kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: world
Question: Which of these statements about the U.S. state of Rhode Island is true?
Choices: It became the last U.S. state to ratify the Constitution.; None of these; It shares a border with only one other state.; It is the second-smallest state in the U.S.
Answer: None of these
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Question: What is the state flower of the U.S. state of Rhode Island?
Choices: Rose; Lily; Violet; Poppy
Answer: Violet
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Question: The Dominican Republic is located on the island of Hispaniola.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Which famous explorer reached the territory of the Dominican Republic in 1492?
Choices: Fernando Magellan; Amerigo Vespucci; Marco Polo; Christopher Columbus
Answer: Christopher Columbus
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Question: What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Choices: San Juan; Santiago; Santo Domingo; Samana
Answer: Santo Domingo
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Question: What is the motto of the Dominican Republic?
Choices: None of those; âIn God we trustâ; God, Homeland, Liberty; âFurther Beyondâ
Answer: God, Homeland, Liberty
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Question: What is the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic?
Choices: Basketball; Football; Handball; Baseball
Answer: Baseball
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Question: Christianity is the predominant religion in the The Dominican Republic.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What year did the Dominican Republic declare independence from Haiti?
Choices: 1804; 1944; 1904; 1844
Answer: 1844
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Question: What is the climate in the Dominican Republic?
Choices: None of these; Mediterranean; Continental; Tropical
Answer: Tropical
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Question: When do the people of the Dominican republic celebrate New Yearâs Day?
Choices: On January 2; On January 3; On December 31; On January 1
Answer: On January 1
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Question: How does the dog get the pigeons off the antenna at Lake Minnewahwahs mountain in the game Dogs Life?
Choices: He gets a bird feeder to get them down.; He barks at them until they fly away.; He leaves them on and lets someone else do it.; He pees on the antenna to electrocute them.
Answer: He gets a bird feeder to get them down.
Category: world
Question: What is Independence Day a celebration of?
Choices: American Revolutionary War; American Civil War; The Boston Tea Party; Declaration of Independence
Answer: Declaration of Independence
Category: world
Question: Which of the following famous persons was not born on July 4?
Choices: Calvin Coolidge; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Thomas Jefferson
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
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Question: In 1996 a movie called Independence Day (starring Will Smith) was released. What was it about?
Choices: Political conspiracy against the people; Attempted alien takeover of the Earth; The act of signing the Declaration of Independence; Launching an expensive space shuttle, called July 4th
Answer: Attempted alien takeover of the Earth
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Question: Which one was first to recognize Independence Day?
Choices: Connecticut; New Jersey; Massachusetts; Pennsylvania
Answer: Massachusetts
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Question: The American independence was recognized by Great Britain on September 3, 1783, by the Treaty of London.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Which of the following pairs is wrong?  It is the representative who took part in writing the draft of the declaration and their state.
Choices: Roger Sherman - New York; Benjamin Franklin - Pennsylvania; John Adams - Massachusetts; Thomas Jefferson - Virginia
Answer: Roger Sherman - New York
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Question: One of the most spectacular ways to celebrate July 4th is through colorful fireworks. Which of these types of fireworks is prohibited?
Choices: Roman candles; Sparklers; Smoke bombs; Cherry bombs
Answer: Cherry bombs
Category: world
Question: Decorating a Christmas tree, perhaps the most popular tradition related to Christmas celebrations, originated in which country?
Choices: Finland; Siberia; Norway; Germany
Answer: Germany
Category: world
Question: Joel Roberts Poinsett imported the popular decorative Christmas plants, poinsettias from this Central American country, where he worked as a US ambassador in the 19th century.
Choices: Guatemala; Mexico; Costa Rica; Panama
Answer: Mexico
Category: world
Question: At Christmas, children usually put stockings or shoes by the fireplace, by the door or by the windowsill. In which country do children fill their shoes with hay and carrots for Santaâs horse?
Choices: Denmark; Russia; Sweden; Holland
Answer: Holland
Category: world
Question: Carols are popular Christmas songs, performed on Christmas day. What was the original meaning of the word carol?
Choices: small group; Circle; Round dance; Choir
Answer: Round dance
Category: world
Question: It is generally considered that Santa Claus was a real person who lived in Myra in about 400 AD. In which present-day country is this place located?
Choices: Germany; Turkey; Finland; Lithuania
Answer: Turkey
Category: world
Question: The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, that guides Santas sleigh, was written in what year?
Choices: 1602; 1939; 1880; 1912
Answer: 1939
Category: world
Question: The Twelve Days of Christmas is the period from Christmas day to January 6. Which festival takes place on the last day of this period?
Choices: Christmas Eve; St. Stephenâs Day; Epiphany; Boxing Day
Answer: Epiphany
Category: world
Question: Who accompanies Grandfather Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus?
Choices: The White Wolf; Snow Fairy; Snow Maiden; The White Magi
Answer: Snow Maiden
Category: world
Question: Which traditional Christmas plant is sometimes called the vampire plant?
Choices: Holly; Poinsettia; Christmas cactus; Mistletoe
Answer: Mistletoe
Category: world
Question: The 27th Amendment, which deals with congressional pay raises, was adopted in this year.
Choices: 1987; 1992; 1984; 1995
Answer: 1992
Category: world
Question: Three of these Amendments have been adopted during the 1920s. Which is the odd one?
Choices: 15th Amendment; 18th Amendment; 19th Amendment; 17th Amendment
Answer: 15th Amendment
Category: world
Question: The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is known as this.
Choices: The Susan B. Anthony Amendment; The Woodrow Wilson Amendment; The Bainbridge Colby Amendment; The Tennessee Amendment
Answer: The Susan B. Anthony Amendment
Category: world
Question: The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution set this limit for the President of the United States.
Choices: Two-term limit; Four-term limit; Three-term limit; The limit concerned the Presidential expenditure.
Answer: Two-term limit
Category: world
Question: The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution stated this.
Choices: States themselves enjoyed the privilege to sue citizens of other states.; States themselves did not enjoy sovereign immunity from suits made by citizens of other states.; States themselves could not be sued by citizens of other states.; States themselves could not sue citizens of other states.
Answer: States themselves did not enjoy sovereign immunity from suits made by citizens of other states.
Category: world
Question: One of the following pairs (Amendment - the year in which it was adopted) is wrong.
Choices: First Amendment - 1791; Sixteenth Amendment - 1913; Third Amendment - 1792; Twelfth Amendment - 1804
Answer: Third Amendment - 1792
Category: world
Question: The 12th Amendment deals with this.
Choices: Slavery; Rights to Vote; Severe Punishments; Electoral College
Answer: Electoral College
Category: world
Question: Up to the beginning of the 20th century, this number of Amendments were ratified.
Choices: 19; 15; 17; 13
Answer: 15
Category: world
Question: What year did congress approve the Declaration of Independence, making the 13 colonies a land of a sovereign nation?
Choices: 1777; 1876; 1677; 1776
Answer: 1776
Category: world
Question: One year after the Declaration was approved, the citizens of this city commemorated the event by setting off fireworks, ringing bells and firing their guns.
Choices: Alabama; New York; Michigan; Philadelphia
Answer: Philadelphia
Category: world
Question: Each year a Liberty Medal is given on July 4th to a prominent world leader in honor of Independence Day. Which award is the medal accompanied by?
Choices: $100, 000; $200, 000; $70, 000; $50, 000
Answer: $100, 000
Category: world
Question: How many towns in the USA have liberty in their names?
Choices: 10; 60; 5; 30
Answer: 30
Category: world
Question: In Boston, July 4th replaced this major holiday, as the most celebrated.
Choices: August 15; December 24; June 10; March 5
Answer: March 5
Category: world
Question: This prominent symbol associated with early American history and the battle for American independence summoned citizens for the reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1976.
Choices: The Liberty Bell; Fireworks; Yankee Doodle; The Statue of Liberty
Answer: The Liberty Bell
Category: world
Question: There was not a single signature appended to the Declaration of Independence until the 4th of July. Thomas McKean, one of the signers,  did not sign the Declaration until this year.
Choices: 1777; 1779; 1785; 1781
Answer: 1781
Category: world
Question: Who is the author of the Declaration of Independence?
Choices: Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; Matthew Thornton; John Dunlap
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Category: world
Question: In order to make the Declaration official, this President of the Continental Congress had to sign it.
Choices: George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; John Hancock; Robert Morris
Answer: John Hancock
Category: world
Question: On what day did American colonies actually declare their independent from Britain?
Choices: August 15; July 5; July 3; July 2
Answer: July 2
Category: world
Question: The United States Marine Corps motto, Semper Fidelis means what in Latin?
Choices: Always Faithful; Always and Forever; Always Precise; Always Together
Answer: Always Faithful
Category: world
Question: What famous U.S. Army general said: If it werent for these crazy, foolhardy, vulgar, wild, gutsy, braggarts who joined the Marine Corps, we would not have a country, a free country. A free country that allows others to call us names. We have protected this country and died for you?
Choices: Chesty Puller; Eisenhower; Bradley; George Patton
Answer: George Patton
Category: world
Question: He was the longest-serving Commandant of the Marine Corps, often referred to as the grand old man of the Marine Corps.
Choices: John Archer Lejeune; Charles Whitman; Pappy Boyington; Archibald Henderson
Answer: Archibald Henderson
Category: world
Question: These are the most elite Special Operation Forces of the US navy. They have fought in major conflicts, including Operation Enduring Freedom - the military response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Choices: SAS; SEAL; GIGN; SWAT
Answer: SEAL
Category: world
Question: This Special Operation Force of the US Army is officially referred to as the Combat Application Group. It was featured in Ridley Scotâs movie, âBlack Hawk Downâ.
Choices: Delta Force; Black Berets; SWAT; SEAL
Answer: Delta Force
Category: world
Question: This specialized paramilitary police unit in the USA, created in the city of Delano, California, in the 1960s, is often called upon for dangerous operations.
Choices: SWAT; GEK; SBS; GIGN
Answer: SWAT
Category: world
Question: This elite combat frogman force, formerly called Decima Flottiglia MAS, is part of the Italian special forces.
Choices: GVP/ESR; CIAES; Jagdkommando; COMSUBIN
Answer: COMSUBIN
Category: world
Question: This unit, formed in 1941, is part of the UK special forces. Its badge depicts a sword with an inscription: âWho dares winsâ.
Choices: GEK; SEK; DGSE; SAS
Answer: SAS
Category: world
Question: The Foreign Legion, founded in 1831, is an elite rapid deployment force which consists mainly of foreign volunteers. It is a military formation within the army of which country?
Choices: Austria; Germany; France; Australia
Answer: France
Category: world
Question: The fictional character John Rambo, portrayed on the big screen by actor Sylvester Stallone, belongs to what US special forces?
Choices: Red Berets; SEAL; Green Berets; Delta Force
Answer: Green Berets
Category: world
Question: This Australian special force deals with reconnaissance and counter-terrorism. It played a significant role in providing security during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000.
Choices: SAU; SASR; DGSE; KS
Answer: SASR
Category: world
Question: GEK Cobra, founded in 1972 to protect Jewish immigrants from Palestinian terrorists, is the counter-terrorist unit of this country.
Choices: Austria; Israel; Belgium; France
Answer: Austria
Category: world
Question: The counter-terrorism unit, GSG-9, established on April 17, 1973 and considered to be among the best of such units in the world, is part of the federal police of which country?
Choices: Italy; Germany; Spain; United Kingdom
Answer: Germany
Category: world
Question: October is one of 7 months with 31 days.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Which of the following African countries gained its independence from the United Kingdom on October 1, 1960?
Choices: South Africa; Nigeria; Ghana; Liberia
Answer: Nigeria
Category: world
Question: On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash together with what other members of his family?
Choices: His brother and his sister; His wife and her sister; His wife and his sister; His wife and his mother-in-law
Answer: His wife and her sister
Category: world
Question: Which of these members of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd survived the plane crash in Mississippi on October 20, 1977?
Choices: Ronnie VanZant; Artimus Pyle; Cassie Gaines; Steve Gaines
Answer: Artimus Pyle
Category: world
Question: In 2001, RB singer and actress Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash right after take-off in which part of the world?
Choices: The Bahamas; Wisconsin; South Africa; Indonesia
Answer: The Bahamas
Category: world
Question: The mother of which popular American singer was killed in a plane crash in California on January 6, 1977?
Choices: Elvis Presley; Tom Jones; Buddy Holly; Frank Sinatra
Answer: Frank Sinatra
Category: world
Question: When did Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, die in a plane crash on a training mission east of Moscow?
Choices: January, 1977; March, 1968; June, 1961; December, 1986
Answer: March, 1968
Category: world
Question: How old was singer Otis Redding when he was killed in a plane crash into Lake Monona, Wisconsin, in 1967?
Choices: 26; 45; 18; 61
Answer: 26
Category: world
Question: In which city was blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan expected to arrive, when his helicopter crashed killing everyone on board in 1990?
Choices: Dallas; Los Angeles; Sacramento; Chicago
Answer: Chicago
Category: world
Question: This famous Norwegian explorer, the first man to reach the South Pole, died in a plane crash in the Barens Sea on June 18, 1928.
Choices: Roald Amundsen; Robert Falcon Scott; Fridtjof Nansen; Frederick Cook
Answer: Roald Amundsen
Category: world
Question: Which musicians were killed in the crash on February 3, 1959, a day widely known as The Day The Music Died?
Choices: The Big Bopper, Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra; Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens; Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Stevie Ray Vaughan; Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly
Answer: Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens
Category: world
Question: American singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash in Tennessee together with what other popular country singer?
Choices: Willie Nelson; Faith Hill; Buddy Holly; Cowboy Copas
Answer: Cowboy Copas
Category: world
Question: Which is the capital city of Scotland?
Choices: Glasgow; Perth; London; Edinburgh
Answer: Edinburgh
Category: world
Question: The Shetland Islands, which belong to Scotland, were once Norwegian.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: What kind of animal is the haggis?
Choices: breed of hunting dog; sheep; wild cat; It is not an animal
Answer: It is not an animal
Category: world
Question: When did monarchs sit on the Stone of Scone in Scotland?
Choices: during a coronation ceremony; in the privy; at meal times; when his/her feet hurt
Answer: during a coronation ceremony
Category: world
Question: The Scottish island Fair Isle is famous for what?
Choices: black and white sweets; Fairy cakes; blondes; colourful, patterned knitwear
Answer: colourful, patterned knitwear
Category: world
Question: It is rumoured that there are two monsters in Scotland.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Is the village of Berwick in Scotland?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
Category: world
Question: What are Berwick cockles?
Choices: wooden clogs; sweets; shellfish; small round stones
Answer: sweets
Category: world
Question: The Broons are a fictional Scottish family.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Who was on the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine?
Choices: Eric Clapton; Jimi Hendrix; Janis Joplin; John Lennon
Answer: John Lennon
Category: world
Question: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show finally got their name on the cover of the March 29, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: world
Question: The December 9, 2004 issue of Rolling Stone magazine was a special collectors issue titled The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. This song, which was voted # 1, was written by a twenty-four-year old singer/songwriter whose voice spoke for many of his generation. Al Kooper played organ and Paul Butterfield played guitar. What was the song?
Choices: Hey, Jude; Like a Rolling Stone; (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction; Smells Like Teen Spirit
Answer: Like a Rolling Stone
Category: world
Question: Dumping in the context of trade law is observed when this takes place.
Choices: A manufacturer refuses to export his product.; A manufacturer in one country exports a product to another country at an unfairly low price.; A manufacturer imports a product at an unfairly low price in order to obviate his competition.; A manufacturer sells his product to a company which exports the product to other countries.
Answer: A manufacturer in one country exports a product to another country at an unfairly low price.
Category: world
Question: A small business is defined as business whose number of employees is under 1000.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: world
Question: NAFTA includes three of these four countries. Which is the odd one?
Choices: Mexico; Cuba; Canada; The USA
Answer: Cuba
Category: world
Question: Free Trade can refer to goods, services, labour and capital.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Protectionism is an economic policy of promoting domestic industries through debunking foreign goods.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: world
Question: Prices of goods rise when quantity diminishes.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Although St. Valentines Day was declared a Church holiday as early as 496, it was not until the 14th century, in medieval England and France, that it was associated with romantic love. What was believed to occur on February 14th, to cause this association?
Choices: Birds started pairing off.; Spring season began.; Wild animals started their search for a mate.; Flowers began to blossom.
Answer: Birds started pairing off.
Category: world
Question: Saint Valentine, a kind-hearted priest who according to legends lived in Rome during the third century AD, was sentenced to death, as he disobeyed the orders of which Roman emperor?
Choices: Nero; Julius Caesar; Theodosius I; Claudius II
Answer: Claudius II
Category: world
Question: Cupid, one of the major symbols in St. Valentines Day celebrations, is a mythological character, son of which goddess?
Choices: Venus; Minerva; Ceres; Vesta
Answer: Venus
Category: world
Question: According to ancient legends, the phrase Your Valentine, popular among lovers today, derived from St. Valentines expression of love for his sweetheart, shortly before he died. How did he express his love?
Choices: In a love note; In an ode; In a love poem; In a love song
Answer: In a love note
Category: world
Question: This female character, depicted by Shakespeare, delivers the following line in her insane speech: Tomorrow is Saint Valentines Day.
Choices: Gerthrude; Desdemona; Ophelia; Lady Macbeth
Answer: Ophelia
Category: world
Question: In the symbolic language of flowers, a rose of purple color given to someone on St. Valentines Day, signifies what?
Choices: Love at first sight; Attraction, suppressed due to intimidation; Strong and passionate desire; Respect rather than love
Answer: Love at first sight
Category: world
Question: In the United States, this holiday is the humorous and somewhat sarcastic alternative to St. Valentines Day, also celebrated on February 14, but by those without a significant other.
Choices: Sad Single Day; Singles Consciousness Day; Singles Awareness Day; Happy Singles Day
Answer: Singles Awareness Day
Category: world
Question: The day of February 14, 1929 remained in history not with its romantic atmosphere, but with one of the most publicized murders in the United States. Which famous American gangster stood behind these murders?
Choices: Angelo Bruno; Al Capone; Pino Greco; Sam Giancana
Answer: Al Capone
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Question: This holiday is the Chinese equivalent of the Western, Saint Valentines Day.
Choices: Lantern Festival; The Night of Sevens; Dragon Boat; Qing Ming Jie
Answer: The Night of Sevens
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Question: This little beauty had three deuces and a four speed and a 389. Ronnie and the Daytonas
Choices: Ford; Chevrolet; Pontiac; Dodge
Answer: Pontiac
Category: world
Question: In what song did Prince advise Baby Ure much 2 fast; U got to slow down.?
Choices: Pink Cadillac; Little Red Corvette; Mercedes Benz; Bitchin Camaro
Answer: Little Red Corvette
Category: world
Question: He passed me on Doheny then I began to swerve
Choices: t I pulled her out and there we were-at Dead Mans Curve.  ; e singer was cruisin in his Stingray late one night when he was challenged to a drag race by the owner of another car. What make of car did the singer watch slide into the curve?; XKE; Deuce Coupe; GTO; Woodie
Answer: XKE
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Question: Everybody says that there is nobody meaner than this little old grandma from Pasadena.
Choices: es the terror of Colorado Boulevard. What slick machine is hidden in her rickey old garage?; Low Rider; Hot Rod Lincoln; Super Stock Dodge; Little Deuce Coupe
Answer: Super Stock Dodge
Category: world
Question: She should have gone to the library like she told her old man but shes too busy makin the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race, now. Too bad cause Daddy got wise (you shouldnt have lied, you shouldnt have lied) and there isnt going to be anymore Fun, Fun, Fun. What make of car did Daddy take away?
Choices: T-Bird; Mercedes Benz; Pink Cadillac; Little Red Corvette
Answer: T-Bird
Category: world
Question: Which US state hosts the school known as the CIA?
Choices: Maryland; Washington; Virginia; New York
Answer: New York
Category: world
Question: Which one is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States?
Choices: Virginia; Yale; Trinity; William and Mary
Answer: William and Mary
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Question: When Freud came to visit the USA, he lectured at this college.
Choices: Clark; Princeton; Columbia; Harvard
Answer: Clark
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Question: Which college was eleventh to join the Big Ten Conference?
Choices: The Ohio State University; The University of Minnesota; Michigan State University; The Pennsylvania State University
Answer: The Pennsylvania State University
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Question: This college hosts the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the worlds leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry.
Choices: Yale; Harvard; Chicago; Princeton
Answer: Princeton
Category: world
Question: Which of these institutions has the lowest reported level of alcohol drinking on campus ?
Choices: Arizona State; Yale; Brigham Young University; Oregon
Answer: Brigham Young University
Category: world
Question: It was at an abandoned part of the athletic fields of this U.S. college, that the first nuclear reactor was developed by Enrico Fermi.
Choices: University of Chicago; University of Arizona; Purdue University; New Mexico
Answer: University of Chicago
Category: world
Question: This is the only US state to have two Ivy League colleges.
Choices: New York; New Jersey; Massachusetts; Rhode Island
Answer: New York
Category: world
Question: Which US state is Washington University located in?
Choices: Washington ,D.C.; Virginia; Missouri; Washington
Answer: Missouri
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Question: This is the only school to win the NCAA basketball Championship and the NIT basketball tournaments in the same year.
Choices: City College of New York; UCLA; Duke; Kentucky
Answer: City College of New York
Category: world
Question: Which two states have an Albany State University?
Choices: Florida and New York; Rhode Island and New York; New York and Georgia; New York and New Jersey
Answer: New York and Georgia
Category: world
Question: Lucy Hobbs was the first female dentist in America. From which school did she get her degree?
Choices: Antioch Medical and Dental School; Boston General Medical School; The Ohio College of Dental Surgery; The College of William and Mary  Medical Institute
Answer: The Ohio College of Dental Surgery
Category: world
Question: Elizabeth Swallow was the first woman professional chemist in America. From what school did she get her B.S. degree?
Choices: Stanford; MIT; Yale; Harvard
Answer: MIT
Category: world
Question: What English city was actually the Titanics home port?
Choices: Liverpool; Belfast; Plymouth; Southampton
Answer: Liverpool
Category: world
Question: There was a visual difference between the Titanic and its sister ship, the Olympic.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: The Titanic had one steam turbine engine and two conventional steam engines.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which funnel on the RMS Titanic was a dummy?
Choices: the fourth; the second; the third; the first
Answer: the fourth
Category: world
Question: What were the Titanics wireless call letters?
Choices: YMG; MYG; GMY; MGY
Answer: MGY
Category: world
Question: Which first class passenger on the Titanic was a famous dress designer known as Lucile?
Choices: Madeline Force Astor; Ida Strauss; Edith Evans; Lady Cosmo Duff Gordon
Answer: Lady Cosmo Duff Gordon
Category: world
Question: Which of the Titanics officers is rumored to have killed himself?
Choices: Wilde; Murdoch; Lowe; Lightoller
Answer: Murdoch
Category: world
Question: What was the funnel color of the White Star shipping company?
Choices: black and buff; black and yellow; black and white; black and orange
Answer: black and buff
Category: world
Question: What was the relationship between Thomas Andrews, Titanics chief designer and Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff, the shipyard that built Titanic?
Choices: son/father; cousins; nephew/uncle; father-in-law/son-in-law
Answer: nephew/uncle
Category: world
Question: What are the three colors of the Jamaican flag?
Choices: Yellow,Green,and White; Green, Blue, and White; Black, Yellow, and Green; none of these
Answer: Black, Yellow, and Green
Category: world
Question: There are 52 stars on the United States flag.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What three colors are on the flag of France?
Choices: Red, White and Blue; Red, White, and Green; None of these; Red, Yellow and Green
Answer: Red, White and Blue
Category: world
Question: There are two stars on the Panama flag.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The flags of what two countries look almost the same?
Choices: Italy and Mexico; Mexico and Dominica; Italy and Portugal; none of these
Answer: Italy and Mexico
Category: world
Question: Pakistans flag has a star and what other symbol?
Choices: circle; sun; crescent moon; Triangle
Answer: crescent moon
Category: world
Question: The letter R was found in the middle of the old Rwanda flag.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What is pictured in the middle of the Lebanon flag?
Choices: Bird; Star; None of these; Tree
Answer: Tree
Category: world
Question: What year was the GTO first offered as an option package for a Pontiac vehicle?
Choices: 1969; 1965; 1964; 1962
Answer: 1964
Category: world
Question: During the mid-late 60s Royal Pontiac (a car dealer in Royal Oaks, Michigan) offered a special tune-up package for the GTO 389 engine. What was the name of that performance package?
Choices: Bobcat; Trans Am; Super Sport; Boss
Answer: Bobcat
Category: world
Question: In what year did General Motors decide to drop the GTO as an option package and add it to their vehicle lineup as a separate model series?
Choices: 1965; 1968; 1966; 1972
Answer: 1966
Category: world
Question: In what year did General Motors decide to drop GTO as a separate model and reinstate the GTO as an option package for the LeMans and LeMans sport coupes?
Choices: 1981; 1972; 1971; 1975
Answer: 1972
Category: world
Question: What nationality were the immigrants that brought versions of the Halloween tradition to North America during the 1840s?
Choices: German; Dutch; Hungarian; Irish
Answer: Irish
Category: world
Question: Name the Gaelic festival of the dead from which Halloween originated.
Choices: Beltane; Samhain; Imbolc; Hogmanay
Answer: Samhain
Category: world
Question: Helloween, one of the pioneering power metal bands, was formed in this country.
Choices: Germany; the USA; The Netherlands; the UK
Answer: Germany
Category: world
Question: It is common lore that the Jack olantern originated from the tale of a drunkard known as Stingy Jack or Jack the Smith. Who did Jack manage to trap?
Choices: the Devil; his malevolent landlord; the ghost of a murderer; the Grim Reaper
Answer: the Devil
Category: world
Question: What fictional character, created by Charles M. Schulz, believes in the Great Pumpkin and says, There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.?
Choices: Charlie Brown; Linus van Pelt; Barney Google; Snoopy
Answer: Linus van Pelt
Category: world
Question: The night before Halloween, known as Devils Night, is an integral part of this 1994 action-thriller film, set in Detroit.
Choices: Fight Club; Psycho; The Crow; Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Answer: The Crow
Category: world
Question: Which of these characters that have become part of the imagery surrounding Halloween is not correctly matched with the author who depicted him?
Choices: Frankensteins monster - Mary Shelley; Dracula - Bram Stoker; The Headless Horseman - Washington Irving; All of them are correctly matched.
Answer: All of them are correctly matched.
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Question: An old Irish Halloween tradition was to serve a dish called âcolcannonâ with prizes hidden in it. What are the main ingredients of this traditional Irish dish?
Choices: mashed potatoes and cabbage; rice and meat; dried fruit and nuts; eggs and milk
Answer: mashed potatoes and cabbage
Category: world
Question: Which of these Halloween events is not correctly matched with the place where it is held?
Choices: Terror Behind the Walls -  Madison, Wisconsin; Halloween on Franklin Street - Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Howl-O-Scream - Tampa, Florida; Halloween in the Castro â San Francisco, California
Answer: Terror Behind the Walls -  Madison, Wisconsin
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Question: What English author wrote the novel Halloween Party in which a girl is drowned in an apple-bobbing tub?
Choices: Agatha Christie; Dashiell Hammett; P.G. Wodehouse; Terry Pratchett
Answer: Agatha Christie
Category: world
Question: Who was the US President when the Berlin Wall fell?
Choices: George Bush Jr.; Ronald Reagan; George Bush Sr.; Bill Clinton
Answer: George Bush Sr.
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Question: Who was the leader of the legendary SolidarnoÅÄ (Solidarity) labor union that led the efforts to end communist rule in Poland?
Choices: Viktor OrbÃ¡n; Lech WaÅÄsa; Tadeusz Mazowiecki; Vaclav Havel
Answer: Lech WaÅÄsa
Category: world
Question: Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?
Choices: Konstantin Chernenko; Mikhail Gorbachev; Nikita Khrushchev; Boris Yeltsin
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev
Category: world
Question: Which Chancellor united Germany in 1990?
Choices: Helmut Kohl; Erich Honecker; Egon Krenz; Angela Merkel
Answer: Helmut Kohl
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Question: Which Pope was the spiritual leader of the anti-communist opposition in one of the former Eastern block countries in 1980s?
Choices: None - Roman Catholic Church backed the communist governments; Benedict XVI - because he was German and wanted to see his country unified; John Paul II - because he was Polish and wanted to see his country free; John Paul I - because he came from a family with long-standing anti-communist views
Answer: John Paul II - because he was Polish and wanted to see his country free
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Question: Which of these events was first in the avalanche that swept away communist governments in Europe?
Choices: the execution of Nicolae CeauÅescu in Romania; the split of Czechoslovakia; the peaceful establishment of non-communist government in Poland; the fall of the Berlin Wall
Answer: the peaceful establishment of non-communist government in Poland
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Question: Which former Soviet Republic was first to declare independence from the USSR?
Choices: Lithuania; Belarus; Russia; Ukraine
Answer: Lithuania
Category: world
Question: Which term refers to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia?
Choices: Silk Revolution; Cotton Revolution; Woolen Revolution; Velvet Revolution
Answer: Velvet Revolution
Category: world
Question: All revolutions of the 1989 Autumn of Nations in Europe were rather peaceful. Which country was the only one to overthrow their communist regime violently?
Choices: Romania; Hungary; East Germany; Russia
Answer: Romania
Category: world
Question: Which countrys all three neighbors were dissolved between 1990 and 1993?
Choices: Poland; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Hungary
Answer: Poland
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Question: After 1989, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, many new countries appeared on the map of Europe. Which is not one of them?
Choices: Croatia; Slovakia; Hungary; Estonia
Answer: Hungary
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Question: The final act of the fall of communism in Europe was the accession of many former Eastern block countries to NATO and the European Union. When did the EU admit 8 of those countries?
Choices: 1 May 2004; 1 January 2002; 1 November 1993; 1 January 2007
Answer: 1 May 2004
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Question: The first documented Thanksgiving ceremony in what was to become the United States of America took place in 1565 when a group of European settlers landed at St. Augustine, Florida. What nationality were these settlers?
Choices: Spanish; Irish; Dutch; English
Answer: Spanish
Category: world
Question: The Pilgrims, who established Plymouth Colony in 1620, were fleeing religious persecution in England, which was ruled at that time by this king.
Choices: Henry VIII; James I; Charles I; Charles II
Answer: James I
Category: world
Question: What is the meaning of the Latin word âpelegrinusâ from which the word âpilgrimâ originates?
Choices: foreigner; follower; rebel; separatist
Answer: foreigner
Category: world
Question: Which of these statements regarding Thanksgiving was made by an American President?
Choices: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.; Sharing in Gods blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.; Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.; All of these
Answer: All of these
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Question: In his satirical book âThe Devils Dictionaryâ, this American journalist and writer defined turkey as âa large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitudeâ.
Choices: Vernon Ethelbert Grant; Frank Jacobs; Mark Twain; Ambrose Bierce
Answer: Ambrose Bierce
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Question: Benjamin Franklin considered the turkey a much more respectable bird than the Bald Eagle. He expressed his disapproval with the choice of the Bald Eagle as the national emblem in a letter to whom?
Choices: his son; the Congress; the editor of the Albany Gazette; his daughter
Answer: his daughter
Category: world
Question: What US President refused to issue Thanksgiving proclamations during his Presidency?
Choices: George Washington; James Madison; Thomas Jefferson; John Adams
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Category: world
Question: What Native American tribe is said to have celebrated with the colonists the 1621 harvest festival, known as the First Thanksgiving Dayâ?
Choices: Wampanoag; Sicangu; Lakota; Miniconjou
Answer: Wampanoag
Category: world
Question: What Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning song expresses the Native American belief that the earth is a living entity and people are connected to everything in nature?
Choices: Amazing Grace; Look to Your Path; Into the West; Colors of the Wind
Answer: Colors of the Wind
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Question: In the USA, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. What neologism refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday?
Choices: Cyber Monday; Shopping Monday; Gloomy Monday; Busy Monday
Answer: Cyber Monday
Category: world
Question: Which of these movies tells a story that takes place within a 12-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving?
Choices: Scent of a Woman; Hannah and Her Sisters; The Ice Storm; Home for the Holidays
Answer: Hannah and Her Sisters
Category: world
Question: This Thanksgiving poem is an example of which of the following?
Choices: ankful families join in prayer; ppy gatherings everywhere; tumn feasts with treasured friends; w Years ending; old year ends; ndled fires on hearth will bring; iles and warmth from hearts that sing; ateful songs on Thanksgiving;  each happy, pulsing heart; neration plays its part; vitations; doorbells ring; arby, the chapels Ding-dong-ding!; ateful praise on Thanksgiving!; burlesque; limerick; epigram; acrostic
Answer: acrostic
Category: world
Question: The origins of Thanksgiving Day can be traced back to harvest festivals that have been celebrated since ancient times. What is the meaning of the Anglo-Saxon word from which the word âharvestâ is derived?
Choices: reaping; hearth; plenty; autumn
Answer: autumn
Category: world
Question: What holiday observed in the US coincides with Thanksgiving Day in Canada?
Choices: All Saintsâ Day; Veterans Day; Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day; Columbus Day
Answer: Columbus Day
Category: world
Question: Starting in 1970, what annual protest is held on Thanksgiving Day in the US?
Choices: The National Day of Mourning; Black Protest; National Anti-racial Protest; The National Anti-nuclear Protest
Answer: The National Day of Mourning
Category: world
Question: What poet, known as âThe Woman in Whiteâ, wrote a Thanksgiving poem opening with these lines?
Choices: e Day is there of the Series; rmed Thanksgiving Day.; lebrated part at Table; rt in Memory.; Anne Sexton; Emily Dickinson; Sylvia Plath; Marianne Moore
Answer: Emily Dickinson
Category: world
Question: In the movie âScent of a Womanâ, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade reveals to young Charlie, that his plan for the Thanksgiving holiday is: to stay in a first-class hotel, eat an agreeable meal, drink a nice glass of wine, visit his elder brother, make love to a terrific woman and then blow his brains out. Name the two actors who star in the movie.
Choices: Al Pacino and Chris ODonnell; Al Pacino and Leonardo DiCaprio; Robert De Niro and Chris OâDonnell; Al Pacino and Edward Norton
Answer: Al Pacino and Chris ODonnell
Category: world
Question: What was the dominant type of Native American living structure in the Eastern United States and Canada?
Choices: The tipi; The mandan; The hogan; The wigwam
Answer: The wigwam
Category: world
Question: This Native American group often built homes that were 100 feet in length.
Choices: Delaware; Dakota; Iroquois; Pawnee
Answer: Iroquois
Category: world
Question: Non-Native Americans refer to this group as Delaware.
Choices: Shawnee; Creek; Cree; Lenni-Lenape
Answer: Lenni-Lenape
Category: world
Question: Which of these groups is the most populous in the USA?
Choices: Arapajo; Sioux; Navajo; Apache
Answer: Navajo
Category: world
Question: According to the 2003 US Census Bureau statistics, about  how many Americans classify themselves as Native Americans?
Choices: 19,987; 12,719,508; 278,652; 2,786,652
Answer: 2,786,652
Category: world
Question: In order for a Native American group to be recognized, it must be submitted to extensive genealogical investigation.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Which of these states has no recognized Native American tribes?
Choices: New Jersey; New York; Virginia; Alabama
Answer: Virginia
Category: world
Question: What was Sitting Bulls original name?
Choices: Blue Elk; Yawning One; White Elk; Slow
Answer: Slow
Category: world
Question: Which native American tribe was lead by Sitting Bull?
Choices: Arapajo; Nagales Cheyenne; Hunkpapa Sioux; Chirickauwa Apache
Answer: Hunkpapa Sioux
Category: world
Question: Who was the college football and track coach of Native American Jim Thorpe, one of the great athletes in world history?
Choices: Pop Warner; Knute Rockne; Dennis Carlisle; Bulldog Turner
Answer: Pop Warner
Category: world
Question: What does this Southern Paiute word wiitokuchumpunkuruganiyugwivantumu mean?
Choices: The-Whites-people-who-come-to-kill-the -buffalo-with weapons; They -who-come-to-the-Land-of-the-Four-Corners; They -who-are -going-to-sit-and-cut-up-a-black-female-Buffalo-with-knives; They-who- come-to- the-Greasy-Grass-River
Answer: They -who-are -going-to-sit-and-cut-up-a-black-female-Buffalo-with-knives
Category: world
Question: How are nouns classified in Native American languages?
Choices: Formal and group; Male and  female; Animate and inanimate; Singular and plural
Answer: Animate and inanimate
Category: world
Question: What are petroglyphs?
Choices: Rock carvings made by Iroquois people; Rock carvings made by Sioux and Cheyenne people; Rock carvings made by the Anasazi; Rock carvings made by Navajo people
Answer: Rock carvings made by the Anasazi
Category: world
Question: What is the seat of government for the Navajo Nation?
Choices: Tuba City; Gallup; Window Rock; Serra Lake
Answer: Window Rock
Category: world
Question: What does Article 1of the U.S. Constitution deal with?
Choices: Executive Branch; Judicial Branch; Legislative Branch; Ratification
Answer: Legislative Branch
Category: world
Question: What does Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution deal with?
Choices: Amendments; Judicial Branch; Relations Among the States; Executive Branch
Answer: Executive Branch
Category: world
Question: What does Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution deal with?
Choices: Amending the Constitution; Judicial Branch; Legislative Branch; Relations Among the States
Answer: Judicial Branch
Category: world
Question: Which Article deals with Ratification of the U.S. Constitution?
Choices: 4; 7; 6; 5
Answer: 7
Category: world
Question: Which section of the Legislative Branch gives U.S. Congress its powers?
Choices: 8; 6; 4; 2
Answer: 8
Category: world
Question: Article 4 of the U.S. Constitution deals with Relations Among the States.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: world
Question: Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1992?
Choices: 29; 19; 27; 22
Answer: 27
Category: world
Question: These two Oxford students were members of Monty Python.
Choices: Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam; John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson; Michael Palin and Terry Jones; Terry Gilliam and John Cleese
Answer: Michael Palin and Terry Jones
Category: world
Question: This Oxford scholar wrote The Wealth of Nations.
Choices: William Golding; Thomas Hobbes; Aldous Huxley; Adam Smith
Answer: Adam Smith
Category: world
Question: This Oxford graduate wrote Lord of the Flies.
Choices: John Locke; Adam Smith; Thomas Hobbes; William Golding
Answer: William Golding
Category: world
Question: This Oxford graduate wrote The Leviathan, a classic work on legitimate government and society.
Choices: John Locke; William Golding; Jonathan Swift; Thomas Hobbes
Answer: Thomas Hobbes
Category: world
Question: This English philosopher wrote Two Treatises on Government , a philosophical work that had a great influence on the writers of the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
Choices: Thomas Hobbes; Adam Smith; John Locke; Aldous Huxley
Answer: John Locke
Category: world
Question: This neurologist was an Oxford grad who became famous for his athletic ability.
Choices: Roger Bannister; Jonathan Swift; Al Oerter; Michael Spitz
Answer: Roger Bannister
Category: world
Question: This Oxford scholar was a master of satire. He wrote A Modest Proposal, and An Argument  Against Abolishing Christianity.
Choices: William Golding; Roger Bannister; Jonathan Swift; Adam Smith
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Category: world
Question: This Oxford scholar dared to try spread freedom and was assassinated as a result.
Choices: Anwar Sadat; King Harald; William Penn`; Benazir Bhutto
Answer: Benazir Bhutto
Category: world
Question: This Oxford graduate wrote the screenplay for the movie The Third Man.
Choices: John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; Jonathan Swift; Graham Greene
Answer: Graham Greene
Category: world
Question: This Romantic poet lived 1788-1824. Among his best works are Don Juan and When We Two Parted.
Choices: Matthew Arnold; Robert Browning; Alfred Lord  Tennyson; Lord Byron
Answer: Lord Byron
Category: world
Question: This Oxford scholar is credited with making the first mechanical computer.
Choices: Isaac Newton; G.H.Hardy; Charles Babbage; James Clerk Maxwell
Answer: Charles Babbage
Category: world
Question: This great scientist was able to show the equivalence of  electricity, magnetism and light  via a set of  equations that carry his name.
Choices: G.H. Hardy; Charles Babbage; James Clerk Maxwell; Isaac Newton
Answer: James Clerk Maxwell
Category: world
Question: This Oxford scholar is the author of a series of books about a teddy bear .
Choices: A.A. Milne; Earl Gray; lord Grey; Lord Byron
Answer: A.A. Milne
Category: world
Question: He was a great British mathematician, scientist, and philosopher. His attempt to give mathematics a complete axiomatic basis was foiled. In 1950 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Choices: JRR Tolkien; Aldous Huxley; Bertrand Russell; John Le Carre
Answer: Bertrand Russell
Category: world
Question: This Oxford scholar and Indian Prime Minister was assassinated in 1984.
Choices: Imran Khan; Mohandas Gandhi; Indira Gandhi; Benazir Bhutto
Answer: Indira Gandhi
Category: world
Question: He was, arguably, the greatest architect in British history. He designed St. Pauls Cathedral in London.
Choices: Tim Mallett; I.M.Pei; Chad Varah; Christopher Wren
Answer: Christopher Wren
Category: world
Question: He was a great British explorer, an orientalist, and, probably, the first non-Muslim to visit Mecca and Medina.
Choices: Cecil Rhodes; Nevil Shute; Richard Burton; Aldous Huxley
Answer: Richard Burton
Category: world
Question: Who wrote The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and The Constant Gardener?
Choices: Nevil Shute; John Le Carre; William F. Golding; Robert Ludlum
Answer: John Le Carre
Category: world
Question: This Oxford scholar is given credit for developing the World Wide Web.
Choices: Vannevar Bush; Philip Larkin; Al Gore; Timothy Berners-Lee
Answer: Vannevar Bush
Category: world
Question: Ah, beauty and brains! This British beauty attended Oxford but left before graduation to become an actress. She was seen in Pearl Harbor, Laural Canyon, and Serendipidy.
Choices: Bridget Moynihan; Kate Winslet; Cate Blanchett; Kate Beckinsale
Answer: Kate Beckinsale