kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
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Question: Fashion designer Alexander McQueen, known as the hooligan of English fashion, succeeded John Galliano as head designer at this French fashion house.
Choices: Chanel; Christian Lacroix; Dolce  Gabbana; Givenchy
Answer: Givenchy
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Question: What famous Greek philosopher tutored Alexander the Great and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, philosophy and literature?
Choices: Plato; Socrates; Aristotle; Epicurus
Answer: Aristotle
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Question: Which of these characters portrayed by actor Alec Baldwin was not a real life person?
Choices: Jimmy Swaggart (Great Balls of Fire!); James Doolittle (Pearl Harbor); Juan Trippe (The Aviator); Jack Ryan (The Hunt for Red October)
Answer: Jack Ryan (The Hunt for Red October)
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Question: In 1986, Sir Alex Ferguson became manager of this English Premier League soccer club, nicknamed The Red Devils.
Choices: Chelsea; Aston Villa; Manchester United; Blackburn Rovers
Answer: Manchester United
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Question: What author is not correctly matched with the literary work he created?
Choices: Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin; Alan Alexander Milne - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock; Alexandre Dumas, pÃ¨re - The Count of Monte Cristo
Answer: Alan Alexander Milne - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Question: For which of these achievements did Sir Alexander Flemming win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945?
Choices: the discovery of penicillin; the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme; the introduction of the smallpox vaccine; developing a process which slows microbial growth in foods
Answer: the discovery of penicillin
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Question: Baseball player Alexander Rodriguez, who became the youngest player ever to hit 500 home runs, started his professional career with this team.
Choices: Seattle Mariners; New York Yankees; Detroit Tigers; Texas Rangers
Answer: Seattle Mariners
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Question: In the context of construction, how long is a 2d nail?
Choices: 1 foot; 20 cm; 1 cm; 1 inch
Answer: 1 inch
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Question: Which statement below, concerning even numbers, is true?
Choices: There are no even irrational numbers; There are no even cardinal numbers; There are no even prime numbers; There are no even perfect numbers
Answer: There are no even irrational numbers
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Question: What do we call a horizontal beam used usually for support and walling over a window?
Choices: Purlin; Lintel; Screed; Kerf
Answer: Lintel
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Question: Who did Time magazine name as âPerson of the Year for 2006?
Choices: Nancy Pelosi; Jong Il Kim; Bill Gates; The Internet user
Answer: The Internet user
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Question: His brother was boxing heavyweight champ. He fought Tyson for the heavyweight title, but lost in an early round KO.  Who was he?
Choices: Michal Spinks; Steve Norton; Johnny Fullmer; Danny Lewis
Answer: Michal Spinks
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Question: This President was accused of fathering a child in a cloak room of the White House.
Choices: Harding; Grant; Jefferson; Van Buren
Answer: Harding
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Question: Which of these words means someone who believes the self is the most important thing ?
Choices: Egoist; Narcissist; A person with OCD; Egotist
Answer: Egoist
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Question: This composer hired cliquers to boo his sons early works at their premier. Eventually, the popularity of his sons works overcame the insults of the father and his stooges. Name the father.
Choices: Johann  Strauss; Johannes Brahms; Johan Sebastian Bach; Franz Lizst
Answer: Johann  Strauss
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Question: What is the street in New York City, famous for jewels and jewelry?
Choices: Madison Avenue; 47th street; 51st street; Park Avenue
Answer: 47th street
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Question: In the world of design and construction, what is Zodiaq?
Choices: A material for improving safety glass; An underlayer for granite; A product for wall insulation; A material used for countertops
Answer: A material used for countertops
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Question: In what century was the word pink used for the first time?
Choices: 18th century; 16th century; 19th century; 17th century
Answer: 17th century
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Question: When is the expression seeing pink elephants most often used?
Choices: when you are dizzy; when you see a ghost; when people are drunk; when going to sleep
Answer: when people are drunk
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Question: Pink is a song by Guns N Roses.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Is the Pink Cadillac the trademark of Mary Kay beauty products?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
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Question: Pink is the color of what ribbon?
Choices: AIDS Awareness ribbon; Ovarian Cancer Awareness ribbon; Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon; Tuberculosis Awareness ribbon
Answer: Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon
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Question: Pink is a line of lingerie by Victorias Secret.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Which of the following is the Latin word for pink?
Choices: Pinkueta; Rosa; Roseus; Pinky
Answer: Roseus
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Question: Which city has a Pink Line rail service?
Choices: Chicago; Denver; Atlanta; Washington DC
Answer: Chicago
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Question: What fashion designer popularized the color known as shocking pink?
Choices: CoCo Chanel; Elsa Schiaparelli; Issey Miyake; Vivienne Westwood
Answer: Elsa Schiaparelli
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Question: In Thailand, pink is associated with what day of the week?
Choices: Wednesday; Tuesday; Saturday; Friday
Answer: Tuesday
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Question: Finish this line from the pirate freecreditreport.com commercial: They say a man should always. . .
Choices: bless corn on the cob he wants; make a mess in the mob he haunts; dress for the job he wins; dress for the job he wants
Answer: dress for the job he wants
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Question: In the pirate freecreditreport.com ad, who stole the mans identity?
Choices: a hacker; the Packers; a Quaker; a slacker
Answer: a hacker
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Question: Which two kinds of vehicles does the singer want to buy in the new car freecreditreport.com commercial?
Choices: a Hummer and a scooter; a Tesla and a Versa; a convertible and an SUV; a Lexus and a Harley
Answer: a convertible and an SUV
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Question: In the new car freecreditreport.com commercial, instead of looking fly and rolling phat, what happens when the boys drive their new car?
Choices: legs are sticking to the vinyl and the posses getting laughed at; Megs slicker than vinyl and my boss is getting laid back; pegs are stickin to a rhino and the boss is getting flat; legs are feelin like a rhino and the mosss betting last
Answer: legs are sticking to the vinyl and the posses getting laughed at
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Question: Where do the lead singer and his wife live in one of the freecreditreport.com ads?
Choices: at a traveling Renaissance Faire; a pleasant suburb; in the back of a fish n chips restaurant; in the basement of her mom and dads
Answer: in the basement of her mom and dads
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Question: Why couldnt the couple get a loan for a respectable home in one of the freecreditreport.com commercials?
Choices: She defaulted on some old credit card.; Some punk opened a credit card in her name.; He had a poor credit score.; His credit was whack.
Answer: She defaulted on some old credit card.
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Question: In one of the freecreditreport.com commercials the boys are at the Renaissance Faire. How was the lead singer feeling at the beginning of the song?
Choices: impressed; incensed; depressed; regressed
Answer: depressed
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Question: What color are the tights the lead singer is wearing in one of the freecreditreport.com commercials?
Choices: yellow; brown; blue; green
Answer: green
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Question: In one of the freecreditreport.com commercials, the singers relegated to riding a bicycle for transportation. How is the singer rolling in this ad?
Choices: eco-friendly; loaded; life friendly; phat
Answer: eco-friendly
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Question: What three things do rock stars get to have according to a freecreditreport.com commercial?
Choices: champagn, credit cards, exotic cards; cramping, Viagra, little scars; champagne, caviar, exotic cars; campaigns, caviar, cattle cars
Answer: champagne, caviar, exotic cars
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Question: Who was the first player selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the football draft?
Choices: Bedford Wynne; Bob Lilly; Abner Haynes; Don Meredith
Answer: Bob Lilly
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Question: This famous song was written about a love letter to a girl named Wendy. The writer loves her, but just has to get out of town.  What is the name of the song?
Choices: Born to Run; The Letter; Love on the Rocks; The Streets of This Town
Answer: Born to Run
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Question: Which of these countries does not border Georgia?
Choices: Armenia; Belarus; Azerbaijain; Turkey
Answer: Belarus
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Question: He is a very popular American entertainer.  His wife, Compton Maalak, operates a full service non-profit salon giving free services to women trying to get off welfare and going into jobs.  He was in Beverly Hills Cop IIâ and voiced a role in Madagascar. Who is he?
Choices: Will Smith; Tommy  Tiny  LIster; Eddie Murphy; Chris Rock
Answer: Chris Rock
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Question: The 1927 movie Wings was the first winner of the Best Picture Oscar. Which of these actors was in it?
Choices: Ray Milland; Gary Cooper; Brian Donleavy; Charlie Chaplin
Answer: Gary Cooper
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Question: What is the common between the years 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943?
Choices: In these years, there was no Dali Lama.; In these years no received a Nobel Prize in Literature.; In these years there, Republican and Democratic Parties each had exactly 50 votes in the US Senate.; In those years an extra 1second was added to the year to make the solar year correct.
Answer: In these years no received a Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Question: It is generally accepted that paper money was invented in this nation.
Choices: India; The Netherlands; Japan; China
Answer: China
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Question: He was the first Major League Baseball manager to win a World Series in both the National and American Leagues.
Choices: Sparky Anderson; John McGraw; Jim Leyland; Joe Torre
Answer: Sparky Anderson
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Question: Windows runs most computers. When the first version of the Windows Operating System released?
Choices: 1981; 1961; 1991; 1971
Answer: 1981
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Question: Almost everyone knows of Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, and Ichiro Suzuki but who was Bill Klem?
Choices: The first professional baseball player; The Father of Modern Umpires; The man who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base for the Yankees.; The man who sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees
Answer: The Father of Modern Umpires
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Question: This person was recognized as the first billionaire.
Choices: Hassan Ibn Ganeff; John D. Rockefeller; Andrew Carnegie; Bill Gates
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
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Question: Who is the creator of the first steam locomotive?
Choices: Richard Trevithick; Ronald Von Heldenberger; Robert Fulton; Robert Watts
Answer: Richard Trevithick
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Question: Sancho Panza was the squire to and the best friend of Don Quixote. What does panzaâ mean in Spanish?
Choices: Fool; Belly; Jester; Compatriot
Answer: Belly
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Question: Finnish, the language spoken by over 94 % of the people of Finland is most closely related to this language.
Choices: Danish; Estonian; Russian; Swedish
Answer: Estonian
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Question: Which is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Matarese Cycle, The Osterman Weekend, and The Scorpio Illusion.?
Choices: John Grisham; John Tanner; Robert Ludlum; Eric Van Lustbader
Answer: Robert Ludlum
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Question: The first motion picture that was longer than one hour was made in this country.
Choices: Australia; England; France; The USA
Answer: Australia
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Question: When was the first ostrich farm built in the USA?
Choices: 1906; 1956; 1926; 1886
Answer: 1886
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Question: The first shoes made on separate lasts for left and right shoes were made in this city.
Choices: Milan; Rochester; Southhampton; Boston
Answer: Boston
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Question: Who is considered the worlds first photojournalist?
Choices: Eadweard Muybridge; Jacob Riis; Matthew  Brady; Minor White
Answer: Jacob Riis
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Question: In which line the food is not matched with its place of origin?
Choices: Spinach - Iran; Peach - Peru; Grapefruit - Barbados; Blueberry - North America
Answer: Peach - Peru
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Question: Who is listed as the richest person in the world on the 2009 Forbes list?
Choices: Carlos Slim Helu; Lawrence Ellison; Warren  Buffett; Bill Gates
Answer: Bill Gates
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Question: In square miles, what is the largest country in the world?
Choices: Peoples Republic of China; United States; Russia; Canada
Answer: Russia
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Question: Measured from base to peak, what is the worlds highest mountain?
Choices: Chimborazo; Mauna Kea; K2; Mt. Everest
Answer: Mauna Kea
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Question: Which country has the highest population density according to 2009 estimates?
Choices: Indonesia; India; United States; Peoples Republic of China
Answer: Peoples Republic of China
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Question: What is the deepest spot in the oceans?
Choices: Kuril-Kamchatka Trench; Philippine Trench; Mariana Trench; Tonga Trench
Answer: Mariana Trench
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Question: This city in the United States claims to house the largest ball of twine which was built by millionaire J. C. Payne.
Choices: Branson, MO; Lake Nebagamon, WI; Darwin, MN; Cawker City, KS
Answer: Branson, MO
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Question: What is the longest running primetime television show in the period 1950-2009?
Choices: Monday Night Football; The Simpsons; Hallmark Hall of Fame; 60 Minutes
Answer: Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Question: What is the fastest ocean animal?
Choices: Swordfish; Sailfish; Marlin; Wahoo
Answer: Sailfish
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Question: This person, who died in 1997, was verified by Guiness World Records as the shortest man on earth?
Choices: Younis Edwan; He Pingping; Gul Mohammed; Lin Yu-chih
Answer: Gul Mohammed
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Question: According to the August 2008 issue of Travel  Leisure, what is the scariest road in the world?
Choices: Karakoram Hwy., Pakistan to China; Guoliang Tunnel Road, China; N. Yungas Road, Bolivia; Halsena Hwy., Luzon, Philippines
Answer: N. Yungas Road, Bolivia
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Question: What does quinunc mean?
Choices: A necessary thing; A five-cornered star; A prime example; A busybody
Answer: A busybody
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Question: Traditionally the people of the country of Georgia believe that they are descendants of this Biblical personality.
Choices: Jonah; Japheth; Jesus; Jeremiah
Answer: Japheth
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Question: The Barbary Wars were  fought between the USA and pirates from this part of the world.
Choices: The Gulf of Mexico; Somalia and its coast; The Persian Gulf; The Mediterranean Coast of Africa
Answer: The Mediterranean Coast of Africa
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Question: Under  which US President were the Barbary Wars fought?
Choices: James K. Polk; Thomas Jefferson; William McKinley; Teddy Roosevelt
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
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Question: Which two countries are connected  by the Simplon Pass?
Choices: Switzerland and Italy; Northern Ireland and Ireland; Canada and The USA; Bulgaria and Romania
Answer: Switzerland and Italy
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Question: What does a la crecy  mean?
Choices: Served with butter; Served with sauce; Served with carrots; Served with cheese
Answer: Served with carrots
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Question: On his third voyage to the Western hemisphere, Columbus wrote that he found where the Garden of Eden was. What do we now call the area which Columbus felt was the Garden of Eden ?
Choices: Costa Rica; Nassau; Venezuela; Haiti
Answer: Venezuela
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Question: The exchange of letters between these two people was published in 1933 under the title Why War?.
Choices: Hitler and Mussolini; Einstein and Freud; Stalin and Lenin; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Answer: Einstein and Freud
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Question: What is the approximate distance between the Moon and the Earth?
Choices: 384,000 miles; 93,000,000 miles; 384,000 kilometers; 384,000 meters
Answer: 384,000 kilometers
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Question: In terms of A.U. (Astronomical Units), how far is the Sun from the Earth?
Choices: .92; 93 million; 1; 93
Answer: 1
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Question: The S.O.S. on SOS cleaning pads stands for Save Our Saucepans.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The first bridge in what would become the USA was built in this state.
Choices: New Jersey; Massachusetts; Pennsylvania; Virginia
Answer: Massachusetts
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Question: Who was the first female Attorney General of the United States?
Choices: Janet Reno; Joanne Pierce; Susan Roley; Clarisa Starling
Answer: Janet Reno
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Question: Clark Gable was in the Army  Air Corps during World War II. Who signed his discharge  papers?
Choices: Hap Arnold; John Marshall; Ronald Reagan; George Patton
Answer: Ronald Reagan
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Question: During World War II, Paul Newman applied to become a fighter  pilot. Why was he rejected?
Choices: He did not pass the written test.; He was color blind.; He had an inner ear problem that affected his sense of balance.; He was too short.
Answer: He was color blind.
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Question: How big is a firkin?
Choices: 9 pounds; 9 square miles; 9 gallons; 9 yards
Answer: 9 gallons
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Question: Which statement is true about Mrs. P.F.E. Albee?
Choices: She was the first Mary Kay salesperson.; She was the first woman to practice law in the USA.; She was the first Avon lady.; She was the first woman to legally vote in a US Presidential election.
Answer: She was the first Avon lady.
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Question: Where were the first windmills built?
Choices: Peru; Laos; Tunisia; Iran
Answer: Iran
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Question: In 64 AD there were terrible fires in Rome. Which Roman Emperor was busy playing his fiddle while the fires were burning?
Choices: Caligula; Nero; None of the Emperors; Vespasian
Answer: None of the Emperors
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Question: She  was the first woman to wear high-heeled shoes.
Choices: Cleopatra; Joan of Arc; Catherine DeMedici; Queen Elizabeth I
Answer: Catherine DeMedici
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Question: Who was the first Tzar of Russia?
Choices: Nicolai Terravinasonoff; Ivan the Terrible; Boris Godenoff; Michael Romanoff
Answer: Ivan the Terrible
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Question: What was the first credit card?
Choices: Kresges Green Card; Diners Club; Carte Blanc; American Express
Answer: Diners Club
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Question: She was Johnny Carsons first guest on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Choices: Bette Midler; Joan Rivers; Judy Garland; Joan Crawford
Answer: Joan Crawford
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Question: When was the Earths second highest mountain, K2, first climbed?
Choices: July 29, 1934; July 29, 1894; July 29, 1944; July 29, 1954
Answer: July 29, 1954
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Question: Which statement about fast food restaurants in the USA is not  true?
Choices: The first Burger King was opened in Miami.; The first Wendys was opened in Columbus, Ohio.; The first KFC was opened in Salt Lake City.; The first Ben and Jerrys was opened on the campus of Dartmouth University.
Answer: The first Ben and Jerrys was opened on the campus of Dartmouth University.
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Question: Who was given the first numbered patent in the USA?
Choices: Henry Clinton; Samuel Hopkins; Ben Franklin; Paul Revere
Answer: Samuel Hopkins
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Question: Who was the first person to parachute?
Choices: Leonardo Da Vinci; Andres-Jacques Garnerin; Lino LaCedelli; David Gaithier
Answer: Andres-Jacques Garnerin
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Question: Which distinction does Annie Moore hold?
Choices: She was the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize.; She was the first immigrant  to the USA to pass through Ellis Island.; She was the first American woman to be a dentist.; She was the first American woman to graduate from college.
Answer: She was the first immigrant  to the USA to pass through Ellis Island.
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Question: Which was the first womens college in the USA?
Choices: Radcliffe; Mt. Holyoke; Douglas; Bryn Mawr
Answer: Mt. Holyoke
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Question: What distinction does Sir Timothy Berners-Lee hold?
Choices: He was the first RAF pilot to shoot down a plane.; He is the inventor of the World Wide Web.; He made  the first cell phone call.; He was the first non-American to hold a US patent.
Answer: He is the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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Question: Which was the first TV sitcom?
Choices: The Goldbergs; Mary Kay and Johnny; I Love Lucy; The Dobkins
Answer: Mary Kay and Johnny
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Question: Which of the following actors did not appear in the 1996 film Trees Lounge?
Choices: Steve Buscemi; Mark Ruffalo; Rockets Redglare; Elizabeth Bracco
Answer: Mark Ruffalo
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Question: Complete the title to this 1989 Wayne Wang comedy:  Life is Cheap...
Choices: ... Dont Spend It All in One Place.; ... Tivo the Good Parts.; ... And There Are No Refunds!; ... But Toilet Paper is Expensive.
Answer: ... But Toilet Paper is Expensive.
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Question: This 1980 film by French director Alan Resnais features Gerard Depardieu in a starring role.  The translation of the title in English is loosely:  My Uncle is....
Choices: ... My Uncle.; ... An American.; ... Most Avuncular.; ... Living Upstairs from Me.
Answer: ... An American.
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Question: Complete the title of this 1993 comedy, directed by Eric Schaffer:  My Lifes...
Choices: ... in a Mess.; ... in Arrears.; ...in Couplets.; ... in Turnaround.
Answer: ... in Turnaround.
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Question: In what city was the popular TV series EastEnders set?
Choices: San Francisco; Los Angeles; London; New York
Answer: London
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Question: Which use of  the term Wild West is incorrect?
Choices: Wild West is the title of several Western movies; Wild West is a Nintendo game; Wild West was a common name for territories west of the Rio Grande river; Wild West is an album of Dottie West
Answer: Wild West was a common name for territories west of the Rio Grande river
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Question: During the Cold War, which city was the capital of West Germany?
Choices: Bonn; Munich; West Berlin; Frankfurt
Answer: Bonn
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Question: Which is a major US airline and a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines?
Choices: Northeast Airlines; Northwest Airlines; Southwest Airlines; Southeast Airlines
Answer: Northwest Airlines
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Question: Which part of the world is commonly described as Far East?
Choices: All Asia; East and Southeast Asia; Oceania; East Siberia
Answer: East and Southeast Asia
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Question: The plot of the famous Brodway musical West Side Story is based on which source?
Choices: The musical is a classical western; The Bible; A true story of two Los Angeles teenage gangs; Shakespears Romeo and Juliet
Answer: Shakespears Romeo and Juliet
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Question: Which is an existing country, recognized by United Nations?
Choices: East Cyprus; West African Republic; East Timor; West Virginia
Answer: East Timor
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Question: Who is the author of the novel East of Eden?
Choices: Steven Spielberg; Elia Kazan; John Steinbeck; Eugene ONeill
Answer: John Steinbeck
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Question: Where is Western University located?
Choices: Gunninson, Colorado; Washington, DC; Holland, Michigan; Baku, Azerbaijan
Answer: Baku, Azerbaijan
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Question: Which cities were the original endpoints of the Orient Express railway?
Choices: Moscow and Vladivostok; Chicago and Los Angeles; Paris and Istanbul; Tokyo and Kyoto
Answer: Paris and Istanbul
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Question: In the summer of 2006, environmental consultant Mark Diacono planted the first olive grove in England. He claimed that olives can already grow in England for what reason?
Choices: Global warming; Acid rain increase; The extension of the European Union; Acid rain decrease
Answer: Global warming
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Question: Which one of these is among the Top Ten Inventions of 2005 according to the US Army?
Choices: Fido Explosives Detector; Achilles Anti-Aircraft Missile; The G.A.D.G.E.T. Deployable armored personnel vehicle; The R.E.X. anti-spyware computer software
Answer: Fido Explosives Detector
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Question: In the music fields Frenchman Francois Tourte is famous for what?
Choices: He invented the saxophone in collaboration with Adolphe Sax.; He standardized the size of the violin bow.; He won the first Gorbachov International Music Award; He was one of the first prominent saxophonists of the 19th century.
Answer: He standardized the size of the violin bow.
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Question: Which US city is nicknamed The Venice of  America?
Choices: Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Punta Gorda, Florida; Key West, Florida; Biloxi, Mississippi
Answer: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Question: In which one of these sciences is the TOE theory studied?
Choices: Paleontology; Philosophy; Physics; Biophysics
Answer: Physics
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Question: Which word refers to self-discipline and refraining from worldly pleasures?
Choices: Asceticism; Aneurysm; Ableism; Atavism
Answer: Asceticism
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Question: Which part of the Earth is made up of iron mixed with nickel?
Choices: The asthenosphere; The outer core; The inner core; The mantle
Answer: The outer core
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Question: This invention that forever altered the development of the American West was patented in 1874 by American farmer Joseph Glidden.
Choices: The scanning disk for future TV sets; The toothbrush; Barbed wire; Reinforced concrete
Answer: Barbed wire
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Question: The Hall-HÃ©roult chemical process is used for the production of what?
Choices: Zirconium; Aluminum; Titanium; Methane
Answer: Aluminum
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would be female?
Choices: 60; 40; 52; 46
Answer: 52
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would be white?
Choices: 18; 37; 32; 25
Answer: 18
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would have a college education?
Choices: 1; 5; 14; 20
Answer: 1
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would own a computer?
Choices: 1; 5; 15; 11
Answer: 1
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would be homosexual?
Choices: 1; 31; 21; 11
Answer: 11
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would be illiterate?
Choices: 70; 50; 40; 60
Answer: 70
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would suffer from malnutrition?
Choices: 50; 30; 20; 40
Answer: 50
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would live in substandard housing?
Choices: 80; 20; 40; 60
Answer: 80
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many people would possess 59% of the worlds wealth?
Choices: 20; 2; 60; 6
Answer: 6
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would be of other religious beliefs besides Christianity?
Choices: 50; 60; 70; 80
Answer: 70
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Question: If the world were a village of 100 people, how many would be from the Eastern Hemisphere?
Choices: 72; 86; 45; 63
Answer: 86
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Question: What phobia is defined as fear of darkness?
Choices: Acousticophobia; Agliophobia; Agraphobia; Achluophobia
Answer: Achluophobia
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Question: What word means fear of heights?
Choices: Batophobia; Bibliophobia; Botanophobia; Bathophobia
Answer: Batophobia
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Question: What phobia is defined as fear of thunder?
Choices: Coimetrophobia; Chronomentrophobia; Ceraunophobia; Claustrophobia
Answer: Ceraunophobia
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Question: What term means fear of accidents?
Choices: Dystychiphobia; Dentophobia; Dikephobia; Dendrophobia
Answer: Dystychiphobia
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Question: What phobia is characterized by fear of pins?
Choices: Entomophobia; Ephebiphobia; Enetophobia; Emetophobia
Answer: Enetophobia
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Question: What word means fear of killers?
Choices: Feretrophobia; Foniasophobia; Febriphobia; Frigophobia
Answer: Foniasophobia
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Question: What phobia is described as fear of marriage?
Choices: Gynophobia; Gephysrophobia; Gamophobia; Gerascophobia
Answer: Gamophobia
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Question: What condition is characterized by fear of men?
Choices: Hominophobia; Hormephobia; Homichlophobia; Hodophobia
Answer: Hominophobia
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Question: What term means fear of fish?
Choices: Iatrophobia; Ideophobia; Ichthyophobia; Iophobia
Answer: Ichthyophobia
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Question: What is the basic chemical compound that table salt is composed of?
Choices: Sodium chloride; Sodium bicarbonate; Calcium carbonate; Potassium iodide
Answer: Sodium chloride
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Question: What is Fleur de sel?
Choices: Natural sea salt; A species of seaweed that live only in sea water with very high salinity; A plant that contains the highest amount of sodium chloride of all plants; A type of salty French biscuits
Answer: Natural sea salt
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Question: Which of these chemical compounds is added to table salt as an anti-caking agent?
Choices: Calcium carbonate; All of these; Magnesium carbonate; Tricalcium phosphate
Answer: All of these
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Question: Which of these condiments has a high salt content and can pretty much fulfill the need for table salt?
Choices: Fish sauce; Soy sauce; All of these; Oyster sauce
Answer: All of these
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Question: What chemical is added to table salt in some European countries to prevent tooth decay?
Choices: Calcium sulfate; Sodium fluoride; Potassium carbonate; Sodium nitrate
Answer: Sodium fluoride
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Question: Potassium iodide, sodium iodide, or sodium iodate are added to table salt in order to prevent iodine deficiency. What health problems does iodine deficiency cause?
Choices: Skin and bone disorders; Adrenal gland malfunction; Thyroid gland disorders; Cardiovascular problems
Answer: Thyroid gland disorders
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Question: Excessive salt consumption can lead to high blood pressure.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What is the daily salt intake recommended by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition for the United Kingdom?
Choices: 4 grams; 6 grams; 1 gram; 2.5 grams
Answer: 4 grams
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Question: Which of these medical conditions is linked to excessive salt consumption?
Choices: Duodenal ulcers and gastric ulcers; Edema; Osteoporosis; All of these
Answer: All of these
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Question: There are two main sources of salt - sea water and rock salt.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What astronaut or cosmonaut performed the first space walk on March 18, 1965?
Choices: Glenn; Aldrin; Shepherd; Leonov
Answer: Leonov
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Question: Some of the most persecuted people in history, they trace their origins to northwestern India or present day Pakistan. The Nazis killed as many as 400,000 of them.  By the 1400s they had spread across Asia Minor and into Egypt, Spain and Germany.  Who are they?
Choices: The Sabines; The Creatans; The Slavs; The Roma
Answer: The Roma
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Question: The term bibliobibuli refers to people who do what?
Choices: Read too much; Use only recycled paper; Use a lot of toilet paper; Do not recycle paper
Answer: Read too much
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Question: This American professional basketball player, nicknamed The Pearl, was known for his flamboyant dribbling and play-making.
Choices: Tiny Archibald; Earl Monroe; Sam Jones; Paul Silas
Answer: Earl Monroe
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Question: In his twelve-volume analysis, this British historian wrote that history was not a continuous climb upward, but a series of  waves or pulses, where civilizations rise, prosper and eventually fall.
Choices: Charles Beard; Howard Zinn; Arnold J. Toynbee; Frederick J. Turner
Answer: Arnold J. Toynbee
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Question: This Harvard dropouts first acting role was in Mystic Pizza, in 1988.  He lived next door to historian, Howard Zinn.
Choices: Matt Damon; Mark Ruffalo; Ed Norton; Ed Burns
Answer: Matt Damon
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Question: In 1836, German-Dutch farmers in South Africa moved north east through South Africa to establish a colony.  What did they call this march?
Choices: The March of the 14,000; The Dutch-Zulu War; The Boer War; The Great Trek
Answer: The Great Trek
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Question: Cardinal Richelieu, the bad guy in many of the works of Dumas, was a brilliant minister for which king?
Choices: Louis XIII; Louis XVI; Louis XV; Louis XIV
Answer: Louis XIII
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Question: Which countrys blue division helped Germany on the Eastern front during WWII?
Choices: Turkey; Italy; Spain; Japan
Answer: Spain
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Question: Every summer, a special basketball tournament is held in Harlem, NY.  What is the original name of the tournament?
Choices: The Harlem Five on Five; The Rucker Tournament; The Entertainers Basketball Classic; The Holcombe Tournament
Answer: The Rucker Tournament
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Question: This 2002 television series followed the lives of 3 families over 4 generations. The Keys, the Crawfords, and the Clarkes were all somehow linked with various alien encounters over the years and the culmination of all this was the birth of Allison Clarke played by Dakota Fanning.
Choices: War of The Worlds; Taken; Heroes; V
Answer: Taken
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Question: Can you name the 2004 television series the following quote is from: Me and 4,399 of my closest friends popped out of a ball of light right about here.
Choices: Taken; Threshold; V; The 4400
Answer: The 4400
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Question: According to articles published in the Journal of American Folklore and the Journal of UFO Studies, abductions generally follow a specific sequence, although most dont involve all of these elements. The sequence is as follows: Capture, Examination, Conference, Tour, Loss of Time, Return, Theophany and Aftermath.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: This 1975 television movie, starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons, was based on the supposed abduction in 1961 of an inter racial couple living in New Hampshire.
Choices: The UFO Incident; Alien Autopsy; X-Files; Abducted
Answer: The UFO Incident
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Question: What are the names of George Costanzas parents on the TV show Seinfeld?
Choices: Frank and Estelle; Fred and Jean; Gene and Estelle; Fred and Harriet
Answer: Frank and Estelle
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Question: The actor who voiced Betty Boop also voiced Popeye.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: According to geologists, in which era do we live?
Choices: Mesozoic; Cenozoic; Simpsonian; Quaternary
Answer: Cenozoic
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Question: This  very successful rock group appeared in an episode of Will and Grace.
Choices: Genesis; Bon Jovi; Hall and Oates; The Bangles
Answer: Hall and Oates
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Question: Who sang on the first million selling record?
Choices: Thomas Alva Edison; Louis Armstrong; Frank Sinatra; Enrico Caruso
Answer: Enrico Caruso
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Question: When was the Euro currency first launched?
Choices: January 1990; January 1985; January 1994; January 1999
Answer: January 1999
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Question: Where in the USA can you walk on a telescope?
Choices: New York City; Pasadena, California; Guam; Puerto Rico
Answer: Puerto Rico
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Question: What is a fluid?
Choices: A gas; A gas or a liquid; A liquid; Anything that can produce energy
Answer: A gas or a liquid
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Question: What do these places have in common: Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Island, Navassa, Baker Island and Jarvis Island?
Choices: They are a part of Nirvaau.; They are uninhabited US possessions.; They are UN controlled islands in the Atlantic.; They are sites of famous WWII battles.
Answer: They are uninhabited US possessions.
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Question: What is the state motto of North Carolina?
Choices: To be rather than to seem; Thus always to tyrants; While I breathe, I hope; By Valor and Arms
Answer: To be rather than to seem
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Question: Rhode Island, the smallest US State, also has the shortest state motto. What is this one-word motto?
Choices: Union; Freedom; Courage; Hope
Answer: Hope
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Question: To which of these countries are the Sami people not indigenous?
Choices: Denmark; Finland; Russia; Sweden
Answer: Denmark
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Question: How many people die in the final scene of Shakespeares Hamlet?
Choices: 5; 0; 6; 4
Answer: 4
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Question: Joe Barry Carroll was drafted by the Golden Gate Warriors in 1980. He was the first choice in that draft. Who did they give up to get him?
Choices: Dennis Rodman and John Paxson; Robert Parrish and Kevin McHale; Charles Barkley and Tim McCormick; Michael Jordan
Answer: Robert Parrish and Kevin McHale
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Question: Johnny Storm, a member of the Fantastic Four, goes by what moniker?
Choices: Lava Man; The Human Torch; Sparky; Flash
Answer: The Human Torch
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Question: Pamela Lillian Isley is Poisin Ivy.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Matt Murdock, Daredevils alter ego, is deaf.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Steve Rogers is the alter ego of this character.
Choices: Cpt America; Cpt Marvel; Spiderman; Superman
Answer: Cpt America
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Question: Nick Fury is the alter ego of Wolfsbane.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Oliver Queen, who is married to Black Canary, is one of the finest archers ever. Who is his alter ego?
Choices: Green Arrow; The Archer; Green Lantern; Archer Man
Answer: Green Arrow
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Question: Sound travels one mile in five seconds in the air, and one mile in how many seconds under water?
Choices: ten seconds; five seconds; one second; fifteen seconds
Answer: one second
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Question: The names of Popeyes four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What is Barbies full name?
Choices: Barbie Mary Doe; Barbara Millicent Roberts; Barbie Madonna Smith; Barbara Monroe Jones
Answer: Barbara Millicent Roberts
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Question: The term Ouija, referring to a talking board, is derived from what?
Choices: A board created by Nazis for Hitler meaning Holy Grail; The French oui for yes, and the German ja for yes; An Ancient Egyptian word meaning good luck; Ancient Hebrew meaning spirit talker
Answer: The French oui for yes, and the German ja for yes
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Question: The Dibbuk Box, which presumably contained a spirit, was what type of box?
Choices: Jewelery Box; Christmas Gift Box; Shoe Box; Wine Cabinet Box
Answer: Wine Cabinet Box
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Question: Which is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System?
Choices: Jupiter; Jupiters Moon Io; Earth; Jupiters Moon Europa
Answer: Jupiters Moon Io
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Question: A Venus day, the time it takes Venus to rotate once, is approximately how long?
Choices: 20 Earth hours; 10 Earth hours; 106 Earth days; 243 Earth days
Answer: 243 Earth days
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Question: The word berserk referring to Norse warriors, means what in Old Norse?
Choices: Warriors Wrath; Warriors Rage; Beer Shirt; Bear Shirt
Answer: Bear Shirt
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Question: On average, how much water is used in the USA each day?
Choices: About 100 Billion Gallons; About 200 Million Gallons; About 900 Million Gallons; About 340 Billion Gallons
Answer: About 340 Billion Gallons
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Question: In 1871 what major Midwest city burned down in a fire that was deemed one of the largest disasters in the United States?
Choices: Cleveland; Chicago; Detroit; St. Louis
Answer: Chicago
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Question: In what year did the Great Fire of London occur?
Choices: 1866; 1566; 1766; 1666
Answer: 1666
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Question: The Los Angeles Earthquake of 1916 caused a 3-day fire.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: A fire killed over 1600 people in 1845 in what Chinese city?
Choices: Hong Kong; Guangzhou (Canton); Beijing; Shanghai
Answer: Guangzhou (Canton)
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Question: The Peshtigo Fire (in Wisconsin and Michigan) occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What Oklahoma city saw a race riot that triggered a fire in 1921?
Choices: Enid; Ada; Oklahoma City; Tulsa
Answer: Tulsa
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Question: The Don Paz passenger ferry was on its way to what island in 1987 when it collided with an oil tanker?
Choices: Thailand; Jamaica; Singapore; Philippines
Answer: Philippines
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Question: There was a fire in South Dakota that destroyed over 90,000 acres.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What U.S. National Park saw a large and very destructive fire in 1988?
Choices: Death Valley; Sequoia; Yellowstone; Yosemite
Answer: Yellowstone
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Question: General Slocum was the name of a person involved in the 1904 fire in New York that resulted in over 1000 deaths.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: From which book is this quote: When Gregor Samsa awoke he was transformed into an incredibly large, disgusting vermin.?
Choices: Kerouacs On the Road; Kafkas The Metamorphosis; Dostoevsky s Crime and Punishment; Goethes Faustus
Answer: Kafkas The Metamorphosis
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Question: Where  would  you  find The Book of Kells?
Choices: Glasgow, Scotland; Edinburgh, Scotland; Next to the Book of Durrow; Next to the Blarney Stone
Answer: Next to the Book of Durrow
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Question: Which plane is the first  jet fighter?
Choices: Messerschmidt  M29; Heinkel He 280; F-117A; MiG 12
Answer: Heinkel He 280
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Question: Which famous novel begins with the sentence: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.?
Choices: Great Expectations; David Copperfield; The Last of the Mohicans; The Old Man and the Sea
Answer: David Copperfield
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Question: Who was the first person to  use the term atomic bomb?
Choices: H.G. Wells; Robert Oppenheimer; Lise Meitner; Enrico Fermi
Answer: H.G. Wells
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Question: Canada  is made up of 10 Provinces. How many of them do not border the USA?
Choices: 1; 2; 3; 4
Answer: 3
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Question: Which statement is correct?
Choices: Graceland, Elvis Presleys home, is the most visited home in the USA.; In Latin Io sperrio discum means While I breathe, I learn.; The Italian government added the expression orbium phonographicorum theca as the  definition for the new Latin word discotheque.; Disko Island is located off the west coast of Greenland.
Answer: Disko Island is located off the west coast of Greenland.
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Question: What does a vexillogist study and/or collect  ?
Choices: Stamps; Flags; Bones; Letters
Answer: Flags
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Question: The Predator is a type of US Air Force plane. How many people can ride in it ?
Choices: 3; 1; 0; 2
Answer: 0
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Question: Who was the first female professor at Princeton University?
Choices: Rosalind Yalow; Susan Sontag; Mary Robertson; Hannah Arendt
Answer: Hannah Arendt
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Question: We all know that when arrested you must be Mirandized. Of what crime or crimes was Mr. Miranda accused?
Choices: Murder; Murder and rape; Grand theft; Rape and kidnapping
Answer: Rape and kidnapping
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Question: Which of these words means biting, sarcastic, acid-mouthed?
Choices: Mordant; Chthonic; Quotidian; Puerile
Answer: Mordant
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Question: Which of these weapons is a US Marine infantry  weapon, scheduled for widespread use in starting 2008?
Choices: Stryker; M-17A2 rifle; SMAW-NE; Javelin
Answer: SMAW-NE
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Question: What do historians call the period of 1730-1759 in American history?
Choices: The Primitive Era; The Puritan Era; The Great Awakening; The Era of Good Feelings
Answer: The Great Awakening
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Question: Which statement is untrue about the Human Papiloma Virus(HPV)?
Choices: The HPV is an STD.; The HPV can cause cancer of the penis.; There is no complete cure for disease caused by the HPV.; About 75% of the strains of the HPV cause cervical cancer.
Answer: About 75% of the strains of the HPV cause cervical cancer.
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Question: In 1964 Francis Cardinal Spellman banned all Catholic children in the New York Archdiocese from doing this.
Choices: Watching too much TV; Watching Elvis Presley; Listening to transistor radios in school; Doing the Twist
Answer: Doing the Twist
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Question: Narcissistic is a word that applies to someone who has a pervasive pattern of cruel, demeaning, and aggressive behavior, beginning in early adulthood.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: If a red house is made out of red bricks, a black house is made out of black bricks, and a white house is made out of white bricks, what is a greenhouse made out of?
Choices: green bricks; leaves; none of the above; glass
Answer: glass
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Question: On March 19 2008 President Bushs approval rates  were 31% and 69%. What were his chances of winning the 2008 presidential race?
Choices: 31%; 50%; 0%; 69%
Answer: 0%
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Question: A man walks up to you and says Everything I say is a lie. Is he telling the truth or lying?
Choices: He is lying.; none of these; He is telling the truth.; not enough information
Answer: He is lying.
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Question: A woman has 7 children. Half of them are boys. Can this be true?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
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Question: A farmer and his son are working together. The farmer is carrying one sack of grain and the son is carrying two sacks. Who was carrying the heavier load- the son or the father?
Choices: the son; They werent carrying anything.; the same amount; the father
Answer: the father
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Question: Four can be half of five.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: A man shoots his wife. Then he holds her underwater for 5-10 minutes. Then he hangs her. 30 minutes later they go out to dinner at a 5-star restaurant. How is this possible?
Choices: He is a photographer; none of these; He brings her back to life.; He remarries.
Answer: He is a photographer
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Question: WETYIAFHKLXVNM
Choices: UOPSDGJCB;  which of these rows would the letter Z  go?; bottom; top; neither; none
Answer: top
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Question: Who portrayed Adam Schiff, the Manhattan District Attorney in Law and Order?
Choices: Fred Dalton Thompson; Steven Hill; Dann Florek; Steve Zirnkilton
Answer: Steven Hill
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Question: He was the young, honest lawyer who won the case in the movie and novel The Rainmaker.
Choices: Rudy Baylor; Ted Buckland; Billy Flynn; Sydney Carton
Answer: Rudy Baylor
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Question: What was the name of the sleazy lawyer in the musical and movie Chicago?
Choices: Rudy Baylor; Billy Flynn; Pete Drucker; Ted Buckland
Answer: Billy Flynn
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Question: Atticus Finch was a great, moral man and a fine lawyer who defended Tom Robinson. In which novel and  movie was he a central character?
Choices: To Kill a Mockingbird; The Trial; Witness for the Prosecution; Anatomy of a Murder
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird
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Question: In the 1992 movie, My Cousin Vinnie, Ralph Macchio asks his cousin Vinnie to be his lawyer. What was  Vinnies last name?
Choices: Gambini; Giradelli; Gianfredo; Barcolli
Answer: Gambini
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Question: The actor who starred as the lawyer in Matlock started out as a real lawyer.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False