kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: people
Question: Where was George Washington born?
Choices: England; Virginia; Philadelphia; France
Answer: Virginia
Category: people
Question: What was George Washingtons first occupation?
Choices: Attorney; Planter; Vicar; Land Surveyor
Answer: Land Surveyor
Category: people
Question: What was the name of George Washingtons wife?
Choices: Martha  Dandridge Custice; Betsy Fauntleroy; Sally Fairfax; Mary Philipse
Answer: Martha  Dandridge Custice
Category: people
Question: George Washington served in both the Virginia Militia and the Continental Army.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Mount Vernon was built for which of the following reasons?
Choices: to serve as headquarters for the Virginia Militia.; to serve as headquarters for George Washington after he became president; to serve as headquarters for the Continental Army; None of these
Answer: None of these
Category: people
Question: In what year was George Washington elected president?
Choices: 1790; 1778; 1776; 1789
Answer: 1789
Category: people
Question: Which of the following did George Washington not accomplish?
Choices: Established the Supreme Court; Established Department of State, War, and Treasury; Alien and Sedition Acts; Established office of Postmaster General, Established the Census
Answer: Alien and Sedition Acts
Category: people
Question: Was George Washington assassinated?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
Category: people
Question: Maria or Mary is probably the most popular name around the world. What does it mean?
Choices: Virgin; Bitterness; Chosen one; Mother
Answer: Bitterness
Category: people
Question: What is the meaning of the very popular name Mark?
Choices: Royal; Sign; Warlike; Letter
Answer: Warlike
Category: people
Question: What does the name Steven or Stephen mean?
Choices: Wisdom; Crown; Battle; Step
Answer: Crown
Category: people
Question: The names Christina, Christoper and their derivatives all come from the name of Christ. What does it mean?
Choices: Lamb; Messiah; Son of God; Savior
Answer: Messiah
Category: people
Question: The names Nicole, Niki, Nicolas come from the old name Nicholas. What is the meaning of this name?
Choices: No more pain; Crown of glory; Never give up; Victory of the people
Answer: Victory of the people
Category: people
Question: What is the meaning of the very common name John?
Choices: Teacher; River; God is gracious; God be with us
Answer: God is gracious
Category: people
Question: Ann, Anne, Annabel, Anita are names derived from the Latin name Anna. What does this name mean?
Choices: Mother; Beautiful; Heavenly; Gracious
Answer: Gracious
Category: people
Question: What is the meaning of the name Natalie?
Choices: First born; Chosen one; Born at Easter; Born at Christmas
Answer: Born at Christmas
Category: people
Question: Peter is quite a common name around the world with many variations. What is its meaning?
Choices: Betrayal; Father; Rock; First
Answer: Rock
Category: people
Question: What is the meaning of the name George which has variants in dozens of languages?
Choices: Fighter; King; Victory; Farmer
Answer: Farmer
Category: people
Question: This former President died exactly 34 years following President Trumans death.
Choices: Gerald Ford; Lyndon B. Johnson; Ronald Reagan; Richard M. Nixon
Answer: Gerald Ford
Category: people
Question: What was the name of the song recorded by Chicago in 1975 in memory of Harry S. Truman?
Choices: Besss Man Harry; Harry S.; Givem Hell Harry; Harry Truman
Answer: Harry Truman
Category: people
Question: How old was Harry Trumans wife, Bess Truman, when she died in 1982?
Choices: 97; 92; 99; 101
Answer: 97
Category: people
Question: In the television show The Simpsons, Harry Truman is on the million dollar bill.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Alben Barkley served as  Vice President under Harry S. Truman from 1949-1953.  Who served as Trumans Vice President from 1945-1949?
Choices: George C. Marshall; Henry Wallace; no one; Adlai Stevenson
Answer: no one
Category: people
Question: During the 1952 Presidential campaign, then exiting President Harry Truman had a nickname for Presidential candidate Estes Kefauver whom he disliked and distrusted. What was that nickname?
Choices: enemy estes; Crooked Kefauver; key flapper; cow fever
Answer: cow fever
Category: people
Question: Harry and Bess Truman were he first senior citizens to receive medicare cards. They received them in the mid-60s from then President LBJ.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: In 1956, Harry Truman received an honorary degree in Civil Law from this University.
Choices: Oxford University; Harvard; Cambridge; University of Chicago
Answer: Oxford University
Category: people
Question: When Harry Truman left the Presidency he was highly regarded by the American people.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: What was the nickname of the third child of John I of Portugal â Prince Henry, who was responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations?
Choices: The Navigator; The Voyager; The Explorer; The Discoverer
Answer: The Navigator
Category: people
Question: The rounding of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 was a major milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East. Who was the first European to reach The Cape?
Choices: Bartolomeu Dias; Amerigo Vespucci; Christopher Columbus; Vasco da Gama
Answer: Bartolomeu Dias
Category: people
Question: In his initial voyage in 1492, in an attempt to find a shorter and more direct trade route to Asia, Christopher Columbus found what was called a âNew Worldâ. What is the territorys present day name?
Choices: Asia; Australia; America; Antarctica
Answer: America
Category: people
Question: What were the carrack and caravel, whose development in the 15th century in Portugal enabled more widespread exploration of the world?
Choices: types of compasses; more detailed maps; new types of fuel; types of ships
Answer: types of ships
Category: people
Question: Who was the Portuguese explorer that commanded the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India?
Choices: Bartolomeu Dias; Pedro Ãlvares Cabral; Vasco da Gama; Ferdinand Magellan
Answer: Vasco da Gama
Category: people
Question: Commissioned to establish permanent commercial relations and to introduce Christianity wherever he went, Portuguese explorer Pedro Ãlvares Cabral left Lisbon on 9 March 1500 with a fleet of thirteen ships and discovered what present day territory?
Choices: Brazil; Argentina; The Madeira Islands; The Azores
Answer: Brazil
Category: people
Question: The name of the largest ocean, the Pacific Ocean, is derived from the Latin name âMare Pacificumâ, which means peaceful sea. Who gave the ocean this name?
Choices: Charles Darwin; Ferdinand Magellan; Mariana Trench; Vasco NÃºÃ±ez de Balboa
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
Category: people
Question: Who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition in September 1522?
Choices: Juan SebastiÃ¡n Elcano; Ferdinand Magellan; Vasco da Gama; Marco Polo
Answer: Juan SebastiÃ¡n Elcano
Category: people
Question: In 1519, in search of the Spice Islands, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out on an expedition with 241 men on five ships, called ConcepciÃ³n, San Antonio,Trinidad, Victoria and what else?
Choices: Titanic; Tobago; SÃ£o Gabriel; Santiago
Answer: Santiago
Category: people
Question: Which of the following happened first chronologically?
Choices: The Madeira Islands were discovered in the Atlantic ocean.; October 1492; Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean.; Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Answer: The Madeira Islands were discovered in the Atlantic ocean.
Category: people
Question: The name John originates from the Hebrew name Yohannan. What does Yohannan mean?
Choices: Yahweh is Lord; Yahweh is Great; Yahweh is Gracious; Yahweh is the King
Answer: Yahweh is Gracious
Category: people
Question: Eoin is a version of the name John.
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
Category: people
Question: John is a slang term meaning prostitute.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Did John Loren Sandford write a book titled Dark  of the Moon?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
Category: people
Question: This Italian-American gangster ran the streets of Chicago during the Prohibition years and orchestrated the most notorious gangland killing of the 20th century.
Choices: Bugs Moran; Joe Bonanno; Al Capone; Henry Hill
Answer: Al Capone
Category: people
Question: What was Joseph Bonannos nickname?
Choices: Joe Bono; Joe Bananas; Ace; The Kid
Answer: Joe Bananas
Category: people
Question: Carlo Gambinos family belonged to the Honored Society, a criminal brotherhood that used codes of honor and millions of Italian Lira to control illegal businesses in Sicily.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: This NY mobster was nicknamed The Chin and was often seen wandering the streets of Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself.
Choices: Bugsy Siegel; Micky Spillane; Vincent Gigante; Bugs Moran
Answer: Vincent Gigante
Category: people
Question: This Chinese eunuch is controversially regarded as the inventor of paper.
Choices: Zhang Xuan; Lao Tsun; Cai Lun; Liu Sheng
Answer: Cai Lun
Category: people
Question: What American scientist invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting electric light bulb?
Choices: Robert Fulton; Samuel Morse; Thomas Edison; Michael Faraday
Answer: Thomas Edison
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the German scientist who invented the X-ray machine?
Choices: Otto Lilienthal; Gerhard Sessler; Wilhelm Roentgen; Felix Hoffmann
Answer: Wilhelm Roentgen
Category: people
Question: This scientist discovered insulin and called it pancreatine.
Choices: Nicolae Paulescu; Roger Bacon; Bela Schick; Ira Remsen
Answer: Nicolae Paulescu
Category: people
Question: This American engineer is known as the inventor of the microwave oven.
Choices: Percy Spencer; Arthur M. Young; Almon Strowger; Edwin H. Land
Answer: Percy Spencer
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the man who invented dynamite?
Choices: Alfred Nobel; Isaac Newton; Karl von Reichenbach; J. Robert Oppenheimer
Answer: Alfred Nobel
Category: people
Question: This American physicist invented the first automatic programmable electronic digital computer.
Choices: Edwin H. Armstrong; John Vincent Atanasoff; Henri Coanda; Alexander Graham Bell
Answer: John Vincent Atanasoff
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the Italian maker of musical instruments who is considered the inventor of the piano?
Choices: Luigi Palmieri; Antonio Meucci; Bartolomeo Cristofori; Enrico Fermi
Answer: Bartolomeo Cristofori
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the philologist who invented the Esperanto language?
Choices: William Murdoch; Whitcomb Judson; Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof; Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir
Answer: Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof
Category: people
Question: Who is credited with the discovery of penicillin?
Choices: Howard Walter Florey; Alexander Fleming; All of these; Ernst Boris Chain
Answer: Alexander Fleming
Category: people
Question: Which is correctly ranked highest to lowest
Choices: Marquess, Earl, Baron, Knight; Marquess, Baron, Earl, Knight; Earl, Marquess, Baron, Knight; Earl, Marquess, Knight, Baron
Answer: Marquess, Earl, Baron, Knight
Category: people
Question: In Chinese nobility, the equivalent of a Count is called:
Choices: Zi; Gong; Nan; Bo
Answer: Bo
Category: people
Question: The highest ranked title in British Nobility is:
Choices: Duke; Earl; Viscount; Marquess
Answer: Duke
Category: people
Question: In Germany, a Kaiser is a:
Choices: Duke; Emperor; Knight; Prince
Answer: Emperor
Category: people
Question: The collective peerage of Japan is known as:
Choices: Daimyo; Meiji; Kuge; Kazoku
Answer: Kazoku
Category: people
Question: The Russian nobility were required to wear a kind of uniform at Court.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: In Korea, a Panseo is a:
Choices: Duke; Marquis; Viscount; Baron
Answer: Viscount
Category: people
Question: In Belgium, nobility titles are still granted by the King of the Belgians.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: In Fiji the nobility consists of:
Choices: Princes; Chiefs; Lords; All of the above
Answer: Chiefs
Category: people
Question: How long did Queen Victoria reign?
Choices: 74 years; 51 years; 63 years; None of these
Answer: 63 years
Category: people
Question: Who was Queen Victorias spouse and consort?
Choices: Prince Edward; King Gerorge IVI; King Charles I; Prince Albert
Answer: Prince Albert
Category: people
Question: How many children did Queen Victoria have?
Choices: 1; 0; 9; 7
Answer: 9
Category: people
Question: After her husbands death in 1861, Queen Victoria only wore almost entirely black for the remainder of her life.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: What other title did Queen Victoria of England have?
Choices: Princess of Crete; Princess of Norway; Empress of India; Baroness of Scotland
Answer: Empress of India
Category: people
Question: By what moniker was Queen Victoria known?
Choices: Mrs. Brown; Grandmother of Europe; Queen Mum; Vicky
Answer: Grandmother of Europe
Category: people
Question: Queen Victoria was the first monarch to live in Kensington Palace.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Queen Victoria died of typhoid fever.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Who succeeded Queen Victoria on the British throne?
Choices: King George V; Queen Elizabeth II; King Edward VII; King George IV
Answer: King Edward VII
Category: people
Question: Slavery was banned in all of the British empire under Queen Victoria.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Where is Queen Victoria buried?
Choices: Braemar Scotland; Westminster Abbey; Arlington National Cemetary; Frogmore, Windsor
Answer: Frogmore, Windsor
Category: people
Question: How many lives is Ronald Reagan credited for saving while a life guard?
Choices: 29; 45; 108; 77
Answer: 77
Category: people
Question: Ronald Reagan held many jobs, one of which was in sports. What was this job?
Choices: professional football player; Olympic track runner; professional baseball player; sports caster
Answer: sports caster
Category: people
Question: Which of these was Ronald Reagans favorite candy?
Choices: Jelly Beans; Chocolate; lollipops; gum
Answer: Jelly Beans
Category: people
Question: During World War II Ronald Reagan made training videos for the US Army Air Corps.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Ronald Reagan was originally a member of the Democratic party.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: In which middle eastern country did terrorists attack an American marine barracks during the Ronald Reagan administration?
Choices: Iraq; Iran; Israel; Lebanon
Answer: Lebanon
Category: people
Question: What was the name of the man who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981?
Choices: John Hinckley; Lee Harvy Oswald; Jame Earl Ray; John Wilkes Booth
Answer: John Hinckley
Category: people
Question: What US president had a daughter named Margaret who became a successful writer of fiction and non-fiction books?
Choices: John F. Kennedy; Flanklin D. Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower
Answer: Harry S. Truman
Category: people
Question: A former schoolteacher, this actress gained fame for her portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Choices: Margaret Hamilton; Margaret Rutherford; Margaret OBrien; Margaret Wright
Answer: Margaret Hamilton
Category: people
Question: Which author is not correctly matched with the novel she wrote?
Choices: Margaret Drabble - The Millstone; Margaret Mitchel - Gone with the Wind; Margaret Moore - The Blind Assassin; Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
Answer: Margaret Moore - The Blind Assassin
Category: people
Question: Name the famous author whose granddaughter committed suicide one day before the anniversary of his own suicide.
Choices: John OBrien; Ernest Hemingway; Jack London; Edgar Alan Poe
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
Category: people
Question: What event occurred six days after Marguerite de Valois (Queen Margot) marriage to Henry de Bourbon, the King of Navarre?
Choices: The Thermidorian Reaction; Womens March on Versailles; The storming of the Bastille; Saint Bartholomews Day
Answer: Saint Bartholomews Day
Category: people
Question: What war was the UK involved in during Margaret Thatchers tenure as Prime Minister?
Choices: The War in Bosnia and Herzegovina; The Gulf War; The Falklands War; The Vietnam War
Answer: The Falklands War
Category: people
Question: This Academy Award-winning actress starred opposite Judy Garland in the 1944 romantic musical film Meet Me in St. Louis.
Choices: Margaret Hamilton; Margaret Truman; Margaret OBrien; Margaret Sullivan
Answer: Margaret OBrien
Category: people
Question: Margaret Rutherford won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this movie, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Choices: The V.I.P.s; Cleopatra; Whos Afraid of Virginia Wolf?; The Taming of the Shrew
Answer: The V.I.P.s
Category: people
Question: This American cultural anthropologist, who was a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s, was a proponent of broadened sexual mores.
Choices: Margaret Truman; Margaret Mead; Margaret Reed; Margaret Hill
Answer: Margaret Mead
Category: people
Question: The Master and Margarita, which many critics regard as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, tells the story of a visit by the Devil to a fervently atheistic society. In what country is the novel set?
Choices: The Soviet Union; Israel; East Germany (The German Democratic Republic); China
Answer: The Soviet Union
Category: people
Question: What was the real first name of the infamous pirate Blackbeard?
Choices: William; Patrick; Edward; Roger
Answer: Edward
Category: people
Question: Where did Blackbeards famous ship sink?
Choices: Bermuda; The coast of Florida; The Coast of the Carolinas; The Caribbean
Answer: The Coast of the Carolinas
Category: people
Question: How long was Blackbeards reign of terror?
Choices: 3 years; 2 years; 5 years; Almost 10 years
Answer: 2 years
Category: people
Question: Blackbeard is considered the most successful pirate of all time.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: A wreck which was claimed to be Blackbeards ship was discovered near North Carolina in 1978.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: In what year did Blackbeard die?
Choices: 1718; 1716; 1725; 1721
Answer: 1718
Category: people
Question: What American city did Blackbeard successfully blockade in his most daring and famous act?
Choices: Chesapeake Bay; Fort Lauderdale; Charlston; Raleigh
Answer: Charlston
Category: people
Question: After Blackbeard died, he was beheaded and his head was suspended from the ship of his captor.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: What uniform number did baseball player Johnny Bench wear while with the Reds?
Choices: 14; 5; 15; 10
Answer: 5
Category: people
Question: Len Dawson, who played quarterback for the KC Chiefs, wore number 16.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Jerry Rice wore number 82 when he played for the San Francisco 49ers.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: What was the uniform number of Carlton Fisk when he played for the Chicago White Sox?
Choices: 8; 72; 7; 27
Answer: 72
Category: people
Question: Bobby Hull wore number 9 when he played for the NHL team the Chicago Blackhawks.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: What number did football quarterback Brian Griese wear while playing for the Chicago Bears (2006-2007)?
Choices: 12; 11; 10; 14
Answer: 14
Category: people
Question: What number did Billy White Shoes Johnson wear when he played for the Houston Oilers?
Choices: 81; 88; 84; 85
Answer: 84
Category: people
Question: Which of these players did not wear number 32?
Choices: Magic Johnson; O.J. Simpson; Jim Brown; Nolan Ryan
Answer: Nolan Ryan
Category: people
Question: Mother Teresa was a citizen of the United States of America.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: What subjects did Mother Teresa teach, from 1930 to 1948, at St. Marys High School in Calcutta.
Choices: Reading and Writing; Theology and Psychology; Maths and Science; Geography and Catechism
Answer: Geography and Catechism
Category: people
Question: In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Mother Teresa declared, Abortion is the worst evil, and the greatest enemy of peace. However, she did admit that in some situations abortion may be necessary, after she learned that more than 450,000 women in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) had been systematically raped, in the aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: What leading author of the Victorian era stated, Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.?
Choices: Oscar Wilde; Charles Dickens; George Eliot; William Blake
Answer: George Eliot
Category: people
Question: This famous philosopher and teacher of Alexander the Great said, Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Choices: Plato; Confucius; Aristotle; Socrates
Answer: Aristotle
Category: people
Question: What prolific American author does this quote belong to: Once can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.?
Choices: Ernest Hemingway; H.G. Wells; Helen Keller; Annie Sullivan
Answer: Helen Keller
Category: people
Question: What famous cartoonist said, Just remember when you are over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.?
Choices: George Burns; Walt Disney; Charles Schulz; Matt Groening
Answer: Charles Schulz
Category: people
Question: What exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement stated, There is no failure except in not trying.?
Choices: Pablo Picasso; Winston Churchill; Carl Lewis; Elbert Hubbard
Answer: Elbert Hubbard
Category: people
Question: What spiritual leader of his country made the following statement, We must be the change we wish to see in the world.?
Choices: Indira Gandhi; Abraham Lincoln; Mohandas Gandhi; Dalai Lama
Answer: Mohandas Gandhi
Category: people
Question: What Oscar and Emmy Award winner said, All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.?
Choices: Helen Hayes; Walt Disney; John Wayne; Katharine Hepburn
Answer: Walt Disney
Category: people
Question: Name the famous lady who made the following witty remark: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more he is interested in her.
Choices: Agatha Christie; Katharine Hepburn; Emily Bronte; Oprah Winfrey
Answer: Agatha Christie
Category: people
Question: What Irish playwright and author said, I can resist everything except temptation.?
Choices: G. B. Shaw; Oscar Wilde; Roald Dahl; James Joyce
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Category: people
Question: What political leader and noted orator is quoted here: A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didnt happen.?
Choices: Harry S. Truman; Margaret Thatcher; Winston Churchill; Nelson Mandela
Answer: Winston Churchill
Category: people
Question: Tommy Lee from the band Motley Crue was married to this actress before he met Pamela Anderson.
Choices: Heather Locklear; Carmen Electra; Erika Eleniak; Tara Reid
Answer: Heather Locklear
Category: people
Question: Why did President Thomas Jefferson prefer writing to public speaking, and gave only two public speeches during his Presidency?
Choices: He had a stage fright; He had a speech defect; He didnt like talking; He had a facial deformation
Answer: He had a speech defect
Category: people
Question: Who had previously owned the Bel Air mansion bought by Sir Tom Jones upon moving to the United States in 1974?
Choices: Kirk Douglas; Hugh Hefner; Dean Martin; Elvis Presley
Answer: Dean Martin
Category: people
Question: Which of these words was coined by Sir Thomas More, who is regarded as one of the most influential Renaissance humanist scholars?
Choices: Utopia; Superman; Alter ego; Psychoanalysis
Answer: Utopia
Category: people
Question: On what popular TV show did the notorious Tom Cruise couch incident take place?
Choices: The Ellen DeGeneres Show; Late Show with David Letterman; The Tyra Banks Show; The Oprah Winfrey Show
Answer: The Oprah Winfrey Show
Category: people
Question: From what novel by Englishman Thomas Hardy did the term cliffhanger originate in 1873?
Choices: Two on a Tower; A Pair of Blue Eyes; The Woodlanders; Under the Greenwood Tree
Answer: A Pair of Blue Eyes
Category: people
Question: Tom from the popular Tom  Jerry cartoon was known by what name in his debut short Puss Gets the Boot?
Choices: Oliver; Mr. Jingles; Jasper; Mr. Cat
Answer: Jasper
Category: people
Question: What well-known person was roommates with actor and director Tommy Lee Jones back in college?
Choices: Al Gore; Steven Spielberg; Danny DeVito; Bill Clinton
Answer: Al Gore
Category: people
Question: What is the name of Tom Hanks first-born child, a son who followed the steps of his parents and turned to acting?
Choices: Edward; Nicolas; Colin; Jerry
Answer: Colin
Category: people
Question: How does Tom Thumb die according to the popular traditional tale from English folklore?
Choices: He freezes in the snow; He is bitten by a spider; He drownes in the Kings cup of tea; He is swallowed by a fish
Answer: He is bitten by a spider
Category: people
Question: Who was the first woman to rule a nation in recorded history?
Choices: Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt; Queen Elizabeth I of England; Razia Sultana of India; Czarina Catherine the Great of Russia
Answer: Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt
Category: people
Question: Who was the first woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest?
Choices: Anna Czerwinska, Poland; Stacey Allison, USA; Cathy ODowd, South Africa; Junko Tabei, Japan
Answer: Junko Tabei, Japan
Category: people
Question: Who was the first woman to arrive at the Magnetic North Pole on her own?
Choices: Helen Thayer; Ann Bancroft; Janice Meek; Hannenlore Schmatz
Answer: Helen Thayer
Category: people
Question: This woman is known as the first programmer because of her work with Charles Babbages analytical engine.
Choices: Mary Somerville; Annabella Byron; Elizabeth Leigh; Ada Lovelace
Answer: Ada Lovelace
Category: people
Question: In 1960, Richard Nixon lost the election to John F. Kennedy. This former UN Ambassador was Nixons running mate.
Choices: James J. Wadsworth; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; Nelson Rockefeller; Barry Goldwater
Answer: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Category: people
Question: In 1964, Barry Goldwater lost the election in a landslide to Lyndon Baines Johnson. Name Goldwaters running mate who was the father of a radio talk show host.
Choices: Bill Limbaugh; Bill Schultz; Bill Miller; Bill Imus
Answer: Bill Miller
Category: people
Question: In 1968, Hubert Humphrey lost to Richard Nixon in the presidential election. This former governor and senator from Maine was his running mate.
Choices: Eugene McCarthy; Edmund Muskie; George McGovern; Thomas Eagleton
Answer: Edmund Muskie
Category: people
Question: In 1968, third-part segregationist candidate George Wallace drew support from a large number of Southern Democratism and ended up with 46 electoral votes. His running mate was this Air Force General.
Choices: John Patterson; Happy Chandler; Curtis Lemay; Strom Thurmond
Answer: Curtis Lemay
Category: people
Question: In 1972, George McGovern lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon. His first nominee for VP, was on the ticket for about two weeks, before being withdrawn amid allegations that he had undergone psychiatric hospitalization. Who was this first nominee?
Choices: Birch Bayh; Edmund Muskie; Sargent Shriver; Thomas Eagleton
Answer: Thomas Eagleton
Category: people
Question: In August of 1972, George McGovern nominated a second person as his running mate, who was on the ticket through the election. This man is the father-in-law of a US state governor. Who was the running mate?
Choices: Edmund Muskie; Sargent Shriver; Thomas Eagleton; Birch Bayh
Answer: Sargent Shriver
Category: people
Question: When Gerald Ford ran for President in 1976, he replaced the incumbent vice president with this man. The ticket was unsuccessful, losing to Jimmy Carter in the election.
Choices: Bob Dole; Nelson Rockefeller; Ronald Reagan; Spiro Agnew
Answer: Bob Dole
Category: people
Question: In 1984, former veep Walter Mondale lost the presidential election in a landslide to Ronald Reagan. Who was Mondales running mate?
Choices: Gary Hart; Geraldine Ferraro; Lloyd Bentsen; Jerry Brown
Answer: Geraldine Ferraro
Category: people
Question: In 1988, this vice presidential candidate (who ultimately lost the election) made waves when he told another candidate in a debate, Senator, youre no Jack Kennedy.
Choices: Jesse Jackson; George H.W. Bush; Lloyd Bentsen; Dan Quayle
Answer: Lloyd Bentsen
Category: people
Question: In 1992, third-party candidate Ross Perot chose this admiral to be his running mate.
Choices: James Stockdale; Steve Forbes; John Silber; Pat Choate
Answer: James Stockdale
Category: people
Question: This former pro football player was the vice presidential candidate for the losing side in 1996.
Choices: Jack Kemp; Jim Kelly; Jim Brown; OJ Simpson
Answer: Jack Kemp
Category: people
Question: This man was Al Gores running mate in the 2000 elections.
Choices: Joe Lieberman; Bill Richardson; John Kerry; John Edwards
Answer: Joe Lieberman
Category: people
Question: Who became the first man to run the mile in less then four minutes?
Choices: Sydney Wooderson; Gunder Hagg; Roger Bannister; Arne Andersson
Answer: Roger Bannister
Category: people
Question: Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time?
Choices: Frederic Passy of France; Both of them; Henry Dunant of Switzerland; Neither of them
Answer: Both of them
Category: people
Question: Who was the first man to climb to the top of Mount Everest?
Choices: Andrew Waugh; Sir Edmond Hillary; Radhanath Sikdar; George Everest
Answer: Sir Edmond Hillary
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Question: Who was the first man to walk in space?
Choices: Boris Yegorov; Sergi Korolev; Alexi Leonov; Konstantin Feoktisov
Answer: Alexi Leonov
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Question: Who was the first man to swim the English Channel unaided?
Choices: Christiann Bernard; Matthew Webb; J.B. Johnson; Maxwell Dunkin
Answer: Matthew Webb
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Question: Who was the first man to fly over the North Pole?
Choices: Will Steger; Roald Amundsen; Matthew Henson; Matthew Peary
Answer: Roald Amundsen
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Question: Hamurabi, who is known for one of the first written civil codes, called Hammurabis Code, ruled this ancient empire.
Choices: India; Persia; Egypt; Babylon
Answer: Babylon
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Question: Which king of Israel captured Jerusalem and made it the capital of his kingdom?
Choices: David; Solomon; Saul; Josiah
Answer: David
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Question: Which Emperor created Imperial China?
Choices: Qin Shi Huang; Dowager Cixi; Zhu Yuanzhang; Kublai Khan
Answer: Qin Shi Huang
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Question: Who is considered the first Roman Emperor?
Choices: Julius Caesar; Octavian Augustus; Tiberius; Caligula
Answer: Octavian Augustus
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Question: Who is the only monarch of England to be called the Great?
Choices: Elisabeth I; Henry VIII; Victoria; Alfred
Answer: Alfred
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Question: What was the title of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, the great ruler of the Umayyad dynasty?
Choices: Emir; Caliph; Sultan; Imam
Answer: Caliph
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Question: Henry the Navigator, who initiated European worldwide expansion, was king of this country.
Choices: Portugal; France; Spain; England
Answer: Portugal
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Question: Ashoka the Great ruled during the Indian Golden Age. When was it?
Choices: Just before British rule; XV century AD; IV century AD; III century BC
Answer: III century BC
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Question: Which ruler introduced the metric system in much of Europe?
Choices: Napoleon Bonaparte of France; Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary; Wladyslaw II Jagiello of Poland and Lithuania; Elisabeth I of England
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte of France
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Question: Which of these monarchs holds the distinction of ruling the biggest empire in terms of land area?
Choices: Kublai Khan of Mongolia; George V of Great Britain; Charles III of Spain; Alexander II of Russia
Answer: George V of Great Britain
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Question: Idi Amin was a member of this tribe.
Choices: Langi; Masai; Kakwa; Acholi
Answer: Kakwa
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Question: Idi Amin was president of this African nation.
Choices: Tanzania; Sudan; Uganda; Kenya
Answer: Uganda
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Question: After being overthrown Idi Amin first went to this country.
Choices: Lebanon; Saudi Arabia; Libya; Egypt
Answer: Libya
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Question: What nickname did Idi Amin adopt?
Choices: Papa Doc; Big Bad Baddie; Big Daddy; The Big Bad Boss
Answer: Big Daddy
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Question: What British colonial regiment did Idi Amin join in 1946?
Choices: Kings African Rifles; Royal Gurkha Regiment; The Lighthorsemen; The Hussars
Answer: Kings African Rifles
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Question: Idi Amin expressed admiration for this German leader.
Choices: Paul Von Hindenburg; Kaiser Wilhem the 2nd; Otto Von Bismarck; Adolf Hitler
Answer: Adolf Hitler
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Question: In January of 1971 Idi Amin came to power by overthrowing this president.
Choices: Jomo Kenyatta; Mobutu Sese Seko; Milton Obote; Kwame Nkrumah
Answer: Milton Obote
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Question: What actor portrayed Idi Amin in the movie The Last King of Scotland?
Choices: David Oyelowo; James Mc Avoy; Forest Whitaker; Denzel Washington
Answer: Forest Whitaker
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Question: This man served as an aide to Idi Amin.
Choices: Ian Smith; Robert Astles; Cecil Rhodes; James Randolph
Answer: Robert Astles
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Question: In 1972 Idi Amin expelled these people from his country.
Choices: The British; The Arabs; The Asians; The Libyans
Answer: The Asians
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Question: Idi Amin once challenged this African leader to a boxing match.
Choices: Kwame Nkrumah; Jomo Kenyatta; Robert Mugabe; Julius Nyerere
Answer: Julius Nyerere
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Question: In November 1978 Idi Amins troops invaded this nation launching a war.
Choices: Sudan; Tanzania; Zaire; Kenya
Answer: Tanzania
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Question: Idi Amin was the tennis champion of Uganda from 1954 to 1958.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Which two George W. Bush cabinet members served with President Gerald Ford?
Choices: Cheney and Butz; Kleppe and Rumsfeld; Rumsfeld and Mansfield; Rumsfeld and Cheney
Answer: Rumsfeld and Cheney
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Question: What college did Gerald Ford attend?
Choices: Illinois State University; Harvard; Yale; UCLA
Answer: Yale
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Question: Critics of Gerald Ford point out that he lost his bid for the presidency in 1976 for what reason?
Choices: The Vietnam War; The Nixon pardon; His wifes alcoholism; The economy
Answer: The Nixon pardon
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Question: There is a breast cancer clinic named after Gerald Fords wife.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Prior to becoming President, Gerald R. Ford served in U.S. Congress representing what state?
Choices: California; Utah; Michigan; Pennsylvania
Answer: Michigan
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Question: Which of these politicians was Gerald R. Fords stiffest challenge in the Republican race in 1976?
Choices: Barry Goldwater; Robert Dole; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan
Answer: Ronald Reagan
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Question: Gerald R. Ford nearly ran on the Republican ticket as a vice president in what year?
Choices: 1972; 1968; 1980; 1954
Answer: 1980
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Question: James Earl Carter defeated Gerald Ford in the 1976 Presidential election.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What city was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon when Alexander the Great was born?
Choices: Sparta; Pharos; Troy; Pella
Answer: Pella
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Question: Alexander the Greats mother, Olympias, claimed that this deity was Alexanders father.
Choices: Zeus; Apollo; Heracles; Hephaestus
Answer: Zeus
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Question: What Persian king did Alexander the Great defeat at the Battle of Issus (333 BC) and at the Battle of Gaugamela (331 B)?
Choices: Cyrus; Xerxes; Darius; Deioces
Answer: Darius
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Question: What was Alexander the Greats legendary horse, Bucephalus, afraid of?
Choices: saddles; sunshine; his shadow; fire
Answer: his shadow
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Question: Gordium, the city where according to legend Alexander the Great undid the intricate Gordian Knot, was the capital of this ancient kingdom.
Choices: Sparta; Phrygia; Illyria; Mesopotamia
Answer: Phrygia
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Question: What Roman Emperor is said to have taken Alexander the Greats armor from his tomb in Alexandria, Egypt?
Choices: Augustus; Caligula; Julius Caesar; Nero
Answer: Caligula
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Question: Which of Alexander the Greats generals became ruler of Egypt after Alexanders death and took the title of pharaoh?
Choices: Hephaestion; Lysimachus; Cassander; Ptolemy
Answer: Ptolemy
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Question: Alexander the Greats friendship with this Macedonian nobleman and general was compared to that of Achilles and Patroclus.
Choices: Hephaestion; Ptolemy; Laomedon; Erigyius
Answer: Hephaestion
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Question: What statement is true about the Wars of the Diadochi following Alexander the Greats death?
Choices: The term refers to the Battle of the Hydaspes River and the Battle of Gaugamela in which Alexanders army was led by his generals.; The term refers to the conflicts between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Roman Empire.; The term refers to the conflicts among Alexanders successors.; The term refers to the wars between the Greek city-states and the Roman Empire.
Answer: The term refers to the conflicts among Alexanders successors.
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Question: What trio of actors starred as Alexander the Great, King Philip II of Macedon and Queen Olympias in Oliver Stones 2004 movie Alexander?
Choices: Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, Angelina Jolie; Colin Farrell, Peter OToole, Catherine Zeta Jones; Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie; Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie
Answer: Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie
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Question: In what month was the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt born?
Choices: October; April; January; June
Answer: October
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Question: Theodore Roosevelt was very athletic and engaged in sports as a child.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt was very interested in mathematics during his childhood.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What university/college did Theodore Roosevelt attend?
Choices: Stanford; Harvard; Notre Dame; Princeton
Answer: Harvard
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Question: What was Theodore Roosevelts position during the Spanish-American war?
Choices: A cavalry man; A rough rider; A rifle man; He did not participate in the Spanish-American.
Answer: A rough rider
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Question: After Theodore Rooseveltâs first wife died, he married a childhood sweetheart.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What was the name of Theodore Roosevelts second wife?
Choices: Susie; Samantha; Alice; Edith
Answer: Edith
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Question: Which of these is the correct period of Theodore Roosevelts presidency?
Choices: 1901-1909; 1905-1909; 1910-1918; 1896-1900
Answer: 1901-1909
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Question: Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to have a car, be submerged in a submarine, and own a telephone.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: After his first wifeâs death, Theodore Roosevelt went through another personal tragedy â his favorite son committed suicide. Where did this happen?
Choices: Alaska; Texas; Hawaii; Maryland
Answer: Alaska
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Question: All of the following share the same birth date of June 21st, but were they all born in the 60-year period between 1925 and 1985?
Choices: ince William, Meredith Baxter Birney, Maureen Stapleton, Carl Stokes, Mariette Hartley and Jane Russell.; Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: This diverse trio of Geminis were born on May 24th. One is a prominent folk singer (1941), the other one is a soulful songstress dubbed The Empress of Soul (1944) and the third one is the daughter of a country/rock and roll music legend (1955).
Choices: Bob Dylan, Patti LaBelle, Roseanne Cash; Woody Guthrie, Patti LaBelle, Roseanne Cash; Muddy Waters, Aretha Franklin, Roseanne Cash; Bob Dylan, Mary J Blige, Carlene Cash
Answer: Bob Dylan, Patti LaBelle, Roseanne Cash
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Question: Prince, Tom Jones and Liam Neeson were all born on June 7th but in different years.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: With which two figures from Greek/Roman mythology is Gemini associated?
Choices: Aphrodite and Zeus; Castor and Pollux; Hades and Athena; Poseidon and Hera
Answer: Castor and Pollux
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Question: Who was the 4th president of the USA?
Choices: John Adams; James Monroe; Andrew Jackson; James Madison
Answer: James Madison
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Question: Where was George Washington, Americas first president, born?
Choices: Kentucky; Virginia; New York; Mississippi
Answer: Virginia
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Question: Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: When was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
Choices: 1961; 1964; none of the above; 1963
Answer: 1963
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Question: Richard Nixon was the 35th president of the United States.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Who was the 40th president of the USA?
Choices: Gerald Ford; Ronald Reagan; George w.Bush; Jimmy Carter
Answer: Ronald Reagan
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Question: Ronald Reagan worked as a radio sports announcer after graduating from college.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What was Richard Nixons middle name?
Choices: David; Milhous; Milton; Howard
Answer: Milhous
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Question: Herbert Hoover directed the American Relief Committee.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Franklin D. Roosevelt was a New York state senator, before he became president of the United States.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What was the nickname of Edward Teach, the notorious English pirate who was active in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic during the Golden Age of Piracy?
Choices: Blackbeard; Calico Jack; Black Bart; Barbarossa
Answer: Blackbeard
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Question: What English pirate captain employed in his crew the only two female pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy â Anne Bonny and Mary Read?
Choices: Black Bart; Henry Morgan; Calico Jack (Jack Rackham); Bartholomew Sharp
Answer: Calico Jack (Jack Rackham)
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Question: What term is applied to pirate flags which often featured skeletons, daggers, cutlasses, skulls and crossbones?
Choices: Jolly Jack; Jolly Rider; Jolly Roger; Horrible Roger
Answer: Jolly Roger
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Question: Who wrote the adventure novel Treasure Island which tells the story of pirates and buried gold?
Choices: Jules Verne; Rafael Sabatini; Emilio Salgari; Robert Louis Stevenson
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Question: Hayreddin Pasha, a Turkish pirate, who dominated the Mediterranean for decades, was nicknamed Barbarossa. What is the meaning of his nickname?
Choices: red beard; black beard; red nose; red eye
Answer: red beard
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Question: This sea captain, privateer and politician of the Elizabethan era was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He was respected as a hero by the English, but Spaniards considered him a pirate.
Choices: Francis Drake; Edward Teach; Horatio Nelson; Henry Morgan
Answer: Francis Drake
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Question: The city of Port Royal, known for Gallows Point where many pirates were executed, is located on what Caribbean Island?
Choices: Hispaniola; Jamaica; Cuba; Bermuda
Answer: Jamaica
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Question: This Barbadian landowner, sometimes called the gentleman pirate, bought a sailing vessel and decided to turn to piracy because of marital problems.
Choices: Calico Jack; Henry Morgan; Stede Bonnet; Edward Teach
Answer: Stede Bonnet
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Question: What author created fictional character Peter Blood whose exploits are reportedly based on the piratical exploits of Henry Morgan?
Choices: Jonathan Swift; Rafael Sabatini; Emilio Salgari; Emilio Salgari
Answer: Rafael Sabatini
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Question: What English pirate pioneered the route which became known as the Pirate Round?
Choices: Bartholomew Roberts; Barbarossa; Thomas Tew; Grace OMalley
Answer: Thomas Tew
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Question: Who wrote the plays Master Olaf, Swan Blood,  Erich XIV?
Choices: Ibsen; Strindberg; Chekhov; none of these
Answer: Strindberg
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Question: Inspector General and The Marriage are plays by this author.
Choices: Ibsen; Chekhov; Dostoevsky; Gogol
Answer: Gogol
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Question: Who penned the plays The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard?
Choices: Gogol; Turgenev; Andreyev; Chekhov
Answer: Chekhov
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Question: A Rash Thing to Do, Fortunes Fool, An Evening in Sorrento are plays by this dramatist.
Choices: Tiarennti; Gogol; Turgenev; Havel
Answer: Turgenev
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Question: Who wrote Tick, Tick,....Boom!, Sacrimoralinority and Superbia?
Choices: J.D. Salinger; Edward Albee; Jonathan Larson; none of these
Answer: Jonathan Larson
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Question: Lakeboat, Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the Plow, American Buffalo, The Duck Variation are plays by this playwright.
Choices: Jason Miller; Moss Hart; David Mamet; Arthur Miller
Answer: David Mamet
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Question: Who is the author of After the Fall, The Crucible, A View From the Bridge and All My Sons?
Choices: Jason Miller; David Mamet; J. D. Salinger; Arthur Miller
Answer: Arthur Miller
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Question: Name the playwright who wrote The Second Man, End of Summer, No Time for Comedy.
Choices: S. N. Behrman; Israel Horovitz; Harvey Fierstein; Lillian Hellman
Answer: S. N. Behrman
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Question: Torch Song Trilogy, Safe Sex, Spookhouse, The Catered Affair are plays by this author.
Choices: Lillian Hellman; Israel Horovitz; S.N. Behrman; Harvey Fierstein
Answer: Harvey Fierstein
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Question: Name the author of The Childrens Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on Rhine and Toys in the Attic?
Choices: S. N. Behrman; Israel Horovitz; Lillian Hellman; Harvey Fierstein
Answer: Lillian Hellman
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Question: Line, The Indian Wants the Bronx and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard were written by this playwright.
Choices: S.N. Behrman; Israel Horvitz; Lillian Hellman; Harvey Fierstein
Answer: Israel Horvitz
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Question: Who wrote the plays Widowers Houses, The Devils Disciple, Mrs. Warrens Profession, Back to Methuselah and You Never Can Tell?
Choices: John Galsworthy; Noel Coward; George Bernard Shaw; Oscar Wilde
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
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Question: What famous playwright wrote Pygmalion, John Bulls Other Island, The Doctors Dilemma, Man and Superman, Candida?
Choices: John Galsworthy; Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw; Noel Coward
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
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Question: Who is the author of Woman and Whisky, The Rat Trap, The Better Half, Blithe Spirit, Ill Leave It to You?
Choices: Noel Coward; John Webster; Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw
Answer: Noel Coward
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Question: The Dutchess of Malfi, Northward Ho!, Westward Ho!, and The White Devil are plays by this author.
Choices: J. B. Priestly; Harold Pinter; John Galsworthy; John Webster
Answer: John Webster
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Question: Who wrote Time and the Conways, Dangerous Corner and The Inspector Calls?
Choices: John Webster; Eugene Ionesco; Harold Pinter; J. B. Priestly
Answer: J. B. Priestly