy by his compatriots as he was an evil person. The number of his marriages is unknown, but it is stated that they are at least five. He killed his son in a fit of rage.
Choices: Ivan The Terrible; Alexander; Ivan V; Peter I
Answer: Ivan The Terrible
Category: people
Question: He was known for his terrorist tactics and cruel methods of punishing those he found guilty, especially by impalement, which gave him the nickname Tepes, or The Impaler.
Choices: Todor Jivkov; Vlad Dracula; Joseph Stalin; Nicolae Ceaucescu
Answer: Vlad Dracula
Category: people
Question: This Russian dictator established the USSR as a modern economic and military power, able to repel Hitlers armies in World War II. However his reign was marked by terror and the deaths of millions of real and presumed opponents of his policies.
Choices: Gorbachev; Yeltsin; J. V. Stalin; Lenin
Answer: J. V. Stalin
Category: people
Question: He directed the systematic extermination of over 11 million people, mostly Jews, in a genocide now known as the Holocaust.
Choices: Nikita Khrushchev; Napoleon; Stalin; Hitler
Answer: Hitler
Category: people
Question: This person was expelled from the Socialist party on the grounds that he advocated Italys involvement in the Great War.  Following the war, he organized the Italian Fascist Party.
Choices: Benito Mussolini; Nicolae Ceaucescu; George Papadopulos; Augusto Pinochet
Answer: Benito Mussolini
Category: people
Question: Under the rule of this fascist dictator all political parties and labor unions were banned. Books were  burned, and dissenters were tortured and executed.
Choices: Francisco Franco; Antonio De Oliveira Salazar; Benito Mussolini; Turgut Ozal
Answer: Francisco Franco
Category: people
Question: He claimed that Democracy is the breeding ground of Communism.  That is why he ended Chiles 150-years of democracy.
Choices: Alfredo Stroessner; Augusto Pinochet; Joseph Stalin; Francisco Franco
Answer: Augusto Pinochet
Category: people
Question: This Romanian leaders economic policies were a disaster. He was also repressive and corrupt. He and his wife Elena were executed in 1989.
Choices: Alfredo Stroessner; Jorge Rafael Videla; Nicolae Ceausescu; Hugo Banzer
Answer: Nicolae Ceausescu
Category: people
Question: The name of this Iraqi dictator means one who confronts.  He saw himself as a social revolutionary and a modernizer, following the model of Nasser.
Choices: Saddam Hussein; Hassanal Bolkiah; Ferdinand Marcos; Sitiveni Rabuka
Answer: Saddam Hussein
Category: people
Question: The Mafia was actually formed in Sicily in the Middle Ages as a secret society to resist the Turk and Norman invaders. Later, it spread to the United States and this was the first American city where it became influential.
Choices: Detroit; New York; San Francisco; Chicago
Answer: New York
Category: people
Question: There are many theories about the source and the translation of the word Mafia. However, the meaning of the name of the Italian Mafia, La Cosa Nostra, is not so controversial. Which of these translations is closest?
Choices: Nothing Tangible; Our Thing; Their Thing; No ones Thing
Answer: Our Thing
Category: people
Question: The Triads is the name of the Japanese Mafia.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Lucky Luciano was one of the most important bosses of the Mafia, because he literally created its structure as we know it today. This guy was his most loyal friend since childhood.
Choices: Carlo Gambino; Meyer Lansky; Vito Genovese; Frank Costello
Answer: Meyer Lansky
Category: people
Question: Al Capone was the Crime Boss in Chicago as the successor of Johnny Torrio. Although he committed many terrible crimes and violated many laws, he was convicted only of tax evasion and had to do 11 years in Alcatraz. He was released in 1939 due to his terrible disease. What was this disease?
Choices: AIDS; Cancer; Leprosy; Syphilis
Answer: Syphilis
Category: people
Question: If you are a member of Yakuza and disobey your boss, you have to cut one of your fingertips and send it to him, begging for forgiveness.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: In the Italian-American Mafia, the hierarchy is very strict. Capo di Tutti Capi means Boss of all Bosses. This is the highest possible position in the chain of command. Then who is Capo Crimini?
Choices: A non-Italian member of the Mafia; The Underboss of the Don; The Don of a crime family; The Advisor of the Don
Answer: The Don of a crime family
Category: people
Question: There were five dominant families in the American Mafia.  The Bonanno family, the Colombo Family, the Gambino family, the Lucchese family and one more. Charles (Lucky) Luchiano was one of the Bosses of this powerful Mafia family.
Choices: The Capone Family; The Luchiano Family; The Genovese Family; The Lucky Family
Answer: The Genovese Family
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Question: The execution of a member of the American Mafia is called Omerta.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: This is one of the most famous crime fighters in the history of the American Mafia. He prosecuted many gangsters, such as Lucky Luciano, Gurrah Shapiro and Louis Lepke. The mafioso Dutch Shultz was killed by his peers, because he planned to knock off this gang buster.
Choices: Herbert Hoover; Robert Taft; Thomas Dewey; Chief Hennessy
Answer: Thomas Dewey
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Question: Which U.S. President, nicknamed Old Hickory, was the target of an assassination attempt at the Capitol building in 1835 by a house painter named Richard Lawrence?
Choices: Martin Van Buren; William Henry Harrison; Andrew Jackson; John Quincy Adams
Answer: Andrew Jackson
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Question: Which U.S. President, the first in the nations history to be assassinated, died at Peterson House across the street from the site of his shooting?
Choices: Abraham Lincoln; William McKinley; Andrew Jackson; James A. Garfield
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
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Question: Which U.S. President, whose term was the second shortest in the nations history, died in 1881, two and a half months after he was shot at a train station in Washington, D.C.?
Choices: James A. Garfield; Ulysses S. Grant; Chester A. Arthur; Rutherford B. Hayes
Answer: James A. Garfield
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Question: Which U.S. President, shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, might have survived if doctors had used a new medical device on exhibit at the fair that could have helped them find the fatal bullet?
Choices: Grover Cleveland; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; Benjamin Harrison
Answer: William McKinley
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Question: Which U.S. President, who had become President after the 1901 assassination of his predecessor, survived an assassination attempt more than three years after he left office?
Choices: Theodore Roosevelt; William McKinley; Woodrow Wilson; William H. Taft
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
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Question: Which four-term Presidents motorcade was shot at a month before he first took office, resulting in the death of the mayor of Chicago?
Choices: Harry S. Truman; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Ronald W. Reagan; Dwight D. Eisenhower
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Question: Which President, who resided in Blair House during renovations to the White House, commuted the death sentence of the man convicted of plotting to assassinate him?
Choices: Harry S. Truman; Martin Van Buren; John Adams; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: Harry S. Truman
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Question: Which U.S. President, the first Massachusetts native to hold the office in more than 130 years, was targeted by a would-be suicide attacker before his inauguration?
Choices: Dwight D. Eisenhower; George H.W. Bush; Calvin Coolidge; John F. Kennedy
Answer: John F. Kennedy
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Question: Which controversial President was the target of an assassination plot that involved hijacking a commercial airliner and crashing it into the White House?
Choices: George W. Bush; Harry S. Truman; William J. Clinton; Richard M. Nixon
Answer: Richard M. Nixon
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Question: Which President, never elected to the office, was the target of two assassination attempts within three weeks of each other, both by women?
Choices: Herbert Hoover; Lyndon B. Johnson; Theodore Roosevelt; Gerald R. Ford
Answer: Gerald R. Ford
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Question: Which U.S. President, during whose adminstration a U.S. Embassy in the middle east was seized, was supposedly targeted by Mexican assassins in an attack that never took place?
Choices: William J. Clinton; Jimmy Carter; Gerald R. Ford; Ronald W. Reagan
Answer: Jimmy Carter
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Question: Which U.S. President, shot by a man who wanted to impress a film actress, was not the original target of the assassination plan?
Choices: Ronald W. Reagan; John F. Kennedy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Gerald R. Ford
Answer: Ronald W. Reagan
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Question: Which U.S. President was targeted for assassination by a foreign leader three months after he left office?
Choices: Jimmy Carter; George H.W. Bush; Harry S. Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower
Answer: George H.W. Bush
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Question: During the administration of which U.S. President, the last to be given lifetime Secret Service protection, were three attacks carried out against the White House?
Choices: Jimmy Carter; George H.W. Bush; Gerald R. Ford; William J. Clinton
Answer: William J. Clinton
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Question: Which U.S. President was the target of an assassination attempt during a state visit to the former Soviet republic of Georgia?
Choices: John F. Kennedy; George W. Bush; Richard M. Nixon; Ronald W. Reagan
Answer: George W. Bush
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Question: This Eddie married One Day at a Time star Valerie Bertinelli.
Choices: Eddie Murphy; Eddie Foy; Eddie Van Halen; Eddie Albert
Answer: Eddie Van Halen
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Question: Which Edward portrayed Lou Grant on the Mary Tyler Moore show?
Choices: Edward Asner; Edward Murrow; Edward Bradley; Edward Hooper
Answer: Edward Asner
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Question: This American journalists catch line was Hello America. This is London calling.
Choices: Ed McMahon; Eddie Foy; Ed Sullivan; Edward R Murrow
Answer: Edward R Murrow
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Question: On The Honeymooners, which was on the air from 1955 - 1956, Ed Norton was portrayed by which actor?
Choices: Art Carney; Eddie Foy; Ed Cole; Jackie Gleason
Answer: Art Carney
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Question: In 1920, this Eddie founded a company for outdoor clothing in Seattle.
Choices: Eddie Albert; Eddie Bauer; Eddie Van Halen; Eddie Foy
Answer: Eddie Bauer
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Question: When Elvis Presley appeared on this Eds TV show, the camera was only allowed to show him from the waist up.
Choices: Ed McMahon; Ed Sullivan; Ed Asner; Ed Robinson
Answer: Ed Sullivan
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Question: Who portrays Edward in the 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands, which tells the story of an artificial man who had scissors instead of hands?
Choices: Kurt Russell; Oscar Wide; Johnny Depp; Eddie Albert
Answer: Johnny Depp
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Question: For more than 30 years this Ed used to say Heres Johnny.
Choices: Ed Bradley; Ed Sullivan; Ed Bauer; Ed McMahon
Answer: Ed McMahon
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Question: This actor, whose first name is Eddie, plays Oliver Wendell Douglas in Green Acres.
Choices: Eddie Murphy; Eddie Albert; Eddie Foy; Eddie Munster
Answer: Eddie Albert
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Question: This Eddie is famous for performing songs such as Drinkin My Baby Off My Mind (1976), You Dont Love Me Anymore (1978), I Love a Rainy Night (1980), Drivin My Life Away (1980), Step by Step (1981).
Choices: Eddie Van Halen; Eddie Murphy; Eddie Rabbit; Eddie Money
Answer: Eddie Rabbit
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Question: Two Tickets to Paradise, released in 1977 was this Eddies first hit.
Choices: Eddie Rabbit; Eddie Van Halen; Eddie Munster; Eddie Money
Answer: Eddie Money
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Question: Some of the characters, played by this Eddie are Axel Foley, Quick, and Professor Sherman Klump.
Choices: Eddie Rabbit; Eddie Foy; Eddie Albert; Eddie Murphy
Answer: Eddie Murphy
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Question: In Pretty Woman Edward Lewis picks up Vivian Ward, a beautiful prostitute, played by Julia Roberts.  Who portrayed Edward?
Choices: Richard Gere; Kevin Costner; Eddie Murphy; Bob Hope
Answer: Richard Gere
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Question: In 1981,this Ed  joined the staff of 60 Minutes, an investigative television newsmagazine on CBS News.
Choices: Edward G Robinson; Ed Bradley; Ed Norton; Ed Asner
Answer: Ed Bradley
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Question: Which actress is famous for playing Lisa in the 1985 movie Weird Science?
Choices: Kelly LeBrock; Kelly Leeds; Kelly Bundy; Kelley Moore
Answer: Kelly LeBrock
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Question: Kellie Shanygne Williams portrayed Laura Winslow on which television sitcom?
Choices: Full House; The Cosby Show; Life Goes On; Family Matters
Answer: Family Matters
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Question: Kellie Martin, famous for portraying Becca Thatcher in Life Goes On, also played Dr. Lucy Knight on which popular show?
Choices: Scrubs; Grays Anatomy; ER; House
Answer: ER
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Question: Which of these songs was not recorded by Kelly Clarkson, the first winner of the reality TV show American Idol?
Choices: Since U Been Gone; Beautiful Disaster; Behind These Hazel Eyes; In The Arms of The Angels
Answer: In The Arms of The Angels
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Question: Kelly Preston, who played Linda in Addicted to Love, married which famous actor in 1991?
Choices: Nicholas Cage; Dennis Quaid; John Travolta; Jeff Bridges
Answer: John Travolta
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Question: Kelly Rippa, host of  Live with Regis and Kelly, co-stars with which actress on the sitcom Hope and Faith?
Choices: Hope Ford; Faith Ford; Hope Shanowski; Faith Hill
Answer: Faith Ford
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Question: In 2003, Kelly Osbourne recorded a duet with her father, Ozzy Osbourne, which Black Sabbath song?
Choices: Papa Dont Preach; One Word; Changes; Shut up
Answer: Changes
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Question: What is the birth name of Kelly Rowland, one of the founding members of the successful musical group Destinys Child?
Choices: Kellie Diane Rowland; Kelendria Trene Rowland; Kellie Louise Rowland; Kelly Trene Rowland
Answer: Kelendria Trene Rowland
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Question: In the movie The Scorpion King, actress Kelly Hu co-starred with which former WWF wrestling champion?
Choices: The Rock; Sean Micheals; Brett Hart; Hulk Hogan
Answer: The Rock
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Question: The popular musical Singin in The Rain, released in 1952 starred dancer/actor Art Kelly.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Mostly known as a hero, Vlad Dracula was born in a noble family. His surname comes from the order to which his father belonged. What was its name?
Choices: The Order of Templars; The Order of Saint-John; The Order of the Dragon; The Order of the Hatchet
Answer: The Order of the Dragon
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Question: Once enthroned, Vlad became famous for his favourite torture - the impalement. It earned him this nickname, which meant the impaler.
Choices: Radu; The Ottoman; Mircea; Tepes
Answer: Tepes
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Question: Dracula was a great defender of Christianity - he built 5 monasteries. That is why he initially had the blessing of this authority.
Choices: The local clergy; The Orthodox Patriarch; The Christian church in Romania; The Vatican
Answer: The Vatican
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Question: The title count was invented by Bram Stoker in his famous novel. This is what the real title of Dracula was.
Choices: Tsar; King; Duke; Prince
Answer: Prince
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Question: The Order to which his family belonged fought against this empire.
Choices: Russian; Ottoman; Austro-Hungarian; Roman
Answer: Ottoman
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Question: At the age of 45 Dracula was killed in a battle. This is what happened to him after his death.
Choices: His body was thrown in a river.; He was proclaimed a National patron.; His head was cut off.; He was buried in the place of the battle.
Answer: His head was cut off.
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Question: In the mid 1980s a Dracula disease was found. Its characteristics included pointed teeth, excessive hair, extreme sensitivity to light, and the need for blood. This is the medical name of the disease.
Choices: Sickle Cell Anemia; Hematology; Raynauds phenomenon; Porphyria
Answer: Porphyria
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Question: These people are not doomed to become a vampire according to Romanian legends.
Choices: Illegitimate children; Homeless people; The seventh son of a seventh son; Unbaptized children
Answer: Homeless people
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Question: Parents in Romania used to threaten their children by telling them that Dracula would come if they were not good.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Draculas mansion was in Novi Sad.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In 1967, John Lennon of the Beatles bought an island called Dorinish which was located in what part of the world?
Choices: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Japan; Ireland; Caribbean Sea
Answer: Ireland
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Question: Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian Pope since 1522, was born in which European country?
Choices: Germany; Poland; Spain; The Netherlands
Answer: Poland
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Question: Which one of these statements about U.S. President John F. Kennedy is true?
Choices: He was a devoted Evangelical Presbyterian.; He was the first U.S. President born in the 20th century.; He was the 36th President of the United States.; He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Answer: He was the first U.S. President born in the 20th century.
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Question: The famous pirate Long John Silver, a fictional character from the book Treasure Island, has what body part missing?
Choices: Leg; Ear; Arm; Hand
Answer: Leg
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Question: What was the nickname of John Simon Ritchie-Beverly, member of English punk band The Sex Pistols?
Choices: Sid Vicious; Jon the Bomb; Johnny Rotten; John Lock
Answer: Sid Vicious
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Question: According to the Canonical Gospels, how did Saint John the Baptist die?
Choices: He was hanged.; He drowned.; He was beheaded.; He was crucified.
Answer: He was beheaded.
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Question: John Locke, a character from the television series Lost, was named after what real historical figure?
Choices: A philosopher; A fictional character from Mark Twains books.; A musician; A sailor
Answer: A philosopher
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Question: Which one of these names of popular musicians is the real birthname of that musician?
Choices: Elton John; Jon Bon Jovi; John Frusciante; John Paul Jones
Answer: John Frusciante
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Question: Which American author, born in 1955, wrote the bestselling books A Time to Kill, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Runaway Jury and The Firm?
Choices: Jonathan Swift; John Grisham; John D. Fitzgerald; John Updike
Answer: John Grisham
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Question: Which one of these famous Western movies did not star American actor John Wayne?
Choices: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Alamo; How the West Was Won; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Answer: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Question: Who were the Spanish monarchs who funded the discovery of the New World?
Choices: Elizabeth and Sir Francis Drake; Catherine and Peter the Great; Henry and Jane Seymour; Ferdinand and Isabella
Answer: Ferdinand and Isabella
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Question: Which of the following historic persons makes up a famous duo with Julius Caesar as one half?
Choices: Octivia the Younger; Ankes-en-aten; Cleopatra; Agrippina
Answer: Cleopatra
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Question: Who was the other half of this famous twosome: Mark Antony and ...?
Choices: Caludia; Calpurinaia; Cleopatra; Agrippina
Answer: Cleopatra
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Question: Who was the long-suffering wife of the Greek god Zeus?
Choices: Hera; Juno; Aphrodite; Athena
Answer: Hera
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Question: Which of the following women was not a wife of King Henry VIII of England?
Choices: Anne Hathaway; Catherine of Aragon; Catherine Parr; Anne Bolyen
Answer: Anne Hathaway
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Question: Who was the husband of Archduchess Marie Antoinette of Austria?
Choices: Louis XIV; Napoleon; Louis XVI; Louise XV
Answer: Louis XVI
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Question: Who was Napoleons favorite wife?
Choices: Queem Beatrice; Josephine; Marie Louise; Elizabeth I
Answer: Josephine
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Question: Aside from his One God, who was the human love in Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenatens life?
Choices: Hatshepsut; Cleopatra; Nerferatari; Nefertiti
Answer: Nefertiti
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Question: Who was the great love of Italian poet Dante Alighieris life?
Choices: Angelina; Beatrice; Christina; Geraldine
Answer: Beatrice
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Question: In the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, who was the one love of the great-nosed poet?
Choices: Roxanne; Manuella; Susan; Consuella
Answer: Roxanne
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Question: Old West gunman Harvey Logan was also known as Kid Curry.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Frank James became a shoe salesman after giving up the outlaw life.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Old West outlaw Jesse James formed a gang with Cole Younger.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Newspapers sometimes mistakenly listed the name of an infamous Old West gunman as Johnny Ringgold instead of Johnny Ringo.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Notorious Old West outlaw Tom Ketchum was also known as Tom Terrific.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Old West gunman William Brocius was also known as Wild Bill.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Outlaw William Brooks was known also by the nickname Buffalo Bill.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Gunman Charles Bolles was a stagecoach robber in California and Oregon.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Old West gunman Burt Alvord was an Arizona marshal before becoming an outlaw.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Henry McCarty is said to be the real name of the notorious Old West outlaw Billy the Kid.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What year did the Tate/ LaBianca murders take place?
Choices: 1967; 1968; 1969; 1966
Answer: 1969
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Question: What was the name of Roman Polanskis 26-year-old wife who was one of the Manson Familys murder victims?
Choices: Linda Evans; Sharon Tate; Patricia Krenwinkel; Karen Tate
Answer: Sharon Tate