kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: people
Question: How is Queen Elizabeth II related to Edward VIII, the late Duke of Windsor?
Choices: He was her uncle.; He was her father; He was her cousin; He was her grandfather
Answer: He was her uncle.
Category: people
Question: Both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are direct descendants of Queen Victoria.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Peter Phillips is the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Uncommon Women and Others, The Heidi Chronicles, Isnt It Romantic, and The Sisters Rosensweig are written by this playwright.
Choices: Wendy Wasserstein; Sally Behrmann; Jill Matherson; Andrea ODowell
Answer: Wendy Wasserstein
Category: people
Question: Who wrote the plays Marty, The Tenth Man and Gideon?
Choices: John Updike; William Inge; Jonathan  Larson; Paddy Chayefsky
Answer: Paddy Chayefsky
Category: people
Question: A Thousand Clowns, Im Not Rappaport, Thieves, Conversations with My Father are plays by this dramatist.
Choices: John Updike; Paddy Chayefsky; Herb Gardner; William Inge
Answer: Herb Gardner
Category: people
Question: What ancient Greek tragedian wrote the plays Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, Ajax?
Choices: Terrance; Sophocles; Aeschylus; Aristophanes
Answer: Sophocles
Category: people
Question: Lysistrata, The Birds, The Wasps, The Frogs are plays by this ancient Greek playwright.
Choices: Sophocles; Aeschylus; Aristophanes; Terrance
Answer: Aristophanes
Category: people
Question: Who is the author of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound, and Seven Against Thebes?
Choices: Aristophanes; Sophocles; Terrance; Aeschylus
Answer: Aeschylus
Category: people
Question: Who penned the plays The Emperor Jones, Mourning Becomes Electra, Anna Christie, Desire Under the Elms, beyond the Horizon, and The Iceman Cometh?
Choices: Eugene ONeill; James Joyce; Thornton Wilder; Tennessee Williams
Answer: Eugene ONeill
Category: people
Question: This playwright is the author of Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, Bernice, and The Merchant of Yonkers.
Choices: William Inge; Tennessee Williams; Eugene ONeill; Thornton Wilder
Answer: Thornton Wilder
Category: people
Question: What prominent playwright wrote the plays A Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire,  The Rose Tattoo, The Night of the Iguana?
Choices: Tennessee Williams; Thornton Wilder; Eugene ONeill; William Inge
Answer: Tennessee Williams
Category: people
Question: Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic and Bus Stop are plays by this dramatist.
Choices: Eugene ONeill; William Inge; Thornton Wilder; Tennessee Williams
Answer: William Inge
Category: people
Question: In which present day country was Vlad the Impaler born?
Choices: Turkey; Austria; Hungry; Romania
Answer: Romania
Category: people
Question: As a young man, Vlad the Impaler was taken hostage by the Turks and sent to Istanbul.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Vlad Draculas father and brother were assassinated by the Turks so they could more easily invade the region of Wallachia.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Which nickname given to Vlad Dracula means impaler?
Choices: Tepes; Impani; Radou; Dracul
Answer: Tepes
Category: people
Question: Notes from a Small Island is a travel book by an American Bill Bryson, describing a European island. Which one?
Choices: Ireland; Ibiza; Great Britain; Malta
Answer: Great Britain
Category: people
Question: The tagline for this movie was: For over two thousand years, Europe has survived many great disasters. Now for the real test. Chevy Chase  his family are coming from America!â What film is it the quote from?
Choices: Time of Vacation; Christmas Vacation; European Vacation; The Big Vacation
Answer: European Vacation
Category: people
Question: He was born in Canada and was a business tycoon as well as a politician. He bought and later sold control of the Rolls-Royce automobile company and built a London newspaper empire. Who is he?
Choices: Matthew Boulton; Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook; John Jacob Astor; Arthur Andersen
Answer: Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Category: people
Question: He was a business tycoon who made a fortune by selling Coca-Cola. He bought the formula of Coca-Cola from its inventor John Pemberton for $2,300.
Choices: Richard Branson; Samuel Bronfman; Bernard Baruch; Asa Griggs Candler
Answer: Asa Griggs Candler
Category: people
Question: He is an American businessman, who studied at the University of Texas at Austin with the intention to become a physicist. It was then, that he got interested in computers and even started a computer company called PCs Limited in his dorm room. The company soon became very prosperous.
Choices: Michael Dell; Friedrich Engels; William Gates; Larry Ellison
Answer: Michael Dell
Category: people
Question: He founded one of the largest fast food companies. Having amassed a $500 million fortune during his lifetime, he was  included in the TIME 100 list of the worlds most influential builders and titans of industry.
Choices: Ray Kroc; Michael Milken; Scott McNealy; Henry Kravis
Answer: Ray Kroc
Category: people
Question: James G. March has served on the faculties of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the University of California and Stanford University. He is a business theorists and his studies are directed towards this.
Choices: Understanding risk-taking and decision-making; Advertising and Marketing; Abuse at the workplace; The psychology of work
Answer: Understanding risk-taking and decision-making
Category: people
Question: He is from a  prominent 400-year old German family, famous for their steel production and manufacture of ammunition and armaments. He launched the family business.
Choices: Friedrich Krupp; Henry Kravis; Alfred Krupp; Alfred Sloan
Answer: Friedrich Krupp
Category: people
Question: This Australian-born tycoon is regarded as one of the most politically influential media proprietors in the world. He started his business in Australia and exported it to Britain and the USA.
Choices: Rupert Murdoch; Andrew Mellon; Sanjay Kumar; Pierre Omidyar
Answer: Rupert Murdoch
Category: people
Question: He was the most famous Greek shipping magnate of the 20th century.
Choices: Aristotle Onassis; Sanjay Kumar; Ross Perot; Cornelius Vanderbilt
Answer: Aristotle Onassis
Category: people
Question: Much of his fortune and rise to splendour was due to deals with William IX, who had had inherited what was purported to be among the largest fortunes in Europe. That fortune eventually went under his control. This was the start of one of the most successful German business families in the world.
Choices: Cecil Rhodes; Andrew Mellon; Mayer Amschel Rothschild; Paul Julius Baron von Reuter
Answer: Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Category: people
Question: This man played a knife wielding Bowie in a movie about the Alamo starring John Wayne.
Choices: Richard Dawson; Richard Boone; Richard Roundtree; Richard Widmark
Answer: Richard Widmark
Category: people
Question: This Richard played Jason Bourne in the original 1988 Bourne Identity.
Choices: Roundtree; Dawson; Chamberlain; Boone
Answer: Chamberlain
Category: people
Question: This Dick starred as Tom Bradford on Eight is Enough.
Choices: York; Van Patton; Van Dyke; Van York
Answer: Van Patton
Category: people
Question: This Jessica is a Country music singer famous for her 2001 song Who Am I .
Choices: Jessica Corbett; Jessica Maurer; Jessica Andrews; Jessica Capshaw
Answer: Jessica Andrews
Category: people
Question: What musician created the Ziggy Stardust persona, featured in the 1972 concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars?
Choices: David Coverdale; David Axelrod; David Bowie; David Gilmour
Answer: David Bowie
Category: people
Question: The publication of this novel by David Herbert Lawrence caused a scandal as it contained four-letter words and described the relationship between a working-class male and an upper-class female.
Choices: Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterleys Lover; Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Women in Love
Answer: Lady Chatterleys Lover
Category: people
Question: American magician and illusionist David Copperfield named himself after a character created by what classic author?
Choices: Oscar Wilde; Thomas Hardy; Charles Dickens; Mark Twain
Answer: Charles Dickens
Category: people
Question: What musician is not correctly matched with the band of which he was a member?
Choices: David Bowie - Talking Heads; David Coverdale - Deep Purple; David Crosby - The Byrds; David Gilmour - Pink Floyd
Answer: David Bowie - Talking Heads
Category: people
Question: In 2008, late-night talk show host David Letterman was accused of sexism regarding remarks about this politician.
Choices: Sarah Palin; Condoleezza Rice; Nancy Pelosi; Hilary Clindon
Answer: Sarah Palin
Category: people
Question: What weapon did young David, the future king of Israel, use to defeat the giant Goliath?
Choices: a bow; a sword; none; a sling
Answer: a sling
Category: people
Question: What actor won the 1996 Golden Globe Award for his role of an FBI Special Agent in a TV series?
Choices: David Hasselhoff; David Duchovny; David Boreanz; David Morse
Answer: David Duchovny
Category: people
Question: St. David, who is commemorated with a feast day falling on March 1 each year, is the national patron saint of this country.
Choices: Wales; Canada; Iceland; Scotland
Answer: Wales
Category: people
Question: What musician recorded the album White Snake and later used the album title as the name of his future band?
Choices: David Coverdale; David Byrne; David Gilmour; David Axelrod
Answer: David Coverdale
Category: people
Question: In 2007, English soccer player David Beckham, whose fame has extended well beyond sport, joined what American Major League Soccer team?
Choices: Los Angeles Galaxy; Houston Dynamo; D.C. United; Chicago Fire
Answer: Los Angeles Galaxy
Category: people
Question: John Adams was the second President of the United States. He was educated in the field of law at this Ivy League university.
Choices: Princeton University; Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania; Yale University
Answer: Harvard University
Category: people
Question: One of the actors starring in Friends graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.
Choices: Lisa Kudrow; David Schwimmer; Jennifer Aniston; Courteney Cox Arquette
Answer: Lisa Kudrow
Category: people
Question: John F. Kennedy studied at all of these schools except one.
Choices: Harvard University; London School of Economics; United States Military Academy (West Point); Princeton University
Answer: United States Military Academy (West Point)
Category: people
Question: Hollywood star Brad Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he studied this.
Choices: Philosophy; English literature; Journalism; History
Answer: Journalism
Category: people
Question: At first Condoleezza Rices plans were to become a pianist. However, after she attended a course on international politics taught by this person, she changed her mind and at age 19, Rice earned her bachelors degree in political science from the University of Denver.
Choices: Josef Korbel; Henry Kissinger; None of these; Noam Chomsky
Answer: Josef Korbel
Category: people
Question: Actor Hugh Grant studied English at the University of Cambridge.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Which one of these British Prime Ministers studied chemistry at the University of Oxford?
Choices: Tony Blair; Margaret Thatcher; John Major; James Callaghan
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Category: people
Question: Before altering the course of his career towards drama, this actor received a masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney, and was eventually awarded a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to MIT.
Choices: Sean Connery; Dolph Lundgren; Clint Eastwood; Nicolas Cage
Answer: Dolph Lundgren
Category: people
Question: The famous New York real estate developer, Donald Trump, earned his bachelors degree in economics from this university.
Choices: Fordham University; New York University; Brown University; University of Pennsylvania
Answer: University of Pennsylvania
Category: people
Question: Bill Gates graduated from Harvard University.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Famous Indian spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is widely known as Mahatma, which means what  in Sanskrit?
Choices: Great Son; Great King; Great Eye; Great Soul
Answer: Great Soul
Category: people
Question: In 1889, what professional education did Mahatma Gandhi receive at University College in London?
Choices: He became a theologian.; He became a barrister.; He became an anthropologist.; He became a psychologist.
Answer: He became a barrister.
Category: people
Question: In 1894, the Natal Indian Congress was founded by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, for what purpose?
Choices: To organize the Indian people in London.; To fight with the discrimination against Indians.; To spread the teachings of Buddha.; To preach  vegetarianism.
Answer: To fight with the discrimination against Indians.
Category: people
Question: What was the main principle in Mahatma Gandhis philosophical teaching Satyagraha, which he employed in his fight against the apartheid in South Africa and the British Raj?
Choices: The non-violent protest; The kamikaze approach; The war to end all wars; The Christian faith
Answer: The non-violent protest
Category: people
Question: During World War I, the famous spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi encouraged the Indian people to do what?
Choices: To join the army and support the British.; To leave the country.; To stay home and never take part in a war.; To join the army and fight against the British.
Answer: To join the army and support the British.
Category: people
Question: On March 10, 1922 Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to 6 years of prison for sedition but he served only two years. Why?
Choices: Because the UN forced the British government to free him.; Because he was later found not guilty.; Because his followers helped him escape from prison.; Because he needed urgent medical treatment.
Answer: Because he needed urgent medical treatment.
Category: people
Question: What was the astrological sign of Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi?
Choices: Taurus; Libra; Virgo; Aquarius
Answer: Libra
Category: people
Question: What is the title of Mahatma Gandhis autobiography, originally written in the Gujarati language?
Choices: My Indian Story; The Story of My Experiments with Truth; My Life and the Satyagraha; The Silence of My Freedom
Answer: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Category: people
Question: During World War II, Mahatma Gandhi organized this movement of civil disobedience, determined to achieve Indias total independence from the British.
Choices: The Call for Freedom; The Quit India Movement; The Never Surrender Movement; The Indian Vegetarian Movement
Answer: The Quit India Movement
Category: people
Question: On January 30, 1948 Mahatma Gandhi died on his way to a religious meeting in New Delhi. What was the cause of his death?
Choices: He was shot by a Hindu radical.; He had a stroke.; He committed suicide.; He was knocked down by a car.
Answer: He was shot by a Hindu radical.
Category: people
Question: Joan of Arc lived in this century.
Choices: 15th; 16th; 14th; 13th
Answer: 15th
Category: people
Question: When Joan was about 20 she said she had begun to receive visions of Saint Michael the Archangel, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret telling her to drive the English out of France.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: In 1999, the movie The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, portraying her life, was released.  Who played the role of her character?
Choices: Lola Albright; Isabelle Adjani; Milla Jovovich; Faye Dunaway
Answer: Milla Jovovich
Category: people
Question: Three of these writers have referred to Joan of Arc in their works. Who is the odd one?
Choices: Joseph Heller; George Bernard Shaw; Friedrich Schiller; Shakespeare
Answer: Joseph Heller
Category: people
Question: Joans visions are carefully scrutinized by experts. They concluded that all these diseases were the cause of the hallucinations except one.
Choices: Schizophrenia; Bovine Tuberculosis; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Narcissistic personality disorder
Answer: Narcissistic personality disorder
Category: people
Question: What can be inferred about Joans clothing?
Choices: Her clothing was extremely luxurious.; She often wore no clothes.; Her clothing was more commonly worn by men.; Her clothing resembled very much the one worn by Popes.
Answer: Her clothing was more commonly worn by men.
Category: people
Question: When Joan was captured by Burgundian troops, King Charles did not want to ransom her.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Was the trial against Joan of Arc, which began in 1431  just and fair?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
Category: people
Question: How many years after her execution was Joan of Arc declared innocent?
Choices: 10; 100; 25; 311
Answer: 25
Category: people
Question: Who was the twenty-third President of the United States?
Choices: Jimmy Carter; Benjamin Harrison; Herbert Hoover; Millard Fillmore
Answer: Benjamin Harrison
Category: people
Question: Who was President of the United States when the atomic bombs were dropped in August 1945?
Choices: Theodor Roosevelt; Ronald Reagan; Harry S. Truman; Franklin D. Roosevelt
Answer: Harry S. Truman
Category: people
Question: Which President said Speak softly and carry a big stick.?
Choices: Theodor Teddy Roosevelt; Ronald Reagan; Thomas Jefferson; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: Theodor Teddy Roosevelt
Category: people
Question: Which two U.S. Presidents died on the same day?
Choices: Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan; Theodor Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; Grower Cleveland and Millard Filmore
Answer: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Category: people
Question: Which U.S. President is considered the father of the Constitution?
Choices: James Madison; John Adams; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson
Answer: James Madison
Category: people
Question: Who was the first U.S. President born in a hospital?
Choices: Ronald Reagan; Jimmy Carter; George H.W. Bush; Richard Nixon
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Category: people
Question: What U.S. President used the words When in the course of human events?
Choices: George Washington; James Madison; Ronald Reagan; Thomas Jefferson
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Category: people
Question: Who was the first President to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office?
Choices: Andrew Johnson; George Washington; Grover Cleavland; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: Grover Cleavland
Category: people
Question: While this President was skinny dipping in the Potomac River a female journalist took his clothes and refused to give them to him until he gave an interview.
Choices: Andrew Jackson; James Monroe; James Buchanan; John Quincy Adams
Answer: John Quincy Adams
Category: people
Question: Which U.S. political party is also known as the GOP?
Choices: Federalist; Democratic; Republican; Democratic-Republican
Answer: Republican
Category: people
Question: Which Spanish explorer was the first recorded European to reach the Mississippi River?
Choices: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa; HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s; Vasco da Gama; Hernando de Soto
Answer: Hernando de Soto
Category: people
Question: Name the Portuguese explorer who was in command of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
Choices: Christopher Columbus; Ferdinand Magellan; Vasco da Gama; Marco Polo
Answer: Vasco da Gama
Category: people
Question: Christopher Columbus, one of the most successful explorers in the European Age of Discovery and among the first Europeans to explore the Americas (after the Vikings,) was of what nationality?
Choices: Portuguese; Italian; English; Spanish
Answer: Italian
Category: people
Question: This Italian explored the east coast of South America much further south than any other European before and realized that this land was part of a new continent while many other European explorers crossing the Atlantic thought they were reaching Asia.
Choices: Marco Polo; Christopher Columbus; Amerigo Vespucci; Ferdinand Magellan
Answer: Amerigo Vespucci
Category: people
Question: Which explorer realized the first known successful attempt to circumnavigate the Earth?
Choices: Marco Polo; Ferdinand Magellan; James Cook; Vasco da Gama
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
Category: people
Question: This explorer was one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road and meet the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan.
Choices: Jacques Cartier; HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s; Marco Polo; Juan SebastiÃ¡n Elcano
Answer: Marco Polo
Category: people
Question: Name the French navigator and explorer who was the first to describe and map Canada.
Choices: Friar Julian; Meriwether Lewis; Jacques Cartier; Jean FranÃ§ois La PÃ©rouse
Answer: Jacques Cartier
Category: people
Question: Which Spanish explorer conquered the Inca Empire?
Choices: Francisco Pizarro; Luis VÃ¡ez de Torres; Juan Ponce de LeÃ³n; HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s
Answer: Francisco Pizarro
Category: people
Question: Which First Lady rescued the portrait of George Washington when the British burned the city during the war of 1812?
Choices: Dolley Madison; Martha Washington; Mildred Jefferson; Mary Todd Lincoln
Answer: Dolley Madison
Category: people
Question: Mary Todd Lincoln was committed to a mental institution.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Which of these First Ladies had a law degree?
Choices: Hillary Clinton; Eleanor Roosevelt; Pat Nixon; Mildred Buchanan
Answer: Hillary Clinton
Category: people
Question: She received many honorary degrees before becoming First Lady.
Choices: Hillary Clinton; Sara Jefferson; Pat Nixon; Lou Hoover
Answer: Lou Hoover
Category: people
Question: Who was the first First Lady to receive a college degree?
Choices: Lucy Webb Hayes; Jackie Kennedy; Margaret Smith Taylor; Bess Truman
Answer: Lucy Webb Hayes
Category: people
Question: This First Lady banned cards and alcohol while living at the White House.
Choices: Dolly Maddison; Sarah Childress Polk; Lou Hoover; Grace Coolidge
Answer: Sarah Childress Polk
Category: people
Question: While in the White House this First Lady suffered from epileptic seizures.
Choices: Ida Saxton McKinley; Caroline Harrison; Pat Nixon; Mary Todd Lincoln
Answer: Ida Saxton McKinley
Category: people
Question: Which First Lady did not see her husband die during his term of office?
Choices: Nancy Reagan; Eleanor Roosevelt; Mary Todd Lincoln; Jackie Kennedy
Answer: Nancy Reagan
Category: people
Question: This first lady was responsible for the Cherry Blossoms we can enjoy every spring.
Choices: Helen Taft; Lady Bird Johnson; Maggie Monroe; Caroline Harrison
Answer: Helen Taft
Category: people
Question: This First Ladys husband suffered a stroke in 1919 and she assumed his responsibilities and made decisions for him the last year and a half of his term of office.
Choices: Gracie Taft; Mamie Eisenhower; Edith Wilson; Julia Grant
Answer: Edith Wilson
Category: people
Question: Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, acceded to the throne after the abdication of which monarch?
Choices: Queen Christina; Queen Sonya; Queen Ingrid; Queen Juliana
Answer: Queen Juliana
Category: people
Question: Born in Utrecht, on April 27th, 1967 and known as the Prince of Orange, he is the eldest son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Choices: Reinhart-Gregor; Otto-Casimir; Lothar-Maurice; Willem-Alexander
Answer: Willem-Alexander
Category: people
Question: This German-born nobleman is the late father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Choices: Prince Manfred; Prince Konrad; Prince Oscar; Prince Bernhard
Answer: Prince Bernhard
Category: people
Question: From which university did Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands obtain her degree in law in practice?
Choices: Utrecht; Maastricht; Leiden; Groningen
Answer: Leiden
Category: people
Question: In what year did Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands ascend the throne?
Choices: 1980; 1985; 1990; 1973
Answer: 1980
Category: people
Question: This Dutch monarch held the title Queen Mother from 1980 until her death in 2004.
Choices: Margrete; Juliana; Sylvia; Caroline
Answer: Juliana
Category: people
Question: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands gave birth to how many daughters?
Choices: None; Three; Four; Two
Answer: Four
Category: people
Question: This German diplomat, who died on October 6, 2002 was the spouse of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Choices: Prince  Emmanuel; Prince Zacharias; Prince  Ruprecht; Prince Claus
Answer: Prince Claus
Category: people
Question: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands gave birth to how many sons?
Choices: Five; Two; Four; Three
Answer: Three
Category: people
Question: This Argentine lady married Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands on February 2, 2002.
Choices: Princess Clementine; Princess Maxima; Princess Odilia; Princess Eugenie
Answer: Princess Maxima
Category: people
Question: Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, was born in what year?
Choices: 1950; 1938; 1926; 1962
Answer: 1938
Category: people
Question: The Dutch royal family has been historically associated with what color?
Choices: White; Orange; Green; Brown
Answer: Orange
Category: people
Question: What fictional character was James Bond first married to?
Choices: Tiffany Case; Andrea Anders; Pussy Galore; Teresa Tracy Draco
Answer: Teresa Tracy Draco
Category: people
Question: According to the Hebrew Bible, who was Moses father-in-law?
Choices: Elijah; Joshua; Jethro; Aaron
Answer: Jethro
Category: people
Question: From what country was the first astronaut who was not Russian or American?
Choices: France; Czechoslovakia; Canada; Germany
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Category: people
Question: What name is Mexican revolutionary Doroteo Arango better know as?
Choices: Simon Bolivar; Manuel Noriega; Che Guevara; Pancho Villa
Answer: Pancho Villa
Category: people
Question: In 1877, Spencer Gore was the first winner of what tournament?
Choices: Wimbledon; The Masters; Cricket World Cup; World Open
Answer: Wimbledon
Category: people
Question: Who was the inventor of dynamite?
Choices: Georg Friedrich Henning; The Chinese; Alfred Nobel; Joseph Wilbrand
Answer: Alfred Nobel
Category: people
Question: What politician was nicknamed Il Duce?
Choices: Josef Stalin; Richard Nixon; Benito Mussolini; Margaret Thatcher
Answer: Benito Mussolini
Category: people
Question: What were the names of the lovers in the musical West Side Story?
Choices: Jiovanni and Madona; Toni and Maria; Adamo and Juanita; Max and Conchita
Answer: Toni and Maria
Category: people
Question: Name the three musketeers in Alexandre Dumass novel by the same name.
Choices: Aramis, dArtagnan, Athos; Athos, Portos, dArtagnan; Athos, Portos, Aramis; Portos, dArtagnan, Aramis
Answer: Athos, Portos, Aramis
Category: people
Question: A line in this lawyers summation to the jury has become a part of pop culture.  Who said If the glove doesnt fit, you must acquit.
Choices: Al Sharpton; F. Lee Bailey; Robert Shapiro; Johnnie Cochran
Answer: Johnnie Cochran
Category: people
Question: What Shakespeare character said The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven?
Choices: Antonio; Shylock; Portia; Bassanio
Answer: Portia
Category: people
Question: This flamboyant criminal lawyer said: Say you sue me because you say my dog bit you. Well, now this is my defense: My dog doesnt bite. And second, my dog was tied up that night. And third, I dont believe you were bit. And fourth, I dont have a dog. This lawyer represented T. Cullen Davis, one of the wealthiest men to ever stand trial for murder in the United States. He won two acquittals for Davis for the murder of  twelve-year-old Andrea Wilborn and the attempted murder of Judge Joe Eidson.
Choices: Richard Racehorse Haynes; Melvin Belli; Roy Black; Gerry Spence
Answer: Richard Racehorse Haynes
Category: people
Question: This lawyer, who graduated from Stanford Law School and served on the Arizona Court of Appeals, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
Choices: Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Sandra Day OConnor; Harriet Miers; Kimba Woods
Answer: Sandra Day OConnor
Category: people
Question: How did German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler take his own life, according to a prevailing theory?
Choices: He jumped from a building.; He shot himself.; He hanged himself.; He injected poison in his veins.
Answer: He shot himself.
Category: people
Question: Who called the police on August 5, 1962 to report that Marilyn Monroe was dead?
Choices: Her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson; Her housekeeper; Arthur Miller; Joe DiMaggio, Jr.
Answer: Her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson
Category: people
Question: What was one of the reasons for Roman politician and General Mark Antonys suicide on August 1, 30 BC?
Choices: He thought Queen Cleopatra had already committed suicide herself.; He believed Queen Cleopatra was cheating on him.; None of these; He killed Queen Cleopatra before that.
Answer: He thought Queen Cleopatra had already committed suicide herself.
Category: people
Question: Sigmund Freud was suffering from this type of cancer, which caused him to commit a suicide with the assistance of his doctor.
Choices: Oral cancer; Bone cancer; Prostate cancer; Stomach cancer
Answer: Oral cancer
Category: people
Question: How did Judas Iscariot choose to end his life according to the Gospel of Matthew?
Choices: He hanged himself.; He jumped from a cliff.; He drowned himself.; He poisoned himself.
Answer: He hanged himself.
Category: people
Question: How did Nirvana vocalist Kurt Cobain end his life on April 5, 1994?
Choices: He poisoned himself.; He jumped from a building.; He shot himself.; He hanged himself.
Answer: He shot himself.
Category: people
Question: The poison which philosopher Socrates was sentenced to drinking contained this poisonous plant.
Choices: Belladonna; Thornapple; Oleander; Hemlock
Answer: Hemlock
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the last novel written by author Virginia Woolf before she took her own life?
Choices: The Years; Between the Acts; The Voyage Out; Mrs Dalloway
Answer: Between the Acts
Category: people
Question: How did Roman Emperor Nero kill himself?
Choices: He let a lion kill him.; He severed his veins.; He cut his throat.; He poisoned himself.
Answer: He cut his throat.
Category: people
Question: What was the reason for actor George Reeves suicide according to the police report?
Choices: He knew he was very sick with no chance of recovery.; He couldnt get the sort of parts he wanted.; All of these; He had marital problems.
Answer: He couldnt get the sort of parts he wanted.
Category: people
Question: This person runs into the water in search of the balls that the golf players strike inaccurately.
Choices: Golf Ball Swimmer; Golf Ball Diver; Golf Ball Water Hunter; Golf Ball Seeker
Answer: Golf Ball Diver
Category: people
Question: This person takes care of the hair and makeup of dead people.
Choices: Funeral Makeup Artist; Funeral Cosmetician; None of these; Funeral Parlor Cosmetologist
Answer: Funeral Parlor Cosmetologist
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Question: These people are most likely to be met in the labs of mouthwash companies, where they indulge in the smell of different breaths in order to test the products.
Choices: Odor Judges; Odor Jurors; Breath Evaluators; Breath Judges
Answer: Odor Judges
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Question: This profession is related to making food look fresh and delicious on photographs and advertisements.
Choices: Food Arrangeur; Food Stylist; Food Designer; Food Special Effects Guy
Answer: Food Stylist
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Question: These people have highly sensible noses and their task is to ensure that a NASA flight wont be aborted due to bad smells in space.
Choices: Smell Specialists; Master Sniffers; Master Smellers; Odor Analysts
Answer: Master Sniffers
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Question: This job involves taking care of all the certificates and registration issues of race horses, examining the horses and their identification marks and reporting the possible unconformities.
Choices: Race Horse Specialist; Horse Describer; Horse Analyst; Horse Identifier
Answer: Horse Identifier
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Question: This person works with machines used to coat popcorn or other products with melted cheese.
Choices: Cheese Melter; Cheese Sprinkler; Cheese Sprayer; Cheese Operator
Answer: Cheese Sprayer
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Question: This job requires dipping nuts in hot water, so their shells get softer, as well as maintaining the equipment and temperature.
Choices: Nut heater; Nut softener; Nut steamer; Nut boiler
Answer: Nut steamer
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Question: These people, who get active when it is dark, walk around gardens, parks, lawns to gather earthworms and sell them for fish bait.
Choices: Worm chasers; Worm gatherers; Worm pickers; Worm collectors
Answer: Worm pickers
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Question: This job requires sorting lasts(shoe molds) in numbered racks and transporting them to a storage room.
Choices: Last putter-away; Last sorter; Last storage operator; Mold sorter
Answer: Last putter-away
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Question: Where was the first president of the United States of America, George Washington, buried?
Choices: The White House; Monticello; His private cemetery; Mount Vernon
Answer: Mount Vernon
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Question: George Washington lived in the White House.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What happened to the White House when James Madison, the fourth president, was in office?
Choices: was built; was flooded; was set on fire; exploded
Answer: was set on fire
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Question: Which US presidents face is on the 20 dollar bill?
Choices: Martin Van Buren; Andrew Jackson; John Adams; George Washington
Answer: Andrew Jackson
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Question: Who was the first vice president to succeed a president who had died before his term was over?
Choices: Andrew Jackson; John Quincy Adams; Abraham Lincoln; John Tyler
Answer: John Tyler
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Question: When John Tyler became president, he did something that angered US citizens. What was it?
Choices: passed the Tariff of Abominations; vetoed the Bank of the United States; set his rivals house on fire; passed a law saying that no citizens could bear arms
Answer: vetoed the Bank of the United States
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Question: What was George Washingtons party?
Choices: Federalist; none; Democrat; Democratic-Republican
Answer: none
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Question: Martin Van Buren served 1 term as president.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: How many different presidential parties were there up to John Tyler?
Choices: 4; 2; 3; 5
Answer: 4
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Question: During her tenure as the first female Prime Minister of the UK, this Iron Lady reduced the power of trade unions, survived an assassination attempt, and staunchly opposed communism.
Choices: Barbara Castle; Margaret Thatcher; Eugenia Charles; Angela Merkel
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
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Question: Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become United States Secretary of State, was born Marie Jana KorbelovÃ¡ in this European country.
Choices: Czechoslovakia; Poland; Romania; Hungary
Answer: Czechoslovakia
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Question: Angela Merkel, a trained scientist, is the first woman to become Chancellor of this country.
Choices: Sweden; Austria; Switzerland; Germany
Answer: Germany
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Question: This suffragist is considered the first woman to run for President of the United States although her name was not printed on the ballot.
Choices: Evelyn Reed; Victoria Woodhull; Agnes Waters; Cynthia McKinney
Answer: Victoria Woodhull
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Question: This politician, who became Israels first female Prime Minister, used to be called the best man in the government.
Choices: Mary Robinson; Edith Cresson; Isabel Peron; Golda Meir
Answer: Golda Meir
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Question: What female politician is not correctly matched with the country of which she was Prime Minister?
Choices: Benazir Bhutto - Pakistan; Eva Peron - Argentina; Indira Gandhi - India; Tansu Ciller - Turkey
Answer: Eva Peron - Argentina
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Question: A self-proclaimed plain housewife, this lady was the first President of an Asian country.
Choices: Corazon Aquino; Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; Benazir Bhuto; Mary MacAleese
Answer: Corazon Aquino
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Question: What do Indira Ghandi and Benazir Bhuto have in common?
Choices: They were both assassinated.; They were the first female Prime Ministers of their countries.; They were Prime Ministers of Asian countries.; All of these
Answer: All of these
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Question: What 1980s movie makes reference to Frances Perkins, the first woman in the U.S. Cabinet?
Choices: When Harry Met Sally; Dirty Dancing; Pretty Woman; Shakespeare in Love
Answer: Dirty Dancing
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Question: SÃ©golÃ¨ne Royal, a prominent Socialist, was the first woman in France to be nominated for President by a major party. Who defeated her in the 2007 presidential election?
Choices: Francois Mitterrand; Nicolas Sarkozy; Jacques Chirac; Carla Bruni
Answer: Nicolas Sarkozy
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Question: 2007 mark this dictatorâs 38th year of rule. The people in his North African land seem to disappear whenever they speak out against him. His nation is loaded with oil. He has threatened to invade his neighbor, Chad. Always anti-American, it was reported that he once dressed as a woman when he feared American invasion. Who is this dictator?
Choices: Paul Biya; Robert Mugabe; Muammar al-Qadaffi; Hugo Chavez
Answer: Muammar al-Qadaffi
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Question: Which two men were in control of Iran in 2007?
Choices: Paul Biya and Mahmoud al-Khomenei; Omar al-Bashir and Islam Karimov; King Abdullah and Mohammed al-Khomenei; Sayid Ali Khomenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Answer: Sayid Ali Khomenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Question: Which ruler of North Korea took over the rule from his father in 1994?
Choices: Than Shwe; Kim Jong-IL; Isayas Jin Mswati; Hu Jin Tao
Answer: Kim Jong-IL
Category: people
Question: Which leaders rule of Pakistan began in 1999?
Choices: Tedoro Obiang Nguema; Pervez Musharraf; Paul Biya; Hugo Chavez
Answer: Pervez Musharraf
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Question: He took over leadership from his late father in 2000. This former opthamologist runs an oil-rich nation that funds terror all over the world. His nation has been instrumental in getting insurgents into the Western part of Iraq.
Choices: Sayid Ali Khomenei; Bashar al-Asad; Muamar al-Qadaffi; Omar al-Bashir
Answer: Bashar al-Asad
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Question: This leaders country has some oil resources but is very poor. Under his rule, we have the terrible genocide going on in Darfur. Who was dictator of the Sudan in 2007?
Choices: Sayid Ali Khomenei; Bashar al-Asad; Islam  Karimov; Omar al-Bashir
Answer: Omar al-Bashir
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Question: Although he was once considered to be the man who would lead Africa into a new age of freedom and prosperity, in 2007 he was the dictator of the nation with the shortest life expectancy. One-fourth of his nationâs children are orphans. Who is this dictator of Zimbabwe?
Choices: Pervez Musharraf; Robert Mugabe; Meles Zenawi; Paul Biya
Answer: Robert Mugabe
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Question: Which leaders rule of the Peoples Republic of China began in 2002?
Choices: Hu JIn Tao; Mao Tze Tung; Than Shwe; Cho En Lai
Answer: Hu JIn Tao
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Question: In 2007 this person was the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia since 1995, king since 2005 and the ruler of the worldâs largest oil reserves.
Choices: Hugo Chavez; Paul Biya; Bashar al-Assad; King Abdullah
Answer: King Abdullah
Category: people
Question: Which was the leader of Myanmar in 2007?
Choices: Than Shwe; Paul Biya; Robert Mugabe; Islam Karimov
Answer: Than Shwe
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Question: This person began his rule of Uzbekistan in 1989.
Choices: Islam Karimov; Paul Biya; Robert Mugabe; King Mswati
Answer: Islam Karimov
Category: people
Question: Which leader took control of Equatorial Guinea in 1979?
Choices: Vladimir Putin; Teodoro Obian Nguema; Chourmmaly Sayasone; Pervez  Musharraf
Answer: Teodoro Obian Nguema
Category: people
Question: When did Gerald Ford take the oath of office?
Choices: January 1975; October 1976; December 1974; August 1974
Answer: August 1974
Category: people
Question: From 1965 to 1973 Gerald Ford served as House Minority Leader.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Gerald Ford played football for the team of what university?
Choices: Michigan; Notre Dame; Yale; Nebraska
Answer: Michigan
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Question: Gerald Ford was a Lt. Commander in the Navy.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What political distinction does former President Gerald Ford hold?
Choices: The youngest president to hold office; The first president to visit a foreign country; The first  president to be appointed (not elected) to the offices of VP and President.; The only president to hold the offices of VP and President.
Answer: The first  president to be appointed (not elected) to the offices of VP and President.
Category: people
Question: Richard Cheney was appointed by Gerald Ford as Chief of Staff.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Gerald Ford had four children.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Gerald Ford was the first U.S. President to live past the age of 90.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: This US Senator of the 60-80s was known as Senator Wheat for his skill at raising wheat subsidies.
Choices: Lloyd Bentsen of Texas; William Proxmire of Wisconsin; Milton Young of North Dakota; Robert Dole of Kansas
Answer: Milton Young of North Dakota
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Question: Which US Senator, while in a Vice Presidential Debate, stated:  I knew John Kennedy, John Kennedy was a friend of mine and, Senator, you are no John Kennedy.?
Choices: Richard Nixon of California; Robert Dole of Kansas; Lloyd Bentsen of Texas; Nelson Rockefeller of New York
Answer: Lloyd Bentsen of Texas
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Question: This US Senator was born above a drug store in Wallace, SD.
Choices: Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota; George McGovern of South Dakota; Robert Dole of Kansas; Walter Mondale of Minnesota
Answer: Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota
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Question: Which US Senator, and later Vice President, was nicknamed Fritz?
Choices: Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts; Walter Mondale of Minnesota; Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota; Robert Dole of Kansas
Answer: Walter Mondale of Minnesota
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Question: This Senator from Illinois, who also ran for President, was fond of bow ties.
Choices: Alan Cranston; Morris K. Udall; Paul Simon; William Proxmire
Answer: Paul Simon
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Question: This Senator appeared in the Civil War movie Gods and Generals in 2003 along with Senator George Allen of Virginia, as a Confederate officer.
Choices: Quentin Burdick; Alan Cranston; Robert Byrd; Strom Thumond
Answer: Robert Byrd
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Question: Which SD Senator was defeated by John Thune in 2004 in his bid for re-election?
Choices: Nancy Kasselbaum; Milton R. Young; Tom Daschle; George McGovern
Answer: Tom Daschle
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Question: In 2006, this state reelected one of their liberal US Senators while continuing to maintain a Republican governorship and legislature.
Choices: North Dakota; Minnesota; Deleware; Nebraska
Answer: North Dakota
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Question: Which senator from Kansas was Gerald Fords vice presidential candidate in 1976?
Choices: Barry Goldwater; Spiro Agnew; None of these; Robert Dole
Answer: Robert Dole
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Question: This Senator from Maine, who ran for President in 1972, bowed out when reporters questioned him about his wifes health and tears were shed.
Choices: Edmund Muskie; Howard Metzenbaum; Daniel P. Monyihan; George McGovern
Answer: Edmund Muskie
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Question: 3rd century astronomer Aristarchus of Samos was ahead of his time in suggesting what?
Choices: That the earth revolves around its axis; That the earth revolves around the sun; The Big Bang theory; That the earth is round
Answer: That the earth revolves around the sun
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Question: The assassination of what political figure essentially brought on World War I?
Choices: Alexander I of Serbia; Crown Prince Rudolf; Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria; Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg
Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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Question: In what town and state was J. F. Kennedy born?
Choices: Yorba Linda, California; Hyde Park, New York; Lamar, Missouri; Brookline, MA
Answer: Brookline, MA
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Question: What late actor (April 3, 1924 â July 1, 2004), born in Omaha, made his home in Tahiti?
Choices: Laurence Olivier; Charlie Chaplin; Henry Fonda; Marlon Brando
Answer: Marlon Brando
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Question: George Washington was elected by Congress and not by the Electoral College of the United States.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Whom was Mary Ann Todd married to?
Choices: Abraham Lincoln; Leonardo da Vinci; King Arthur; Vasco da Gama
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
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Question: How many perfect scores did Nadia Comaneci receive in the 1976 Montreal Olympics?
Choices: 1; 2; 7; None
Answer: 7
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Question: In 1687, what English scientist published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which described the universal laws of mechanics?
Choices: Albert Einstein; Charles Darwin; Sir Isaac Newton; Nicolaus Copernicus
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton
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Question: According to the Bible, whom did King David speak his last words to?
Choices: Jonah; Solomon; Isaiah; Saul
Answer: Solomon
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Question: Which was the first NBA basketball team to sign a female player?
Choices: Chicago Bulls; The New York Knicks; The Indiana Pacers; Cleveland Cavaliers
Answer: The Indiana Pacers
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Question: Which great scientist said the following humorous statement about love: âGravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.â?
Choices: Isaac Newton; Plato; Albert Einstein; RenÃ© Descartes
Answer: Albert Einstein
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Question: âHe felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.â is an excerpt from a novel by which great 19-century writer?
Choices: George Eliot; Mark Twain; Jane Austen; Leo Tolstoy
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
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Question: Which French author made the following conclusion about the presence of love:â No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not.â?
Choices: Paul Lafargue; FranÃ§ois de La Rochefoucauld; Victor Hugo; Voltaire
Answer: FranÃ§ois de La Rochefoucauld
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Question: Which science fiction author made this connection between love and the universe: If the universe has any purpose more important then topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I have never heard of it.?
Choices: Robert A. Heinlein; Arthur C. Clarke; Isaac Asimov; H. G. Wells
Answer: Robert A. Heinlein
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Question: Fill in the missing word to get a quote on love by the great missionary Mother Teresa: If you _____ people, you have no time to love them.
Choices: blame; hate; judge; ignore
Answer: judge
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Question: The controversial American photographer Diane Arbus defined love as a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and ______________.
Choices: trust; tolerance; support; misunderstanding
Answer: misunderstanding
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Question: Which American musician does this statement belong to: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.?
Choices: Santana; Syd Barrett; Jimi Hendrix; Bono
Answer: Jimi Hendrix
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Question: How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? exclaimed which great scientist of the 20th century?
Choices: Isaac Newton; Charles Darwin; Albert Einstein; Niels Bohr
Answer: Albert Einstein
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Question: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. is an inspirational quote by American activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which philosopher concluded Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.?
Choices: Socrates; Voltaire; Aristotle; Plato
Answer: Aristotle