kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: humanities
Question: What is the meaning of the anthropology term Pithecanthropus in Greek?
Choices: ape man; caveman; upright man; wise man
Answer: ape man
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Question: This anatomist is famous for his discovery of the first specimen of early hominid remains ever found outside Europe.
Choices: Henry McHenry; David Pilbeam; Svante Paablo; Eugene Dubois
Answer: Eugene Dubois
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Question: The Cro-Magnons, considered virtually identical to contemporary humans, were discovered in France in which year?
Choices: 1860; 1868; 1863; 1900
Answer: 1868
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Question: Name the remains of a prehistoric man, whose discovery in 1996 raised sensitive political issues, related to the Native Americans rights.
Choices: Boxgrave Man; Kennewick Man; Lindow Man; Red Lady of Paviland
Answer: Kennewick Man
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Question: This double-letter word is used to describe many items and is even the last name of some very famous people and fictional characters.
Choices: Small; Narrow; Little; Lesser
Answer: Little
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Question: This is an activity you usually do on snow but sometimes it is done on water.
Choices: Running; Skating; Skiing; Shooting
Answer: Skiing
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Question: This double-letter word refers to a yummy baked dish that can be delivered to your house hot and ready to eat.
Choices: Rolls; Spaghetti; Pizza; Moonpies
Answer: Pizza
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Question: The word savvy means intelligence or common sense.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The word vacuum means a space entirely devoid of matter.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: These furry bundles of joy sometimes cause severe allergies in people.
Choices: rattle snakes; wobbles; goons; kittens
Answer: kittens
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Question: Which of the following words best fits this sentence: The next ____ will be out soon for everyone to read.?
Choices: newspaper; bubble; issue; pizzas
Answer: issue
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Question: A bubble is a period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Sometimes people who hike  very long distances hide supplies in boxes along their route. What are these boxes called?
Choices: suppliboxes; route boxes; bounce boxes; roadplies
Answer: bounce boxes
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Question: In 2007 this expression was introduced to describe an economy that is in a real frenzy.
Choices: latteconomy; cappuccino economy; caffeine economy; Potus
Answer: cappuccino economy
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Question: Someone who did not like the hardware made by Apple might use this expression.
Choices: MacIntrash; Sourapple; Roottenmacs; Jobs Sobs
Answer: MacIntrash
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Question: Because of the high cost of medical care, some older adults are abandoned by their caretakers. What is this called?
Choices: gerontal deprivation; patriloss; parentaloss; granny dumping
Answer: granny dumping
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Question: Sometimes people can get so many e-mails that they cannot deal with them. They might just delete them all and start again. What is this action called?
Choices: e-mail bankruptcy; e-looting; Instamesagloss; virtual bankruptcy
Answer: e-mail bankruptcy
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Question: This new form of exercise which combines step aerobics with soul music.
Choices: Stephopping; Exergaming; Aerohop; Funkinetics
Answer: Funkinetics
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Question: Which of these words describes movies that contain extreme and unnecessary violence.
Choices: xoviolence; gorno; tremovile; xtremolence
Answer: gorno
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Question: In computer messaging punctuation marks are sometimes used to show human emotion. What do we call a series of such marks?
Choices: emoticons; textations; virtutions; emailotions
Answer: emoticons
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Question: The mentoring system is all the rage. Which word refers to a person being mentored?
Choices: monitor; mentator; mentee; mentationary
Answer: mentee
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Question: This word refers to a newly wed man who was a bachelor for many years.
Choices: a Benedict; a Neothorpe; a Neosexual; a Bachephile
Answer: a Benedict
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Question: Which word refers to a very long-winded person?
Choices: mzee; lopomo; A.S.S. Graduate; twonk
Answer: A.S.S. Graduate
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Question: This is a Navaho legend, explaining the formation of a constellation. According to this myth there was a girl who married a bear. Her younger sister told their father and he got so furious, he killed the bear. In order to revenge, the bigger sister turned into a bear and began chasing her siblings. She killed her seven brothers who flew up in the sky and formed this constellation.
Choices: Ursa Minor; Ursa Major; Lynx; Draco
Answer: Ursa Major
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Question: This Navajo god of rains, whose name means water sprinkler, often played waggish tricks on mankind, but he never harmed anyone.
Choices: Skywoman; Dineh; Spider Woman; Tonenili
Answer: Tonenili
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Question: When evoked to cure an illness, this spirit could take the form of either a woman or a man, depending on the gender of the patient.
Choices: Aningan; Atira; Breathmaker; Asgaya Gigagei
Answer: Asgaya Gigagei
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Question: This military practice was widespread among American Indian tribes well before the European colonists came to the New World. It provided warriors with proof of his courage and a war trophy.
Choices: Shouting; Snake Dance; Riding horses; Scalping
Answer: Scalping
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Question: These items, taken from birds, were usually accepted as marks of honor or sources of ideas. They were also symbols of the Creative Force.
Choices: Claws; Wings; Feathers; Beaks
Answer: Feathers
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Question: This animal was considered an important spirit among most of the Northern tribes. It was responsible for sorrow and death, and was an omen of impending evil.
Choices: Coyote; Bear; Eagle; Raven
Answer: Coyote
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Question: According to the Iroquois, this woman fell from a hole in the sky and brought light to the world.
Choices: Sunwoman; Skywoman; Moonwoman; Cloudwoman
Answer: Skywoman
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Question: According to the Iroquois these demon gods flew during storms and ate people as humans were very delicious to them.
Choices: Bodyless; Storm heads; Flying heads; Big heads
Answer: Big heads
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Question: This bird is considered to be the master of the sky. It is the carrier of prayers, venerated for its courage and wisdom.
Choices: Eagle; Vulture; Owl; Condor
Answer: Eagle
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Question: According to the Pawnees this star was evil, since it had driven the Sun out of the sky.
Choices: Sirius; Morning star; Evening star; Venus
Answer: Evening star
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Question: Which one of these Renaissance artists was at first apprenticed to a goldsmith?
Choices: Raphael Sanzio; Leonardo da Vinci; Michelangelo Caravaggio; Alessandro Botticelli
Answer: Alessandro Botticelli
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Question: The Birth of Venus, The Annunciation, Medusa, and Flora are four artworks that all have this in common.
Choices: They are exposed in the same gallery; They depict one and the same subject; They have one and the same author; They have nothing in common
Answer: They are exposed in the same gallery
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Question: Michelangelos marble sculpture, Moses, was originally intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II in St. Peters Basilica, but after the popes death the sculpture was placed in a church on this hill -- one of the famous seven hills in Rome.
Choices: Esquiline; Celio; Palatino; Aventino
Answer: Esquiline
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Question: Which Medici family member commissioned the great Florentine architect Brunelleschi to reconstruct the Church of San Lorenzo in 1419?
Choices: Cosimo I the Great; Cosimo the Elder; Giovanni di Bicci de Medici; Salvestro de Medici
Answer: Cosimo the Elder
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Question: This one of Donatellos bronze statues was notable as the first unsupported standing work in bronze cast, since classical times.
Choices: The Feast of Herod; David; Mary Magdalen; St. Mark
Answer: David
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Question: Caravaggio was a Baroque painter, and this was the main subject in most of his artwork.
Choices: Animals; Young men; Landscapes; Nude women
Answer: Young men
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Question: Only one of these sculptures is not a work of Antonio Canova, famous for his ability to delicately render nude flesh in his statues.
Choices: The Three Graces; Daedalus and Icarus; Cupid and Psyche; The Virgin
Answer: The Virgin
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Question: Typical of the baroque architecture, this was the paradigm of the basilica, mainly in Italy and France.
Choices: Clerestory windows; Apse of one end; Crossed dome and nave; Interior colonnades
Answer: Crossed dome and nave
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Question: Which of these words means to be transitory or perishable?
Choices: Panoptic; Antithetical; Caducity; Cavil
Answer: Caducity
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Question: Indomitable means unconquerable.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Which of these words is defined as indifferent or nonchalant?
Choices: Binary; Askew; Pococurante; Lissome
Answer: Pococurante
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Question: The term waddy is a noun that means sailor.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What word defines a person who lives in seclusion for religious reasons?
Choices: Garderobe; Wimple; Canard; Anchorite
Answer: Anchorite
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Question: Panoptic means having a panoramic view.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What noun refers to a bald-headed man or a man that is looked at with humor or mock pity?
Choices: Libertine; Pilgarlic; Infix; Distrait
Answer: Pilgarlic
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Question: The word palmy means poor or underfunded.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What word means either cheerful and optimistic or having good digestion?
Choices: Eupeptic; Demulcent; Resplendent; Estival
Answer: Eupeptic
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Question: Jocose means somber or depressed.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What is a privet?
Choices: an electronic circuit; a prudish person; a type of animal; a type of shrub
Answer: a type of shrub
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Question: Which of these words means loose hemp or jute fiber, occasionally treated with pitch or tar?
Choices: oak leaf cluster; oakum; ocarina; oarlock
Answer: oakum
Category: humanities
Question: Can you define the word nimbus?
Choices: a state of being numb; a halo or bright light; an alcove or recess in a wall; a radioactive element
Answer: a halo or bright light
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Question: Milch is an adjective that can be put before which of the following words?
Choices: cow; oxen; bull; hen
Answer: cow
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Question: What word refers to an emperor of Japan?
Choices: Reredos; Mufti; Mikado; Milt
Answer: Mikado
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Question: Which one of these words denotes a type of shade tree?
Choices: Ligroin; Lignite; Likuta; Linden
Answer: Linden
Category: humanities
Question: What is a killdeer?
Choices: a Turkish viceroy; a type of deer; a bird; an English economist
Answer: a bird
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Question: Where would you find a jalousie?
Choices: in a home or building; in a vehicle; on your head; on your hat
Answer: in a home or building
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Question: What color is the Iridium?
Choices: yellow; red; blue; green
Answer: yellow
Category: humanities
Question: Where would find a half track?
Choices: in your car; in the military; in a gym; in a plane
Answer: in the military
Category: humanities
Question: What character does Beyonce Knowles portray in the 2006 movie Dreamgirls?
Choices: Michelle Morris; Lorell Robinson; Deena Jones; Madeline  Robinson
Answer: Deena Jones
Category: humanities
Question: What is Jamie Foxxs role in the movie Dreamgirls?
Choices: Curtis Taylor, Jr.; C. C. White; James Thunder Early; Marty Madison
Answer: Curtis Taylor, Jr.
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Question: In which city does the movie Dreamgirls begin?
Choices: New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; Detroit
Answer: Detroit
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Question: In the movie Dreamgirls, this actress portrays Lorrell Robinson, the only original member of the group  who was never the lead singer.
Choices: Sheryl Lee Ralph; Anika Noni Rose; Amanda Morris; Sharon Leal
Answer: Anika Noni Rose
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Question: Who does Eddie Murphy portray in the film Dreamgirls?
Choices: Marty Madison; Wayne; James Thunder Early; Curtis Taylor, Jr.
Answer: James Thunder Early
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Question: Who portrays Effie Melody  White in the 2006 movie Dreamgirls?
Choices: Jennifer Warens; Jennifer Hudson; Jennifer Holliday; Jennifer Halliday
Answer: Jennifer Hudson
Category: humanities
Question: In the movie Dreamgirls, who is the only  singer to have a child?
Choices: Madeline; Deena; Michelle; Effie
Answer: Effie
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Question: In the movie Dreamgirls, this actor plays Marty Madison, an old time manager, who is pushed out  of business by Curtis.
Choices: Danny Glover; John  Lithgow; Adam Brooks; James Krasinski
Answer: Danny Glover
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Question: Who directed the movie Dreamgirls?
Choices: Michael Bennett; Bill Condon; James Krasinski; Tom Eyen
Answer: Bill Condon
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Question: Jamie Foxx, who stars in the movie Dreamgirls, sang the theme song for what 1999 movie?
Choices: Any Given Sunday; Anywhere But Here; Anything Fo You; Anythings Possible
Answer: Any Given Sunday
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Question: Jamie Foxx, Jessica Lange, Julianne Moore, Holly Hunter, Al Pacino, Sigourney Weaver, Barry Fitzgerald, Teresa Wright and Faye Bainter share what distinction?
Choices: They were nominated for both a lead actor/actress and supporting actor/actress Oscar in the same year.; Each was nominated for an Oscar for their first movie.; They are all alumni of USCs drama school.; They were nominated for Oscars in three consecutive years.
Answer: They were nominated for both a lead actor/actress and supporting actor/actress Oscar in the same year.
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Question: This star from Boston Public is the only actress from the original Broadway cast of Dreamgirls who appeared (and sang) in the 2006 movie adaptation.
Choices: Diane Adams; Loretta Devine; Sharon Leal; Beyonce Knowles
Answer: Loretta Devine
Category: humanities
Question: Who originated the role of Deena Jones in the Broadway play Dreamgirls?
Choices: Michelle Adams; Sheryl Lee Ralph; Beyonve Knowles; Jennifer Halliday
Answer: Sheryl Lee Ralph
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Question: Who originated the role of Effie on the Broadway production Dreamgirls?
Choices: Jennifer Warens; Jennifer Holliday; Jennifer Halliday; Jennifer Hudson
Answer: Jennifer Holliday
Category: humanities
Question: How was the movie Dreamgirls rated?
Choices: X; PG-13; G; PG
Answer: PG-13
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Question: The original Broadway play Dreamgirls was designed to feature which actress/singer?
Choices: Sheryl Lee Ralph; Diana Ross; Pearl Bailey; Nell Carter
Answer: Nell Carter
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Question: Which word means extravagance in cooking and/or serving?
Choices: ascerose; accolent; alimenation; abliguration
Answer: abliguration
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Question: Which word means leave hurriedly or secretly?
Choices: absquatulate; alleperpate; accolent; absperpate
Answer: absquatulate
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Question: What does abactor mean?
Choices: a cattle thief; a doctor who heels back and / or spinal pain; a person who edits a book; a person who retracts a decree
Answer: a cattle thief
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Question: What does the word axilla mean?
Choices: a medieval weapon with two sharp faces; a tiny worm found in Southern Europe; an armpit; the part of a flower protecting the reproductive organs
Answer: an armpit
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Question: Which word means fear of solitude?
Choices: autophobia; automysophobia; avalophobia; auxiolophobia
Answer: autophobia
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Question: Which word means pertaining to grandparents?
Choices: aval; avital; avanital; autovitalic
Answer: aval
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Question: What does anatine mean?
Choices: duck-like; naval or marine; unusually large and/or  fat; reptile like
Answer: duck-like
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Question: What is the definition of the word acoushla?
Choices: a term of endearment; a term of military respect; a type of two-person fishing boat used in Scotland and Northern Ireland; a type of gnome mentioned in Irish literature
Answer: a term of endearment
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Question: Which word means a person learning the alphabet?
Choices: avuncularian; abcederrian; abcadarian; abecedarian
Answer: abecedarian
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Question: What does acronyal mean?
Choices: not at a regular time; late; occurring at sunset; not on an annual basis
Answer: occurring at sunset
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Question: Select the correct spelling.
Choices: bellweather; belweather; bellwether; belwether
Answer: bellwether
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Question: Hestia is the goddess of the hearth in Greek mythology.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Apollo is the Greek god of the hunt.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Goddess Demeter taught the human beings what according to Greek mythology?
Choices: None of these; Farming; Swimming; Hunting
Answer: Farming
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Question: What is Poseidon god of in Greek mythology?
Choices: Nature and the seas; None of these; Movement; Poisons
Answer: Nature and the seas
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Question: When drawing the human form, the entire figure is generally how many heads tall?
Choices: 10; 6; 8; 7
Answer: 8
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Question: While tempera paint rarely includes this ingredient nowadays, it was prevalent with the Byzantine artists of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Choices: Sulfur; Egg yolk; Lye; Ash
Answer: Egg yolk
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Question: Which of the following is not a type of pottery?
Choices: Porcelain; Stoneware; Earthenware; Glazeware
Answer: Glazeware
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Question: Which of the following is not a movement in art history?
Choices: Bauhaus; Dada; Rococo; Subrealism
Answer: Subrealism
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Question: When creating a woodcut or linoleum print, you would generally carve out (or remove) which of these?
Choices: Subject; Foreground; Interior; Negative space
Answer: Negative space
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Question: Which of these qualities represents the major difference between watercolor and acrylic paints?
Choices: Solubility; Level of opacity; Cost; Rate of drying
Answer: Level of opacity
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Question: What style of art breaks from traditional perspective and depicts the subject matter from multiple points of view, fragmenting a three-dimensional form in order to depict it on the two-dimensional surface?
Choices: Fauvism; Cubism; Impressionism; Expressionism
Answer: Cubism
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Question: Which of the following is not an ingredient in typical camera film?
Choices: Gelatin; Polyester; Sucrose; Cellulose Acetate
Answer: Sucrose
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Question: A drawing in which one continuous line is used to trace the outlines of the subject matter, using more or less pressure to suggest shadow, is called what?
Choices: Gesture; Line; Contour; Trace
Answer: Contour
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Question: The method of watercolor painting in which paper, crumpled plastic wrap, or other items are applied to the paint when wet and removed after drying is called decalcomania.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Tango is a complicated dance with even more complicated origins. Angel Villoldo was the first to ever record a Tango. This is the home of Tango (and Angel Villoldo ).
Choices: Spain; England; France; Argentina
Answer: Argentina
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Question: One of the most popular Latin American dances is cha-cha-cha. It became popular in the United States in the 1950s and its music was derived from the music of this dance.
Choices: Mambo; Foxtrot; Merengue; Polka
Answer: Mambo
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Question: The home country of Salsa is Brazil.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: One of the best (some say he was the best ever) tango dancers was JosÐµ Ovidio Bianquet. His story is as mysterious as tango itself and his nickname is one of the most legendary in the history of this great dance. What is it?
Choices: Sin rumbo; El Tarila; El Cachafaz; El Vasco
Answer: El Cachafaz
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Question: The word samba is probably derived from the Angolan semba, meaning a religious rhythm. The dance and its music were born in the black ghettos of this city. The biggest samba carnival is also held in this city.
Choices: Rio de Janeiro; San Juan; Havana; Brasilia
Answer: Rio de Janeiro
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Question: Merengue was born in Portugal in the 16th century as part of an important ritual.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Probably the most famous and influential ballroom dance is Waltz. Its closed position became an example for many other dances and made it very fashionable. Waltz first became popular in this city and then spread all over the world.
Choices: Paris; Toledo; Vienna; London
Answer: Vienna
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Question: One of the symbols of the Spanish culture is the Flamenco (Flamenco originally meant Flemish in Spanish). At first Flamenco consisted only of unaccompanied singing, but later came the other essential ingredients, such as the dance and the guitar. What is the name of the flamenco guitar?
Choices: Cajon; Palmas; Toque; Baile
Answer: Toque
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Question: Quadrille was born as part of military parades in the 17th century and was performed by 4 horsemen and their horses.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: This is a Polish folk dance which became quite popular at ballrooms. It is in triple time and its tempo is usually moderate. It has spread all over the world in countries such as the United States, Russia and France.
Choices: Polka; Mazurka; Polska; Cumbia
Answer: Mazurka
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Question: This Latin phrase means to a sickening or tiresome degree.
Choices: sic malaria; in tota nauseam; sin vibre; ad nauseam
Answer: ad nauseam
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Question: In debating, this term refers to an argument that attacks a persons character, as opposed to the subject of debate.
Choices: ad hoc; ad hominem; in argumentatus; ad homunculus
Answer: ad hominem
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Question: This is a label inside a book that bears the owners name.
Choices: ad literatus; ex libris; in libro; ex literatus
Answer: ex libris
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Question: In England, names of places ending in chester, like Manchester and Winchester come from a Latin word meaning what?
Choices: meadow; stream; camp; house
Answer: camp
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Question: Argentina comes from the Latin word Argentum which means silver.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: A corrupted version of the Arabic word wadi, meaning watercourse, gives us this Spanish toponym.
Choices: Salamanca; Madrid; Andalucia; Guadalajara
Answer: Guadalajara
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Question: The Native Americans knew this place as Mesconsing, Lewis and Clark recorded it as Quisconsing. Its name was further distorted. What do we know it today as?
Choices: Wisconsin; Quebec; Colorado; Lansing, Michigan
Answer: Wisconsin
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Question: What do the toponyms Rio Grande, Mississippi and Ta Ho mean in their native tongues?
Choices: Long River; Big River; Great River; Surrounded by water
Answer: Big River
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Question: Cairo means happiness in Arabic.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What place in New York was named Vlissigen by the Dutch?
Choices: Yonkers; Brooklyn; Flushing; Harlem
Answer: Flushing
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Question: Omaha is a distorted Native American tribal name.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What does Sahara mean in Arabic?
Choices: oasis; fertile; wasteland; sand
Answer: wasteland
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Question: For which monarch was the state of Virginia named?
Choices: King Louis IV of France; King Virgil of Denmark; Mary Queen of Scots; Queen Elizabeth I of England
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I of England
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Question: Which one of these words means an ornamental clasp or pin?
Choices: brocade; ballast; bivouac; brooch
Answer: brooch
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Question: Pick the B word that does NOT mean to nag or intimidate.
Choices: bluster; befuddle; badger; browbeat
Answer: befuddle
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Question: Which one of these words means to soil or defile?
Choices: besmirch; bewitch; broach; beseech
Answer: besmirch
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Question: Which of the following words does NOT mean a blessing?
Choices: benediction; benevolence; blight; boon
Answer: blight
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Question: What does the word blithe mean?
Choices: joyous and lighthearted; full of errors; limber, spry, agile; hard to understand
Answer: joyous and lighthearted
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Question: Choose the B word that means rough or noisy.
Choices: bawdy; boisterous; boorish; bland
Answer: boisterous
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Question: Which of these word means a large group?
Choices: bugaboo; bastion; bevy; blandishment
Answer: bevy
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Question: Which of these B words means shortness of duration?
Choices: blasphemy; bureaucracy; brevity; buffoonery
Answer: brevity
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Question: Which one of these words means cheerful and optimistic?
Choices: buoyant; bacchanalian; bereft; bucolic
Answer: buoyant
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Question: Which of these words means highly ornate?
Choices: baroque; bombastic; blase; burnishing
Answer: baroque
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Question: Is it true that the figures of Cupid throughout history have had two different sides?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
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Question: There are several different stories about Cupids parentage and the most popular is that his mother is Venus and his father - Mars.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The typical Christian depiction of a cherub is often compared to Cupid.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Cupid appears in the movie Toothless and is portrayed by actor Richard Chamberlain.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: According to Greek mythology, this god is responsible for lust, love and sex.
Choices: Eros; Cupid; Mars; Kama
Answer: Eros
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Question: In ancient Athens, one day per week was sacred to Eros.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: February 14 is the day set aside for Valentines Day, the day celebrating love.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: 100 million valentines are estimated to be given out in February in honor of Valentines Day.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What kind of creature is the leprechaun in Irish mythology?
Choices: Fairy; Gnome; Dwarf; Demon
Answer: Fairy
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Question: Which popular NBA team has a logo, featuring a leprechaun?
Choices: Washington Wizards; L.A. Lakers; Boston Celtics; Orlando Magic
Answer: Boston Celtics
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Question: Once leprechauns were described as creatures dressed in red.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What is the traditional craft practiced by leprechauns according to Irish mythology?
Choices: making shoes; making shamrocks; making hats; making gold coins
Answer: making shoes
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Question: According to legend, a leprechaun must tell the truth if looked directly in the eye.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: In the old days, in order to keep leprechauns content, Irish people used to leave out a dish of what?
Choices: Milk; Beer; Whiskey; Cookies
Answer: Milk
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Question: There are female leprechauns.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: A quorum has to do with a group of  which of these?
Choices: flowers; words; animals; people
Answer: people
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Question: Which of these words is associated with clothing?
Choices: raison detre; raiment; recherche; rugger
Answer: raiment
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Question: Pick out the word that means a type of person.
Choices: sylvan; sybarite; stentorian; sternum
Answer: sybarite
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Question: Tellurium is a metallic element of this color combination.
Choices: black/white; silvery/white; red/white; gold/white
Answer: silvery/white
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Question: The word umbilicus refers to what part of the human body?
Choices: the legs; the eye brows; the head; the navel
Answer: the navel
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Question: Which of these words means having an insatiable appetite?
Choices: vole; viviparous; vizier; voracious
Answer: voracious
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Question: Which of these animals can be a wrasse?
Choices: goat; antelope; pig; fish
Answer: fish
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Question: Pick out the name of the king of Persia from either 519-465 B.C. or 486-465 B.C.?
Choices: Xenon; Xebec; Xerxes; X-axis
Answer: Xerxes
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Question: The word yurt is similar in meaning to which of these words?
Choices: a medieval creature; ship; statue; tent
Answer: tent
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Question: Zoroastrianism refers to which of the following?
Choices: a type of religion; human sacrifice; Greek philosophy
Answer: a type of religion
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Question: Which of these words means to guess?
Choices: conjecture; castigate; contrive; coerce
Answer: conjecture
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Question: Does the word clemency mean the state of being a huge Mark Twain fan?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: Pick the word that does NOT mean conversation.
Choices: colloquy; chitchat; concordance; conference
Answer: concordance
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Question: Which of these words can be defined as an expert critical judge of art?
Choices: coquette; connoisseur; clairvoyant; charlatan
Answer: connoisseur
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Question: Which one of these words means pleased or satisfied with oneself?
Choices: capacious; complacent; congenial; candid
Answer: complacent
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Question: Which of these words means panic?
Choices: cynicism; cataclysm; cacophony; consternation
Answer: consternation
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Question: Pick the word that means annoyance at ones own failures or errors.
Choices: cupidity; collusion; chagrin; composure
Answer: chagrin
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Question: Which one of these words means to recover after a sickness?
Choices: cauterize; convalesce; coddle; conciliate
Answer: convalesce
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Question: The word centimeter means one hundred meters.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Find the word that does NOT mean to hold back.
Choices: check; constrain; control; conduce
Answer: conduce
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Question: For which culture does a Sinophile have an obsessive love?
Choices: France; China; Japan; England
Answer: China
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Question: Philhellenism is an obsessive love of which culture?
Choices: Chinese; Japanese; Greek; German
Answer: Greek
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Question: What is cyberphilia?
Choices: An obsessive love of the Internet; An obsessive love of flowers; An obsessive love of cybersex; An obsessive love of electronics
Answer: An obsessive love of the Internet
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Question: This is an obsessive love of  clowns.
Choices: Cacophilia; Bathyhilia; Coulrophilia; Bufonophilia
Answer: Coulrophilia
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Question: Of course there is a word for an obsessive love of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. Which one is it?
Choices: Bibilophilia; Arithmophilia; Arachibutyrophilia; Canophilia
Answer: Arachibutyrophilia
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Question: This is an obsessive love of walking.
Choices: Tocophilia; Pedalophilia; Ambulophilia; Sesquipedalophilia
Answer: Ambulophilia
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Question: For what does a lygophile have an obsessive love?
Choices: Wine; Old people; Darkness; Kindness
Answer: Darkness
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Question: This is an obsessive love of cats.
Choices: Phallainophilia; Catagelophilia; Apiophilia; Ailurophilia
Answer: Ailurophilia
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Question: Trichophilia is an obsessive love of what ?
Choices: The dark; Pain; Hair; Insects
Answer: Hair
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Question: What do we call an obsessive love of being ridiculed?
Choices: Enochlophilia; Agathophilia; Catagelophilia; Drosophilia
Answer: Catagelophilia
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Question: What is the term for obsessive love of wild animals?
Choices: Agriozoophilia; Pogophilia; Zoaphilia; Atelophilia
Answer: Agriozoophilia
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Question: What is  cenophilia ?
Choices: An obsessive love of being dirty; An obsessive love of empty spaces; An obsessive love of animal fur skins; An obsessive love of school
Answer: An obsessive love of empty spaces
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Question: Which of these phrases can mean fashionable?
Choices: a propos; a la carte; a gogo; a la mode
Answer: a la mode
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Question: Literally (not figuratively), what does the word adieu mean?
Choices: to God; farewell; what; hello
Answer: to God
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Question: What is an aperitif?
Choices: a terrific person; a before meal drink; an opening; a guess
Answer: a before meal drink
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Question: What does blase mean?
Choices: blazer; unimpressed; tired; bleak
Answer: unimpressed
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Question: Cafe au lait is an outdoor cafe.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What does the word coquette mean?
Choices: a flirtatious girl; a fancy hair style; a salmon patty; a type of poodle
Answer: a flirtatious girl
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Question: Which phrase refers to love of life?
Choices: joie de livre; joie de vivre; joie dadore; joie de cafe
Answer: joie de vivre
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Question: The definition of the phrase, cause celebre, is an issue arousing widespread controversy or heated public debate.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What is the literal translation of vis-a-vis?
Choices: face to face; I see you; up front; in regards to
Answer: face to face
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Question: Which phrase can mean feat of strength?
Choices: soup du jour; tete a tete; tour de suite; tour de force
Answer: tour de force
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Question: Suppose you wanted to study law and become a lawyer.   The word for lawyer in Spanish is _______________.
Choices: peluquero; abogado; conductor; cocinero
Answer: abogado
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Question: In Spanish, what would you be called if you were a fireman?
Choices: ebanista; banquero; botanico; bombero
Answer: bombero
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Question: What if you wanted to be the mayor of your town?   What would that profession be called in Spanish?
Choices: clerigo; tabernero; alcalde; carnicero
Answer: alcalde
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Question: How about if you become a baker?  In Spanish, you would be called a what?
Choices: panadero; carpintero; marinero; cerrajero
Answer: panadero
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Question: Youre 5 years old.   Your mommy asks you what you want to be when you grow up.  You say I wanna be a cowboy.  How would you say cowboy in Spanish?
Choices: contador; escultor; vaquero; taquillero
Answer: vaquero
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Question: My dad is an avid fisherman.  If he were a Spanish fisherman, what would his profession be called?
Choices: florista; cartero; pescador; artesano
Answer: pescador
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Question: If you wanted to be a clown in a Spanish circus, you would be called a payaso.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Your father was a cobbler. Your grandfather was a cobbler. Your great grandfather was a cobbler.  Chances are you may become a cobbler too.  What would the Spanish word for cobbler be?
Choices: criado; zapatero; jardinero; camarero
Answer: zapatero
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Question: Okay, so you want to be a judge in Madrid.  What word would you be called?
Choices: juez; plomero; cambiadiscos; borracho
Answer: juez
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Question: My brother lives in Mexico City.  He wants to be a trainer.  What would his job be called in Spanish?
Choices: enfermero; droguero; entrenador; fraile
Answer: entrenador
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Question: What is the English word for the Spanish word fiesta ?
Choices: three; nap; fire; party
Answer: party
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Question: How do you translate the Spanish word pescado into English?
Choices: mosquito; fish; pessimism; fire alarm
Answer: fish
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Question: What is the English word for the Spanish paloma?
Choices: friend; sheep; wind; pigeon
Answer: pigeon
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Question: The English word for the Spanish word corazÃ³n is what?
Choices: corridor; complaint; heart; candle
Answer: heart
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Question: Give me the English word for the Spanish word hermano.
Choices: herring; hermit; golf course; brother
Answer: brother
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Question: How does one say the word naranja from Spanish into English?
Choices: black; orange; green; purple
Answer: orange
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Question: Now give me the English word for the Spanish word espejo.
Choices: mirror; perjury; horse; special
Answer: mirror
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Question: Give me the English variant for the Spanish first name Guillermo.
Choices: George; Joshua; James; William
Answer: William
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Question: What is the translation of the Spanish word miÃ©rcoles in English?
Choices: Wednesday; Saturday; Friday; Monday
Answer: Wednesday
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Question: How do you translate cuchara from Spanish to English?
Choices: spoon; knife; fork; plate
Answer: spoon
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Question: What is a Tombola?
Choices: A type of lottery; A bone of the inner ear; A male cricketer; A musical instrument
Answer: A type of lottery
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Question: Tomentum is a word describing the increase in speed of a rolling object which is then accelerated e.g. kicking a soccer ball
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What is another word for tome?
Choices: sound; pass; work; trumpet
Answer: work
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Question: Which Tom played Dr Who in the cult BBC television series?
Choices: Tom Baker; Tom Stoppard; Tom Archer; Tom Collins
Answer: Tom Baker
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Question: Which musician(s) created the rock opera Tommy?
Choices: The Rolling Stones; Elton John; The Beatles; The Who
Answer: The Who
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Question: A Tom Collins is a long drink consisting of vodka, lime or lemon juice, sugar and soda water.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In Greek mythology, Sirens often led sailors to their deaths with their beautiful songs.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: In Greek mythology, a minotaur was made up of what two creatures?
Choices: man and horse; man and woman; man and bull; man and lion
Answer: man and bull
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Question: This 3-headed beast guarded the gates to Hades.
Choices: Hydra; Sphinx; Cerberus; Zylon
Answer: Cerberus
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Question: How do we call a person who initiates an attack?
Choices: aggressor; tailor; scarfor; administrator
Answer: aggressor
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Question: This is how we refer to a person who writes any type of literary products.
Choices: creator; director; educator; author
Answer: author
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Question: What is the term for a person responsible for devising a new machine or a new process of doing something?
Choices: administrator; author; mentor; inventor
Answer: inventor
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Question: How do we call a person who takes on a new identity in order to deceive?
Choices: impostor; aggressor; perceptor; deceptor
Answer: impostor
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Question: Someone who entertains by pretending to be someone else, usually either in a play or through film products.
Choices: actor; spectator; director; creator
Answer: actor
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Question: A university or college teacher is known as a professor.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: How do we call someone that does detective work?
Choices: investigator; instigator; supervisor; impostor
Answer: investigator
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Question: A tailor is someone who only makes new clothes.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: A spectator is someone who participates in activities or sporting events.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Which of these terms are used for a person who is responsible for or oversees the work done by others?
Choices: administrator; supervisor; director; all of these
Answer: all of these
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Question: This god, representing everything that threatened harmony in Egypt, was the brother of Osiris and Isis. He murdered Osiris, then battled with his nephew Horus to be the ruler of the living.
Choices: Sobek; Seth; Shu; Thoth
Answer: Seth
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Question: Since jackals were often seen in cemeteries, the ancient Egyptians believed that Anubis, a god with human body and jackal head, watched over the process of embalming.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Tawaret was a goddess who protected women during pregnancy and childbirth. She was most often depicted with the head of a hippopotamus, arms and legs of a lion, back and tail of a crocodile, and breasts and stomach of a pregnant woman.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The goddess Anekantin was Isisâ sister and Anubisâ wife.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: This center is associated with intuition and sensory perception.
Choices: Center of brow; Heart; Mid-back; Base of spine
Answer: Center of brow
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Question: Location of the spiritual center.
Choices: Crown; Back; Spine; Throat
Answer: Throat
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Question: What color would you use to heal the etheric (root) center?
Choices: Blue; Green; Red; Yellow
Answer: Red
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Question: What color would we nedd to heal the soul?
Choices: Yellow; Green; Orange; Violet
Answer: Violet
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Question: The hara, located approximately three inches below the navel, also know as this chakra.
Choices: Orange; Green; Indigo; Pink
Answer: Orange
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Question: The heart center located at the center of the chest is this color and controls the circulatory system, heart, lungs and entire chest area.
Choices: Blue; Emerald Green; Brown; Yellow
Answer: Emerald Green
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Question: The brow center is associated with a persons extra-sensory perception and inner vision.  It is represented by this color.
Choices: Green; Indigo; Amber; Pink
Answer: Indigo
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Question: This color is used to heal the solar-plexus, also known as the power center.
Choices: Red; Pink; Yellow; Violet
Answer: Yellow
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Question: How many major chakras are there?
Choices: 7; 9; 8; 6
Answer: 7
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Question: Chakras are centers for this intangible quality.
Choices: Emotion; Soul; Energy; Spirit
Answer: Energy
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Question: Which German word means knowledge in English?
Choices: Kuchen; Kenntniss; Trinken; Antwort
Answer: Kenntniss
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Question: The German noun Frage means question in English.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: How is the German word Arztin translated into English?
Choices: Doctor; Kitchen; Art show; Bathroom
Answer: Doctor
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Question: What is the English equivalent of the German phrase Woher kommen Sie?
Choices: Where is that?; Where do you come from?; What is that?; What did she say?
Answer: Where do you come from?
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Question: German and English have a lot in common, because they both belong to the group of Germanic languages. How is the question Wie alt sind Sie? translated into English?
Choices: Where do you live?; How do you get there?; How do you do?; How old are you?
Answer: How old are you?
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Question: What is the word for table in French?
Choices: table; escritoire; chaise; armoire
Answer: table
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Question: How do you say cat in French?
Choices: oiseau; chat; chien; cheval
Answer: chat
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Question: If I wanted to say the word pencil in French, what would I say?
Choices: craie; gomme; stylo; crayon
Answer: crayon
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Question: Count to five in French: un, deux, trois, quatre, ____. What is the missing number?
Choices: huit; dix; cinq; cinquante
Answer: cinq
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Question: What is the French word for snow?
Choices: pluie; soleil; neige; vent
Answer: neige
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Question: Which of these is the French word for peace?
Choices: confiance; bonheur; paix; amour
Answer: paix
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Question: What is the word for egg in French?
Choices: oeuf; quiche; jambon; crÃªpe
Answer: oeuf
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Question: How does one say cup in French?
Choices: fourchette; assiette; tasse; cuillÃ¨re
Answer: tasse
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Question: Youâre in France and you want to tell someone that he has a nice tie. What is the word for âtie?â
Choices: cravate; chaussette; chaussure; chapeau
Answer: cravate
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Question: What is the French word for sea?
Choices: chÃ¢teau; montagne; maison; mer
Answer: mer
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Question: Watch out! The road is under _____________.
Choices: Construction; Water; Pressure; Age
Answer: Construction
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Question: What does the Latin phrase Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur mean?
Choices: Latin is the mother of all languages; Every wise man should speak Latin; Anything said in Latin sounds profound; You cannot see the truth, until you learn Latin
Answer: Anything said in Latin sounds profound
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Question: What does Ad astra per aspera mean in English?
Choices: Humankind aspires to reach the stars; One cannot reach a star; Rich people never smile; To the stars through hardships
Answer: To the stars through hardships
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Question: Julius Caesar once said veni, vidi, vici. What did he mean?
Choices: To win is to see yourself winning; A good enemy is a dead enemy; A friend in need is a friend indeed; I came, I saw, I conquered
Answer: I came, I saw, I conquered
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Question: What is vir in Latin?
Choices: A man; A virus; A human; An enemy
Answer: A man
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Question: What does Vae Victis mean?
Choices: Glory to the winners; Woe to the conquered; If you win, you loose; Beware of the conqueror
Answer: Woe to the conquered
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Question: If your business partner says pacta sunt servanda, what does he/she mean?
Choices: Your business is finished.; Agreements must be honoured.; You are my slave now.; How can I serve you?
Answer: Agreements must be honoured.
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Question: To whom can you say Cura te ipsum!?
Choices: To a policeman who arrests you; To your partner, expressing your love; To a beggar, when you dont have any money; To a doctor, when you do not agree with his/her diagnosis
Answer: To a doctor, when you do not agree with his/her diagnosis
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Question: When they refer to future events in writing, some people use DV which stands for Deo volente. What does it mean?
Choices: While life is, hope is; God is (my) protector; God wills it; By Gods will
Answer: By Gods will
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Question: When is it proper to say Nunc est bibendum?
Choices: When you want to smoke; At a party; In court; At a catholic mass
Answer: At a party
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Question: What does Roma locuta, causa finita est mean?
Choices: Rome wasnt built in a day.; Rome has spoken, the discussion is finished.; When in Rome, do as the Romans do.; All ways lead to Rome.
Answer: Rome has spoken, the discussion is finished.