kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: literature
Question: This quote is from a novel by Somerset Maugham, which tells the story of a young man searching for the meaning of life:  âIt is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
Choices: Of Human Bondage; Theatre; Sons and Lovers; Dombey and Son
Answer: Of Human Bondage
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Question: In this novel, the following words are said by the protagonist, Isadora Wing, who is in pursuit of liberation: âI was nobodyâs baby now. Liberated. Utterly free. It was the most terrifying sensation Iâd ever known in my life. Like teetering on the edge of the Grand Canyon and hoping youâd learn to fly before you hit the bottom.
Choices: A Good Man Is Hard to Find; Editha; Tropic of Cancer; Fear of Flying
Answer: Fear of Flying
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Question: This is a quote from a novel in which the action takes place in a mental institution: âYou have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.â  Name the novel.
Choices: âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ; Lost in the Funhouse; Something Happened; The Winter of Our Discontent
Answer: âOne Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ
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Question: After Dr. Seuss used 236 different words to write The Cat in the Hat, his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet $50 that Seuss could not write a book of only fifty words. Seuss won the bet with this book in 1960.
Choices: Hop on Pop; Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!; Green Eggs and Ham; One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Answer: Green Eggs and Ham
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Question: Published in January 1990, this is the last book written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. In the US, its a popular graduation gift.
Choices: My Book about ME; I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today!; Oh, the Places Youll Go!; Fox in Socks
Answer: Oh, the Places Youll Go!
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Question: The plot of this 1984 Seuss satire has been likened to the war between Blefuscu and Lilliput in Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travel and their war over which end of an egg is supposed to be cracked.
Choices: The Butter Battle Book; Oh Say Can You Say?; Green Eggs and Ham; Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!
Answer: The Butter Battle Book
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Question: Youre a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, one of the most famous songs from the 1966 animated TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, was sung by the narrator Boris Karloff.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The title of this 1956 Dr. Seuss book has become a popular phrase used to introduce an opinion.
Choices: If I Ran the Circus; Oh Say Can You Say?; If I Ran the Zoo; And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Answer: If I Ran the Circus
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Question: Published in 1937, this is Dr. Seusss first book. Its main character Marco is based on Marco McClintock, the son of Mike McClintock, Seuss editor, and Helene McClintock, to whom he dedicated the book.
Choices: Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!; And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street; Horton Hatches the Egg; The Cat in the Hat
Answer: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
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Question: In this 1954 Dr. Seuss book the moral of the story (and a repeated phrase throughout the book) is: a persons a person no matter how small. This was the first of two Seuss books starring this kind-hearted elephant.
Choices: Hop on Pop; Theres a Wocket in My Pocket!; Horton Hears a Who!; Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him!
Answer: Horton Hears a Who!
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Question: This 1971 Dr. Seuss book about a mossy,  bossy creature, the Once-ler and the Truffula trees has been banned by some schools and libraries for its anti-forestry industry content.
Choices: The Butter Battle Book; Horton Hears a Who!; Fox in Socks; The Lorax
Answer: The Lorax
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Question: What book by Dr. Seuss contains the quote: When a Fox is in the bottle where the Tweetle Beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call......a Tweetle Beetle Noodle Poodle Bottled Paddled Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox In Socks, Sir!?
Choices: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; If I Ran the Circus; Fox in Socks; Oh, the Places Youll Go!
Answer: Fox in Socks
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Question: Voyage of the Dawn Treader was written by this author.
Choices: T S Elliot; C S Lewis; Lewis Carrol; Brothers Grimm
Answer: C S Lewis
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Question: This famous childrens poet wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree.
Choices: Dr Seuss; none of these; Lewis Carrol; Shel Silverstien
Answer: Shel Silverstien
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Question: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) probably began this work in 1306. Its first canto begins with: Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Choices: Troilus and Cressida; The Divine Comedy; The Decameron; Gargantua and Pantagruel
Answer: The Divine Comedy
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Question: The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer. It recounts the tales told by individuals on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Which of the following was not a character in this work?
Choices: Physician; Reeve; Tax Collector; Yeoman
Answer: Tax Collector
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Question: In the novel Don Quixote by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who is the witty squire and companion to Alonso Quixano?
Choices: Aldonzo Lorenzo; Antonio de la Gandara; Che Guevara; Sancho Panza
Answer: Sancho Panza
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Question: In this tragic play by William Shakespeare, three witches tell a general in the army of King Duncan that he will never be vanquishd until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.
Choices: The Tempest; Macbeth; Hamlet; Titus Andronicus
Answer: Macbeth
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Question: This 1971 novel by Anthony Burgess relates the story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Alex, who, with his gang members (known as droogs) roam the streets at night, committing violent crimes for enjoyment.
Choices: Helter Skelter; A Clockwork Orange; Fahrenheit 451; Catcher in the Rye
Answer: A Clockwork Orange
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Question: The famous line In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo is from the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by this influential 20th century poet.
Choices: W. H. Auden; Robert Browning; Robert Frost; T. S. Eliot
Answer: T. S. Eliot
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Question: This great work of Russian literature by Fyodor Dostoevsky features the character Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who kills an unscrupulous pawnbroker.
Choices: Dead Souls; And Quiet Flows the Don; The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment
Answer: Crime and Punishment
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Question: This novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1850, is considered his most autobiographical. It begins with: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Characters include Wilkins Micawber and Uriah Heep.
Choices: Great Expectations; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House
Answer: David Copperfield
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Question: As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect is the opening line to this famous work of German fiction by Franz Kafka.
Choices: The Metamorphosis; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; As I Lay Dying; Heart of Darkness
Answer: The Metamorphosis
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Question: This novel by Charlotte BrontÃ« includes the character Mr. Rochester, whose wife is a violent lunatic.
Choices: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; A Room with a View; The Turn of the Screw
Answer: Jane Eyre
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Question: Fifteen men on the dead mans chestâ Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! is a famous line from Treasure Island, a novel by this author published in 1883.
Choices: James Fenimore Cooper; Robert Louis Stevenson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Makepeace Thackeray
Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Question: Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so is a portion of a work by this poet who lived from 1572-1631.
Choices: John Milton; John Donne; Lord Byron; William Blake
Answer: John Donne
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Question: In what 1851 novel would you find the characters Ishmael, Captain Ahab, Queequeg and Starbuck?
Choices: Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; Moby Dick by Herman Melville; The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Answer: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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Question: This early Anglo-Saxon work, possibly from the 800s, features the antagonist Grendel, a descendant of Cain who invades the mead-hall of the Danes and eats the men within. The title character ultimately beheads Grendel and keeps it as a trophy.
Choices: Oedipus Rex; Morte Arthure; Beowulf; Epic of Gilgamesh
Answer: Beowulf
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Question: In Stephen Kings novel Bag of Bones, what is the location of the Noonans summer home?
Choices: Sarah Laughs; Black House; Parilloud; Lewiston
Answer: Sarah Laughs
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Question: What is the name of Dolores Claibornes wealthy employer in the Stephen King novel Dolores Claiborne?
Choices: Jamie ONeal; Selena Cook; Joe St. George; Vera Donovan
Answer: Vera Donovan
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Question: In the horror novel Misery, Annie Wilkes was referred to by the newspapers as what?
Choices: The Dragon Lady; The Baby Slayer; The Black Widow; Misery
Answer: The Dragon Lady
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Question: What is Stephen Kings first published novel?
Choices: Salems Lot; Carrie; The Stand; The Shining
Answer: Carrie
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Question: What novel did Stephen King and Peter Straub co-author in 1983?
Choices: Twilight Eyes; The Talisman; Black House; Shadowland
Answer: The Talisman
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Question: In the novel Cristine, Dennis decides he does not like Christine, because, while sitting in it, he has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they would be in 1957 when the car was new.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Once in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons. Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of kings, perhaps, even thousands... is the beginning of what book?
Choices: The Stand; The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger; The  Dark Tower IV: The Wizard and the Glass; The Eyes of the Dragon
Answer: The Eyes of the Dragon
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Question: In the novel Pet Semetary, what is the name of the Creeds cat that is buried and returns to life?
Choices: Jud; Church; Gage; Louis
Answer: Church
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Question: Who fell into the lake?
Choices: Neville; Colin; Hermione; Dennis
Answer: Dennis
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Question: George used the Jelly-Legs curse on Goyle.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: On what day did Percy say he would have the report ready for Mr Crouch?
Choices: Monday; Thursday; Friday; Tuesday
Answer: Tuesday
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Question: Goblet of Fire started a series of deaths in the books. Who died in Goblet of Fire?
Choices: Wormtail; Padfoot; Dumbledore; Cedric Diggory
Answer: Cedric Diggory
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Question: Harry rescued Hermione from the Merpeople.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Where do Harry Potter and Ron leave the chocolate cakes for Crabbe and Goyle to find?
Choices: On the Floor; At the end of the banister; Floating near the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room; Floating mid-air in the exit of the Great Hall
Answer: At the end of the banister
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Question: In chapter one of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry has Snapes essay on Sleeping Draughts hidden under the floorboard.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: In chapter 7 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, titled The Boggart in the Wardrobe, a severed hand comes out of the wardrobe for Seamus Finnegan.
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: How long does Dudleys tongue become, after eating Fred and Georges candies, in the fourth book of the Harry Potter series?
Choices: 1 ft.; 2 ft.; 2.5 ft.; 3 ft.
Answer: 1 ft.
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Question: Rons Christmas gift to Dobby in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a tea cozy.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What room does Harry Potter go to for his hearing in the 5th book of the series?
Choices: Courtroom 10; Courtroom13; Courtroom 11; Courtroom 7
Answer: Courtroom 10
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Question: In chapter 24 of book 5, what breaks Snapes attempt to use Legilimency on Harry Potter?
Choices: Fluffys attack on Harry, Hermione and Ron; The vision of Cedrics dead body; Voldemorts re-birth; The Dementors kiss on Sirius
Answer: The vision of Cedrics dead body
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Question: The weapon that Voldemort wanted in book 5 of the Harry Potter series was Harry.
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
Category: literature
Question: Who wrote the novel Gone With the Wind?
Choices: Margaret Mitchell; Pansey OHara; Ann Marie Tyler; Jacqueline Susan
Answer: Margaret Mitchell
Category: literature
Question: In 2000, Alice Randall wrote a new version of Gone With the Wind in which the story is told from the point of view of the slaves. What was the name of this novel?
Choices: Scarletts Troubles; Went With the Wind; The Wind Done Gone; Tomorrow Aint  Another Day
Answer: The Wind Done Gone
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Question: In 1962, the best known music theme from the movie Gone with the Wind often called Taras Theme, was made into a hit record on the pop charts. Which group had a 1962 hit with My Own True Love?
Choices: The Coasters; The Dovells; The Duprees; The Shangri-Las
Answer: The Duprees
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Question: Who portrayed Ashley Wilkes in the popular movie Gone with the Wind?
Choices: Gary Cooper; Groucho Marx; Leslie Howard; Voctor Jory
Answer: Leslie Howard
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Question: Excluding the opening music, the intermission, and exit music, how long does the movie Gone with the Wind run?
Choices: 148 minutes; 127 minutes; 180 minutes; 222 minutes
Answer: 222 minutes
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Question: Three men are given credit as directors of the movie Gone with the Wind. Which one of the following directors is not among them?
Choices: Sam Wood; Raoul Walsh; George Cukor; Victor Fleming
Answer: Raoul Walsh
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Question: The company that produced Gone with the Wind was fined because Rhett  Butler says the word damn in his famous line: Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: How much did David O. Selznick pay for the rights to the book Gone with the Wind?
Choices: $5,000,000; nothing; $5,000; $50,000
Answer: $50,000
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Question: The producer of the movie Gone with the Wind was short of money and needed a male lead. With whom did he make a deal?
Choices: With his father-in-law; With Columbia Films; With his father; With  United Artists
Answer: With his father-in-law
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Question: A TV  sequel to  Gone with the Wind was released in 1994.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Which American author is popularly known as the chronicler of the Jazz Age - the period between World War I and World War II?
Choices: Ernest Hemingway; John Dos Passos; John Steinbeck; F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Question: Which novel by Ernest Hemingway was published in Great Britain under the title Fiesta?
Choices: Death in the Afternoon; A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls
Answer: The Sun Also Rises
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Question: Which 1929 novel narrates the decline of the distinguished Southern family, the Compsons?
Choices: East of Eden by John Steinbeck; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos; This Side of paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
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Question: The 1961 publication of this sexually explicit novel led to an obscenity trial in the USA.
Choices: Naked Lunch; Tropic of Cancer; A Spy in the House of Love; On the Road
Answer: Tropic of Cancer
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Question: Which novel, set in the Great Depression of the 1930s, won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1940?
Choices: The Naked and the Death; Tortilla Flat; An American Tragedy; The Grapes of Wrath
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
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Question: Which of the following is not a character depicted by Joseph Heller in his anti-war novel Catch-22?
Choices: Papa Monzano; Major Major Major Major; Chief White Halfoat; Dunbar
Answer: Papa Monzano
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Question: Humbert Humbert is the protagonist and narrator of which 1955 novel?
Choices: Lolita; The Awakening; In Cold Blood; Something Happened
Answer: Lolita
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Question: Which of these novels is not part of the popular Rabbit series written by John Updike?
Choices: Rabbit Redux; Rabbit in Love; Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Is Rich
Answer: Rabbit in Love
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Question: Which author was not a reperesentative figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s?
Choices: Carl Sandburg; ZoraNeale Hurston; Countee Cullen; Langston Hughes
Answer: Carl Sandburg
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Question: Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Junkie, which gives an account of the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s?
Choices: Jack Kerouac; Philip Roth; Saul Bellow; William S. Burroughs
Answer: William S. Burroughs
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Question: In this book, a man loses his memory during the war, falls in love and marries, then hits his head and remembers his former life, forgetting his wife completely.
Choices: Random Harvest; The Razors Edge; Round the Bend; For Whom the Bell Tolls
Answer: Random Harvest
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Question: This novel tells the story of a man that meets his double and changes identities with him.
Choices: Body Double; Dead Ringers; The Scapegoat; The Silent Partner
Answer: The Scapegoat
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Question: A man who searches for inner peace, finally finding it by the side of a river is the protagonist of this 1922 German novel.
Choices: A River Runs Through It; On the Beach; In Search of the Miraculous; Siddhartha
Answer: Siddhartha
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Question: In this book, a man says that he will stop the motor of the world. He does so by removing the creative and visionary leaders from society one by one, tempting them to come live in an utopian society in the wilderness.
Choices: Giant; Utopia; Heart of Darkness; Atlas Shrugged
Answer: Atlas Shrugged
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Question: The main character of this novel can make people disappear from existence with an effort of will.
Choices: Steppenwolf; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Mote in Gods Eye; When the Bough Breaks
Answer: Stranger in a Strange Land
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Question: In this novel, the son of a wealthy man is obsessed with creating more wealth, in a subconscious desire to rebel against his father. In the end, he discovers that he has become his father. During his life, he invests in airplanes and movies, among other things. He has many affairs with beautiful women along the way.
Choices: The Carpetbaggers; L.A. Confidential; Valley of the Dolls; The Tycoon
Answer: The Carpetbaggers
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Question: Electrodes are implanted into the brain of this bookâs protagonist in an effort to cure his seizures. But the electrodes fire too often, making him go on a murderous rampage.
Choices: The Electric Michelangelo; Altered States; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Terminal Man
Answer: The Terminal Man
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Question: A mild-mannered coward is enlisted to help a group of hardened criminals pull off a museum theft in this 1962 English novel.
Choices: The Light of Day; The House on the Strand; The Empty Copper Sea; The Boomerang Heist
Answer: The Light of Day
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Question: In this novel, an adult man is obsessed with a teenage girl.
Choices: Obsession; Rebecca; Lolita; Studio Sex
Answer: Lolita
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Question: This book tells the story of a pilot and a scientist on an air expedition to Greenland who have separate dreams of being two long-dead lovers.
Choices: Eaters of the Dead; An Old Captivity; The Interpretation of Dreams; Lost Horizon
Answer: An Old Captivity
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Question: Name the movie that ends with the following line: Louis. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Choices: Casablanca; The African Queen; The Maltese Falcon; Sahara
Answer: Casablanca
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Question: They hand in hand, with wandering steps  and slow,
Choices: rough Eden took their solitary way is from a work by this author.; William Shakespeare; Geoffrey Chaucer; James Joyce; John Milton
Answer: John Milton
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Question: Which movie ends with these lines:  Yes! Yes! I believe it. I believe it because I want  to believe it. Gentlemen I give you a toast. Heres my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La. Heres my hope that we all find our Shangri-La.?
Choices: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; Lost Horizon; Green Mansions
Answer: Lost Horizon
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Question: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back into the past. was  the last line in a book by this  author.
Choices: Herman Melville; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Werner Herzog; Thomas  Hardy
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Question: Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico? is the  last line of this great movie.
Choices: Little Ceasar; The Great Santini; Carlitos Way; Midnight Cowboy
Answer: Little Ceasar
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Question: Which Shakespearean play ends with this line: So thanks to all at once and  to each one, Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.
Choices: Henry IV, Part I; Hamlet; Macbeth; Othello
Answer: Macbeth
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Question: Which great movie ends with this line: Victory is Ours!?
Choices: Dr. Strangelove; Duck Soup; The Battleship Potempkin; The Great Dictator
Answer: Duck Soup
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Question: Which great movie ends with this line: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. Huh?
Choices: Casablanca; The Maltese Falcon; Sahara; Citizen Kane
Answer: The Maltese Falcon
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Question: Which great movie ends with these lines: O-Lan, you are the Earth.?
Choices: The Day the Earth Stood Still; Green Mansions; The Good Earth; Lost Horizon
Answer: The Good Earth
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Question: Which movie ends with these lines: Hello everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine.?
Choices: Citizen Kane; A Star is Born; Radio Star; A Day at the Races
Answer: A Star is Born
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Question: This movie is about a drifter, who works for a cruel boss at a textile mill, and comes across a mutated rat with no eyes or legs.
Choices: Cats Eye; Sometimes They Come Back; Pet Sematary; Graveyard Shift
Answer: Graveyard Shift
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Question: This actress played the little girl, Amanda, in the horror movie Cats Eye.
Choices: Drew Barrymore; Alyssa Milano; Molly Ringwald; Patricia Benson
Answer: Drew Barrymore
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Question: This Stephen King movie is about Jack Torrance, a writer who takes a job as a caretaker for the Overlook Hotel.
Choices: Misery; Rose Red; Pet Sematary; The Shining
Answer: The Shining
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Question: What animal was the main character in the horror movie Cujo?
Choices: Snake; Alligator; Cat; Dog
Answer: Dog
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Question: What actress plays Annie Wilkes in the movie Misery?
Choices: none of these; Terri Garr; Cheryl Ladd; Kathy Bates
Answer: Kathy Bates
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Question: Which novel by Charles Dickens is generally regarded as the first Victorian novel?
Choices: Dombey and Son; The Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Barnaby Rudge
Answer: The Pickwick Papers
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Question: This highly symbolic story by Polish-born novelist Joseph Conrad served as a base for the movie Apocalypse Now.
Choices: Lord Jim; The Shadow Line; An Outcast of the Islands; Heart of Darkness
Answer: Heart of Darkness
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Question: Which novel by Thomas Hardy had the subtitle A Pure Woman, which shocked Victorian readers?
Choices: Tess of the dUrbervilles; The Hand of Ethelberta; The Return of the Native; Emma
Answer: Tess of the dUrbervilles
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Question: Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Shirley, a novel set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression?
Choices: Emily; Charlotte; Elizabeth; Anne
Answer: Charlotte
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Question: Which list contains the names of the Bennet sisters, depicted by Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice?
Choices: Cathrine, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary; Elizabeth, Ann, Lydia, Kitty, Mary; Charlotte, Elizabeth, Emily, Mary, Kitty; Elisabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary
Answer: Elisabeth, Jane, Lydia, Kitty, Mary
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Question: Which of these literary works was written in the form of a long letter while the author was in prison?
Choices: De Profundis; A Room with a View; The Canterville Ghost; The Importance of Being Earnest
Answer: De Profundis
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Question: Which of these books were written by Victorian novelist Mary Anne Evans, commonly known as George Eliot?
Choices: The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede, A Room of Ones Own; Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss, Vanity Fair, Adam Bede; Middlemarch, North and South, Vanity Fair
Answer: Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede
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Question: This novel, which satirizes society in early 19th-century England, opens at Miss Pinkertons Academy for Young Ladies.
Choices: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; Vanity Fair; The Book of Snobs
Answer: Vanity Fair
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Question: This literary work by Mary Shelley, infused with some elements of the Gothic novel, was subtitled The Modern Prometheus.
Choices: Arms and the Man; The Mortal Immortal; Frankenstein; The Last Man
Answer: Frankenstein
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Question: What are the two cities named in the title of Charles Dickens historical novel A Tale of Two Cities?
Choices: London and Manchester; Paris and London; Dublin and London; Edinburgh and London
Answer: Paris and London
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Question: Ahab, Ishmael, Starbuck, Stubb, Queequeg and Elijah were characters in this 1851 novel.
Choices: Eastern Voices; Genesis; The Satanic Episodes; Moby Dick
Answer: Moby Dick
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Question: Jim, Marlowe, Stein, Sherif Ali, Rajah Tunka Allang and Gentleman Brown were characters in this novel.
Choices: Lord Jim; Darkest Passage; Eastern Visions; The Heart of Darkness
Answer: Lord Jim
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Question: The characters in this novel included Charles Marlow, Kurtz, Fresleven, Chief Accountant and General Manager.
Choices: Passage to India; Lord Jim; Eastern Visions; The Heart of Darkness
Answer: The Heart of Darkness
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Question: The characters in this novel included Pierre Bezukov, Natasha Rostovic, Sonya Rostovic, Andrei N. Bolkov and Elene Kuragin.
Choices: War and Peace; The Gulag; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot
Answer: War and Peace
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Question: Jim, Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, The Grangerford and the Shepardsons were characters in this novel.
Choices: Life on the Mississippi; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Billy Budd; The Rise of Silas Lapham
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Question: Raskolnikov, Sonya S. and Porfry were characters in this novel.
Choices: Crime and Punishment; Napoleon; The Idiot; War and Peace
Answer: Crime and Punishment
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Question: The characters in this novel included Hester Prynne, Pearl, Roger Chillingworth and Arthur Dimmsdale.
Choices: The Heiress; Jane Eyre; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Scarlet Letter
Answer: The Scarlet Letter
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Question: The characters in this novel included Wilfred, Rebecca, Rowena, Isaac of York and Prior.
Choices: The Scarlet Letter; The Rise of Silas Lapham; Ivanhoe; The Day of the Locust
Answer: Ivanhoe
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Question: Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bennett, Charles Bingley and William Collins were characters in this novel.
Choices: Wuthering Heights; Great  Expectations; Pride and  Prejudice; Jane Eyre
Answer: Pride and  Prejudice
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Question: Clara, Mr. Chiilg, Mr. Creadle, Peggotty and Betsy Trotwood were characters in this novel.
Choices: Pickwick Papers; Great Expectations; A Take of Two Cities; David Copperfield
Answer: David Copperfield
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Question: The characters in this novel included Becky Sharp, Amelia Smedley, George Osborne and Pitt Crawley.
Choices: The Pillsbury man; The Scarlet Letter; Vanity Fair; The Rise of Sila Lapham
Answer: Vanity Fair
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Question: In the novel Jurassic Park,  the zoo-like amusement park is on an island, situated off the shore of what country?
Choices: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Honduras; Mexico
Answer: Costa Rica
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Question: Ian Malcolm, a character from the book Jurassic Park, is an expert in which field?
Choices: Languages; Geology; Chaos Theory; History
Answer: Chaos Theory
Category: literature
Question: Dennis Nedry was paid by a rival company to sabotage Jurassic Park in the self-titled book.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: The game warden, Muldoon, was killed by raptors in the book Jurassic Park.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: This dinosaur, depicted in the novel Jurassic Park, was a very beautiful carnivore but spat poison to blind its prey.
Choices: Microceratops; Styracosaur; Dilophosaur; Procompsognathid
Answer: Dilophosaur
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Question: What was the occupation of Donald Gennaro, the character in the book Jurassic Park who originally tried to get Jurassic Park shut down?
Choices: Paleontologist; Lawyer; Mathematician; Senator
Answer: Lawyer
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Question: The dinosaurs, featured in Michael Crichtons novel Jurassic Park, were supposedly not able to breed inside the park for what reason?
Choices: They were all neutered at birth; They were all female; They were all male; They were fed a special drug to keep them from breeding
Answer: They were all female
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Question: How many T-Rexes were there in the novel Jurassic Park?
Choices: 2; 3; 4; 1
Answer: 2
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Question: The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named the new ankylosaurus species Crichtonsaurus in honor of Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Why was a diagonal red line painted on the jeeps in the book Jurassic Park?
Choices: The triceratops didnt like the red line, therefore they wouldnt charge the jeeps.; It was the symbol of Jurassic Park Theme Park.; The velociraptors regarded red as a color that signified some larger predator.; The apatosaurs thought that stripes were an indication of a predator so they stayed away.
Answer: The triceratops didnt like the red line, therefore they wouldnt charge the jeeps.
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Question: In the movie Gone With the Wind Scarlett had three husbands. Who was the first?
Choices: Brent Tarleton; Frank Kennedy; Charles Hamilton; Stuart Tarleton
Answer: Charles Hamilton
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Question: In the film Gone with the Wind, Scarletts first husband died in the early days of the Civil War. What was the cause of his death?
Choices: He died under enemy attack.; Measles and pneumonia; Consumption; Flu
Answer: Measles and pneumonia
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Question: In the film Gone with the Wind, when Rhett and Scarlett came back from their honeymoon they brought a gift for Mammy. What was it?
Choices: White silk nightgown; White silk petticoat; Red silk petticoat; Fur coat
Answer: Red silk petticoat
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Question: The Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role went to which cast member of Gone With the Wind?
Choices: Butterfly McQueen; Dorothy Dandridge; Hattie McDaniel; None of these
Answer: Hattie McDaniel
Category: literature
Question: Clark Gable won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Rhett Butler.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: Where did Gone with the Wind character Rhett get the inspiration for his and Scarletts daughters name from?
Choices: A nursery rhyme his mother had sung to him as a child; The southern skies; The confederate flag; Mammy
Answer: The confederate flag
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Question: Which of the following lines from the movie Gone with the Wind was voted as the #1 movie quote by the American Film Institute?
Choices: After all, tomorrow is another day!; I dont know nothin bout birthin no babies!; As God is my witness, Ill never be hungry again!; Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.
Answer: Frankly my dear, I dont give a damn.
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Question: What was NOT true of Scarletts second husband in Gone with the Wind?
Choices: The physical affliction he returned from the war with was body lice.; He died on a mission to avenge Scarletts attack in Shantytown.; He owned a sawmill.; He divorced Scarlett to marry her sister, Sue-Ellen.
Answer: He divorced Scarlett to marry her sister, Sue-Ellen.
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Question: What was the name of the Atlanta street where fictional character Scarlett OHara lived with Aunt Pittypat?
Choices: Weeping Willow; Elm; Peachtree; Southern Pine
Answer: Peachtree
Category: literature
Question: There is only one scene in the movie Gone with the Wind that suggests Scarlett has a problem with alcohol consumption.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Which of the following caused the death of Scarlett and Rhetts daughter?
Choices: She succumbed to influenza.; She was a war casualty.; She mysteriously died in her crib.; She broke her neck while jumping her pony.
Answer: She broke her neck while jumping her pony.
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Question: What actress portrayed the character in Gone with the Wind who claimed she knew everythin bout birthin babies when, in reality, she knew nothin?
Choices: Dorothy McDaniel; Dorothy Dandridge; Butterfly McQueen; Hattie McDaniel
Answer: Butterfly McQueen
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Question: Vivian Leigh earned the same amount of money as Clark Gable for her work in Gone With the Wind.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: How many actresses auditioned for the coveted role of Scarlett OHara?
Choices: 1200; 150; 2500; 1400
Answer: 1400
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Question: Vivian Leigh won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Scarlett OHara in Gone With the Wind. This was her only Academy Award.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Scarlett OHara wasted much of her life pining after Ashley Wilkes who was played by this actor.
Choices: Leslie Howard; Errol Flynn; George Reeves; Gary Cooper
Answer: Leslie Howard
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Question: The play is the tragedy Man, and the hero, the Conquerer Worm.
Choices: Edgar Allan Poe; William Jennings Bryant; H.P. Lovecraft; None of these
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
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Question: And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Choices: nt home and put a bullet through his head.; John Berryman; Randall Jarrell; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Luke Havergall
Answer: Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Question: From my mothers sleep, I fell into the State.
Choices: hunched in its body till my wet fur froze.; s miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life...; en I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.; Randall Jarrell; John Crowe Ransom; Wallace Stevens; Robinson Jeffers
Answer: Randall Jarrell
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Question: Success is counted sweetest
Choices:  comprehend a nectar; Emily Dickinson; None of these; Gertrude Stein; Hilda Doolittle
Answer: Emily Dickinson
Category: literature
Question: A heap of broken images, where the Sun beats...
Choices: will show you fear in a handful of dust.; Gertrude Stein; Ezra Pound; Allen Ginsberg; T.S. Eliot
Answer: T.S. Eliot
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Question: Pity this busy monster mankind not...
Choices: Sharon Olds; Rita Dove; Marianne Moore; e.e. cummings
Answer: e.e. cummings
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Question: I spit upon this dreadful bankers grave
Choices: ho alas alas; en will indifference come, I moan  rave;  like to scrabble till I got right down; Hart Crane; None of these; John Berryman; Philip Booth
Answer: John Berryman
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Question: I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Choices: Robert Lowell; Denise Levertov; Walt Whitman; Stephen Crane
Answer: Stephen Crane
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Question: I have gone out, a possessed witch, 
Choices: woman like that is not a woman, quite. ; have been her kind.; Gwendolyn Brooks; Emily Dickinson; Anne Sexton; Sylvia Plath
Answer: Anne Sexton
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Question: Which of these novels is not part of the Forsyte Saga, written by English novelist John Galsworthy?
Choices: To Let; In Chancery; The Man of Property; Money
Answer: Money
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Question: This massive novel, consisting of 18 chapters, chronicles the events of one single day in the life of the protagonist Leopold Bloom.
Choices: Ulysses; Finnegans Wake; Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man
Answer: Ulysses
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Question: Which of these influential 20th century authors was not Irish-born?
Choices: William Golding; James Joyce; William Butler Yeats; George Bernard Shaw
Answer: William Golding
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Question: In 1989, the author of this book and all those involved in its publication were sentenced to death by the Supreme Leader of Iran.
Choices: Songs of Enchantment; Lady Chatterleys Lover; The Gate at the End of the World; The Satanic Verses
Answer: The Satanic Verses
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Question: Which of these English authors was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a literary circle that rejected the Victorian taboos on religious, artistic, social, and sexual matters?
Choices: D. H. Lawrence; George Orwell; Virginia Woolf; John Fowles
Answer: Virginia Woolf
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Question: Which allegorical novel by William Golding features a group of boys stranded on a desert island?
Choices: Fire Down Below; Rites of Passage; Lord of the Flies; Darkness Visible
Answer: Lord of the Flies
Category: literature
Question: What do George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling and William Golding have in common?
Choices: They were all born in Ireland.; They were members of The Fabian Society - a British socialist intellectual movement.; All of them served in WWI.; All of them received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Answer: All of them received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Question: Which playwright received the 1938 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay?
Choices: John Boyd; George Bernard Shaw; Harold Pinter; John Osborne
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
Category: literature
Question: What name was applied to the group of British playwrights and novelists from the 1950s, which included John Osborne, John Braine, and Alan Sillitoe?
Choices: The Rebels; The Conformists; The Disappointed Young Men; The Angry Young Men
Answer: The Angry Young Men
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Question: This novel focuses on Winston Smith and his attempt to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives.
Choices: The Invisible Man; Nineteen Eighty-Four; The War of the Worlds; Animal Farm
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Question: Into what creature did Mad Eye Moody turn Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
Choices: A rat; A ferret; A toad; A mouse
Answer: A ferret
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Question: Draco Malfoy is a member of this fictional house at Hogwarts which values pure blood heritage.
Choices: Ravenclaw; Slytherin; Gryffindor; Hufflepuff
Answer: Slytherin
Category: literature
Question: Draco Malfoy is killed by Harry Potter in the last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: In which book of the Harry Potter series is Draco Malfoy made Prefect of his house?
Choices: Prisoner of Azkaban; Order of the Phoenix; Goblet of Fire; Half-Blood Prince
Answer: Order of the Phoenix
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Question: In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Draco Malfoy was attacked by this kind of creature while in his Care for Magical Creatures class?
Choices: Werewolf; Blast-Ended Skrewt; Centaur; Hippogryph
Answer: Hippogryph
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Question: Draco Malfoy became the master of the Elder Wand which was Dumbledores beloved wand.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Ralph, Piggy, Jack Merridew, Simon, Ron are characters in this novel.
Choices: Lawdy, Lawdy, Miss Claudie; The Lord of the Flies; The Lord of the Ring; Lord Jim
Answer: The Lord of the Flies
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Question: Humbert Humbert, Valeria and Charlotte Haze are characters from this literary work.
Choices: The Day of the Triffids; Lolita; All the Kings Men; Naked Lunch
Answer: Lolita
Category: literature
Question: Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes are characters in this novel.
Choices: Day for Night; Cujo; The Long Green Mile; Misery
Answer: Misery
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Question: What novels includes characters named Sethe, Liz Granacher, Paul D. McKnight, Charlie McKnight?
Choices: Beloved; Satanic Verses; The Color Purple; A Passage to India
Answer: Beloved
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Question: Willie Stark, Anne Stanton, Judge Montague Irving are characters from this novel.
Choices: All the Kings Men; Lady Lovelace; The Sun Also Rises; The Grapes of Wrath
Answer: All the Kings Men
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Question: Ari, Dov, Kitty Fremont, Akiva, Bruce Sutherland are characters in this novel.
Choices: The Glory; Ben-Hur; The Promise; Exodus
Answer: Exodus
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Question: This novel focuses on the lives of Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, Bill Gorton, Michael Campbell.
Choices: Ragtime; The Sun Also Rises; The Dog Soldiers; Day of the Locust
Answer: The Sun Also Rises
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Question: Which book includes the characters John Converse, Ray Hicks, Marge Converse?
Choices: Dog Soldiers; Day of the Locust; The Hearth; Day In Day Out
Answer: Dog Soldiers
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Question: What Southern novel centers on the lives of these characters: Jason, Quentin, Candice Compson, Dilsey Gibson?
Choices: Way of the  West; The Sound and the Fury; Dog Soldiers; Day of the Locust
Answer: The Sound and the Fury
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Question: John Singer, Mick Kelly, Biff Brannon, Jack Blount, Dr. Copeland are characters described in this literary work.
Choices: Giant; Strangers on a Train; Butterflies are Free; The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Answer: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Question: What novel by Erich Maria Remarque was banned in Nazi Germany for insulting the Wehrmacht?
Choices: The Night in Lisbon; Heaven Has No Favorites; The Black Obelisk; All Quiet on the Western Front
Answer: All Quiet on the Western Front
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Question: Name the author of Animal Farm, an anti-Stalinist novella, which was confiscated in Germany by Allied troops.
Choices: William Faulkner; Erich Maria Remarque; George Orwell; Boris Pasternak
Answer: George Orwell
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Question: What novel by Vladimir Nabokov was banned for obscenity in England, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa?
Choices: Lolita; Lips to Lips; Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Terra Incognita
Answer: Lolita
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Question: This book, published in 1988, was banned in Bangladesh, India, Singapore and Iran for blasphemous references and its author Salman Rushdie was condemned to death by former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Choices: Midnights Children; The Satanic Verses; Shame; East, West
Answer: The Satanic Verses
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Question: Who is the author of the book My Struggle (Mein Kampf) which was banned due to anti-Nazi laws?
Choices: Hermann Esser; Joseph Goebbels; Adolph Hitler; Benito Mussolini
Answer: Adolph Hitler
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Question: Which of these books by Henry Miller was banned in the US in the 1930s due to sexually explicit content?
Choices: Black Spring; All of these; Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn
Answer: All of these
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Question: This novel, which follows the adventures of junkie William Lee, was banned by Boston courts in 1962.
Choices: Naked Lunch; The Cat Inside; Interzone; On the Road
Answer: Naked Lunch
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Question: What classic satirical novel by Jonathan Swift was banned in Ireland for being wicked and obscene?
Choices: A Journal to Stella; A Modest Proposal; Gullivers Travels; Robinson Crusoe
Answer: Gullivers Travels
Category: literature
Question: What Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set during the Great Depression, was banned in some US States for vulgar language?
Choices: The Call of the Wild; The Grapes of Wrath; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
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Question: What 2003 best-selling novel by Dan Brown was denounced by Roman Catholics for being anti-Christian?
Choices: Foucaults Pendulum; The Solomon Key; Digital Fortress; The Da Vinci Code
Answer: The Da Vinci Code
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Question: What novel opens with this sentence: I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good  family thou not of that country, my father being from Bremen, who settled first at Hill.?
Choices: A Tale of Two Cities; Kidnapped; The Count of Monte Cristo; Robinson Crusoe
Answer: Robinson Crusoe
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Question: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again is the first sentence of this literary work.
Choices: Wuthering Heights; Emma; Jane Eyre; Rebecca
Answer: Rebecca
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Question: What novel opens with this line: It was a cold day in April and the clock was striking thirteen.?
Choices: Brave New World; A Clockwork Orange; The Time Machine; 1984
Answer: 1984
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Question: This novel opens with the following sentence: You may rejoice to hear that a disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil foreboding..
Choices: Fahrenheit  451; Dracula; The Time Machine; Frankenstein
Answer: Frankenstein
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Question: To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town is the opening of this literary work.
Choices: Of Mice and Men; Under Milk Wood; The Road Not Taken; The Inferno
Answer: Under Milk Wood
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Question: You better not tell nobody  but God is the beginning of this novel.
Choices: Gone with the Wind; The Da Vinci Code; The Color Purple; To Kill a Mockingbird
Answer: The Color Purple
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Question: This novel opens with the question Who is John Galt?.
Choices: The Bridges of Madison County; Atlas Shrugged; The Metamorphosis; The Da Vinci Code
Answer: Atlas Shrugged
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Question: All this happened, more or less is the first sentence of this book.
Choices: Stalag 17; Slaughterhouse  Five; Little Big Man; The Devils Advocate
Answer: Slaughterhouse  Five
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Question: Mother died today is the opening of this novel.
Choices: Mother Courage and Her Children; Animal Farm; The Stranger; No Exit
Answer: The Stranger
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Question: Which literary work opens with this line: To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, first you have to die.?
Choices: The Arabian Nights; The Metamorphosis; Satanic Verses; The  1001 Arabian Nights
Answer: Satanic Verses