kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: literature
Question: Which of these is not one of the many pseudonyms used by American writer Dean Koontz?
Choices: Deanna Dwyer; Owen West; Brian Coffey; Chris McCarthy
Answer: Chris McCarthy
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Question: In what year did Dean Koontzs first novel debut?
Choices: 1981; 1972; 1968; 1977
Answer: 1968
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Question: Dean Koontz is a confirmed bachelor.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Who is Trixie Koontz?
Choices: Dean Koontz dog; Dean Koontz niece; Dean Koontz wife; Dean Koontz pseudonym
Answer: Dean Koontz dog
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Question: Dean Koontz has undergone hair transplant surgery.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What is Dean Koontzs middle name?
Choices: Roy; He does not have a middle name.; Ray; Ron
Answer: Ray
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Question: What 70s television series did Dean Koontz write an episode for?
Choices: CHiPs; The Love Boat; Little House on the Prairie; All In The Family
Answer: CHiPs
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Question: Which of these is not one of Dean Koontzs pseudonyms?
Choices: Leonard Chris; Leigh Nichols; Marion Marquart; Richard Paige
Answer: Marion Marquart
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Question: Is fictional character Hermione Granger made a prefect?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
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Question: Who does Hermione turn into, using the Polyjuice Potion in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
Choices: Millicent Bullstrodes cat; She stays herself.; Pansy Parkinson; Ginny Weasleys dog
Answer: Millicent Bullstrodes cat
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Question: What is the occupation of Hermiones parents in the Harry Potter books?
Choices: Dentists; Waiter/Waitress; Doctors; Teachers
Answer: Dentists
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Question: Did Hermione punch Ron in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: Which of these statements is true about Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter books?
Choices: She has green eyes.; She enjoys drinking the Polyjuice Potion.; She was born in a muggle family.; She can turn into a rabbit.
Answer: She was born in a muggle family.
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Question: Which of these statements is NOT true about Harry Potter character Hermione Granger?
Choices: Her parents are dentists.; She was named after J.K Rowlings best friend.; She has bushy hair.; She passes her O.W.L.s
Answer: She was named after J.K Rowlings best friend.
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Question: In what book does Hermione develop a crush on Gilderoy Lockhart?
Choices: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Answer: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Question: In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Ancient Mariner tells his tale to a person he pulls aside from what event?
Choices: A dance; A wedding; A play; A party
Answer: A wedding
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Question: How did the Mariners ship end up in the Antarctic Ocean in the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Choices: They were exploring the Antarctic.; The ships compass was broken.; It was blown south by a storm.; They were shipping supplies to Antarctica.
Answer: It was blown south by a storm.
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Question: In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, what creature brings good luck to the ship and follows it out of the icebergs?
Choices: A dolphin; A whale; A seal; An albatross
Answer: An albatross
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Question: What did the Ancient Mariner from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner do that cursed the crew and the ship?
Choices: He ate the dolphin; He drove the whale away; He killed the albatross; He wounded the seal
Answer: He killed the albatross
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Question: Finish this stanza from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Choices: ter, water everywhere,; d all the boards did shrink,; ter, water everywhere,; Nor any drop to drink.; And then the ship did sink.; And boy did that water stink!; And the men were on the brink.
Answer: Nor any drop to drink.
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Question: What did the crew of the ship in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner put around the Mariners neck to shame him?
Choices: A noose; A sign that said Kick me; A rock tied to a rope; The albatross
Answer: The albatross
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Question: What does the Mariner from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner see on the horizon that gives the crew a fleeting sense of hope?
Choices: Another whale; Another ship; Land; Another albatross
Answer: Another ship
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Question: In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, how many men died onboard the ship when the Moon rose?
Choices: 1; 200; 75; 150
Answer: 200
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Question: How long did the Mariner sail alone after the crew had died in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Choices: One week; Thirteen days; Seven days and seven nights; A fortnight
Answer: Seven days and seven nights
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Question: What creatures does the Mariner watch swimming in the sea beyond the shadow of the ship in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Choices: Water snakes; Dolphins; Whales; Schools of fish
Answer: Water snakes
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Question: What does the Mariner do that begins to lift the curse in the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Choices: He swims with the whales.; He rides on the back of a dolphin.; He blesses the water snakes and says a prayer.; He clicks his heels three times saying Theres no place like home!
Answer: He blesses the water snakes and says a prayer.
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Question: What happens after the Mariner from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner awakes after a blessed sleep?
Choices: A wind blows out of the East..; A storm ravages the ship.; He eats breakfast.; He drinks some sea water.
Answer: A storm ravages the ship.
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Question: In the English poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which dead crew member helped the Mariner pull on a rope after the crew rose from the dead?
Choices: The ships cook; The Mariners nephew; The captain of the ship; The Mariners best friend
Answer: The Mariners nephew
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Question: In the beginning of Part 6 of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who is having a conversation with whom?
Choices: The mariner and the Second Voice; The First Voice and the Second Voice; The mariner and the ghost; The albatross and the whale
Answer: The First Voice and the Second Voice
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Question: Where does the wind blow the ship after the conversation in the beginning of Part 6 of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is over?
Choices: To the North Pole; Back to the Mariners home country; To the South Pole; To a strange new country
Answer: Back to the Mariners home country
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Question: Who was in the boat that rowed nearer the Mariners ship in the harbor at the end of the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Choices: The Pilot and his wife; The Pilot, by himself; The Pilot, his daughter, and the Hermit; The Pilot, his son, and the Hermit
Answer: The Pilot, his son, and the Hermit
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Question: At the end of the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the man who the Mariner told his story to does what?
Choices: Goes back to the wedding; Goes with the Mariner back to the ship; Goes home, and gets up the next morning wiser than before; Goes back to the party
Answer: Goes home, and gets up the next morning wiser than before
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Question: What Shakespeare historical play was being performed at the Globe Theatre in 1613 when a fire broke out from a misguided theatrical cannon shot?
Choices: The Tempest; Richard II; Henry IV Part II; Henry VIII
Answer: Henry VIII
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Question: Sporting a male pseudonym, what female French novelist maintained a romantic relationship with Frederic Chopin from 1837-1847?
Choices: George Eliot; George Sand; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; George Orwell
Answer: George Sand
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Question: A.A. Milne created the character of Christopher Robin as one of Winnie-the-Poohâs best friends and based him on his real life son, Christopher Robin Milne.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Known as the âSage of Concordâ, what American Transcendentalist owned the land where Henry David Thoreau built his cabin near Walden Pond in Massachusetts?
Choices: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Question: What best-selling American author, born Howard Allen OâBrien, created the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt?
Choices: Anne Rice; Dean Koontz; Stephen King; Stephenie Meyer
Answer: Anne Rice
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Question: Based on Audrey Niffeneggerâs novel, this 2009 movie starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams chronicles a romance over time between Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire.
Choices: The Time Travelers Wife; Sunshine Cleaning; The International; Duplicity
Answer: The Time Travelers Wife
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Question: With characters such as Fiver, Bigwig, and General Woundwort, what Richard Adams heroic fantasy novel follows the story of a small group of rabbits?
Choices: Lord of the Flies; The Bureaucrats; Watership Down; Rabbit, Run
Answer: Watership Down
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Question: Often coming in at number one on 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century lists, what is the name of the James Joyce book that depicts a day in the life of Leopold Bloom?
Choices: Dubliners; Ulysses; Finnegans Wake; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Answer: Ulysses
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Question: This Jacquelyn Mitchardâs novel, which was the first book chosen for Oprahâs Book Club in 1996, was made into a 1999 Michele Pfeiffer and Treat Williams movie.
Choices: The Heart of a Woman; Song of Solomon; Shes Come Undone; The Deep End of the Ocean
Answer: The Deep End of the Ocean
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Question: Which 19th century epistolary novel by Wilkie Collins is considered to be the first modern detective novel in the English language?
Choices: A Study in Scarlet; The Count of Monte Cristo; Murder on the Orient Express; The Moonstone
Answer: The Moonstone
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Question: Which anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut follows the journeys through time of American soldier, Billy Pilgrim, mostly set in Dresden, Germany?
Choices: Cats Cradle; Mother Night; Breakfast of Champions; Slaughterhouse Five
Answer: Slaughterhouse Five
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Question: What is the slang term used for romance novels in literature?
Choices: Chick Lit; Torrid Teasers; Moonlighters; Bodice Rippers
Answer: Bodice Rippers
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Question: This small publishing company is noted for its defence for freedom of speech. Can you name the publishing company that took on the United States Postal Service for the right to publish Lady Chatterleys Lover?
Choices: Random House; Simon  Schuster; Doubleday; Grove Press
Answer: Grove Press
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Question: In 1972 Kathleen Woodiwiss published a historical romance that took a historical romantic couple actually into the bedroom. Can you name the book that begins the saga of the Birmingham Family?
Choices: The Wiz of Fifth Avenue; Rebeccas; The Flame and the Flower; The Sword and Shield
Answer: The Flame and the Flower
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Question: With what book did Erica Jong debut in 1973 that introduced the character Isadora Zelda White Strollerman Wing and Isadoras search for emotional and sexual fulfilment?
Choices: J; Fear of Flying; Wings of a Dove; Coffee Tea or Me
Answer: Fear of Flying
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Question: What is the name of the mythical land that is the basis of Piers Anthonys most famous fantasy book series?
Choices: Xanth; Dinotopia; Oz; Garran
Answer: Xanth
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Question: What was the title of Piers Anthonys famous horror novel written in 1990?
Choices: Firefly; Hasan; Ghost of Space; For Love of Evil
Answer: Firefly
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Question: Which one of these fantasy books by Piers Anthony is not part of a series?
Choices: Ogre, Ogre; Juxtaposition; Mercycle; On a Pale Horse
Answer: Mercycle
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Question: Who did Piers Anthony collaborate with to write the Kelvin of Rudd series?
Choices: R.L. Stine; Mercedes Lackey; Stephen King; Robert E. Margroff
Answer: Robert E. Margroff
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Question: Which of these is not a book from the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony?
Choices: Phaze Doubt; Unicorn Point; Prostho Plus; Split Infinity
Answer: Prostho Plus
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Question: Piers Anthonys fantasy land of Xanth looks strikingly similar to what southern state of the USA?
Choices: Louisiana; Florida; Georgia; Mississippi
Answer: Florida
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Question: Piers Anthony wrote a historical/fantasy novel about Native Americans called Tatham Mound.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What is Piers Anthonys real last name?
Choices: Jacob; Martin; Rourque; Dillingham
Answer: Jacob
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Question: Apart from writing a bestselling horror fiction, he also worked as an acting and business manager of Irvings Lyceum Theatre, London. Who is he?
Choices: Nathaniel Hawthorne; James Joyce; William Hope Hodgson; Bram Stoker
Answer: Bram Stoker
Category: literature
Question: This French writers grandmother was an Afro-Caribbean slave who married a white nobleman.
Choices: Victor Hugos; Jules Vernes; Voltaires; Alexandre Dumas
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
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Question: She wrote her only best-seller novel bedridden, with a broken ankle only for her amusement, keeping it secret from her friends. Who is she?
Choices: George Elliott; Jane Austen; Emily Bronte; Margaret Mitchell
Answer: Margaret Mitchell
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Question: What was the name of the only brother of the sister authors Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte?
Choices: Branwell; Arthur; Edward; Edmund
Answer: Branwell
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Question: According to many scholars, Miguel Cervantes penned the first modern novel. What is its title?
Choices: Don Quixote; The Iliad; The Impossible Dream; La Galatea
Answer: Don Quixote
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Question: Which of the following Irish writers did not receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in the 20th century?
Choices: Seamus Heaney; Samuel Beckett; William Butler Yeats; James Joyce
Answer: James Joyce
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Question: Ernest Hemingway fictionalized his experiences of World War I in this book which tells the story of an American soldier, Lt. Fredric Henry, who falls in love with a British nurse, named Catherine Barkley.
Choices: The Sun Also Rises; A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls; The Old Man and the Sea
Answer: A Farewell to Arms
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Question: What white whale does Captain Ahab seek in Herman Melvilles novel Moby Dick?
Choices: Sperm Whale; Blue Whale; Pilot Whale; Killer Whale
Answer: Sperm Whale
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Question: English Baron George Bulwer-Lytton liked to use the words the last in the titles of his books. Which of the following books was not written by him?
Choices: The Last of the Mochicans; The Last Days of Pompeii; The Last Days of the Barons and Harold; The Last Days of the Saxon Kings
Answer: The Last of the Mochicans
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Question: Who penned the childrens story The Old Man of Lochnager?
Choices: Eric Clapton; Prince Charles; Harold Wilson; David Beckham
Answer: Prince Charles
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Question: The novel The Drawing of the Three begins seven days after the end of The Gunslinger novel.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: In the opening scene of The Drawing of the Three Roland is attacked by a strange creature. What type of creature of our world did it resemble?
Choices: Lobster; Bear; Raven; Lion
Answer: Lobster
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Question: In the book The Drawing of the Three, during his battle with the creature on the beach Roland suffers a loss. What is it?
Choices: His right middle finger; All of these; His right index finger; Most of his right big toe
Answer: All of these
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Question: The first door described in the book The Drawing of the Three leads Roland to Eddie Dean, a heroin addict in the process of smuggling some drugs. What is the label on this first door?
Choices: The Punisher; The Prisoner; The Pusher; The Poisoner
Answer: The Prisoner
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Question: The second door in the novel The Drawing of the Three leads to Odetta Holmes, a black woman who is involved with the civil rights movement. She has a split personality that leads to some interesting confrontations with her new companions. What is the label on the second door?
Choices: The Twins; The Lady of Shadows; Good Lies in Dark Places; The Darkness of Detta
Answer: The Lady of Shadows
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Question: In the novel The Drawing of the Three, Roland doesnt find another companion through the third door. Instead he finds an adversary named Jack Mort who is closely linked to some of Rolands companions. What was the label on the third door?
Choices: The Poisoner; The Pusher; The Prisoner; The Pensioner
Answer: The Pusher
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Question: Rolands encounter with Jack Mort in The Drawing of the Three caused the characters of Odetta Holmes and Detta Walker to merge together. What was the name of the woman who was formed from this fusion?
Choices: Susan; Susannah; Hannah; Shannon
Answer: Susannah
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Question: In the novel The Drawing of the Three, Roland tells his companions they are all essential members of his group, but uses a special word meaning one made from many or sharing the same destiny. What is that word?
Choices: Ka-lel; Ka-tet; Ka-zaa; Ka-boom
Answer: Ka-tet
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Question: In the novel The Drawing of the Three, when in New York Roland hunts for ammunition for his guns and it is revealed that they take .38 Long Colt cartridges.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What is the first name of Mary Shelleys character Frankenstein, who creates a humanoid creature by stitching together pieces of human corpses?
Choices: Ernest; Volfgang; William; Victor
Answer: Victor
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Question: This fictional scientific genius, who travels in a submarine, was featured in the novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island.
Choices: Captain Duncan; Nautilus; Pierre Aronnax; Nemo
Answer: Nemo
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Question: Which author wrote a novella, centered around a good-natured doctor who transforms into a cruel and remorseless person after drinking a potion?
Choices: Robert Louis Stevenson; Arthur Conan Doyle; Walter Scott; Thomas Hardy
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Question: What Jules Verne novel features Thomas Roch, a genius inventor, who created a powerful weapon?
Choices: Facing the Flag; Master of the World; From the Earth to the Moon; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Answer: Facing the Flag
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Question: H. G. Wells sci-fi novel The Island of Doctor Moreau focuses on experiments involving which of the following?
Choices: X-rays; potions; explosives; vivisection
Answer: vivisection
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Question: Which of these stories is not part of the childrens series The Mad Scientists Club?
Choices: The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls; The Voice in the Chimney; The Penultimate Peril; The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake
Answer: The Penultimate Peril
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Question: Which of these literary characters has a condition called dextrocardia (heart on the right side of the chest)?
Choices: Doctor Death; Dr. Jekyll; Dr. Moreau; Dr. Julius No
Answer: Dr. Julius No
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Question: What character, depicted by English writer H. G. Wells, discovers a formula capable of rendering a human being invisible?
Choices: Dr. Moreau; Dr. Montgomery; Griffin; Professor Lidenbrock
Answer: Griffin
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Question: In Don DeLillos novel, White Noise, professor Jack Gladney finds out that his wife participates in an experimental study of a new psychoactive drug, called Dylar. Which of the following does this medication treat?
Choices: the fear of reality; the fear of death; the fear of the future; the fear of being alone
Answer: the fear of death
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Question: Who does Dr. Faustus summon, after he sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge, in the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus?
Choices: Adam and Eve; Achilles; Hector; Helen of Troy
Answer: Helen of Troy
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Question: In what year did Ernest Hemingway die?
Choices: 1955; 1960; 1961; 1971
Answer: 1961
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Question: For which book did Ernest Hemingway win a Pulitzer Prize in 1953?
Choices: For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms; Islands in the Stream; The Old Man and the Sea
Answer: The Old Man and the Sea
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Question: Ernest Hemingways mother dressed him in girls clothing when he was little.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Ernest Hemingway served in the army.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Margaux Hemingway was Ernest Hemingways daughter.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Margaux Hemingway never appeared in a movie with her sister.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Mariel Hemingway is Margaux Hemingways mother.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Mariel Hemingway is famous for playing the role of Tracy in what 1979 Woody Allen film?
Choices: Star 80; Personal Best; The Contender; Manhattan
Answer: Manhattan
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Question: Mariel Hemingway never starred in a Superman movie.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Elizabeth Hadley Richardson married Ernest Hemingway in 1935.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The Hemingways have a history of suicides.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: The novel Wizard and Glass picks up where Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands left off.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: In the book Wizard and Glass, the gunslingers and Oy disembark from the monorail train at which station?
Choices: Tower Heights; Topeka; Hambry; Grand Central Station
Answer: Topeka
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Question: What is the name of the Kansas City baseball team whose stadium the ka-tet pass on their journey in the novel Wizard and Glass?
Choices: Royals; Twisters; Monarchs; Eagles
Answer: Monarchs
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Question: In Wizard and Glass, one night, Roland begins to tell the rest of the ka-tet the story of his earlier life. At what age did he earn his guns to become the youngest ever gunslinger?
Choices: 13; 12; 15; 14
Answer: 14
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Question: When Roland first left Gilead in the novel Wizard and Glass, he was accompanied by two of his close friends. What were their names?
Choices: Cuthbert Allgood and Jamie De Curry; Jamie De Curry and Sheemie Ruiz; Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns; Alain Johns and Sheemie Ruiz
Answer: Cuthbert Allgood and Alain Johns
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Question: In the book Wizard and Glass, Roland and his original ka-tet travel to the Barony of Mejis on order of Rolands father. What task had they been instructed to carry out?
Choices: Destroy the oil-fields of Mejis; Count how many horses were held within the Barony; Gather information about agents of John Farson and their activities; Capture the Wizards Glass
Answer: Gather information about agents of John Farson and their activities
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Question: In the book Wizard and Glass, Roland and his young friends defeat a troop of Farsons men by making them ride into a canyon which houses a thinny - an eerie dimensional hole through which people can travel across dimensions.  What is the name of the canyon?
Choices: Thunderbolt; Screamer; Thunderclap; Eyebolt
Answer: Eyebolt
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Question: During the battle in the book Wizard and Glass, Roland captures the Wizards Glass, a malevolent crystal ball that shows him visions of his future. What colour is the Wizards Glass?
Choices: No colour at all; Black; Green; Pink
Answer: Pink
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Question: The author of the best-selling novel, The Call of the Wild, was a war reporter, covering the Russo-Japanese War. Can you guess his name?
Choices: Jack London; Jonathan Swift; O Henry; Charles Dickens
Answer: Jack London
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Question: The novel entitled Cosette ou le Temps des Illusions (Cosette or the Time of Illusions), written by Francois Ceresa, is sequel to what Victor Hugo novel?
Choices: Remembrance of Things Past; Madame Bovary; Les Miserables; The Three Musketeers
Answer: Les Miserables
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Question: Robert Southey, one of the English Lake Poets, became known for what fairy tale?
Choices: Little Red Riding Hood; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Answer: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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Question: Famous fiction characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were from the small town of St. Petersburg, which was modeled by Mark Twain after his home town. Where was St. Petersburg?
Choices: Jackson, Mississippi; Lincoln, Nebraska; Boston, Massachusetts; Hannibal, Missouri
Answer: Hannibal, Missouri
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Question: Stephen King wrote about half of this novel in room 217 of the Stanely Hotel in Colorado.
Choices: Misery; The Shining; Bag of Bones; Black House
Answer: The Shining
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Question: What is Romeos last name in Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet?
Choices: Montague; Boleyn; Capulet; Valentine
Answer: Montague
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Question: Who did Ralph Nader criticize in his book Unsafe at Any Speed, published in 1965?
Choices: Internet; Video Games; Olympic Swimmers; Auto Industry
Answer: Auto Industry
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Question: On Friday 13th in 2006, American author Lemony Snicket released his last book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, featuring the Baudelaire children. How many books does the series contain?
Choices: 12; 14; 13; 11
Answer: 13
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Question: Why is Joseph K. arrested in Franz Kafkas popular novel, The Trial?
Choices: The reason is never explained.; He was accused of robbing a bank; Murder of his step-father; Treason
Answer: The reason is never explained.
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Question: What novel by Jane Austen was originally titled Elinor and Marianne?
Choices: Persuasion; Emma; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice
Answer: Sense and Sensibility
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Question: What was the title of Dorothy Parkers first poetry collection?
Choices: The Fan; Resume; Enough Rope; Death  Taxes
Answer: Enough Rope
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Question: Dorothy Parker was a recluse all her life.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Dorothy Parker wrote the script for what famous 1937 movie starring Janet Gaynor?
Choices: Rebecca; The Awful Truth; Meet The Press; A Star Is Born
Answer: A Star Is Born
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Question: Martin Rothschild was Dorothy Parkers uncle.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What was Dorthy Parkers last film project?
Choices: Ziegfied Follies - 1946; A Star Is Born - 1937; The Fan - 1949; Saboteur - 1940
Answer: The Fan - 1949
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Question: Dorothy Parker never married.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Dorothy Parker grew up in an extremely close family.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Dorothy Parker had an affair with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: When was Dorothy Parker born?
Choices: September 1900; August 1893; January 1899; June 1897
Answer: August 1893
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Question: Dorothy Parker worked for 4 magazines. Which list shows the correct order in which she worked for them?
Choices: Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Esquire; Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, The New Yorker; Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue; The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Esquire
Answer: Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Esquire
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Question: Dorothy Parker wrote movie reviews for which magazine?
Choices: The New Yorker; Vanity Fair; Vogue; Esquire
Answer: Vanity Fair
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Question: What is the name of the town, where Eragon from the self-titled book lives, until he becomes a dragon rider and makes his journey to the Varden?
Choices: Tarnag; Teirm; Therinsford; Carvahall
Answer: Carvahall
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Question: Which of these cities, described by fantasy fiction writer Christopher Paolini, is not located in Du Weldenvarden?
Choices: Silthrim; Kirtan; Buragh; Nadindel
Answer: Buragh
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Question: Which of these words/phrases of the ancient language, featured in the books Eragon and Eldest, is not paired with its correct meaning?
Choices: jierda - break/ hit; blothr - stop; adurna - the morning star; the varden - the warders
Answer: adurna - the morning star
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Question: In the books Eragon and Eldest, wierda is the ancient language word meaning fate.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: In the novels Eragon and Eldest, zarroc is the ancient language word translated as misery. What else does the word refer to?
Choices: a dragon; a dragon rider; a place; a sword
Answer: a sword
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Question: The first word in the novel Eragon is a proper noun (excluding the prologue).
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The books Eragon and Eldest are from which book series?
Choices: None of these; Legacy Trilogy; Ancient Trilogy; Inheritance Trilogy
Answer: Inheritance Trilogy
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Question: In the novel Left Behind, character Rayford Steele is a pilot for Pan-American Airways.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What is the name given to the mysterious disappearance of millions of people worldwide by Nicolae Carpathia in the Christian fiction book Left Behind?
Choices: The Vanishings; Doomsday; The Great Disappearance; The Rupture
Answer: The Vanishings
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Question: In the Christian-themed novel Left Behind, Cameron Buck Williams is senior writer for which news magazine?
Choices: Newsweek; The World Today; Global Weekly; Time
Answer: Global Weekly
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Question: Joshua Todd-Cothran is the head of what financial institution from the novel Left Behind?
Choices: The World Stock Exchange; The London Stock Market; The New York Stock Exchange; The London Stock Exchange
Answer: The London Stock Exchange
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Question: In the book Left Behind, Chaim Rozenzweig was a botanist who developed The Eden Formula, that caused the deserts of Israel to bloom.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: In the Christian-themed novel Left Behind, charter pilot Ken Ritz had his own theory on the vanishings. He thought they were caused by aliens abducting the millions of missing people.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Did Rayford Steele ever have an affair with senior flight attendant Hattie Durham in the novel Left Behind?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: Left Behind character Buck Williams is drawn into a murder mystery when an old friend of his is mysteriously killed by a sniper.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In the Christian fiction book Left Behind, Rayford and eventually Buck believe Nicolae Carpathia is the Antichrist described in several books of the New Testament.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: According to Pastor Bruce Barnes from the novel Left Behind, the Tribulation will begin when the Anti-Christ makes a peace treaty between which countries?
Choices: The United States and the West European countries; Israel and all of its enemies; The United States and Russia; Russia and Israel
Answer: Israel and all of its enemies
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Question: Left Behind character Bruce Barnes believes The Tribulation would last how many years?
Choices: 7; 5; 6; 3 and a half
Answer: 7
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Question: Lord Byron was the lusty, adventurous poet of revolt. He wrote once, âI awoke one morning and found myself famous.â What widely popular travel poem did this bohemian baron write which garnered the fame to which he referred?
Choices: So Weâll Go No More A Roving; Childe Haroldâs Pilgrimage; Stanzas for Music; Don Juan
Answer: Childe Haroldâs Pilgrimage
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Question: This nature lover felt that poetry should reflect the simple tongue of the common man and that poetry is basically âemotion recollected in tranquility.â Which renowned poet penned âTintern Abbeyâ and âI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.â
Choices: William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Charles Lamb; William Blake
Answer: William Wordsworth
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Question: What was Lord Byronâs original name?
Choices: Byron Thomas Hood; George Gordon; William Byron James; James Manchester
Answer: George Gordon
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Question: Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth all resided in the Lake Country of England near Grasmere.  What were these three referred to as?
Choices: The Grasmere Poets; The Lake Poets; The Nature Poets; The Country Poets
Answer: The Lake Poets
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Question: Who wrote the book Running with Scissors?
Choices: Augusten Burroughs; David Sedaris; William S. Burroughs; Ann Coulter
Answer: Augusten Burroughs
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Question: Barack Obamas first memoir is entitled Dreams from My Father.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What is the title of William S. Burroughs semi-autobiographical novel depicting the lifestyle of heroin addicts?
Choices: Junky; Requiem for a Dream; Crack; Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
Answer: Junky
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Question: David Sedaris wrote the book Dry which details his life.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Queer was a memoir penned by Allen Ginsberg.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: This actress, who won an Oscar at the age of 10, wrote a scathing memoir titled A Paper Life.
Choices: Angelica Huston; Murial Hemingway; Drew Barrymore; Tatum ONeal
Answer: Tatum ONeal
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Question: Which Hollywood legends daughter penned the memoir Mommy Dearest?
Choices: Joan Crawford; Judy Garland; Katherine Hepburn; Betty Davis
Answer: Joan Crawford
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Question: Eli Weisels book Night is about the Holocaust.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Manfred Bloor is a character from which novel?
Choices: Midnight for Charlie Bone; Charmed Life; Shadowmancer; Mattimeo
Answer: Midnight for Charlie Bone
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Question: Which novel features the characters King Swishbert and Queen Olympia?
Choices: Once upon a Marigold?; The Star of Kazan; Dragons breath; The Frog Princess
Answer: Once upon a Marigold?
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Question: In which novel does the character Dustfinger appear?
Choices: The Purple Emperor; Inkheart; The Sphere of Secrets; The Amulet of Samarkand
Answer: Inkheart
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Question: Name the first novel of a popular series which has a main character named Twig.
Choices: Pure dead magic; Wizard of Earthsea, A; Moorchild, The; Beyond the Deep Woods
Answer: Beyond the Deep Woods
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Question: Luke is the main character in which of the following books?
Choices: Turnabout; Double identity; Among the Hidden; Running out of Time
Answer: Among the Hidden
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Question: Which novel features the fictional Herdman family?
Choices: The Imp That Ate My Homework; Loser; Rules; The Best Halloween Ever
Answer: The Best Halloween Ever
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Question: Soren is a fictional character depicted in which book??
Choices: The Capture; Poppy; Redwall; The Field Guide
Answer: The Capture
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Question: In which popular hockey novel does the character Nish appear?
Choices: The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup; Penalty shot; The Million dollar goal; Woodsie
Answer: The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup
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Question: Parvana is the protagonist of this Canadian novel.
Choices: The Minstrels Daughter; Prisoner in the Promised Land; Still There Clare; The Breadwinner
Answer: The Breadwinner
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Question: Mrs. Granger is a popular teacher who appears in this novel.
Choices: My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian; Frindle; Superfudge; The Best School Year Ever
Answer: Frindle
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Question: Shona Silkfin becomes friends with the title character of which novel?
Choices: Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon; Aquamarine; The Tail of Emily Windsnap; Sirena
Answer: The Tail of Emily Windsnap
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Question: Rocky is the best friend of the protagonist in which novel?
Choices: Molly Moons Incredible Book of Hypnotism; The wall and the wing; The Book of Lies; Peter  the Starcatchers
Answer: Molly Moons Incredible Book of Hypnotism
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Question: Who wrote the collection of stories titled The Canterbury Tales?
Choices: Edward Spenser; Sir Walter Raleigh; Geoffrey Chaucer; Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Question: Who wrote the poems titled Epithalamion (a song in celebration of a wedding) and Amoretti?
Choices: Geoffrey Chaucer; Sir Walter Raleigh; Edward Spenser; John Milton
Answer: Edward Spenser
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Question: Who wrote The Passionate Sheppard to His Love in 1600?
Choices: John Milton; Alexander Pope; Sir Walter Raleigh; Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
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Question: What poet wrote Farewell False Love and The Nymphs Reply to the Sheppard?
Choices: Edward Spenser; Christopher Marlowe; Sir Walter Raleigh; John Milton
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
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Question: Which poet wrote the poems LAllegro and il Penseroso in 1631?
Choices: William Blake; Christopher Marlowe; John Milton; Alexander Pope
Answer: John Milton
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Question: Who wrote the epic poem The Rape of the Lock in 1714?
Choices: John Milton; Alexander Pope; William Wordsworth; William Blake
Answer: Alexander Pope
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Question: What poem was written by William Blake in 1794?
Choices: Khubla Khan; L Allegro; Amoretti; The Tyger
Answer: The Tyger
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Question: In what year did William Wordsworth write the poem Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood?
Choices: 1800; 1810; 1803; 1799
Answer: 1803
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Question: Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the poem She Was a Phantom of Delight in 1803.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Which of these poems was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Choices: Khubla Khan in 1798; The Tyger in 1794; She Walks in Beauty in 1814; Ode to the West Wind in 1819
Answer: Khubla Khan in 1798
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Question: Ironically, the essay Areopagitica, which dealt with censorship, was banned in England. Who wrote  this essay?
Choices: Dr. William Bowlder; John Milton; Phillip Marlowe; Felton Edward Lewis
Answer: John Milton
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Question: In 1931 the Province of Hunan, China banned this book.
Choices: 1984; Go Ask Alice; Alices Adventures in Wonderland; Alices Restaurant
Answer: Alices Adventures in Wonderland
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Question: This famous anti-war novel by Erik Marie Remarque was banned in Nazi Germany.
Choices: To Hell and Back; 1984; Dr. Caligari; All Quiet on the Western Front
Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front
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Question: Nadine Gordimer won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature but many of her works were banned in her  native country. What is her native country?
Choices: Romania; Belgium; The Soviet Union; The Union of South Africa
Answer: The Union of South Africa
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Question: Who wrote the novel Dr. Zhivago which was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988?
Choices: Ivan Gogol; Boris Pasternak; William F. Buckley; Leon Trotsky
Answer: Boris Pasternak
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Question: Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, a book which was banned in most of the southern United States?
Choices: Clara Barton; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Thaddeus Stevens; Ambroise Beirce
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Question: In Seinfeld, Jerry was accused of having this book overdue at the New York Public Library for over 15  years. It was banned in the USA from the 1930s until the 1950s.
Choices: Lady Chatterleys Lover; Moll Flanders; O; The Tropic of Cancer
Answer: The Tropic of Cancer
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Question: This book, which was in part the basis for the play Pippin, was banned in the USA for obscenity.
Choices: O; Madame Was Not a Lady; Candide; Madame  Bovary
Answer: Candide
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Question: Who wrote the novel The Satanic Verses which was banned in Bangladesh, Iran, Singapore and Indonesia?
Choices: Sameer Mousheff; Kharam Patel; David Beck; Salmon Rushdie
Answer: Salmon Rushdie
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Question: Many communities in California banned this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and labeled it communist propaganda.
Choices: The Old Man and the Sea; The Pearl; L.A. Land; The Grapes of Wrath
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
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Question: This book by D. H. Lawrence was banned in the USA, the UK and Australia.
Choices: The Great Gatsby; Lady Chatterleys Lover; The Sun Also Rises; The Day of the Locust
Answer: Lady Chatterleys Lover
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Question: During the missile crisis of the 1960s, this book was banned in the USA and the UK.
Choices: The Lotus Eaters; 1984; Brave New World; Down and Out in London and Paris
Answer: 1984
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Question: When the Nazis came to power they banned this short novel by Franz Kafka.
Choices: The Metamorphosis; The Rights  of  All men; The Satanic Verses; All Quiet on the Western Front
Answer: The Metamorphosis
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Question: This work was banned in Lebanon for showing Jews, Zionism, and Israel in a favorable light.
Choices: The Grapes of Wrath; The Diary of a Young  Girl; The Kite Runner; The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
Answer: The Diary of a Young  Girl
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Question: This 18th century erotic novel is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
Choices: O; Stella Dallas; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; I Was Curious Yellow
Answer: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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Question: Which of these poems was written by Lord George Gordon Byron?
Choices: Ode To A Grecian Urn; My Lost Youth; She Was A Phantom Of Delight; She Walks In Beauty
Answer: She Walks In Beauty
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Question: In what year did Edgar Allan Poe write the poem The City in the Sea?
Choices: Edgar Allan Poe never wrote The City in the Sea; 1825; 1831; 1829
Answer: 1831
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Question: Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote The Chambered Nautilus and The Deacons Masterpiece in the same year.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Who is the author of the poems Meeting at Midnight and Parting in Morning?
Choices: Emily Bronte; Walt Whitman; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Browning
Answer: Robert Browning
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Question: Which poet wrote the poem beginning with the words-Success is counted sweetest...?
Choices: Elizabeth Browning; Carol Channing; Emily Bronte; Emily Dickinson
Answer: Emily Dickinson
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Question: Which of these poems was written by Lord Alfred Tennyson?
Choices: A Musical Instrument; Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater; Ulysses; Calvary Crossing A Ford
Answer: Ulysses
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Question: Who wrote the poem Break, Break, Break?
Choices: Emily Bronte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Elizabeth Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Question: Victorian poets Elizabeth Browning and Robert Browning were brother and sister.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805. What was his nationality?
Choices: Swiss; German; Flemish; Danish
Answer: Danish
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Question: What kind of literary works did Hans Christian Andersen enjoy reading when he was a child?
Choices: Love stories; Gothic novels; Dramatic works; Poems
Answer: Dramatic works
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Question: What was the name of Hans Christian Andersens first story which was published in 1822?
Choices: The Tinder Box; A Journey on Foot from Holmens Canal to the East Point of Amager; The Ghost at Palnatokes Grave; The Princess and the Pea
Answer: The Ghost at Palnatokes Grave
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Question: Which of these statements is true about the childhood of Hans Christian Andersen?
Choices: He wasnt a very good student.; He suffered from dyslexia.; He was often abused.; All of these
Answer: All of these
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Question: What present did Hans Christian Andersen receive from King Frederick VI in 1833?
Choices: A scholarship; A mansion; A traveling grant; A boat
Answer: A traveling grant
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Question: Which of these fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen starts with a woman who longs to have a child and is given a magic seed by a witch?
Choices: The Angel; The Wild Swans; The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina
Answer: Thumbelina
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Question: From which Hans Christian Andersens fairy tale are the characters Kai and Gerda?
Choices: The Steadfast Tin Soldier; The Red Shoes; The Little Mermaid; The Snow Queen
Answer: The Snow Queen
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Question: What unforgettable character from the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is believed to be based on Hans Christian Andersens personality and appearance?
Choices: Edward Murdstone; David Copperfield; James Steerforth; Uriah Heep
Answer: Uriah Heep
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Question: Which of these fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen ends with the death of a poor girl in the streets?
Choices: The Little Match Girl; The Shadow; The Happy Family; The Story of a Mother
Answer: The Little Match Girl
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Question: In the harbor of Copenhagen there is a statue of this enchanting character created by Hans Christian Andersen.
Choices: The Little Mermaid; The Little Match Girl; The Ugly Duckling; The Snow Queen
Answer: The Little Mermaid
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Question: Name the headstrong and sharp-tongued woman whose feisty spirit is tamed by Petruccio in Shakespeares comedy The Taming of the Shrew?
Choices: Ophelia; Bianca; Cordelia; Katherina (Kate)
Answer: Katherina (Kate)
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Question: What Shakespearean character, who is the epitome of honesty and loyalty, is disinherited by her father, King Lear?
Choices: Goneril; Regan; Cordelia; MIranda
Answer: Cordelia
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Question: What Shakespearean heroine elopes with a man of a different race and later becomes an innocent victim of his wrath?
Choices: Imogen; Ophelia; Anne; Desdemona
Answer: Desdemona
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Question: What Shakespearean character is resented by her son for marrying her husbands brother, Claudius?
Choices: Lady Macbeth; Elizabeth Woodville; Lady Anne Neville; Queen Gertrude
Answer: Queen Gertrude
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Question: Having survived a shipwreck, this character from the comedy Twelfth Night poses as a boy, named Cesario, and enters the service of Duke Orsino.
Choices: Viola; Bianca; Cordelia; Olivia
Answer: Viola
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Question: In a sleepwalking scene, depicted in one of the most popular Shakespearean tragedies, this Queen of Scotland, suffering from a guilty conscience, cries Out, damned spot!
Choices: Queen Gertrude; Imogen; Isabel; Lady Macbeth
Answer: Lady Macbeth
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Question: How does young Juliet Capulet die in Shakespeares tragedy Romeo and Juliet?
Choices: She swallows poison.; She drowns herself.; She stabs herself with a dagger.; She is poisoned by Rosaline.
Answer: She stabs herself with a dagger.
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Question: In Shakespeares history play Richard III, this lady asked Richard, Did you not kill my husband? and got the following reply: Your beauty which did haunt me in my sleep could make me undertake the death of all the world.
Choices: Margaret of Anjou; Queen Elizabeth; The Duchess of York; Lady Anne
Answer: Lady Anne