kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: history
Question: Nostradamus, Martin Luther and Elizabeth I of England lived during what century?
Choices: 13th century AD; 14th century AD; 18th century AD; 16th century AD
Answer: 16th century AD
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Question: The first novel ever is believed to have been written in this century by the Japanese Lady Murasaki Shikibu.
Choices: 5th century AD; 2nd century BC; 3rd century AD; 11th century AD
Answer: 11th century AD
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Question: Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius, and Cleopatra VII of Egypt all lived in this century.
Choices: 1st century AD; 1st century BC; 3rd century AD; 3rd century BC
Answer: 1st century BC
Category: history
Question: What century marked the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
Choices: 9th century AD; 5th century AD; 3rd century AD; 7th century AD
Answer: 5th century AD
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Question: During this century, the condom, the land mine and the sandpaper were invented.
Choices: 17th century AD; 15th century AD; 3rd century AD; 13th century AD
Answer: 13th century AD
Category: history
Question: In what century were the fountain pen, shaving soap and street lamps invented?
Choices: 12th century AD; 14th century AD; 9th century AD; 16th century AD
Answer: 9th century AD
Category: history
Question: In what century did the Black Death kill about one third of the European population?
Choices: 4th century AD; 14th century AD; 8th century AD; 10th century AD
Answer: 14th century AD
Category: history
Question: In this century, the decline of the Classical Maya civilization began, and Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III.
Choices: 13th century AD; 11th century AD; 8th century AD; 16th century AD
Answer: 8th century AD
Category: history
Question: What does the term Mesozoic mean?
Choices: Ancient life; Middle life; Age of ancient reptiles; Recent life
Answer: Middle life
Category: history
Question: The base of the Mesozoic is established by what major event in the history of life on Earth?
Choices: A mass extinction 251 million years ago; The formation of a super-continent; An increase in biodiversity; None of these
Answer: A mass extinction 251 million years ago
Category: history
Question: Oxygen levels during the Mesozoic were lower than todays levels.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: What super-continent began to rift apart during the Mesozoic era?
Choices: Pangaea; Euramerica; Rodinia; None of these
Answer: Pangaea
Category: history
Question: What marine reptiles evolved during the Triassic period and thrived during much of the Mesozoic era?
Choices: Ichthyosaurs; Pliosaurs; Plesiosaurs; Dinosaurs
Answer: Ichthyosaurs
Category: history
Question: Ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, moasaurs, are pterosaurs are dinosaurs.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Which of the following describes the climate of the Triassic period?
Choices: Temperate; Tropical; None of these; Arid
Answer: Arid
Category: history
Question: Which of the following was a large inland sea that covered much of central North America during the Late Cretaceous period?
Choices: Atlantic Ocean; Iapetus Ocean; Western Interior Seaway; Hudson Seaway
Answer: Western Interior Seaway
Category: history
Question: What event signalled the end of the Mesozoic era?
Choices: The evolution of humans; The evolution of flowering plants; None of these; A large mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous
Answer: A large mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous
Category: history
Question: Dinosaurs first evolved during the middle Triassic period approximately how many years ago?
Choices: 248 million years ago; 190 million years ago; 225 million years ago; 251 million years ago
Answer: 225 million years ago
Category: history
Question: Several hundred specimens of this species of dinosaur were discovered at Ghost Ranch.
Choices: Coelophysis bauri; Triceratops horridus; Eoraptor lunensis; Tyrannosaurus rex
Answer: Coelophysis bauri
Category: history
Question: Dinosaurs once existed on every continent except Antarctica.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Name the early reptile creatures that evolved during the late Permian period and eventually gave rise to the dinosaurs and other creatures during the Mesozoic.
Choices: Thecodontians; Crocodilians; None of these; Dinosauria
Answer: Thecodontians
Category: history
Question: Did all dinosaurs become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
Category: history
Question: An incomplete skeleton of this dinosaur was discovered in 1900.
Choices: Oviraptor; Tyrannosaurus; Albertosaurus; Dynamosaurus
Answer: Tyrannosaurus
Category: history
Question: Tyrannosaurus is more closely related to smaller predatory dinosaurs such as Velociraptor than to the more massive carnosaurs such as Allosaurus.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: What genus of dinosaur contains what could be the largest dinosaur ever?
Choices: None of these; Apatosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Amphicoelias
Answer: Amphicoelias
Category: history
Question: Did dinosaurs become extinct due to a large asteroid impact?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
Category: history
Question: What does the term Cenozoic mean?
Choices: Mammalian life; Ancient life; Recent life; Middle life
Answer: Recent life
Category: history
Question: How many epochs is the Cenozoic era divided into?
Choices: 7; 2; None of these; 6
Answer: 7
Category: history
Question: This subcontinent collided with Eurasia 55 million years ago.
Choices: Greenland; Indian subcontinent; None of these; Middle-eastern subcontinent
Answer: Indian subcontinent
Category: history
Question: Grass did not evolve during the Cenozoic era.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Horses evolved in North America during the Cenozoic era but became extinct there 10,000 years ago.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: The first true Homo sapiens (human) appeared in Africa about how many years ago?
Choices: 5 million years ago; 12,000 years ago; 250,000 years ago; 1 million years ago
Answer: 250,000 years ago
Category: history
Question: The Messinian salinity crisis occurred when the Mediterranean sea evaporated completely during the Pliocene epoch.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: All recorded historical events occurred during this epoch.
Choices: Pliocene; Miocene; Holocene; Pleistocene
Answer: Holocene
Category: history
Question: What event signalled the end of the Cenozoic?
Choices: None of these; The evolution of humans; The Cenozoic has not ended.; A large mass extinction
Answer: The Cenozoic has not ended.
Category: history
Question: What does the term Precambrian mean?
Choices: Middle life; Before-Cambrian; Recent life; Ancient life
Answer: Before-Cambrian
Category: history
Question: When did the earth form?
Choices: 12 billion years ago; 3.8 billion years ago; 4.5 billion years ago; 250 million years ago
Answer: 4.5 billion years ago
Category: history
Question: Where do the oldest rocks on Earth come from?
Choices: Narryer Gneiss Terrane; None of these; The Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt; Acasta Gneiss
Answer: The Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt
Category: history
Question: Approximately what age are the oldest known fossils?
Choices: 4.5 billion years old; 2.5 billion years old; 540 million years old; 3.8 billion years old
Answer: 3.8 billion years old
Category: history
Question: About 2.7 billion years ago Stromatolites were widespread in the Precambrian seas and still exist in hypersaline areas such as Shark Bay, Australia.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: The appearance of free oxygen in the atmosphere caused a mass extinction of anaerobic organisms.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Multicellular organisms evolved during what period of the Mesoproterozoic era?
Choices: Calymmian; Ectasian; Stenian; Ediacaran
Answer: Ectasian
Category: history
Question: Animals did not evolve during the Precambrian.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: What event signalled the end of the Precambrian?
Choices: None of these; The evolution of organisms with hard shells; The Precambrian has not ended; A large mass extinction that occurred 542 million years ago
Answer: The evolution of organisms with hard shells
Category: history
Question: What did Benjamin Franklin do in 1752?
Choices: Fell and broke his hip; Invented exercise / dance; Stopped publishing Poor Richards Almanac; Proved lightning is electricity
Answer: Proved lightning is electricity
Category: history
Question: When did Francis Drake enter San Francisco bay and what country did he claim it for?
Choices: 1579 - Britain; 1536 - France; 1603 - Portugal; 1610 - Spain
Answer: 1579 - Britain
Category: history
Question: When did Boston become a settlement and who led it?
Choices: 1502 - William James; 1630 - John Winthrop; 1590 - Charles H. Connelly III; 1610 - James Kennedy
Answer: 1630 - John Winthrop
Category: history
Question: Harvard College was founded in what year?
Choices: 1790; 1802; 1636; 1785
Answer: 1636
Category: history
Question: Which one happened to the U.S. in 1791?
Choices: War started with Canada; Bill of Rights goes into effect; 1st recorded UFO sighting by an American; Benedict Arnold found guilty of being a traitor
Answer: Bill of Rights goes into effect
Category: history
Question: Which one happened to the U.S. in 1774?
Choices: Noah Webster publishes his American dictionary; Rhode Island abolished slavery; The Boston Massacre; The Bill of Rights goes into effect
Answer: Rhode Island abolished slavery
Category: history
Question: Which one happened to the U.S. in 1796?
Choices: Nat Turner led slave rebellion in Virginia; Lewis and Clark begin westward survey; George Carlin was born; George Washington gives his farewell address
Answer: George Washington gives his farewell address
Category: history
Question: The Erie Canal is a canal in New York State, United States, that runs from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.  The entire canal was opened in which year?
Choices: 1904; 1800; 1825; 1862
Answer: 1825
Category: history
Question: Was there a Black Hawk War?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
Category: history
Question: When was the first U.S. adhesive postage stamp sold?
Choices: 1747; 1690; 1847; 1790
Answer: 1847
Category: history
Question: The lefty, Henry Ford, founded the Ford Motor Company. Finish this quote and find out how he defined quality. 
Choices: ality means doing it right when ___________________________.; ...everyone is looking.; ...you want to.; ...no one is looking.; ...you are told to.
Answer: ...no one is looking.
Category: history
Question: On what album released in 1986 would I find the following lyrics:
Choices: en I was 17 I did what people told me, ; d what my father said and let my mother mold me; True Stories - Talking Heads; Control - Janet Jackson; True Colors - Cyndi Lauper; Raising Hell - Run DMC
Answer: Control - Janet Jackson
Category: history
Question: This fashionable head accessory was hip from the very beginning of the 80s until their end.
Choices: Hairpins; Artificial braids; Headband; Artificial comb
Answer: Headband
Category: history
Question: This style dominated both music and fashion in the late 70s and early 80s. The Sex Pistols and The Exploited were just some of bands that had great influence on mens and womens look.
Choices: Trance; Reggae; House; Punk
Answer: Punk
Category: history
Question: As a popular style in the beginning of the 80s it became somewhat politically bound, these started appearing as common clothing adornments.
Choices: Fringes; Artificial stains; Artificial patches; Political and social slogans
Answer: Political and social slogans
Category: history
Question: 1983 was the year when this style of clothing finally went out of style.
Choices: Punk; Disco; Reggae; Grunge
Answer: Disco
Category: history
Question: This famous perfume was released in 1985. Its fragrance is made up of coriander, plum, anise, rosewood, rose, tuberose, honey, cinnamon, orange blossom, blackcurrant and red currant with a base of ambergris, laudanum and opoponax.
Choices: Coco; Obsession; Charlie; Poison
Answer: Poison
Category: history
Question: The style that became popular after the mid 80s includes ragged T-shirts, acid washed and torn jeans, cheap shirts, rubber bracelets, lots of hairspray and neon earrings.
Choices: House; Punk; Disco; Grunge
Answer: Grunge
Category: history
Question: In 1987 Nike introduced these trainers that enable the wearer to jump higher.
Choices: Cortez; Max 95; BW; Air
Answer: Air
Category: history
Question: This type of pants became the craze in the mid 80s. They had zippered patch pockets and zippered ankles.
Choices: Boxers; Parachute pants; Blue jeans; Charlestone
Answer: Parachute pants
Category: history
Question: These trinkets were often sold in a pack of 10-15. They were made of lightweight metal and came in gold, silver or color hues.
Choices: Necklaces; Bangle bracelets; Plastic earrings; Neon rings
Answer: Bangle bracelets
Category: history
Question: In order to be trendy in the 80s you should do this with your hair.
Choices: Bleach it; Cut it really short; Straighten it; Put it in a bun
Answer: Bleach it
Category: history
Question: Which nickname did Thomas Jonathan Jackson earn after managing to hold off the Union forces back at Henry House Hill?
Choices: Tom Fool; Stonewall; Old Blue Light; None of these
Answer: Stonewall
Category: history
Question: General Grant said that the final charge at Cold Harbor was the only action he regretted taking during the war.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: The Civil War produced a number of technical innovations. One of the following was not used in this war.
Choices: Mines; Tanks; Submarine; Observation Balloons
Answer: Tanks
Category: history
Question: This Union general earned the nickname The Rock of Chickamauga.
Choices: Smith; Thomas; Sherman; Rosecrans
Answer: Thomas
Category: history
Question: Did the opposing armies often fraternize and call each other Johnny Reb and Billy Yank?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
Category: history
Question: Dixie was composed in 1859 by this man.
Choices: Daniel Decatur Emmett; Jeff Davis; Joel Chandler Harris; Scott Joplin
Answer: Daniel Decatur Emmett
Category: history
Question: He was in command at the critical point in the Battle of Gettysburg?
Choices: John Reynolds; Joshua Chamberlain; Winfield Scott Hancock; Dan Sickles
Answer: Joshua Chamberlain
Category: history
Question: In what state did pope John Paul II and president Reagan meet in May, 1984?
Choices: Hawaii; California; Connecticut; Alaska
Answer: Alaska
Category: history
Question: Name the Ohio senator who made an unsuccessful bid for presidency in 1984.
Choices: Reubin OD. Askew; John H. Glenn Jr.; Alan M. Cranston; George S. McGovern
Answer: John H. Glenn Jr.
Category: history
Question: What company unveiled the unsuccessful PCjr?
Choices: Tandy; Apple; Commodore; International Business Machines (IBM)
Answer: International Business Machines (IBM)
Category: history
Question: What US presidents centennial birthday was celebrated in 1984?
Choices: Harry S Truman (1945-1953); Herbert Hoover (1929-1933); Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945); Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
Answer: Harry S Truman (1945-1953)
Category: history
Question: What countrys elections pit Jose Napoleon Duarte against Roberto DAubuisson in the first freely elected presidency of more than 50 years.
Choices: El Salvador; Panama; Guatemala; Ecquador
Answer: El Salvador
Category: history
Question: Who was the first man to ride the space shuttle into orbit twice?
Choices: Byron Lichtenberg; Bob Crippen; John Glen; John Young
Answer: John Young
Category: history
Question: Whose visit to South Korea in May of 1984 promoted the tightest security in that nations history?
Choices: Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev; Fidel Castro; Pope John Paul II
Answer: Pope John Paul II
Category: history
Question: What brand of sweetener did G. D. Searle  Co. put on the market in 1983?
Choices: Equal; Sweet N Low; Splenda; NutraSweet
Answer: NutraSweet
Category: history
Question: In World War II, the Axis and the Allies were the two main rival powers. Which of these countries was not a member of the Axis?
Choices: Hungary; Italy; Japan; Greece
Answer: Greece
Category: history
Question: Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany and the head of which German party?
Choices: National Christian-Democratic party; National German Communist party; National Socialist German Workers party; Conservative Peoples party
Answer: National Socialist German Workers party
Category: history
Question: What was the aim of The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, signed on 23 August 1939 between Germany and the Soviet Union?
Choices: Mutual economic support; Division of the spheres of interest; A united attack against Great Britain; Creating a Nazi-Soviet Federation
Answer: Division of the spheres of interest
Category: history
Question: Until which event did the US remain neutral in the Second World War?
Choices: Operation Barbarossa; The Pearl Harbor attack; The Siege of Leningrad; The battle of Kursk
Answer: The Pearl Harbor attack
Category: history
Question: Arbeit macht frei was a popular German slogan during World War II, placed mainly on the entrances of which of these?
Choices: German concentration camps; German factories; German schools; German field hospitals
Answer: German concentration camps
Category: history
Question: This significant battle on the WW II  Eastern front is largely regarded as the largest armed conflict of all time.
Choices: The battle of Leningrad; The battle of Kursk; The battle of Sevastopol; The battle of Moscow
Answer: The battle of Kursk
Category: history
Question: What happened on D-day, 6th June,1944?
Choices: Victory over Japan was announced.; Operation Overlord started.; Nazi Germany was declared defeated.; The end of World War II was announced.
Answer: Operation Overlord started.
Category: history
Question: What 1945 conference considered the final plans for the defeat of Germany and postwar Europe?
Choices: Yalta Conference; Tehran Conference; Dumburton Oaks Conference; Potsdam Conference
Answer: Yalta Conference
Category: history
Question: Where did the official Japanese surrender on 2nd September 1945 take place?
Choices: Berlin; Potsdam; USS Missouri; Washington, DC
Answer: USS Missouri
Category: history
Question: Which organization did the Allies create in 1945 in order to maintain peace after World War II?
Choices: The United Nations; The European Union; The League of Nations; The North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Answer: The United Nations
Category: history
Question: Who are the two ancient Greek architects who designed the Parthenon, a temple regarded as one of the worlds greatest cultural monuments.
Choices: Eugenius and Arcadius; Theodosius and Delos; Iktinos and Kallikrates; Theotokos and Pisisitratus
Answer: Iktinos and Kallikrates
Category: history
Question: What ancient Greek vessel was used to mix wine and water?
Choices: krater; hydria; amphorae; kylix
Answer: krater
Category: history
Question: This ancient Greek construction, regarded as one the Seven Wonders of the World, was carved by the famed classical sculptor Phidias.
Choices: The Statue of Zeus at Olympia; Hagia Sophia; The Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus; The Lighthouse of Alexandria
Answer: The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Category: history
Question: What was the name of the ancient Greek wrestling school, which was later used  for delivering lectures and conducting intellectual conversations?
Choices: bouleuterion; corycelum; gymnasium; palaestra
Answer: palaestra
Category: history
Question: In the ancient Greek society, these women were high-class entertainers, much like the Japanese geisha.
Choices: pallakae; gynaekes; porne; hetaerae
Answer: hetaerae
Category: history
Question: This ancient Greek, despite having a speech impediment, was one of the greatest orators in his time.
Choices: Aristonikos; Didymos; Aristarchos; Demosthenes
Answer: Demosthenes
Category: history
Question: This ancient Greek wrote The Histories, a document considered the first work of history in Western literature.
Choices: Herodotus; Diodorus; Xenophon; Thucydides
Answer: Herodotus
Category: history
Question: This ancient Greek philosopher, a teacher of  Aristotle, was the founder of the Academy in Athens.
Choices: Parmenides; Democritus; Plato; Socrates
Answer: Plato
Category: history
Question: This ancient Greek playwright was the earliest of the three classical Greek tragedians, the other two being Sophocles and Euripides.
Choices: Phrynicus; Aeschylus; Choerilus; Aristeas
Answer: Aeschylus
Category: history
Question: Which structure served as a market place in an acnient Greek polis or city-state?
Choices: miki; kottabos; agora; agoranomos
Answer: agora
Category: history
Question: The 1998 film, Theres Something About Mary, helped make this model turned actress one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Who said Is that ...is that hair gel?
Choices: Hilary Swank; Drew Barrymore; Cameron Diaz; Reese Witherspoon
Answer: Cameron Diaz
Category: history
Question: This world famous haute couture designer moved to Miami when he was selected as the costume designer for Miami Vice. What designer was gunned down outside his house by spree killer Andrew Cunanan?
Choices: Givenchy; Versace; Ferre; Gucci
Answer: Versace
Category: history
Question: On June 17, 1994 actor and football legend O. J. Simpson, instead of turning himself into the authorities to be charged for the murder of his wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, led the police on a slow speed chase on Interstate 405. O. J. Simpson was a passenger in the white Ford Bronco. Who drove the white Bronco?
Choices: Robert Kardashian; Robert Shapiro; John McKay; Al Cowlings
Answer: Al Cowlings
Category: history
Question: Always a bridesmaid and never a bride. No more!  What daytime soap actress won an Emmy
Choices: Melody Thomas Scott; Jeanne Cooper; Eileen Fulton; Susan Lucci
Answer: Susan Lucci
Category: history
Question: Many in Hollywood were nervous when this lady was arraigned on charges of pandering and tax evasion on August 9, 1993. Who was known as the Hollywood Madam or Madam to the Stars?
Choices: Sydney Biddle Barrows; Heidi Fleiss; Polly Adler; Mona Stangley
Answer: Heidi Fleiss
Category: history
Question: Which of these movies won all five of the top categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay?
Choices: The English Patient; Silence of the Lambs; Forrest Gump; Schindlers List
Answer: Silence of the Lambs
Category: history
Question: May 10, 1996 is considered the single deadliest day in the history of Mount Everest. Eight people lost their lives, including famed Everest mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. Outside Magazine had contracted a writer to be a part of Rob Halls accent of Mount Everest. What writer turned his experience on Mount Everest into the non-fiction bestseller Into Thin Air?
Choices: Jon Krakauer; Beak Weathers; Anatoli Boukreev; Sebastian Junger
Answer: Jon Krakauer
Category: history
Question: This invention by Karl Benz in 1886 revolutionized the world of transportation and soon became the main means of transport globally.
Choices: Train; Ship; Automobile; Airplane
Answer: Automobile
Category: history
Question: This invention was first used in 1969 at UCLA as a means of communication between engineers and scientists associated with academics or government. It was not available for public use until the 1990âs.
Choices: E-mails; The Telephone; The Internet; Two-Way Radio
Answer: The Internet
Category: history
Question: In 1908, this city became the first in the United States to institute chlorination of its water. Prior to this the death rate due to water born diseases, such as typhoid fever and cholera, were extremely high.
Choices: Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Jersey City, New Jersey
Answer: Jersey City, New Jersey
Category: history
Question: When did telephone companies first begin establishing trial networks, that use fibre instead of copper cables to carry live telephone traffic?
Choices: in 1997; in 1982; in 1972; in 1977
Answer: in 1977
Category: history
Question: The invention of the internal combustion engine greatly increased the demand for which natural resource?
Choices: Natural gas; Water; Coal; Petroleum
Answer: Petroleum
Category: history
Question: In 1955, Borax III became the first nuclear power plant to utilize nuclear fission to supply an entire town with electricity. Which town was that?
Choices: Avila Beach, California; Owego, New York; Arco, Idaho; Hahnville, Louisiana
Answer: Arco, Idaho
Category: history
Question: The first use of air conditioning for personnel comfort was in 1902, in which New York City building?
Choices: Metropolitan Life Tower; Empire State Building; Woolworth Building; New York Stock Exchange
Answer: New York Stock Exchange
Category: history
Question: In 1895, this German physicist invented the use of electromagnetic radiation to take images of bones and organs inside the human body, which later led to the invention of the X-Ray Machine.
Choices: Paul Lauterbur; Peter Mansfield; Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen; Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
Answer: Wilhelm Conrad RÃ¶ntgen
Category: history
Question: Earl Hindman, who passed away in 2003, was the man behind the fence in the American sitcom Home Improvement.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Which Academy Award winning American actor who died in 2003 played Ed Norton on The Honeymooners?
Choices: Paul Lynde; Jackie Gleason; Art Carney; Rodney Dangerfield
Answer: Art Carney
Category: history
Question: This flamboyantly-dressed announcer on The Price Is Right died on October 27th, 2003 in Los Angeles.
Choices: Gene Rayburn; Randy Miller; Gene Olson; Rod Roddy
Answer: Rod Roddy
Category: history
Question: This western character actor was in the role of Deputy Jake in Support Your Local Sheriff with James Garner. Before his death on 20 October 2003, he often played the villain in westerns and openly said it was because of his lazy eye.
Choices: Boots Randolph; Jack Elam; Pat Hingle; Dan Haggerty
Answer: Jack Elam
Category: history
Question: Actor Lee Marvin who starred in the Death Wish movies succumbed to cancer in 2003.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: This sassy matronly housekeeper on Give Me A Break! was 54 when she died in 2003.
Choices: Bev Carter; Barb Streisand; Bette Midler; Nell Carter
Answer: Nell Carter
Category: history
Question: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
Choices: re finally on our own.; Ohio State University; Kent State University; Boston College; University of California at Berkley
Answer: Kent State University
Category: history
Question: The most famous battle of the Hundred Years War between England and France resulted in a massive French army being defeated by a much smaller English army, led by King Henry V. Where did this battle take place?
Choices: Harfleur; Agincourt; The Somme; Calais
Answer: Agincourt
Category: history
Question: What battle of 1781 resulted in a decisive victory of the American army against Great Britain and caused the British government to negotiate an end of the American Revolutionary War?
Choices: Battle of Yorktown; Battle of Valley Forge; Battle of Bunker Hill; Battle of Saratoga
Answer: Battle of Yorktown
Category: history
Question: It began on July 1st, 1916, and is considered by many, the most devastating battle of World War I, resulting in more than one million casualties.
Choices: Battle of Ypres; Battle of the Somme; Battle of Verdun; Battle of Galipoli
Answer: Battle of the Somme
Category: history
Question: What city-state was the primary rival of Athens during the Peloponnesian war of 431 BC?
Choices: Byzantium; Sumer; Sparta; Babylon
Answer: Sparta
Category: history
Question: During the Wars of Scottish Independence, this 1314 battle resulted in a decisive Scottish victory over England.
Choices: Battle of Falkirk; Battle of Culloden; Battle of Bannockburn; Battle of Inverness
Answer: Battle of Bannockburn
Category: history
Question: The First Indochina War came to a dramatic and unexpected end when over 7,000 French soldiers were killed at which small Vietnamese village?
Choices: Dien Bien Phu; Hanoi; Hue; Khe Sanh
Answer: Dien Bien Phu
Category: history
Question: Which battle of the Korean War in started on September 15, 1950 when United States marines launched a massive attack on a South Korean port?
Choices: Battle of Hungnam; Battle of Seoul; Battle of Inchon; Battle of Pusan
Answer: Battle of Inchon
Category: history
Question: Which of the following is not associated with the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War?
Choices: Picketts Charge; Cemetery Ridge; Bloody Lane; Little Round Top
Answer: Bloody Lane
Category: history
Question: Which countries were Israels enemies during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Six-Day War?
Choices: Turkey, Jordan, Oman; Syria, Jordan, Iraq; Egypt, Syria, Turkey; Egypt, Syria, Jordan
Answer: Egypt, Syria, Jordan
Category: history
Question: The Charge of the Light Brigade, which remained in history as a rather incompetent and unsuccessful cavalry charge, led by Lord Cardigan, occurred during which military conflict?
Choices: The Boer War; The Crimean War; The Franco-Prussian War; The Boxer Rebellion
Answer: The Crimean War
Category: history
Question: It was just the musical chords of E and F played alternately back and forth but even to this day
Choices: Halloween; E.T.; Jaws; Jurassic Park
Answer: Jaws
Category: history
Question: During Operation Barbarossa, which began on June 22, 1941, the Red Army was found unprepared for a possible attack for what reason?
Choices: The aviation units were not dispersed and ready for a battle; All of these; There was a disorganization in the armor units; Stalin didnt believe that the Third Reich was going to attack only two years after signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Answer: All of these
Category: history
Question: The British colony of Hong Kong was finally defeated by Japanese Forces in December, 1941 on Christmas day. The locals called that day by what name?
Choices: Bloody Christmas; None of these; Black Christmas; Sad Christmas
Answer: Black Christmas
Category: history
Question: On 18 February 1943, Joseph Goebbels gave a speech, aiming to persuade the Germans not to give up Nazi idealism. The speech was delivered in front of which building, located near Potzdamer Platz?
Choices: Brandenburg Gate; Berliner Dom; Berlin Sportpalast; Reichstag Building
Answer: Berlin Sportpalast
Category: history
Question: Which top Nazi Leader, considered a possible successor of Hitler, chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reich governor of Bohemia and Moravia, was killed during Operation Anthropoid?
Choices: Martin Bormann; Heinrich Himmler; Reinhard Heydrich; Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Answer: Reinhard Heydrich
Category: history
Question: Winston Churchill made the following statement about the battle that occurred between October 23 and November 3, 1942: Now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Name the battle.
Choices: First Battle of El Alamein; Attack on Pearl Harbor; Operation Anthropoid; Second Battle of El Alamein
Answer: Second Battle of El Alamein
Category: history
Question: This major battle that the Germans failed during WW II became the largest armored engagement of all time, and included the most costly single day of aerial warfare in history.
Choices: The battle in Berlin; Operation Bagration in Belarus; The battle of Kursk; The battle of Normandy
Answer: The battle of Kursk
Category: history
Question: What was the name of the bomb dropped over Nagasaki during WW II?
Choices: None of these; Fat Man; Small Head; Little Boy
Answer: Fat Man
Category: history
Question: Rosie the Riveter was a character that represented all the women joining the workforce during World War II, when the factories were empty and needed staff. The picture of Rosie could be seen on many posters and stamps all of which had what slogan?
Choices: We can do it!; Women can work!; We are strong!; Women support the war effort!
Answer: We can do it!
Category: history
Question: This organization, often referred to as a predecessor of the European Union, was founded after WW II to prevent the outbreak of such conflicts.
Choices: European Peace Institute; European Anti War Committee; European Commission; European Coal and Steel Community
Answer: European Coal and Steel Community
Category: history
Question: The Cold war, which began in 1947 was a consequence of World War II. Who were the leaders of the two superpowers (The USA and the Soviet Union) at the beginning of the Cold War?
Choices: Truman and Stalin; Eisenhower and Kruschev; Eisenhower and Stalin; Molotov and Roosevelt
Answer: Truman and Stalin
Category: history
Question: What war began in 1914?
Choices: Russo-Japanese war; World War I; World War II; Spanish-American war
Answer: World War I
Category: history
Question: The first hot air balloon was created in 1783.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: When was the first rollercoaster built?
Choices: 1884; 1939; 1929; 1892
Answer: 1884
Category: history
Question: Who was Time Magazines Person of the Year for 2007?
Choices: Al Gore; J. K. Rowling; Vladimir Putin; Hu Jintao
Answer: Vladimir Putin
Category: history
Question: People Magazine named a 2007 Star of the Year. This star is the new face of Versace, plays around with a Grand-Am race car and became the father of two. Who is this Prince Charming?
Choices: Johnny Depp; Brad Pitt; Tiger Woods; Patrick Dempsey
Answer: Patrick Dempsey
Category: history
Question: What gentleman made the cover of Details Magazine and was ranked # 7 as a Good Father in Details Magazines 50 Most Influential Men Under 45?
Choices: Sean Combs; Barack Obama; Brad Pitt; Kevin Federline
Answer: Kevin Federline
Category: history
Question: What author broke the record for book sales when the last book in her famous series sold 15 million copies in 24 hours?
Choices: Dan Brown; Norman Mailer; C. S. Lewis; J. K. Rowling
Answer: J. K. Rowling
Category: history
Question: Time Magazine made a list of The Ten Best Buzzwords of 2007. The #1 Buzzword was a noun meaning an older woman who romantically pursues younger men.  What was Time Magazines # 1 Buzzword in 2007?
Choices: Vixen; Fox; Cougar; Badger
Answer: Cougar
Category: history
Question: The movie No Country for Old Men based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy was on many list of 10 Best Films of the Year and won Best Picture from the National Board of Review and the Critics Choice Awards.  Who directed No Country for Old Men?
Choices: The Coen Brothers; Clint Eastwood; Tim Burton; Sean Penn
Answer: The Coen Brothers
Category: history
Question: Together at last! Late Show with David Letterman won the # 1 spot in The 10 Best TV Ads.
Choices: ng thought to be estranged, what billionaire is Dave cuddling up with to cheer on their respective football teams.; Drew Barrymore; Oprah Winfrey; Steve Jobs; Madonna
Answer: Oprah Winfrey
Category: history
Question: In college football, 2007 may well be remembered as the year of the upset. On October 13, November 23, 24 and December 1st both the # 1and # 2 teams in the US suffered upsets and the 2007 regular season ended with Pitts shocking  win over West Virginia. But it was the defeat of Michigan, the fifth ranked team in the nation, by a 1-AA team that has been touted by many as the greatest upset in college football history. What team became the first 1-AA team to beat a ranked 1- A team?
Choices: Appalachian State University; Montana State; University of Delaware; The Citadel
Answer: Appalachian State University
Category: history
Question: If you cant do the time, dont commit the crime. Which of the following celebrities spent the LEAST amount of time in jail in 2007?
Choices: Nicole Richie; Michelle Rodrigues; Paris Hilton; Lindsay Lohan
Answer: Nicole Richie
Category: history
Question: The town of Hastings, where the Battle of Hastings took place, is located in which county?
Choices: Kent; Surrey; East Sussex; West Sussex
Answer: East Sussex
Category: history
Question: Who conquered England as a result of the Battle of Hastings?
Choices: The Normans; The Romans; The Vikings; The Scots
Answer: The Normans
Category: history
Question: William the Conqueror was crowned King William I in Westminster Abbey, about two months after the Battle of Hastings.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Which Anglo-Saxon King of England died at the Battle of Hastings?
Choices: Charles II; Charles I; Richard III; Harold II
Answer: Harold II
Category: history
Question: How many minutes did President Bush remain seated, reading My Pet Goat in a 3rd-grade classroom in Florida, after he was first told  America is under attack on September 11, 2001?
Choices: 2 minutes; 5 Minutes; 1 minute; 10 minutes
Answer: 5 Minutes
Category: history
Question: Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, a new account of Al Qaedas attack on the U.S., reveals that the Afghans fighting alongside bin Laden in the 1980s considered him what?
Choices: a religious zealot; a strategic genius; a courageous warrior; useless
Answer: useless
Category: history
Question: What was the flight number of the hijacked plane that crashed in rural Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001?
Choices: United 175; American 11; American 77; United 93
Answer: United 93
Category: history
Question: The events of 9/11 occurred on the Tuesday after Labor Day.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: The CIA knew Al Qaeda operatives met secretly in Malaysia in January 2001, and that later two of them, eventual 9/11 hijackers, entered the U.S. When did the CIA share this with the FBI?
Choices: August, 2001; June 2000; January, 2001; February, 2000
Answer: August, 2001
Category: history
Question: Where did an FBI investigator argue futilely with his bosses a month before 9/11, by saying: Im trying to keep someone from taking a plane and crashing into the World Trade Center.?
Choices: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Washington, DC; Minneapolis; Baghdad, Iraq
Answer: Minneapolis
Category: history
Question: What does the Arabic term Al Qaeda mean?
Choices: the revenge; the base, or foundation; the struggle; justice
Answer: the base, or foundation
Category: history
Question: U.S. military air defence jets scrambled into action as soon as news arrived that the first hijacked Boeing 727 had hit one of the twin World Trade Center towers on 9/11.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: How did former FBI anti-terrorist squad leader John ONeill die on 9/11?
Choices: He was attending a meeting in the portion of  the Pentagon that was struck by one of the hijacked planes.; He was in the midst of new duties as head of security at the World Trade Center.; He was helping firemen rescue people trapped on the top floors of the South Tower when it collapsed.; He was a passenger on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Answer: He was in the midst of new duties as head of security at the World Trade Center.
Category: history
Question: The Shuttle consisted of 2.5 million parts, including more than 1,000 plumbing valves, 1,400 circuit breakers and 230 miles of wire. The most complex job of building the Shuttle went to this company in Southern California.  They had to design and assemble the orbiter itself.
Choices: Space Systems LORAL; Rockwell International; SAIC; Raytheon Systems
Answer: Rockwell International
Category: history
Question: When America grew more entrenched in Vietnam and struggled with racial and economic problems at home, many voters and politicians alike believed the space program should be abandoned altogether.  Some of Richard Nixons closest advisors however, convinced him that the shuttle should be built.  They gave this as an example of how a reusable space vehicle would be used, and Nixon liked it.
Choices: The Shuttle would launch nuclear missiles from space; The Shuttle would captire Soviet satellites; The Shuttle would spy on enemies; The Shuttle would help build a space station
Answer: The Shuttle would captire Soviet satellites
Category: history
Question: In the morning of September 17, 1976 the Shuttle manufacturer treated the world to a glimpse of the future; a test model of the orbiter, one not intended for space flight, rolled out of their Palmdale, CA plant.  What name had the designers given this model?
Choices: Enterprise; Millennium Falcon; Discovery; Columbia
Answer: Enterprise
Category: history
Question: Space Shuttles are transported to the launch pad on this slow-moving 6,000,000 pound (approx. 2,725,000 kg) vehicle.  Fully loaded, it moves at a rate of 1 mph.
Choices: Big Bertha Transporter; Shuttle Tracked Vehicle; Tracked Shuttle Transporter; Shuttle Crawler Transporter
Answer: Shuttle Crawler Transporter
Category: history
Question: It takes this long after liftoff, before the orbiter starts circling Earth at 17,500mph (28,000km/h).
Choices: 19 minutes; 3 minutes; 8 minutes; 50 seconds
Answer: 8 minutes
Category: history
Question: This once white and now orange part breaks up, as it falls through the intense heat of the Earths atmosphere.  It is the only expendable part of the Shuttle.
Choices: Top O-ring of the fuel tank; External Rocket Booster; External Fuel Tank; Phase 1 Engine
Answer: External Fuel Tank
Category: history
Question: NASA selected this astronaut to command the first Columbia flight.  He was a veteran of two Gemini and two Apollo missions and considered to be NASAs most experienced astronaut at the time.
Choices: John Young; Byron Lichtenberg; John Glenn; Bob Crippen
Answer: John Young
Category: history
Question: Prior to every Space Shuttle flight, a series of events take place at Floridas Kennedy Space Center.  The Shuttle is rolled out of its processing hanger on a 96-wheel transporter and carried to this 525 ft. tall building, originally built to assemble Saturn V rockets.
Choices: Modules Integration Facility (MIF); Final Inspection Room (FIP); Themal Tile Processing Plant (TTPP); Vehicle Asembly Building (VAB)
Answer: Vehicle Asembly Building (VAB)
Category: history
Question: On Columbias first mission,  the crew noticed something very disturbing after opening the 60 ft. long payload bay doors.
Choices: One of the radiators attached to the doors was loose; The doors would not close back; The left door slightly bent; Thermal tiles were missing
Answer: Thermal tiles were missing
Category: history
Question: January 16, 2003.  The crew of Americas 113th space shuttle mission exit the crew quarters on the 3rd floor of the operations and checkout building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  They take their traditional walk to the transporter van, that will carry them to the launch pad.  How old was shuttle Columbia at that time?
Choices: 21 years; 16 years; 19 years; 22 years
Answer: 22 years
Category: history
Question: During takoff on Columbias first mission, did the crew notice debree from the fuel tank flying past their window?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
Category: history
Question: During the days spent in orbit, the astronauts of Columbias last mission conducted dozens of experiments dedicated to improving life on Earth.   Exactly how many days did the astronauts spend in orbit?
Choices: 10; 14; 16; 20
Answer: 16
Category: history
Question: On February 1, 2003 at 9:29am flight director Leroy Cain declared a contingency and asked Bill Foster, who was working ground control that day, to lock the doors. Contingency is a NASA term which meant this.
Choices: There was a suspected saboteur; Personnel had to work overtime till communication was restored; Interferece was preventing radio communication; The Shuttle had been lost
Answer: The Shuttle had been lost
Category: history
Question: What Civil War general is alleged to have sucked on lemons before going into a battle?
Choices: James Longstreet; Robert E. Lee; JEB Stuart; Thomas Jackson
Answer: Thomas Jackson
Category: history
Question: Who was the first official casualty of the American Civil War?
Choices: Pvt. Daniel Hough; Pvt. Stephen Lang; Pvt. Peter Hermit; Pvt. Harry Cruble
Answer: Pvt. Daniel Hough
Category: history
Question: What was Ulysses S. Grants first battle, fought against Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow?
Choices: Fort Henry; Shiloh; Belmont; Fort Donelson
Answer: Belmont
Category: history
Question: Who commanded the Union cavalry corps at the battle of Gettysburg?
Choices: Phil Sheridan; Alfred Pleasanton; Judson Kilpatrick; George Armstrong Custer
Answer: Alfred Pleasanton
Category: history
Question: At what battle of the American Civil War did Generals U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, and Joseph Hooker all fight at once?
Choices: Chickamauga; Vicksburg; Chattanooga; Gettysburg
Answer: Chattanooga
Category: history
Question: At what battle of the American Civil War did Native American forces first participate in military action?
Choices: Pea Ridge; Poison Spring; Wilsons Creek; Westport
Answer: Pea Ridge
Category: history
Question: What Union naval ship sank Confederate raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War?
Choices: USS Washington; USS New York; USS Monitor; USS Kearsarge
Answer: USS Kearsarge
Category: history
Question: There were more people killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 than there were some 60 years later in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: In April, 2004, then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice told the 9/11 Commission: I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons.  What fact refutes Dr. Rices statement?
Choices: A year before 9/11, the CIA briefed President Bush and the Cabinet about terrorists in flight school.; Rice had drafted her own memo about hijacking dangers before she served in the Bush administration.; A plot like this was depicted in the movie Top Gun.; Two years before 9/11, in an Air Force training exercise, jet pilots practiced shooting down a hijacked commercial aircraft before it could crash into civilian targets.
Answer: Two years before 9/11, in an Air Force training exercise, jet pilots practiced shooting down a hijacked commercial aircraft before it could crash into civilian targets.
Category: history
Question: In 1996, U.S. anti-terrorist investigators learned of an organization called al-Qaeda for the very first time from which one of the following?
Choices: Sudanese informer; captured Taliban fighter; Israeli Mossad agent; released American hostage
Answer: Sudanese informer
Category: history
Question: Osama bin Laden is the scion of a huge, wealthy, long-established Saudi Arabian clan.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Osama bin Laden is a striking figure, well over six feet tall.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: The first major act of terrorism attributed to bin Ladens al-Qaeda group was in 1998 when it blew up which of these?
Choices: U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya; USS Cole destroyer in Yemen; Khobar Towers housing complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; a parking garage of the World Trade Center
Answer: U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
Category: history
Question: How many al-Qaeda terrorists were involved in the near-destruction of the $1billion guided-missile destroyer USS Cole, which was protected by some 70 tons of armor shielding?
Choices: 1; 2; 10; 5
Answer: 2
Category: history
Question: How many days before 9/11 did George W. Bush receive a Presidents Daily Brief intelligence report entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.?
Choices: 365 days; 90 days; 200 days; 35 days
Answer: 35 days
Category: history
Question: What country did Osama bin Laden live in and operate al-Qaeda from before he found sanctuary back in Afghanistan?
Choices: Sudan; Saudi Arabia; Yemen; Iraq
Answer: Sudan
Category: history
Question: Which of the following proved to be the greatest obstacle to saving lives in New York Citys 9/11 rescue efforts at the World Trade Center towers?
Choices: poor building design; lack of disaster training; outdated fire department radios; poor leadership
Answer: outdated fire department radios