kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: people
Question: Name the author of The Dwarfs, The Homecoming, No Mans Land and The Caretaker.
Choices: David Mamet; John Webster; John Boynton Priestly; Harold Pinter
Answer: Harold Pinter
Category: people
Question: The Importance of Being Ernest, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband are plays by this author.
Choices: Sean OCasey; Oscar Wilde; John Updike; William Inge
Answer: Oscar Wilde
Category: people
Question: Which playwright wrote Riders to the Sea, The Tinkers Wedding, The Playboy of the Western World?
Choices: William Inge; Sean OCasey; J. M. Synge; Patrick Flaherty
Answer: J. M. Synge
Category: people
Question: Who wrote The female knee is a joint and not an entertainment?
Choices: Sir Walter Scott; Dr. Phil; Judge Judy; Percy Hammond
Answer: Percy Hammond
Category: people
Question: Who said Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it?
Choices: Donald Trump; Ed Wynn; Al Jolson; Al Gore
Answer: Ed Wynn
Category: people
Question: Who wrote It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting?
Choices: Ely Culbertson; Agatha Christie; Sting; Al Jolson
Answer: Agatha Christie
Category: people
Question: Who said Beulah, peel me a grape?
Choices: Jenny Craig; Mae West; Don Johnson; Teri Hatcher
Answer: Mae West
Category: people
Question: Who wrote You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward?
Choices: Ronald Reagan; Jerry Springer; James Thurber; Phil Donahue
Answer: James Thurber
Category: people
Question: Who said You aint heard nothin yet, folks?
Choices: Louis Armstrong; Ray Charles; Al Jolson; Jesse Jackson
Answer: Al Jolson
Category: people
Question: Who wrote Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just?
Choices: George W. Bush; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Jefferson; John F. Kennedy
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Category: people
Question: Who said From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step?
Choices: Napoleon Bonaparte; Margaret Thatcher; Steve Martin; Groucho Marx
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Category: people
Question: Who wrote Imitation is the sincerest of flattery?
Choices: Madonna; Cher; George Bernard Shaw; Charles Caleb Colton
Answer: Charles Caleb Colton
Category: people
Question: Who wrote Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just?
Choices: Saddam Hussein; Francis Scott Key; George Washington; Osama Bin Laden
Answer: Francis Scott Key
Category: people
Question: Which player was given the Calder Cup trophy in the 2005-2006 NHL season?
Choices: Vincent Lacavlier; Alexander Ovechkin; Eric Staal; Sidney Crosby
Answer: Alexander Ovechkin
Category: people
Question: What NFL team won the 1999 Super Bowl?
Choices: San Diego Chargers; Denver Broncos; New England Patriots; Atlanta Falcons
Answer: Denver Broncos
Category: people
Question: On February 24, 1982, ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky broke the record for most goals in a season, by scoring 76 goals.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Who was the 2006-2007 Bowl Championship Series team winner?
Choices: Florida Gators; Notre Dame Fighting Irish; USC Trojans; Ohio Buckeyes
Answer: Florida Gators
Category: people
Question: What was Jacqueline Kennedys maiden name?
Choices: Bouvier; Bonaparte; Girard; Davis
Answer: Bouvier
Category: people
Question: What was Jacqueline Kennedys occupation?
Choices: Book Editor; Accountant; Lawyer; Doctor
Answer: Book Editor
Category: people
Question: Where was Jacqueline Kennedy born?
Choices: Newport, Rhode Island; McLean, Virginia; Southampton, New York; None of these
Answer: Southampton, New York
Category: people
Question: Jacqueline Kennedy graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor of arts degree in French literature.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy had four children together.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Jacqueline Kennedy became First Lady at the age of 31.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Where did Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy honeymoon?
Choices: Acapulco, Mexico; Newport, Rhode Island; London, England; Paris, France
Answer: Acapulco, Mexico
Category: people
Question: What did Jacqueline Kennedy do after her husbands assassination?
Choices: She refused to remove her blood-stained clothing.; All of these; She removed her wedding ring and slipped it onto the Presidents finger.; She told aide Ken ODonnell, Now I have nothing left.
Answer: All of these
Category: people
Question: What happened after Jacqueline Kennedys marriage to shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ?
Choices: All of these; She lost her Secret Service protection.; She lost her Franking Privilege.; She became the target of paparazzi.
Answer: All of these
Category: people
Question: After Onassis death, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis accepted from Onassiss daughter, Christina, a settlement of $26,000,000.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Which Egyptian Pharaoh was named The Great Ancestor by his successors?
Choices: Khufu (Cheops); Cleopatra; Seti I; Ramses II
Answer: Ramses II
Category: people
Question: Which ruler is considered the founder of the great Persian Empire?
Choices: Darius the Great; Xerxes; Hammurabi; Cyrus the Great
Answer: Cyrus the Great
Category: people
Question: How old was Alexander the Great of Macedonia when he died?
Choices: 32; 54; 43; 21
Answer: 32
Category: people
Question: Which King of the Franks was also crowned Roman Emperor?
Choices: Napoleon Bonaparte; Louis XIV; Charles I the Great (Charlemagne); Louis XVI
Answer: Charles I the Great (Charlemagne)
Category: people
Question: Who was the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?
Choices: Rudolph I Hapsburg; Conrad I; Otto I; Frederic Barbarossa
Answer: Otto I
Category: people
Question: What was the name of the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, ruled by Huayna Capac?
Choices: Aztec; Zulu; Inca; Mayan
Answer: Inca
Category: people
Question: Around the year 1200 AD a chieftain, called TemÃ¼jin, united tribes between Manchuria and Altai mountains and thus started one of the biggest empires in the world history. By what name is TemÃ¼jin better known?
Choices: Tsar Ivan the Terrible; Genghis Khan; Attila the Hun; Kublai Khan
Answer: Genghis Khan
Category: people
Question: Shaka was a king of the Zulu Empire. Where was it situated?
Choices: South Africa; Japan and other Pacific islands; West Africa; Australia
Answer: South Africa
Category: people
Question: This empire was ruled by Franz Joseph I for 68 years and was dissolved 2 years after his death.
Choices: Ottoman Empire; Poland-Lithuania; Austria-Hungary; Spanish Empire
Answer: Austria-Hungary
Category: people
Question: Which of these great women was a monarch for the longest period of time?
Choices: Tsaritsa Catherine II the Great of Russia; Queen Victoria of Great Britain; Queen Cleopatra of Egypt; Empress Dowager Cixi of China
Answer: Queen Victoria of Great Britain
Category: people
Question: Who came up with the stage name Tina Turner in the beginning of Anna Mae Bullocks career?
Choices: Her husband Ike; Anne Mae herself; Her sister; Her mother
Answer: Her husband Ike
Category: people
Question: Actress Anne Hathaway has claimed that this Academy Award-winning actress is her idol and inspiration.
Choices: Kate Winslet; Sally Field; Diane Keaton; Meryl Streep
Answer: Meryl Streep
Category: people
Question: Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of this great English Queen.
Choices: Mary I of England; Queen Elizabeth II; Queen Elizabeth I; Queen Victoria
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I
Category: people
Question: In what 2000 movie did LeAnn Rimes appear as herself, singing her song Cant Fight the Moonlight?
Choices: Northern Lights; Holiday in Your Heart; Coyote Ugly; Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes
Answer: Coyote Ugly
Category: people
Question: Who was Saint Anne, also known as Hannah, according to Christian and Muslim tradition?
Choices: The mother of the Virgin Mary; The wife of King David; The sister of Saint Peter; The daughter of Abraham
Answer: The mother of the Virgin Mary
Category: people
Question: What comedian did actress and director Anne Heche date for two years, earlier in her career?
Choices: Steve Martin; Chris Tucker; Martin Short; Whoopi Goldberg
Answer: Steve Martin
Category: people
Question: This was the last movie in which Anna Nicole Smith appeared and was released after her death.
Choices: Be Cool; Wasabi Tuna; Illegal Aliens; Skyscraper
Answer: Illegal Aliens
Category: people
Question: Dutch singer Anita Doth is popular as part of what group?
Choices: Mis-Teeq; 2 Unlimited; Shampoo; Vengaboys
Answer: 2 Unlimited
Category: people
Question: What popular male singer did Russian tennis player and model Anna Kournikova start dating in 2001?
Choices: Enrique Iglesias; Justin Timberlake; Ricky Martin; Marc Anthony
Answer: Enrique Iglesias
Category: people
Question: What was the name of Anne Franks (12 June 1929 - March 1945) diary when it was first published in English in 1952?
Choices: Frank; The Life of a Child; A Flower in the Bud; The Diary of a Young Girl
Answer: The Diary of a Young Girl
Category: people
Question: Who does the following quote belong to: Everyone wants to ride in the limo - you want someone wholl take the bus with you if the limo breaks down?
Choices: Bryan Adams; Robert De Niro; Oprah Winfrey; Meryl Streep
Answer: Oprah Winfrey
Category: people
Question: What popular actor and musician once said, The truth leaves a repairable cut, but a lie leaves a jagged wound. It doesnt easily heal?
Choices: Chris Rock; John Bon Jovi; Will Smith; Elvis Presley
Answer: Will Smith
Category: people
Question: What is the final part of this quote by Cameron Diaz, I dont believe that you should make fun of anyone but ...?
Choices: Yourself; Yourself and your pets; Your closest relatives; Your closest friends
Answer: Yourself
Category: people
Question: What famous American rapper once said, When you live your life afraid to die, youre afraid to live?
Choices: Jay-Z; 2Pac; Dr. Dre; 50 Cent
Answer: 50 Cent
Category: people
Question: Who does this quote belong to: Strength doesnt come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths?
Choices: Denzel Washington; Dustin Hoffman; David Letterman; Arnold Schwarzenegger
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Category: people
Question: What famous American actress came up with this quote: I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself, and be glad?
Choices: Heather Graham; Drew Barrymore; Michelle Pfeiffer; Uma Thurman
Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer
Category: people
Question: What is the missing word from this statement made by Jada Pinkett Smith: What makes you valuable is your ..., and how you present yourself to the world?
Choices: Legacy; Heart; Soul; Emotions
Answer: Heart
Category: people
Question: Who said the following: Its distancing when people say they dont have problems. Lifes about messing up and getting on your feet again?
Choices: Tyra Banks; Audrey Hepburn; George Michael; Debra Messing
Answer: Debra Messing
Category: people
Question: What American actress and model once said, Nobody is tough and strong all the time. To say that is to deny human emotion?
Choices: Liv Tyler; Vanessa Williams; Elle Macpherson; Cameron Diaz
Answer: Liv Tyler
Category: people
Question: What is the missing part from this quote by Keanu Reeves: The simple act of ... can take you a long way?
Choices: paying attention; trying something; getting involved; taking a glimpse
Answer: paying attention
Category: people
Question: This Swiss Miss portrayed Honey Ryder in the James Bond movie Dr. No.
Choices: Jill St. John; Claudine Auger; Honor Blackman; Ursula Andress
Answer: Ursula Andress
Category: people
Question: He was born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in 1887 in Switzerland. He became one of the worlds greatest and most famous architects, championing the International Style. What pseudonym did he adopt?
Choices: van der Rohe; Frank Lloyd Wright; Gropius; Le Corbusier
Answer: Le Corbusier
Category: people
Question: He was born outside of Bern in 1879 and studied art throughout Europe. His style is difficult to classify as his works show cubist, surrealist, and expressionistic aspects. Perhaps his most famous painting is of a cat.
Choices: Hans Marc; Edward Munch; Paul Klee; Jean Crotti
Answer: Paul Klee
Category: people
Question: This Swiss family just churned out great mathematicians in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Choices: Piccard; Riemann; Bernoulli; Euler
Answer: Bernoulli
Category: people
Question: Although he is best known as a leader of the French revolution, this man was born in Switzerland. Jacques Louis-Davids 1793 painting depicts his murder in a bathtub.
Choices: Corday; Robespierre; Marat; Jacobin
Answer: Marat
Category: people
Question: This tennis great was born in 1981 in Basil.
Choices: Vlade Hahn; Paul Accola; Martina Hingis; Roger Federer
Answer: Roger Federer
Category: people
Question: This person, born in Geneva in 1896, is most famous as an expert in developmental psychology.
Choices: Jurgen Habermas; Alfred Adler; Jean Piaget; Carl Jung
Answer: Jean Piaget
Category: people
Question: This man was appointed to the rare rank of General of the Swiss Army during World War II.
Choices: Ulrich Wille; Hans Herzog; Christophe Keckesis; Henri Guisan
Answer: Henri Guisan
Category: people
Question: He was a Swiss-born mathematician who invented what we now call Sudoku puzzles. He is known as the most prolific mathematician although he was blind.
Choices: Riemann; Escher; Bernoulli; Euler
Answer: Euler
Category: people
Question: Although his cars are American, this carmaker was born in Switzerland in 1878.
Choices: Chevrolet; Dodge; Duryea; Olds
Answer: Chevrolet
Category: people
Question: This great sculptor was born in Borgonovo in 1901. His work Grande Femme Debout II was bought in 2008 for $27,4000,00.
Choices: Klee; Giacometti; Gutmann; Reinhardt
Answer: Giacometti
Category: people
Question: This Swiss family boasts at least three generations of balloonists and inventors. What is their last name?
Choices: Salver; Piccard; Hauptmann; DOrex
Answer: Piccard
Category: people
Question: This guitarist, who received a B.A. in music from Princeton University, played on New York City street corners for many years until being discovered.
Choices: Stanley Clarke; Joe Pass; George Benson; Stanley Jordan
Answer: Stanley Jordan
Category: people
Question: Which French performer and mime is famous for his character Bip?
Choices: George Chevallier; Albert Brooks; Marcel Marceau; Charles De Gaulle
Answer: Marcel Marceau
Category: people
Question: Which statement is true about Oofty Goofty, a famous street performer in San Francisco?
Choices: He claimed to be a mime yet did nothing but  talk.; He performed famous Shakespearean speeches on the streets of San Francisco.; By day he played oldies on the street and at night performed at the Filmore East.; He was a professional masochist.
Answer: He was a professional masochist.
Category: people
Question: Which of these cities hosts an international street performers festival each year?
Choices: San Francisco, California; London, U.K.; Edmonton, Canada; Paris, France
Answer: Edmonton, Canada
Category: people
Question: Which of the following words means a street performer?
Choices: Bucolianist; Strassedarfter; Viaridian; Busker
Answer: Busker
Category: people
Question: Which one of the following is famous for running a school for mimes in New York City ?
Choices: Jewel Walker; Gregg Goldston; Desmond Jones; Martyn Hermanosa
Answer: Gregg Goldston
Category: people
Question: This group, formed in 1972 by Bernie Schurch, Andre Bossier and Floriano Frassetto, featured mime with bizarre masks and an innovative use of light and shadow.
Choices: Cirque de Soleil; Les Cyclic Groupe; Mummenschanz; Blue Group
Answer: Mummenschanz
Category: people
Question: Which of these was a landmark case legalizing street performers?
Choices: Eugen v. Debs; Davenport v. City of Alexandria; Goldstein v. Town of Nantucket; Bery v. New York
Answer: Davenport v. City of Alexandria
Category: people
Question: What was Theodore Roosevelts wifes first name?
Choices: Edith; Edna; Eleanor; Helen
Answer: Edith
Category: people
Question: What was the nickname of President Warren Hardings wife, Florence?
Choices: Fossie; Flossie; Crete; Flo
Answer: Fossie
Category: people
Question: Eleanor Roosevelt did not become politically active until her husband was elected president.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Lady Bird Johnson was on board Air Force One when her husband was sworn as the 36th president of the U.S. after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: What Italian explorer sailed to the New World in 1499 and 1502, and explored the east coast of South America?
Choices: Vasco da Gama; Amerigo Vespucci; John Cabot; Christopher Columbus
Answer: Amerigo Vespucci
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the French explorer who discovered Canada and claimed it for France?
Choices: Jacques Cartier; Frank Cole; Pierre-Jean De Smet; All of these
Answer: Jacques Cartier
Category: people
Question: Whose Portuguese explorers expedition was the first to complete a circumnavigation of the planet in a single voyage?
Choices: Christopher Columbus; Vasco da Gama; Ferdinand Magellan; Amerigo Vespucci
Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the first European to reach Tibet?
Choices: Francis Drake; Willem Barentsz; Luis Vaez de Torres; Antonio de Andrade
Answer: Antonio de Andrade
Category: people
Question: On May 29, 1953, Nepali Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay and this explorer from New Zealand became the first ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Choices: Edmund Hillary; Tom Crean; Frank Cole; Reinhold Messner
Answer: Edmund Hillary
Category: people
Question: What Portuguese explorer is believed to have discovered Brazil?
Choices: Pedro Alvares Cabral; Vasco Nunez de Balboa; Juan Ponce de Leon; Francisco Pizarro
Answer: Pedro Alvares Cabral
Category: people
Question: What Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in the 16th century?
Choices: Francisco Pizarro; Giovanni da Verrazzano; Hernan Cortes; Francisco de Orellana
Answer: Hernan Cortes
Category: people
Question: In 1888, this Norwegian explorer became the first human to cross by ski the Greenland ice cap.
Choices: Knud Rasmussen; Otto Sverdrup; Fridtjof Nansen; Roald Amundsen
Answer: Fridtjof Nansen
Category: people
Question: This Canadian explorer was the first North American to cross the Sahara desert alone on a camel in 1990.
Choices: Frank Cole; Reinhold Messner; Jeremy Curl; Ranulph Fiennes
Answer: Frank Cole
Category: people
Question: What Spanish explorer became the first European to cross the Isthmus of Panama and see the Pacific ocean from the shores of America?
Choices: Vasco Nunez de Balboa; Antonio de Andrade; Francisco Vasquez de Coronado; Juan Sebastian Elcano
Answer: Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Category: people
Question: When did Henry VIIIs reign as King of England end?
Choices: 28 January 1547; 28 January 1777; 28 January 1667; 28 January 1447
Answer: 28 January 1547
Category: people
Question: How many times did Henry VIII of England marry?
Choices: seven; six; five; eight
Answer: six
Category: people
Question: How many of Henry VIIIs wives were called Catherine?
Choices: One; Two; Four; Three
Answer: Three
Category: people
Question: Henry VIII was known as a âRenaissance Manâ.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Henry VIII desperately desired to have a son and Anne Boleyn was able to fulfill his dream.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: What was Anne Boleyn, Henry VIIIs second wife, accused of?
Choices: Murder; All of these; Adultery, incest and high treason; Witchcraft
Answer: Adultery, incest and high treason
Category: people
Question: Which of Henry VIIIs wives gave birth to his son, Prince Edward?
Choices: Anne of Cleves; Catherine Howard; Anne Boleyn; Jane Seymour
Answer: Jane Seymour
Category: people
Question: In 1536, Henry VIIIs two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were declared illegitimate.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Henry VIII called for public displays of joy upon the death of his ex-wife Catherine of Aragon.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Henry VIII enjoyed good health before his death.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Which of the following Bobs had a famous song called Blowin in the Wind?
Choices: Bob Dylan; Bob Denver; none of these; Bob Carlisle
Answer: Bob Dylan
Category: people
Question: Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest?
Choices: Igor Sicorski; Joseph Scott; Edmund Hillary; Robert Gormand
Answer: Edmund Hillary
Category: people
Question: Who was the first man to run the mile in less than 4 minutes?
Choices: Sabastian Coe; Elroy Face; Thomas Engles; Roger Bannister
Answer: Roger Bannister
Category: people
Question: What actor was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg?
Choices: Jesse Eisenberg; Justin Timberlake; Max Minghella; Daniel Radcliffe
Answer: Jesse Eisenberg
Category: people
Question: What American actor, director and producer of Italian and black ancestry was born Mark Sinclair Vincent in 1967?
Choices: Val Kilmer; Vincent Price; Vince Vaughn; Vin Diesel
Answer: Vin Diesel
Category: people
Question: What celebrity was murdered by Mark David Chapman on 8 December, 1980 in New York City?
Choices: Jimi Hendrix; Marvin Gaye; John Lennon; Johnny Cash
Answer: John Lennon
Category: people
Question: It is generally believed that Mark Anthony and his lover Cleopatra committed suicide after being defeated by this emperor.
Choices: Caligula; Gaius Julius Caesar; Marcus Aurelius; Octavian (Augustus)
Answer: Octavian (Augustus)
Category: people
Question: What British rock band did Mark Knopfler co-found with his brother David in 1977?
Choices: Led Zeppelin; Dire Straits; AC/DC; Deep Purple
Answer: Dire Straits
Category: people
Question: Who portrayed Luke Skywalker in George Lucas original Star Wars trilogy?
Choices: Mark Williams; Mark Hamilton; Mark Hamill; Mark Wahlberg
Answer: Mark Hamill
Category: people
Question: Which statement is not true about Marcus Aurelius, who ruled the Roman Empire from 161 to 180?
Choices: He was adopted by Roman Emperor Antonius Pious and succeeded him in 161.; He was killed by his son Commodus.; He wrote Meditations.; He was a prominent Stoic philosopher.
Answer: He was killed by his son Commodus.
Category: people
Question: What romantic comedy movie, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, featured Marc Anthonys song You Sang to Me?
Choices: Pretty Woman; My Best Friends Wedding; Runaway Bride; Notting Hill
Answer: Runaway Bride
Category: people
Question: What American actor became famous as a member of the 1990s hip-hop band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch?
Choices: Mark Wahlberg; Mark Hamill; Mark Margolis; Mark Ruffalo
Answer: Mark Wahlberg
Category: people
Question: What statement is not true about Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain?
Choices: He died during a visit of the Halleys Comet.; He was born during a visit of the Halleys Comet.; He possessed financial acumen and made successful investments in various inventions.; He patented some inventions.
Answer: He possessed financial acumen and made successful investments in various inventions.
Category: people
Question: She was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women of feudal Europe. At the age of 15 she married Louis VII, King of France and her second husband was King Henry II of England.
Choices: Sancha de Ayala; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Elizabeth of York; Queen Elizabeth I
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Category: people
Question: This Spanish lady came to England in 1371 as part of the retinue accompanying DoÃ±a Constanza.
Choices: Isabella II; Sancha de Ayala; Isabel of Mar; None of these
Answer: Sancha de Ayala
Category: people
Question: Name Henry VIIIs daughter by his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
Choices: Mary Tudor; Elizabeth I; Mary Stewart; Elizabeth of York
Answer: Elizabeth I
Category: people
Question: According to legend, this Anglo-Saxon noblewoman of the 11th century rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England.
Choices: Anna of Cleves; Catherine of Aragon; Lady Godiva; Lady Jane Grey
Answer: Lady Godiva
Category: people
Question: Which lady ruled England for nine days?
Choices: Jane Seymour; Jane Grey; Catherine Parr; Katherine Howard
Answer: Jane Grey
Category: people
Question: Isabella of Mar died before her husband Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scots, and never became Queen.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland was canonized by Pope Innocent IV and was declared the patroness and protectress of Scotland.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Which of Henry VIIIs daughters became known as âBloody Maryâ?
Choices: Mary Queen of Scots; Mary Tudor; Mary Shelly; None of these
Answer: Mary Tudor
Category: people
Question: Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Elizabeth of York were all married to Henry VIII.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Which of the following books focuses on the life of Elizabeth of York?
Choices: The Dragon and the Rose by Roberta Gellis; The Tudor Rose by Margaret Campbell Barnes; All of these; The Kings Daughterby Sandra Worth
Answer: All of these
Category: people
Question: This Indian peace activist, who was assassinated in 1948, wrote the book The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism.
Choices: Sheikh Mehtab; Baba Amte; Mahatma Gandhi; Shah Jahan
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Category: people
Question: This American photographer wrote several cookbooks and introduced a line of frozen vegetarian meals in 1991.
Choices: Linda McCartney; Lee Miller; Pat Booth; Amy Berliner
Answer: Linda McCartney
Category: people
Question: This Russian writer was the author of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, War and Peace as well as of several essays on vegetarianism.
Choices: Maxim Gorky; Alexander Pushkin; Leo Tolstoy; Fyodor Dostoevsky
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
Category: people
Question: This Spanish architect, whose best works include Casa MilÃ  and Casa BatllÃ³ollowed in Barcelona, was a strict vegetarian from an early age because of his rheumatism.
Choices: Antonio Gaudi; Josep LluÃ­s Sert; LluÃ­s DomÃ¨nech i Montaner; Antonio Palacios
Answer: Antonio Gaudi
Category: people
Question: This English romantic poet wrote several essays on vegetarianism, including A Vindication of Natural Diet and On the Vegetable System of Diet.
Choices: William Blake; William Ellery Channing; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Robert Browning
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: people
Question: This Irish playwright became a vegetarian at the age of  twenty-five, after hearing a lecture by H. F. Lester.
Choices: George Shiels; Oscar Wilde; George Bernard Shaw; Samuel Beckett
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Category: people
Question: This Italian artist, who painted The Virgin of the Rocks, was one of the first supporters of vegetarianism when it reappeared as a philosophy during the Renaissance.
Choices: Titian; Caravaggio; Michelangelo; Leonardo da Vinci
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Category: people
Question: As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. is a quote by this ancient Greek mystic and mathematician.
Choices: Heraclitus; Posidonius; Pythagoras; Parmenides
Answer: Pythagoras
Category: people
Question: This Flying Finn was a vegetarian since he was 12 years old.
Choices: Hannes Kolehmainen; Ville Ritola; Paavo Nurmi; Lasse VirÃ©n
Answer: Paavo Nurmi
Category: people
Question: This virtuoso violinist and conductor, born in New York to Belorussian Jewish parents, became vegetarian after his encounter with yoga, Indian culture and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar.
Choices: Isaac Stern; Oscar Shumsky; David Oistrakh; Yehudi Menuhin
Answer: Yehudi Menuhin
Category: people
Question: What political leader do these words of wisdom belong to: We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.?
Choices: Tony Blair; Winston Churchill; John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan
Answer: Winston Churchill
Category: people
Question: What famous American is quoted here: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.?
Choices: Thomas Jefferson; Henry Ford; Mark Twain; Jimmy Carter
Answer: Mark Twain
Category: people
Question: What popular fictional character said, Do, or do not. There is no try.?
Choices: Harry Potter; Count Dooku; Atticus Finch; Yoda
Answer: Yoda
Category: people
Question: What famous playwright, born in Dublin, stated, If there is nothing wrong with the world, there wouldnt be anything for us to do.?
Choices: William Wordsworth; George Bernard Shaw; Helen Keller; William Shakespeare
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Category: people
Question: What psychologist and philosopher is quoted here: I dont sing because Im happy, Im happy because I sing.?
Choices: Carl Jung; Sigmund Freud; Dale Carnegie; William James
Answer: William James
Category: people
Question: What famous lady made this statement: A woman is like a teabag, you cant tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.?
Choices: Cindy Crawford; Jane Fonda; Eleanor Roosevelt; Nancy Reagan
Answer: Nancy Reagan
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Question: What influential author and poet, known for his biting wit, stated The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.?
Choices: Oscar Wilde; Kahlil Gibran; John Keats; Robert Frost
Answer: Oscar Wilde
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Question: Who wrote in one of his most popular works, There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.?
Choices: Ralph Waldo Emerson; George Elliot; William Shakespeare; Plato
Answer: William Shakespeare
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Question: What famous physicist said, Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and Im not sure about the former.?
Choices: Isaac Newton; Albert Einstein; Marie Curie; Blaise Pascal
Answer: Albert Einstein
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Question: This famous artist and co-founder of the Cubist movement said, Give me a museum and Ill fill it.â
Choices: Paul CÃ©zanne; Henri Matisse; Pablo Picasso; Paul Gauguin
Answer: Pablo Picasso
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Question: What was the first name of George Washingtons father?
Choices: John; George; Lawrence; Augustine
Answer: Augustine
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Question: The famous story of the hatchet and the chopped cherry tree, when young George Washington claimed I cannot tell a lie, is mostly based on historical fact.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What was George Washingtons natural non-powdered hair color in his early days?
Choices: Red; White/Grayish; Black; Blonde
Answer: Red
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Question: George Washington went abroad once in his life. Where did he go?
Choices: The Hague; London; Paris; Barbados
Answer: Barbados
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Question: George Washington was born outside of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1732.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: George Washingtons prescient heroic future started with two victories against the French in 1754 at Ft. Duquesne and then at the Monogohela under General Braddock.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Ronald Reagan grew up in a middle-class family in Tampico, Illinois, his father being a successful 3 term state representative.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Ronald Reagans family and closest friends knew him by this affectionate nickname.
Choices: Dutch; Fish; Gipper; Slick
Answer: Dutch
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Question: Ronald Reagan had many early careers. One of his first was as a Sportscaster for WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa. What future president did he watch play in an Iowa - Michigan football game that he called?
Choices: Gerald Ford; Dwight Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Richard Nixon
Answer: Gerald Ford
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Question: Ronald Reagans political career was launched in 1964 when he gave a live TV speech entitled A Time For Choosing in support of which Presidential Candidate?
Choices: Dwight Eisenhower; Richard Nixon; Hubert Humphrey; Barry Goldwater
Answer: Barry Goldwater
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Question: Where was Ronald Reagan standing when he spoke these words in 1976: And then again there is that challenge of which he spoke that we live in a world in which the great powers have poised and aimed at each other horrible missiles of destruction, nuclear weapons that can in a matter of minutes arrive at each others country and destroy, virtually, the civilized world we live in.?
Choices: On the Platform of the main stage at the Republican Convention.; On the stairs of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.; At the base of the Statue of Liberty.; At Omaha Beach in Normandy
Answer: On the Platform of the main stage at the Republican Convention.
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Question: In 1943 Malcolm X joined the Army.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In 1953 Malcolm X went to what city to study to become a minister?
Choices: Chicago; NY City; Cleveland; Boston
Answer: Chicago
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Question: A mosque is a Christian term synonymous with the word church.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: In what year did Malcolm Xs wife give birth to their last two children?
Choices: 1964; 1960; 1963; 1965
Answer: 1965
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Question: Malcolm X went to prison for committing which of the following crimes?
Choices: arson, larceny, rape; breaking  entering, larceny, carrying firearms; kidnapping, breaking  entering, shoplifting; assault, murder, larceny
Answer: breaking  entering, larceny, carrying firearms
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Question: Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam (NOI) because he found out Elijah Muhammad was laundering money.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Which of the following sayings is attributed to Malcolm X?
Choices: There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.; You can kill a man but you cant kill an idea.; By any means necessary; I Have a Dream
Answer: By any means necessary
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Question: He was a Jewish teacher, dressed like a vagabond, who taught a small number of distinguished students in post-World War II Europe.
Choices: Emmanuel Levinas; Alan Greenspan; Monsieur Chouchani; Julio Iglesias
Answer: Monsieur Chouchani
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Question: Babushka Lady is the nickname of a mysterious woman who might have photographed the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What statement is true about the mysterious person nicknamed Poe Toaster?
Choices: He would leave three roses and a partially-filled bottle of French cognac on Edgar Allen Poes grave.; He claimed he was Edgar Allen Poes son.; He claimed he was Edgar Allen Poes ghost.; All of these
Answer: He would leave three roses and a partially-filled bottle of French cognac on Edgar Allen Poes grave.
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Question: What was the name of the German youth who, in the 1820s, claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell?
Choices: It was never revealed; Henry Stanhope; Kaspar Hauser; Hans von Wessenig
Answer: Kaspar Hauser
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Question: Fulcanelli is a pseudonym assumed by an American alchemist and author.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: D. B. Cooper is the name used to refer to a notorious bank robber.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Which of the following was popular as âThe Wondermanâ?
Choices: All of these; Comte St Germain; Gil PÃ©rez; The Man in the Iron Mask
Answer: Comte St Germain
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Question: The Man in the Iron Mask, who died in 1703, was a prisoner during the reign of King Louis XIV of France.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Spanish soldier Gil Perez claimed that he suddenly appeared in Mexico City on October 26, 1593 while he was on sentry duty in Manila.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What statement is true about the Green Children of Woolpit?
Choices: They were brother and sister.; All of these; They spoke in an unrecognized language.; They reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, UK, in the 12th century.
Answer: All of these
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Question: Who made the following remark about books: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and few to be chewed and digested.?
Choices: Francis Bacon; Mark Twain; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Eleanor Roosevelt
Answer: Francis Bacon
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Question: Who does this quote belong to: Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.?
Choices: Mark Twain; Winston Churchill; Ernest Hemingway; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: Mark Twain
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Question: Who made this statement: He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.?
Choices: Francis Bacon; Mao Zedong; William Shakespeare; Ali, The Fourth Caliph of Islam
Answer: Ali, The Fourth Caliph of Islam
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Question: Who do these words belong to: Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.?
Choices: Bill Gates; Albert Einstein; Henry Ford; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: Henry Ford
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Question: What is the origin of the proverb, He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.?
Choices: It is a Hebrew proverb.; It is a Chinese proverb.; It is a Polish proverb.; It is a Danish proverb.
Answer: It is a Chinese proverb.
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Question: What famous American does this quote belong to: Dream as if youll live forever. Live as if youll die today.?
Choices: Harrison Ford; James Dean; Brad Pitt; Ronald Reagan
Answer: James Dean
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Question: Complete this saying by a Persian Sufi leader: It is with a word as with a/an __________: once let it loose, and it does not return.
Choices: arrow; secret; aeroplane; bird
Answer: arrow
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Question: Who do these words belong to: Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.?
Choices: Winston Churchill; William Shakespeare; Blake Williams; Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: William Shakespeare
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Question: Which of these paintings was not created by Leonardo Da Vinci?
Choices: St. Jerome in the Wilderness; The Creation of Adam; Virgin of the Rocks; The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Answer: The Creation of Adam
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Question: What Leonardo da Vincis work represents a man in two overlaying positions inside a circle and a square?
Choices: Proportions of Man; Canon of Proportions; All of these; Vitruvian Man
Answer: All of these
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Question: Which of these were conceived by Leonardo da Vinci?
Choices: Helicopter; Calculator; All of these; Double hull
Answer: All of these
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Question: Few people know that the multitalented Leonardo da Vinci was interested in music. What kind of shape did the lyre created by him have?
Choices: Horses head; Womans body; Heart; Dove
Answer: Horses head
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Question: Which of these statements about Leonardo da Vinci is true?
Choices: He was left-handed; He got married two times; All of these; He was semi-blind at the end of his life
Answer: He was left-handed
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Question: Why did Leonardo da Vinci become a vegetarian?
Choices: He loved animals too much to eat them; He lost a bet with the King and he had to stop eating meat; Both his parents were vegetarians and he was raised as a vegetarian; He was a sick man and he knew meat was not good for his body
Answer: He loved animals too much to eat them
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Question: What animal is depicted in Leonardo da Vincis portrait of Cecilia Gallerani from around 1489â1490?
Choices: Dog; Mink; Ermine; Dove
Answer: Ermine
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Question: The true identity of the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa was finally confirmed in 2005 by a library expert at the University of Heidelberg. Who is the woman?
Choices: Lisa del Giocondo; Leonardos mother Caterina; Isabella dEste; Cecilia Galleran
Answer: Lisa del Giocondo
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Question: Which of these paintings by Leonardo da Vinci is considered his last, finished in 1513 -1516?
Choices: Portrait of a Musician; St. John the Baptist; Bacchus; The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
Answer: St. John the Baptist
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Question: In a church in what Italian city is Leonardo da Vincis famous mural painting The Last Supper located?
Choices: Genoa; Milan; Rome; None of these
Answer: Milan
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Question: In what country was bread invented in the antiquity?
Choices: Egypt; Iran; Mesopotamia; China
Answer: Egypt
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Question: In what century AD was the prototype of modern sunglasses created?
Choices: 15th century; 5th century; 2nd century; 12th century
Answer: 12th century
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Question: In what country was the vacuum cleaner created in the 19th century?
Choices: Japan; China; United States; Germany
Answer: United States
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Question: The first vending machine was created in the 100s of the 1st century AD. What did it sell?
Choices: Oil; Holy water; Flour; Beer
Answer: Holy water
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Question: In what century AD was the underarm antiperspirant deodorant invented?
Choices: 4th century; 18th century; 13th century; 9th century
Answer: 9th century
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Question: The graphite pencil in its early form was created in this country.
Choices: England; India; Brazil; Egypt
Answer: England
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Question: The prototype of the modern toothbrush was invented in this country.
Choices: China; Finland; Egypt; Russia
Answer: China
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Question: He lived 1735-1826 and was the first US President to father a President. His last words were Thomas Jefferson still lives.
Choices: James Monroe; John Adams; James  Madison; John Hancock
Answer: John Adams
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Question: Whose last words were The paper burns, but the words fly free.?
Choices: Ann Bolyen; Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph; Jane  Seymour; Joan of  Arc
Answer: Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph
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Question: Whose last words were not Do not  go gentle.. but Ive had 18 straight whiskies. I think thats the record.?
Choices: Lionel Atwill; Sean OCasey; Dylan Thomas; James Thurber
Answer: Dylan Thomas
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Question: This Polish-born mans last words were The Earth is suffocating. Swear to make them cut me open, so that I wont be buried alive.?
Choices: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Fredric Chopin; Benjamin Kobelisky; Johannes Brahms
Answer: Fredric Chopin
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Question: His last words were Et tu, Brute?.
Choices: William Shakespeare; Marc Anthony; Popeye the Sailor; Julius Caesar
Answer: Julius Caesar
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Question: I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis were the last words of this actor. Nice words but they are not The Treasure of the Sierra Madre nor fit for an African Queen.
Choices: Humphrey Bogart; Peter Lorre; John Houston; Walter Houston
Answer: Humphrey Bogart
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Question: I dont feel good were the last words of this famous American. Every time I eat an Idaho potato I will remember  him, especially when I am in a suburb of Los Angeles.
Choices: Luther Burbank; Lester Maddox; Larry Fine; Louis Pasteur
Answer: Luther Burbank
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Question: That was the best ice cream soda I ever had were the last words of this Paterson, NJ born comic.
Choices: John Candy; Milton Berle; Larry Hardeway; Lou Costello
Answer: Lou Costello
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Question: It did not take The Time Machine to hear this man say his last words: Go away. Im all right.
Choices: H.G. Wells; Simon Annistar; Isaac Asimov; Jules Verne
Answer: H.G. Wells
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Question: In 1999 this UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador broke the world record in the one mile run in Rome, Italy.
Choices: Kenensia Bekele; Paavo Nurmi; Noah Ngeny; Hicham El Guerrouj
Answer: Hicham El Guerrouj
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Question: In 1988, this recipient  of the James E. Sullivan Award ran the 100m distance for the record-breaking 10.49 seconds.
Choices: Michael Johnson; Florence Griffith Joyner; Jackie Joyner - Kersee; Jerome Young
Answer: Florence Griffith Joyner
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Question: This Major League Baseball All-Team member made his personal record-breaking 500th home run in June 1960 at the Cleavland Stadium.
Choices: Babe Ruth; Mell Ott; Ted Williams; Mickey Mantle
Answer: Ted Williams
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Question: This team, known as the oldest in professional hockey, set a world record for most goals in a game on March 3, 1920.
Choices: Boston Bruins; Montreal Canadiens; Toronto Maple Leafs; Ottawa Senators
Answer: Montreal Canadiens
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Question: This heavy athlete, nicknamed The Iranian Hercules,  lifted 263.5 kg (589.9 lb) at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Choices: Mohamad Khatami; Hossein Barkhah; Hossein Tavakoli; Hossein Rezza Zadeh
Answer: Hossein Rezza Zadeh
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Question: This athlete, awarded The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, set a world record in womens marathon in 2003.
Choices: Emma George; Mary Lines; Paula Radcliffe; Stacy Dragila
Answer: Paula Radcliffe
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Question: This winner of the 2003 Thrashworld Skateboarding Vert Award was the first man to jump the Great Wall of China on a skateboard.
Choices: Mike Ternasky; Billy Copeland; Gary Hardwick; Danny Way
Answer: Danny Way
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Question: In 2000, this man became the first Italian swimmer to receive a gold medal in the Olympic Games, winning both 100m and 200m breaststroke races.
Choices: Davide Rummolo; Emanuelle Merisi; Giorgio Lamberti; Domenico Fioravanti
Answer: Domenico Fioravanti
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Question: This speed skater, inducted into the United States Hall of Fame in 2004, set a junior world record at the age of sixteen.
Choices: Joey Cheek; Daniel Jansen; Jack Shea; Peter Mueller
Answer: Daniel Jansen
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Question: Which Dutch speed skater, postman by profession, set a world record at the 1976 Winter Olympics?
Choices: Sten Stensen; Hans van Helden; Piete Kleine; Dan Immerfall
Answer: Piete Kleine
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Question: Name the eighteenth US President who was in office from 1869 â 1877.
Choices: Abraham Lincoln; Andrew Johnson; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutheford B. Hayes
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant
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Question: Who was the thirty-fifth US President?
Choices: Dwight David Eisenhower; Lyndon Baynes Johnson; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Answer: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Question: Who was the twentieth US President?
Choices: Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; James A. Garfield; Chester A. Arthur
Answer: James A. Garfield
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Question: When was Grigori Rasputin born?
Choices: 29 December 1916; 22 January 1879; 29 December  1926; 22 January 1869
Answer: 22 January 1869
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Question: Russian people often referred to Grigori Rasputin as which of the following?
Choices: Saintly mystic; All of these; Prophet; Religious pilgrim
Answer: All of these
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Question: Tsaritsa Alexandra of Russia called on Grigori Rasputin to cure her only son Alexei, who suffered from this disease.
Choices: asthma; epilepsy; hemophilia; diabetes
Answer: hemophilia
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Question: As a child Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin was affected by the death of who of the following?
Choices: his parents; his grandparents; his brother and sister; his guardian
Answer: his brother and sister
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Question: Tsar Nicolas of Russia referred to Grigori Rasputin as our friend and a holy man.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Grigori Rasputin was a controversial figure often accused of which of the following?
Choices: His domination over the royal family; Discrediting the tsarist government; His unrestricted sexual life; All of these
Answer: All of these
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Question: What band recorded the semi-biographical 1978 hit single titled Rasputin?
Choices: Abba; Boney M; The Eagles; The Tramps
Answer: Boney M