kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: humanities
Question: The modern unicorn is depicted as a horse with a single horn. Traditionally unicorns were depicted much differently. Which of these features was not depicted as part of the traditional unicorn?
Choices: Snake-like tongue; Bill goats beard; Lions tail; Cloven hooves
Answer: Snake-like tongue
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Question: The spiralled horn of a unicorn was called an Alicorn.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Was the unicorn part of Greek mythology?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: In ancient times items made of unicorn parts were very valuable for what reason?
Choices: Unicorn horns and parts were thought to be medicinal.; They were very rare; All of these; The parts were thought to be aphrodisiacs.
Answer: All of these
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Question: Which of these countries has a unicorn on its coat of arms?
Choices: Italy; Spain; France; Scotland
Answer: Scotland
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Question: Portugal has a unicorn on its coat of arms and royal seals.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The coat of arms of the Society of Apothecaries in London is adorned with how many unicorns?
Choices: 2; 0; 4; 1
Answer: 2
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Question: A supposed unicorn skeleton was found in a cave in Europe. The skeleton was found to be a hoax but the cave retained the name Unicorn Cave. In which European country is Unicorn Cave located?
Choices: Switzerland; Britain; France; Germany
Answer: Germany
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Question: Many explorers such as Marco Polo may have confused rhinoceros for unicorns.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: It was the third of June when Mama announced that Billy Joe McCallister jumped off the
Choices: llahatchie Bridge. Mama also related that Brother Taylor had seen a girl that looked a lot like you upon Choctaw Ridge and she and Billie Joe was throwing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge. What did the narrator and Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?; Something small and wrapped in a blanket; Something that flashed in the sun; The song never reveals what was thrown off the bridge; Gun
Answer: The song never reveals what was thrown off the bridge
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Question: In 1814 we took a little trip
Choices: ong with Colonel Jackson; The Ballad of New Orleans; The Ballad of Mighty Mississip; The Ballad of Colonel Jackson; The Ballad of Davey Crockett
Answer: The Ballad of New Orleans
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Question: Which term is preferred by more and more female performers of stage and screen?
Choices: Actor; Actress; Diva; Thespian
Answer: Actor
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Question: Which of the following refers to the female side of the family?
Choices: Maternal patronage; Distaff; Mastif; Maternity
Answer: Distaff
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Question: Grammatically correct gender terminology  includes which of the following?
Choices: All of these; Neuter; Masculine; Feminine
Answer: All of these
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Question: What is the term for a male sibling?
Choices: Brother; Cousine; Cousin; Uncle
Answer: Brother
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Question: What is a female octopus called?
Choices: Cow; Hen; Sow; Dam
Answer: Hen
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Question: What is the more common term for a male or female ecdysiast?
Choices: Novice; Dilettante; Orator; Stripper
Answer: Stripper
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Question: The word bachelorette has replaced which offensive term for an unmarried older woman?
Choices: All of these; Ugly Sister; Spinster; Loser
Answer: Spinster
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Question: Which of the following terms refers to a female homeless child who roams the streets?
Choices: Gamin; Orphan; Gamine; Prostitute
Answer: Gamine
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Question: Which term applies to a woman who has earned a PhD?
Choices: Academic; Doctor; Philosopher; Doctorate
Answer: Doctor
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Question: What is the term for a female baby kangaroo?
Choices: Fawn; Joey; Filly; Josephine
Answer: Joey
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Question: Where will you most likely hear howdy as a greeting?
Choices: Scotland; Singapore; Texas; Zimbabwe
Answer: Texas
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Question: Shalom aleichem and Salam alaikum are common greetings in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. What is the meaning of both?
Choices: How are you; Good day; Peace to you; May God be with you
Answer: Peace to you
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Question: In which language is Hola used as a greeting?
Choices: Greek; Japanese; Spanish; Polish
Answer: Spanish
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Question: A Japanese greeting meaning good morning is pronounced like the name of this US state.
Choices: Utah; Idaho; Mississippi; Ohio
Answer: Ohio
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Question: How could you welcome your Italian friend in his/her native language?
Choices: Hasta luege; Ahoj; Salve; CzeÅÄ
Answer: Salve
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Question: At what time of the day is it proper to use the Dutch greeting goedenavond?
Choices: Morning; Evening; Noon; All day
Answer: Evening
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Question: What is the literal meaning of the French greeting bon jour?
Choices: Hello; How are you; Peace to you; Good day
Answer: Good day
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Question: The Chinese term Kowtow refers to an act of deep respect. How is it performed?
Choices: By kissing hand; By kissing cheek; By bowing; By kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground
Answer: By kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground
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Question: You probably wouldnt be able to pronounce the word czeÅÄ, but try to guess in which language is it used as a greeting.
Choices: Malay; Polish; Hindu; Danish
Answer: Polish
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Question: In south Germany and Austria, GrÃ¼Ã Gott is commonly used as a greeting. What does it literally mean?
Choices: Good day; How are you; Peace to you; God bless you
Answer: God bless you
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Question: Sik Jo Fan Mei means have you eaten yet?. In which country it is used as a greeting?
Choices: China; Vietnam; Japan; Korea
Answer: China
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Question: In which culture is pressing noses used as a greeting?
Choices: Eskimo (Finland); Inca (Peru,Bolivia); Zulu (South Africa); Maori (New Zealand)
Answer: Maori (New Zealand)
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Question: Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be antonyms.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What word means the same as meager?
Choices: same; alot; multiply; paltry
Answer: paltry
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Question: Constant means changing.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Sick is the same as ill.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which of these words is a synonym of research?
Choices: populate; regulate; try; investigate
Answer: investigate
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Question: There many words that have the same meaning as low. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Choices: escape; soft; miserable; humble
Answer: escape
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Question: The words barbed, biting, nipping or pungent could mean what?
Choices: morbid; moronic; casual; sarcastic
Answer: sarcastic
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Question: Whats the name of the singer who was involved with bicyclist Lance Armstrong?
Choices: Sheryl Crow; Sheila Winestein; Sheryl Underwood; Laura Sheen
Answer: Sheryl Crow
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Question: This prolific author was also a screenwriter, penning the likes of I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart and The Patty Duke Show.
Choices: Paul Sheldon; Shelby Davis; Arthur Sherwood; Sidney Sheldon
Answer: Sidney Sheldon
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Question: The Jeffersons TV series, starring Sherman Hemsley, was a spinoff of All In The Family.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The group S.H.E plays country music in China.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: In chemistry SHE stands for Standard Helium Electrode.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: This actress is best known for playing Olive Oyl in 1979 and Wendy Torrance in 1980.
Choices: Laura Sheath; Norma Sheer; Shelly Winters; Shelley Duvall
Answer: Shelley Duvall
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Question: This influential English political philosopher believed in rule by absolute sovereign and the need for a social contract. His masterwork is Leviathan.
Choices: Thomas Hobbes; John Locke; Rene Descarte; Bertrand Russell
Answer: Thomas Hobbes
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Question: This early scholastic philosopher was a Franciscan friar best known for his principle that opposes multiplying unnecessary entities in making propositions or drawing conclusions.
Choices: William of Ockham; St. Jerome; John Scottus; St. Augustine
Answer: William of Ockham
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Question: This Twentieth Century English pacifist was the founder of analytic philosophy. His History of Western Philosophy helped him garner the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
Choices: Georg Hegel; G.E. Moore; Alfred Whitehead; Bertrand Russell
Answer: Bertrand Russell
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Question: This influential philosopher espoused the master-slave theory of morality and believed in the will to power as the motivating force behind animal and human behavior.
Choices: Wittgenstein; Hegel; Nietzsche; Dewey
Answer: Nietzsche
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Question: This Seventeenth Century Dutch rationalist was a pantheist excommunicated from the Jewish Church for heresy. He believed mind and body were of one substance. His greatest contributions were in the field of moral philosophy.
Choices: Spinoza; Dewey; Wittgenstein; Leibniz
Answer: Spinoza
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Question: His Categorical Imperative was a concept for moral actions based on the premise that one should act only according to the maxim that such action could or would be made into a universal law.
Choices: Kant; Locke; Rousseau; Moore
Answer: Kant
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Question: He was a Seventeenth Century rationalist who invented calculus, put forth the doctrine of  Windowless Monads, and believed that this universe was the best possible one God could have created.
Choices: Spinoza; Hume; Rousseau; Leibniz
Answer: Leibniz
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Question: The sailors in South Pacific love a woman whose skin is as tender as DiMaggios glove and is always chewin betel nuts. If anyone has objections,  Well aint that too damn bad.
Choices: o is the woman that can speak English as well as any damn marine?; Bloody Mary; Sweet Pea; Roxie; Sally Bowles
Answer: Bloody Mary
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Question: The Andrew Lloyd Webber song I Dont Know How to Love Him is about what character?
Choices: The Phantom of the Opera; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot; Juan PerÃ³n
Answer: Jesus Christ
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Question: Which of these songs from the movie Cabaret originated in the Broadway version?
Choices: Mein Herr; Maybe this Time; Money, Money; Tomorrow Belongs to Me
Answer: Tomorrow Belongs to Me
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Question: These songs all appear in the original Broadway version of The Sound of Music, but not in the movie version. Which one of them is NOT sung by Max and the Baroness?
Choices: An Ordinary Couple; None of these; No Way to Stop It; How Can Love Survive?
Answer: An Ordinary Couple
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Question: This ensemble song was removed just prior to the opening of the musical Show Boat, but its music remained as part of the overture.
Choices: Cotton Blossom; Til Good Luck Comes My Way; Life Upon the Wicked Stage; Misrys Comin Around
Answer: Misrys Comin Around
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Question: The song Send in the Clowns from the musical A Little Night Music was specifically written for which actress?
Choices: Glynis Johns; Shirley Jones; Elizabeth Taylor; Barbra Streisand
Answer: Glynis Johns
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Question: Which of these movie musical numbers was NOT nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar?
Choices: Blame Canada, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut; Under the Sea, The Little Mermaid; Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz; Come What May, Moulin Rouge
Answer: Come What May, Moulin Rouge
Category: humanities
Question: The song A Little Priest, from Stephen Sondheims 1979 musical Sweeney Todd, is about what?
Choices: Cannibalism; Christian Charity; Catholicism vs. Protestantism; Clergy Corruption
Answer: Cannibalism
Category: humanities
Question: According to a popular song from the 2003 puppet musical Avenue Q, what is the Internet for?
Choices: Porn; Quizzes; MySpace; Scholarly Research
Answer: Porn
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Question: One of the best-known tales of Arthurian times is The Sword in the Stone, written by T. H. White.  In the book, the soon-to-be-king, Arthur, is lives with which of these people?
Choices: King Pellinore; Merlyn; Sir Grummore Grummursum; Sir Ector
Answer: Sir Ector
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Question: In the popular childrens animated musical, Quest For Camelot, what well-known female singer provided the singing voice for Lady Juliana?
Choices: Brittney Spears; Faith Hill; Amy Grant; CÃ¨line Dion
Answer: CÃ¨line Dion
Category: humanities
Question: In 1456, Sir Thomas Mallory completed what is one of the most well-known accounts of the life of King Arthur, called Le Morte DArthur.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: During the reign of King Henry II, what is thought to be the grave of King Arthur, was discovered where in England?
Choices: Salisbury; Glastonbury; London (or, as it was once called, Londres); Avalon
Answer: Glastonbury
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Question: Is it true that in Greek mythology, Medusa, who was a beautiful girl with beautiful hair, became a Gorgon with serpents in her hair because she was arrogant and dared to compare her beauty to that of Athena?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: What does Gigantoleteira mean?
Choices: The giants destroyer; The worshipper of giants; The giant hero; The friend of giants
Answer: The giants destroyer
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Question: What does the name Ergane mean?
Choices: Hero; Maiden; Strong; Worker
Answer: Worker
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Question: What kind of musical instrument did Athena invent?
Choices: Harp; Flute; Lyre; Guitar
Answer: Flute
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Question: What does Korih, one of Athenas names, mean?
Choices: Hero; Goddess; Worker; Virgin
Answer: Virgin
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Question: Ancient Greeks believed that this Titan created man.
Choices: Ouranos; Kronos; Prometheus; Epimetheus
Answer: Prometheus
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Question: This Titan overthrew his father, Ouranos and ruled over the Earth before the gods.
Choices: Oceanus; None of these; Cronus; Zeus
Answer: Cronus
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Question: These mythological figures were gigantic beings with one hundred hands.
Choices: Cyclops; Hecatoncheires; Gorgons; None of these
Answer: Hecatoncheires
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Question: Which Greek god is known as the Earth-shaker?
Choices: Neptune; Hephaestus; Poseidon; Hades
Answer: Poseidon
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Question: Zeus is the Greek god of the sky and the chief of the gods.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Name the mythological giant three-headed dog that guarded the gate to the underworld.
Choices: Cerberus; Chimaera; Echidna; Orthrus
Answer: Cerberus
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Question: What was the home of the gods in Greek mythology?
Choices: the Elysian Fields; Tartarus; Mt. Olympus; None of these
Answer: Mt. Olympus
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Question: According to Greek mythology, Pegasus and his brother, Chrysaor were born when Perseus decapitated this monster.
Choices: Medusa; Akimbo; None of these; Minotaur
Answer: Medusa
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Question: According to Greek mythology, Odysseus and his men landed on the island of the Lotus Eaters following the Trojan War.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Polyphemus, the one-eyed son of Poseidon, asked his father not to allow this mythological hero to return home.
Choices: Eurymachus; Telemachus; Maron; Odysseus
Answer: Odysseus
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Question: Baroque painters Caravaggio and Rembrandt used chiaroscuro, an art technique, related to the distribution of light and dark in a painting.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Diego Velazquez, a Spanish Baroque Era painter, became most famous with what kind of paintings?
Choices: Paintings on war subject; Still lives; Portraits; Paintings on biblical subject
Answer: Portraits
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Question: Boy Blowing a Horn, a sculpture created by Italian Baroque Era sculptor Pietro Tacca, is displayed where?
Choices: in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK; in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.; in the Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Answer: in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Question: Works of Pietro Bernini, a Baroque Era sculptor, are displayed in which American museum?
Choices: Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina; Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts; The Metropolian Museum of Art, New York City; Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia
Answer: The Metropolian Museum of Art, New York City
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Question: Ottavio Leoni, an Italian Baroque Era printmaker and painter, painted which of the following drawings?
Choices: Ritratto di Paolo Morigia; Urban III; Judith with the Head of Holofernes; Grotesque Head
Answer: Urban III
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Question: Rubens, one of the most famous Flemish Baroque Era painters, was a student of Cornelis de Vos.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Where did Diego Velazquez, a Spanish Baroque Era painter, spend his middle period?
Choices: Madrid; Genoa; Barcelona; Florence
Answer: Madrid
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Question: In India dacoit  is a synonym for what word?
Choices: bandit; miner; wagon; mongoose
Answer: bandit
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Question: Dear Elle:hes a lucky guy--
Choices: , like, gonna cry--; got tears coming out of my nose!  ; d props!.... ; So Much Better; Bend  Snap; Ireland; Omigod You Guys
Answer: Omigod You Guys
Category: humanities
Question: What division is based on the different treatment of the three original velar rows?
Choices: Satem and Centum languages; Balto-Slavic and Indo-Hittite languages; Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages; Anatolian and Tocharian languages
Answer: Satem and Centum languages
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Question: Venetic is an extinct language from the Indo-European family that was spoken in what country?
Choices: Spain; France; Italy; Belgium
Answer: Italy
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Question: The official language of the Hittite Empire, the Hittite language, is part of what group of extinct Indo-European languages?
Choices: Celtic; Tocharian; Anatolian; Indo-Iranian
Answer: Anatolian
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Question: What language of the Baltic group is extinct?
Choices: Samogitian; Latgalian; Selonian; New Curonian
Answer: Selonian
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Question: English belongs to what group of languages in the Indo-European family?
Choices: Germanic; Celtic; Italic; Baltic
Answer: Germanic
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Question: The Grimms law describes what Proto-Indo-European language?
Choices: Proto-Germanic language; Proto-Celtic language; Proto-Greek language; Proto-Balto-Slavic language
Answer: Proto-Germanic language
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Question: To what group belongs the Spanish language?
Choices: Anatolian; Germanic; Celtic; Italic
Answer: Italic
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Question: What language from the South-Slavic branch usees Cyrillic script?
Choices: Slovenian; Croatian; Bulgarian; Bosnian
Answer: Bulgarian
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Question: The Scythians, who dominated the Pontic steppe throughout Classical Antiquity. spoke a language that belongs to what Indo-European group?
Choices: Tocharian; Slavic; Anatolian; Indo-Iranian
Answer: Indo-Iranian
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Question: What is the largest subdivision of Indo-European as regards the largest number of native speakers and of individual languages?
Choices: Indo-Iranian; Slavic; Italic; Germanic
Answer: Indo-Iranian
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Question: How is the Echidna described Greek mythology?
Choices: Womans body, with a fish tail; Half-woman, half-serpent; None of these; Womans body, with serpents instead of hair
Answer: Half-woman, half-serpent
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Question: What kind of creature is Pegasus according to Greek legends?
Choices: Winged ram; Winged dog; Winged horse; Winged dragon
Answer: Winged horse
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Question: During which century did Italian painter Michelangelo live and work?
Choices: 13th-14th century; 7th-8th century; 10th-11th century; 15th-16th century
Answer: 15th-16th century
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Question: According to painter and sculpture Michelangelo, art originated from which of the following?
Choices: Madness; Pain; Inner inspiration; Divine gift
Answer: Inner inspiration
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Question: What was Michelangelos view of nature and its place in art?
Choices: He saw it as an enemy.; He believed the human being was a masterpiece of Mother Nature.; He saw nature as a miracle.; None of these
Answer: He saw it as an enemy.
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Question: Which of these statements is true about Michelangelo?
Choices: He lived an extravagant life.; He enjoyed eating and drinking most of all.; He lived in poverty.; None of these
Answer: He lived in poverty.
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Question: Painter and sculptor Michelangelo is believed to have had homosexual inclinations.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which of these phrases is a synonym of limbo?
Choices: Social ground; Core ground; Muddy ground; Middle ground
Answer: Middle ground
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Question: Which of these phrases refers to cemetery?
Choices: Isoglosses ground; Exclusive ground; Social ground; Burying ground
Answer: Burying ground
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Question: What phrase is a synonym of jungle?
Choices: Kindred ground; Solid ground; Uncultivated ground; Wet ground
Answer: Uncultivated ground
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Question: What does the term swale refer to?
Choices: Low ground; Grooved ground; Atomic ground; Middle ground
Answer: Low ground
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Question: Which phrase is a synonym of chase?
Choices: Low ground; Hunting ground; Quick ground; Sacred ground
Answer: Hunting ground
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Question: What does the word bog mean?
Choices: Low ground; Spongy ground; Dumping ground; Bleery ground
Answer: Spongy ground
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Question: What is the meaning of the word hardpan?
Choices: Still ground; Spongy ground; Hard ground; Low ground
Answer: Hard ground
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Question: What syntactic element is not part of the predicate?
Choices: Adjunct; Subject; Subject Complement; Direct Object
Answer: Subject
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Question: What category is never marked on Non-Finite Verb Phrases such us to have been studying, being studied, etc?
Choices: Correlation; Aspect; Tense; Voice
Answer: Tense
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Question: In the sentence Cristiano Ronaldo was the best player available, what is the syntactic function of the Noun Phrase the best player available?
Choices: Subject Complement; Object Direct; Subject; Object Indirect
Answer: Subject Complement
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Question: What sentence is not in the indicative clause type (or mood)?
Choices: Are you alone?; Dont move!; You are beautiful.; What a clever girl she is!
Answer: Dont move!
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Question: What sentence contains an Obligatory Adjunct, also known as Predicator Complement?
Choices: The bus stopped suddenly.; The baby weighs 9 pounds.; The police found him without much difficulty.; She has left her husband for him.
Answer: The baby weighs 9 pounds.
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Question: Identify the Operator in the sentence: The football match must have been played last Saturday.
Choices: have; must; been; played
Answer: must
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Question: The nominal clauses are finite dependent clauses that fulfill the functions of Subject, Object and Complement in clause structure. There are four main types: wh-nominal relative, dependent exclamative, wh-interrogative and what other type?
Choices: circumstantial clause as in As soon as I got home, I phoned him.; relative clause as in Ann bought the red coat that had black buttons.; that-clause as in He saw that the bottles were empty.; comparative clause as in Paul won more money than he had expected.
Answer: that-clause as in He saw that the bottles were empty.
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Question: Where do we have an example of code, one of the NICE constructions (negation, inversion, code and emphasis)?
Choices: Please, stay!; I do want to stay.; I will stay, if you will.; I dont want to stay.
Answer: I will stay, if you will.
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Question: In what sentence is there a modifier in the Adverbial Phrase?
Choices: The French have come to sigh the contract.; They left for good.; I will find the person responsible.; My shoes are bright red.
Answer: My shoes are bright red.
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Question: Of what kind is the coordination between the clauses in the sentence You should neither ask him for money nor accept it if he offers?
Choices: Addition; Variation; Explanation; Alternation
Answer: Alternation
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Question: Complete this line from a song, featured in the movie Cannibal! The Musical:
Choices: e sky is blue and all the leaves are green. The airs as warm as ...; a baked potato; a toaster oven; an apple pie; a furnace
Answer: a baked potato
Category: literature
Question: What does the word cretin refer to?
Choices: Cyst on the brain stem; None of these; An idiot; Swelling of the cerebrum caused by spinal fluid
Answer: An idiot
Category: literature
Question: Leaves of Grass
Choices: Carl Sandberg; T.S. Eliot; Robert Frost; Walt Whitman
Answer: Walt Whitman
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Question: At The Mountains of Madness
Choices: H.P. Lovecraft; Peter Straub; Edgar Allan Poe; C.S. Lewis
Answer: H.P. Lovecraft
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Question: Ape and Essance; Eyeless in Gaza; Point Counter Point
Choices: J.D. Salinger; Aldous Huxley; Maya Angelou; William Butler Yeatts
Answer: Aldous Huxley
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Question: 1984; Animal Farm
Choices: Herman Hesse; Rudyard Kipling; George Orwell; Aldous Huxley
Answer: George Orwell
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Question: Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; Far From the Madding Crowd
Choices: Thomas Hardy; William Faulkner; Rudyard Kipling; James Dickey
Answer: Thomas Hardy
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Question: The Antichrist; The Gay Science; Beyond Good and Evil; Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Choices: none of these; Frederick Nietzche; Amari Baraka; Stephen King
Answer: Frederick Nietzche
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Question: What language can Harry Potter speak?
Choices: Goblin; English; Mermish; Parseltounge
Answer: Parseltounge
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Question: Cornelia Fudge is the Minister of Magic.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Hermione was supposed to turn into this person after drinking the Polyjuice Potion.
Choices: Millicent Bulstrode; Crabbe; Millie Vanilli; Pansy Parkins
Answer: Millicent Bulstrode
Category: literature
Question: What was Hagrid buying in Knockturn Alley?
Choices: Flesh-Eating Slug Attractor; Fresh-Skin Slug Repellent; Flesh-Eating Ant Repellent; Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent
Answer: Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent
Category: literature
Question: This book by James Joyce was forbidden by the US authorities for 15 years, because it was considered obsene. The ban was lifted in 1933.
Choices: Ulysses; Portrait of the Artist; Dubliners; Fanny Hill
Answer: Ulysses
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Question: This book about the life of a prostitute was written by John Cleland. It has been banned in the past due to frank sexual descriptions.
Choices: Candide; Lysistrata; Fanny Hill; Decameron
Answer: Fanny Hill
Category: literature
Question: This book tells the story of two women who meet and fall in love with each other. They openly declare their homosexuality to family and friends. Thats why the Kansas school system ordered the removal of all copies of this book from high school libraries.
Choices: Daddys Roommate; Andersonville; Annie on My Mind; Catch 22
Answer: Annie on My Mind
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Question: This book led Austin Miles to the courts in 1992.  Miles was sued because his book was ...a vitriolic attack upon organized Christianity.
Choices: Leaves of Grass; Dictionary of American Slang; Jerusalem Delivered; Dont Call Me Brother
Answer: Dont Call Me Brother
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Question: This book by Judy Blume was censored as it discussed adolescent sexuality in too much detail.
Choices: Grapes of Wrath; Lolita; Freedom and Order; Forever
Answer: Forever
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Question: This book by George Orwell was banned as it was pro-communist.
Choices: The Sun Also Rises; Coming Up for Air; 1984; Deliverance
Answer: 1984
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Question: This Lewis Carrolls work was banned in China because in it humans and animals used the same language.
Choices: Sylvie and Bruno; Alices Adventures in Wonderland; Through The Looking Glass; The Hunting of the Snark
Answer: Alices Adventures in Wonderland
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Question: Its translation into local languages was forbidden in Burma.
Choices: The Quran; The Cabala; Arabian Nights; The Bible
Answer: The Bible
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Question: This book was censored in 1985 in Cairo, Egypt as it contained obscene passages which posed a threat to the countrys moral fabric.
Choices: Arabian Nights; Don Quixote; Analects; Brave New World
Answer: Arabian Nights
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Question: An edition of Miltons works was bound in:
Choices: Human skin; Golden plates; Bears fur; Used newspapers
Answer: Human skin
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Question: Binding books with human hide was a common practice once. Why?
Choices: Because of lack of any other proper material; Because this sold the books more quickly than anything; Because the narrative in the book was about the story of the hides owner; Because it was fashionable at the time
Answer: Because the narrative in the book was about the story of the hides owner
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Question: The name of Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians is meaningful because:
Choices: She actually likes cats and not dogs; She is the owner of the dalmatians; She doesnt give them any food; She wants the puppies for their fur
Answer: She wants the puppies for their fur
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Question: Who is the Shakespearean villain who had his own brother executed and innocent children killed because they were hindrances to his kingly ambition?
Choices: Edmund; Richard III; Aaron the Moor; Othello
Answer: Richard III
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Question: According to psychologists villains in fairy-tales actually have an important role for the childrens mind formation, namely:
Choices: They help children decide what is bad; They make the story really funny; They are interesting models of behaviour; They always lose the battle
Answer: They help children decide what is bad
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Question: The famous evil female Baba Yaga comes from:
Choices: A Norse legend; An Uzbekistanian fairy-tale; A Moroccan song; Russian folklore
Answer: Russian folklore
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Question: Harry Potter is concidered malicious literature by some, because:
Choices: Most of its characters are strange beings; Its characters are mainly clad in black clothes; It comprises too many volulmes; It is about witchcraft
Answer: It is about witchcraft
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Question: It turns out that people like reading about crime. The top-selling English-language author of all time is:
Choices: Agatha Christie; Ben Johnson; Edgar-Allan Poe; Virginia Woolf
Answer: Agatha Christie
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Question: Who wrote about the early whodunit archetype, inspector Auguste Dupin?
Choices: Georges Sands; Edgar Allan Poe; Washington Irving; Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
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Question: Dr. Alex Delaware is the creation of which of these authors?
Choices: Jonathan Kellerman; Kathy Reichs; Faye Kellerman; Ross McDonald
Answer: Jonathan Kellerman
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Question: Robert B. Parker completed Raymond Chandlers unfinished final novel, Poodle Springs.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Kathy Reichs has written some great mysteries, where the primary character is Forensic Archaeologist, Kay Scarpetta.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What is the name of Colin Creevys brother, who appears in the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
Choices: Carson Creevy; Darian Creevy; Dennis Creevy; James Creevy
Answer: Dennis Creevy
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Question: Why was Hagrid missing in the beginning of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
Choices: He went hunting unicorns.; He went looking for Dumbleodre.; He went looking for Sirius Black.; He went hunting giants.
Answer: He went hunting giants.
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Question: What did Hermione do to Ron before she stormed out of the charms classroom in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
Choices: She charmed a desk to fly over to Ron.; She charmed pencils to fly and poke Ron.; She charmed little yellow birds to fly at Ron and peck him.; She charmed a chair to fly across the room at Ron.
Answer: She charmed little yellow birds to fly at Ron and peck him.
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Question: Draco Malfoy cries in a book of the Harry Potter series.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Did Crabbe and Goyle ever become friends with Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Harry Potter books?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: Harry liked Cho in the book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: In Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, before Harry went to fight Professor Quirrel and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, Hermione helped him with a task that involved what?
Choices: A chess set by Professor Flitwick; An ancient textbook sent from Professor Binns; A set of potions sent from Professor Snape; A dragon sent from Hagrid
Answer: A set of potions sent from Professor Snape
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Question: What was the name of the handsome, selfish teacher in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
Choices: Professor Gilderoy Lockhart; Professor Godric Gryffindor; Professor Severus Snape; Professor Cedric Diggory
Answer: Professor Gilderoy Lockhart
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Question: In Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, what was the password to the Gryffindor tower during Halloween?
Choices: Pig snout; Fairy lights; None of these; Zebras tail
Answer: Pig snout
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Question: In Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, who gave Nearly-Headless Nick the rejection letter from the Headless Hunt?
Choices: Sir Delaney Patrick-Podmore; Sir Sturgis Podmore; Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore; Sir Bloody Baron
Answer: Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore
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Question: In the Harry Potter series, who created the Ravenclaw House when Hogwarts was built?
Choices: Rowena Ravenclaw; Ronald Ravenclaw; Rowana Ravenclaw; Ricky Ravenclaw
Answer: Rowena Ravenclaw
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Question: What was the name of the child who delivered Ron his parcels in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
Choices: Creevy; Dennis; Collin; Nigel
Answer: Nigel
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Question: Filch is a wizard in the Harry Potter books.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Who took over the Fat Ladys job after she was scared out of her portrait in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
Choices: Sir Cadogan; Trolls; Sirius Black; Sir Delaney Patrick-Podmore
Answer: Sir Cadogan
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Question: Who lost the list of passwords for the Gryffindor tower in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
Choices: Dean Thomas; Neville Longbottom; Ron Weasley; Padma Patil
Answer: Neville Longbottom
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Question: In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, who was bitten by the werewolf Fenfir Greyback?
Choices: Ron; Bill; Charlie; Percy
Answer: Bill
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Question: Who killed Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
Choices: Professor Binns; Lucius Malfoy; Professor Snape; Bellatrix Lestrange
Answer: Professor Snape
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Question: What is James Potter called by Lily Evans in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
Choices: A bullying, selfish git; A big-headed git; A selfish, bullying toerag; An ignorant git
Answer: A selfish, bullying toerag
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Question: What house was Cho Chang in, as explained in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Pheonix, and Goblet of Fire?
Choices: Griffyndor; Slytherin; Hufflepuff; Ravenclaw
Answer: Ravenclaw
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Question: Who gave Dudley a pigs tail using a pink umbrella in the book Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone?
Choices: Draco Malfoy; Rubeus Hagrid; Vernon Dursley; Harry Potter
Answer: Rubeus Hagrid
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Question: Does Harry arrive at Privet Drive with Dumbledore in the first book of the Harry Potter series?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: In Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, after getting off the Hogwarts Express, how did Harry and his fellow First Years get to the castle?
Choices: by boat across the lake; on their broomsticks; in a flying car; walking
Answer: by boat across the lake
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Question: Who saved Harry from Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest in the first volume of the Harry Potter series?
Choices: Firenze; Fred and George Weasley; Albus Dumbledore; Hermione Granger
Answer: Firenze
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Question: In Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, Severus Snape bewitches Harrys broom during the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Sytherin.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Why were Harry and Hermione at the top of the tallest astronomy tower when they were caught by Filch in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone?
Choices: They were giving Norbert to Charlies friends.; They were having a meal.; They were fighting Death Eaters.; They were doing their homework.
Answer: They were giving Norbert to Charlies friends.
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Question: It is stated in the first book of the Harry Potter series that Harry received his first Nimbus Two Thousand broom in the second year of his education at Hogwarts.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What was Harry Potters first Famous Witch and Wizards card according to the first volume of the series?
Choices: Godric Gryffindor; Albus Dumbledore; Helga Hufflepuff; Merlin
Answer: Albus Dumbledore
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Question: Did Harry, Ron and Hermione encounter a Venomous Tentacula in the first book of the series, after dropping through the trapdoor that Fluffy was guarding?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: Who gave Harry his invisibility cloak in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone?
Choices: Dumbledore; Molly Weasley; Hermione; Hagrid
Answer: Dumbledore
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Question: In which Stephen King story do we meet the evil Randall Flagg?
Choices: Salems Lot; It; Rose Madder; The Stand
Answer: The Stand
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Question: In which Stephen King story do we meet a banker from Maine named Andy Dufresne?
Choices: Shawshank Redemption; Children of the Corn; Cujo; Needful Things
Answer: Shawshank Redemption
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Question: Paul Edgecomb is a character in which Stephen King story?
Choices: Misery; Dolores Claiborne; Graveyard Shift; The Green Mile
Answer: The Green Mile
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Question: Jud Crandall and Louis Creed are characters in which Stephen King story?
Choices: Christine; Pet Sematary; The Lawnmower Man; Night Shift
Answer: Pet Sematary
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Question: In which Stephen King story do we meet a red-headed character named Malachai?
Choices: Children of the Corn; The Tommyknockers; Firestarter; The Shining
Answer: Children of the Corn
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Question: In which Stephen King story are we introduced to a recovering alcoholic named Jack Torrance?
Choices: The Shining; Creepshow; The Boogeyman; Thinner
Answer: The Shining
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Question: Billy Halleck, a rather rotund lawyer, is a character from which Stephen King story?
Choices: Insomnia; Thinner; Rose Madder; Storm of the Century
Answer: Thinner
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Question: The paraplegic Marty Coslaw is a character in which Stephen King story?
Choices: The Stand; Bag of Bones; Night Shift; Silver Bullet
Answer: Silver Bullet
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Question: In which Stephen King story to we meet the intriguing stranger Andre Linoge?
Choices: Misery; Salems Lot; Carrie; Storm of the Century
Answer: Storm of the Century
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Question: The former nurse Annie Wilkes is a character from which Stephen King story?
Choices: Dolores Claiborne; Rose Madder; Firestarter; Misery
Answer: Misery
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Question: Pennywise is introduced to us in a storm sewer from which Stephen King story?
Choices: Creepshow; Pet Sematary; It; Needful Things
Answer: It
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Question: Johnny Smith is a character that awakens from a coma in which Stephen King story?
Choices: The Green Mile; The Dead Zone; The Tommyknockers; Graveyard Shift
Answer: The Dead Zone
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Question: Arnie Cunninghams character is a nerdy high school student from which Stephen King story?
Choices: Children of the Corn; Christine; Cujo; Carrie
Answer: Christine
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Question: What fantasy series tells us first about a sword, then about the elfstones and finally about a wishsong?
Choices: Shannara; Dragon Riders of Pern; Sword of Truth; Chronicles of Narnia
Answer: Shannara
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Question: In this sci-fi story, a young boy is given advanced training and then tricked into destroying an invading an alien fleet.
Choices: Enders Game; The Boat of a Million Years; Wisdom Beyond Fear; Harsh Reality
Answer: Enders Game
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Question: Which author describes the worlds of the Belgariad and the Malloreon?
Choices: David Eddings; Terry Goodkind; J. R. R. Tolkien; Robert Jordan
Answer: David Eddings
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Question: The fictional spice-drug Melange has a central role in which Sci-fi epic?
Choices: The Black Legion; The Pirates of Orion; War of the Worlds; DUNE
Answer: DUNE
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Question: This fantasy series features channelers, who can control the One Power, a mighty force that comes from the True Source, and is separated into two halves: a male part -saidin, and a female one - saidar.
Choices: The Wheel of Time; Running with the Demon; Ring World; Corinthia
Answer: The Wheel of Time
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Question: This series depicts a unicorn-riding wizard, who is actually a contestant in a game show, in the futuristic world of Proton.
Choices: Endless Recursion; Xanth; Apprentice Adept; The Divided Wolrd
Answer: Apprentice Adept
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Question: This popular fantasy series tells the story of a small human-like character, sent on a mission to save the world. He has to destroy an item of dark and terrible power by casting it into the fires of the mountain, where it was made.
Choices: The Wheel of Time; The Chronicles of Narnia; The Sword of Truth; Lord of the Rings
Answer: Lord of the Rings
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Question: Which Fantasy Series tells the story of  the War Wizard, Richard Rahl?
Choices: The Wheel of Time; Greystone Trilogy; The Sword of Truth; Battle Mage Trilogy
Answer: The Sword of Truth
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Question: Which sci-fi classic features the story of an alien invasion thwarted by earths microorganisms?
Choices: Speaker for the Dead; Close Encounters; 2001: Space Odyssey; War of the Worlds
Answer: War of the Worlds
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Question: Which fantasy series by C.S. Lewis includes a book entitled The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
Choices: The Magic of Xanth; The Chronicles of Narnia; Lord of the Rings; The Pirates of Psion
Answer: The Chronicles of Narnia
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Question: In the novel Gone with the Wind, what is Scarlett O Haras first name?
Choices: Scarlett; Carreen; Melanie; Katie
Answer: Katie
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Question: Which war is described in the novel Gone with the Wind?
Choices: The war in Iraq; The war of 1812; The Revolutionary War; The Civil War
Answer: The Civil War
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Question: In the novel Gone with the Wind, what was the name of Scarletts first house -- the house she had her childhood in and loved more than anything?
Choices: Tara; Leps; Ward; Yern
Answer: Tara
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Question: How many children did Scarlett have in the novel Gone with the Wind?
Choices: 3; 4; 1; 6
Answer: 3
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Question: In the novel Gone with the Wind, what were the names of the two slaves Scarletts father bought, and what relationship did they have?
Choices: Dilcey and Prissy, cousins; DIlcey and Prissy, mother and daughter; Mammie and Prissy, sisters; Mammie and Dilcey, best friends
Answer: DIlcey and Prissy, mother and daughter
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Question: In the novel Gone with the Wind, Scarletts father bought two slaves from Raif Tarleton.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In the novel Gone with the Wind, Dilcey had two children.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Name the 19th century novel, which begins with the following sentence: âIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.â
Choices: Sense and Sensibility; North and South; Pride and Prejudice; Vanity Fair
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
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Question: This quote is from a novel which focuses on the myth of hedonism: âThe only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.â  Name the novel.
Choices: Lady Chatterleys Lover; The Picture of Dorian Gray; A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man; Ulysses
Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Question: The following quote is from a novel which describes a society, characterized mainly by the lack of freedom: âFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.â  Name the novel.
Choices: A Good man in Africa; 1984; Lord of the Flies; Heart of Darkness
Answer: 1984
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Question: The main character from this literary work by Philip Roth addresses the following words to his domineering and meticulous Jewish mother: âBecause to be bad, Mother, that is the real struggle: to be bad and to enjoy it. That is what makes men of us boys.â
Choices: Portnoys Complaint; My Life As a Man; The Sun Also Rises; The Catcher in the Rye
Answer: Portnoys Complaint
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Question: In this novel, with the following sentences, David Lodge sums up the fact that his Catholic characters ceased to believe in the existence of hell: âAt some point in the nineteen-sixties, Hell disappeared. No one could say for certain when this happened. First it was there and then it wasnât.
Choices: The Remains of the Day; How Far Can You Go; The Bloody Chamber; The Silence in the Garden
Answer: How Far Can You Go
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Question: The following quote is from a literary work by Kurt Vonnegut in which the characters search for an important and dangerous substance called âice-nineâ: âBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.â  Name the literary work.
Choices: Breakfast of Champions; Cats Cradle; Catch-22; Slaughterhouse 5
Answer: Cats Cradle
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Question: The following speculation is from a novel set in the gloomy Fen Country of East Anglia: âRealitys not strange, not unexpected. Reality doesnt reside in the sudden hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens. How many of the events of history have occurred, ask yourselves, for this and for that reason, but for no other reason, fundamentally, than the desire to make things happen?â  Can you name the novel?
Choices: Times Arrow; Last Orders; Waterland; Sugar and Rum
Answer: Waterland