kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: history
Question: The AIDS epidemic was identified and named before 1980.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Mel Gibson starred in all of the following four movies. However, only one of them was produced during the 80s.  Which one?
Choices: Forever Young; Mad Max; Lethal Weapon 3; Lethal Weapon 2
Answer: Lethal Weapon 2
Category: history
Question: The TV-series Taxi was first released during this period.
Choices: 1990s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s
Answer: 1970s
Category: history
Question: One of these TV productions was not released in the 80s.
Choices: Dynasty; The Cosby Show; Saturday Night Live; L.A. Law
Answer: Saturday Night Live
Category: history
Question: Michael Keatons debut was in the 80s.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: What Celtic chieftain fought Julius Caesar in Gaul, in the first century B.C.?
Choices: Vercingetorix; Odoacer; Hasdrubal; Leonidas
Answer: Vercingetorix
Category: history
Question: What Merovingian became king in the fifth century A.D.?
Choices: Arpad; Clovis; Ethelred; Belisarius
Answer: Clovis
Category: history
Question: Archaic French is still spoken in the area of this once French colony, lost to the British in 1763.
Choices: Quebec; Senegal ( West Africa); Haiti; Cambodia
Answer: Quebec
Category: history
Question: In what year did the French Revolution begin?
Choices: 1789; 1693; 1724; 1637
Answer: 1789
Category: history
Question: In what year was Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France?
Choices: 1807; 1804; 1810; 1801
Answer: 1804
Category: history
Question: In what year did the French pull out of Indochina?
Choices: 1949; 1964; 1954; 1970
Answer: 1954
Category: history
Question: What statesman became the first President, under the Fifth Republic of France, in 1959?
Choices: Albert Lebrun; Vincent Auriol; Charles De Gaulle; Rene Coty
Answer: Charles De Gaulle
Category: history
Question: In what year was Francois Mitterrand elected President of  France?
Choices: 1975; 1987; 1993; 1981
Answer: 1981
Category: history
Question: What French monarch was known as the Sun King?
Choices: Louis X; Charles VII; Louis XIV; Henry III
Answer: Louis XIV
Category: history
Question: Although he spent 32 years as a criminal, this Wild West rogue killed only a single person. He was mainly engaged in robbing banks and became the first criminal to use an automobile for his escape.
Choices: Burt Alvord; Henry Starr; Cherokee Bill; Frank Canton
Answer: Henry Starr
Category: history
Question: This man killed his first victim at the age of 12. By the time he was 15 he had become an expert shot. As he was almost 6 feet tall, strong and quick in shooting, people were afraid of him. However, the $1,300 reward made some ordinary citizens work out an elaborate plan to capture him.
Choices: Dutch Charley; Billy the Kid; Butch Cassidy; Cherokee Bill
Answer: Cherokee Bill
Category: history
Question: This famous outlaw was very friendly and most of his shooting was done in self defense. He became an outlaw after someone murdered his employer, Tunstall, whom he loved as a father. At Tunstalls funeral, this outlaw swore that he would kill every man who had been involved in the Tunstalls murder.
Choices: Jesse James; Billy the Kid; Juan Flores; Frank Jackson
Answer: Billy the Kid
Category: history
Question: While in charge of the guardhouse at San Carlos, this outlaw left his post to chase a man whom he considered responsible for his fathers death. When he came back, he argued with his superior and shot him in the leg. Arizona territorial legislature offered a $5,000 cash reward, but he was never captured.
Choices: Johnny Behind the Deuse; Pearl Hart; Apache Kid; Frank Jackson
Answer: Apache Kid
Category: history
Question: His first crime was breaking into a store and taking a pair of pants, leaving a message that he would pay later.  He went on to steal cattle from farmers, and later robbed the San Miguel Valley Bank robbery in Telluride, escaping with $20,000.
Choices: Daniel Boone; Pancho Villa; Butch Cassidy; Buffalo Bill
Answer: Butch Cassidy
Category: history
Question: Although this criminal, who acted with his brother, would rob banks and trains, he was a favourite of the press of his day. In various journalistic materials he was often presented as the contemporary Robin Hood. It was a fact that he preferred to rob rich people, but it was simply because they had more money.
Choices: Jesse James; Bill Miner; Joaquin Murieta; Jim Reed
Answer: Jesse James
Category: history
Question: After his father was killed, this man sought revenge. He joined Quantrills fighting force. It was reported that he often frothed at his mouth in his almost psychopathic rage in battles. Some sources say he had a silk string with knots for every shot Yankee.
Choices: Jim Murphy; Billy the Kid; William Bloody Bill Anderson; Sundance Kid
Answer: William Bloody Bill Anderson
Category: history
Question: This man was known as the Mexican Robin Hood. He set up a band of 5 members, all with the same first name. His band is credited with stealing more than $100,000 in gold and over 100 horses.
Choices: Belle Star; Nathaniel Reed Texas Jack; George Newcomb Bitter Creek; Joaquin Murietta
Answer: Joaquin Murietta
Category: history
Question: This criminal was active during the Gold Rush. He was famous for leaving poems in the place of the gold that he had stolen. He never robbed valuables from the passengers of the stagecoaches, he preferred treasure boxes.
Choices: Henry Clay White; Cyrus Skinner; Bob Younger; Black Bart
Answer: Black Bart
Category: history
Question: This man was nicknamed the King of the Cowboys after he took part in the gun fight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. When in 1879 he went West in Arizona, he achieved still more infamy, as the main antagonist of Wyatt Earp.
Choices: Johnny Ringo; Tom Starr Uncle Tom; Jim Murphy; Lee H. Musgrove
Answer: Johnny Ringo
Category: history
Question: In August of 2005, a Category 4  hurricane devastated the Gulf coast of the U.S.,  leaving much of the city of New Orleans flooded and without power.  Name the hurricane responsible for this widespread swath of destruction.
Choices: Rita; Louise; Katrina; Isabella
Answer: Katrina
Category: history
Question: On May 22, 1987, a multiple vortex tornado devastated this small Texas town.
Choices: Saragosa; Texarcico; Northumberland; Zeetop
Answer: Saragosa
Category: history
Question: The towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, Massachusetts were all disincorporated on April 28, 1938, because of the following.
Choices: It was agreed upon by a consensus of the 4 towns populace, to disincorporate due to flagging economic conditions.; All 4 towns were destroyed in a massive fire, and the area was rebuilt as a distant suburb of Boston.; The land was needed for a large reservoir.; A major railroad  company secured rights to the land and built a rail line through the heart of all 4 towns.
Answer: The land was needed for a large reservoir.
Category: history
Question: Jonestown, Guyana, home to the Peoples Temple religious cult,  was virtually wiped off the map in November of 1978, when the cult leader induced 900 of his followers to drink cyanide laced Kool - Aid.  What was this cult leaders name?
Choices: Rev Dr. Parker Smalling; Rev. Alloyuishius Gant; Rev. Jim Jones; Rev. Donald Dunforth
Answer: Rev. Jim Jones
Category: history
Question: Muscogee, Florida was once a thriving village located 20 miles NW of Pensacola, Florida.  It was founded in 1857, yet by 1928 it was all but abandoned.  What was the cause of this towns demise?
Choices: It was a haven for circus performers until 1925, when the circus left for Sarasota, and the performers followed.; It was a lumber mill town, and in 1928, the mills were sold.; It was a town largely dependent on the fishing industry, which experienced an economic downturn in the early 1920s.; It was flooded to make way for a canal which is part of the Inter - Coastal Waterway.
Answer: It was a lumber mill town, and in 1928, the mills were sold.
Category: history
Question: Sinepuxent, a town on the eastern shore of Maryland, was destroyed by a tornado in 1818, and never rebuilt.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Napoleon, Arkansas, a once thriving river town situated near the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, was flooded by the two rivers, but was successfully rebuilt.
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
Category: history
Question: New Burlington, Ohio was once a community located in NW Clinton County, Ohio.  It was flooded when the U.S. Government  flooded Caesar Creek in order to construct a reservoir.  When did this take place?
Choices: 1960s; Late 1880s; 1970s; 1930s
Answer: 1970s
Category: history
Question: Achilles, Kansas was a thriving town whose heyday ran from the 1870s to approximately 1915.   By the year 1930, it was all but defunct.  What was responsible for this towns demise?
Choices: It became one of the casualties of The Great Depression.; It was largely devastated by a tornado in late 1915, and never recovered economically.; It was bypassed by the railroad.; It was requisitioned by the U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers, and slated to be flooded  in 1930.
Answer: It was bypassed by the railroad.
Category: history
Question: In 1988, this talk show host once brought out 67 pound of animal fat to show how much weight they lost.
Choices: Oprah Winfrey; Johnny Carson; David Letterman; Rikki Lake
Answer: Oprah Winfrey
Category: history
Question: This musician sang about an Uptown Girl in 1983.
Choices: Bryan Adams; Paul Simon; Elton John; Billy Joel
Answer: Billy Joel
Category: history
Question: Mr. Rogers, from the childrens television show Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, once donated a sweater his mother made him to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Amy Carter, daughter of former president Jimmy Carter, was arrested in 1987 for protesting against campus CIA recruitment.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: This group is known for their 1984 song Were Not Gonna Take It.
Choices: Quiet Riot; Ratt; Rough Cutt; Twisted Sister
Answer: Twisted Sister
Category: history
Question: What term did hippies use to refer to the institutions and structures they rejected?
Choices: The Power; The System; The Reign; The Establishment
Answer: The Establishment
Category: history
Question: The term Summer of Love, associated with the hippie counterculture movement, refers to the summer of what year?
Choices: 1965; 1971; 1970; 1967
Answer: 1967
Category: history
Question: Which of these artists did not participate in the Woodstock festival, an event regarded as the high point of the hippie movement?
Choices: Jimi Hendrix; Bob Dylan; Joe Cocker; Janis Joplin
Answer: Bob Dylan
Category: history
Question: In this 1979 movie, Claude Bukowski, a boy from Oklahoma, visits New York City and befriends a group of hippies before being sent to an Army training camp.
Choices: The Misfits; Hair; The Strawberry Statement; Yellow Submarine
Answer: Hair
Category: history
Question: Which American novelist, held Acid Tests in the 1960s, together with his circle of friends, known as the Merry Pranksters?
Choices: Norman Mailer; Kurt Vonnegut; Joseph Heller; Ken Kesey
Answer: Ken Kesey
Category: history
Question: The Free Speech Movement was a student protest that began in 1964 on the campus of which university?
Choices: University of California, Berkeley; California State University, Los Angeles; Anderson University, Indiana; Florida International University
Answer: University of California, Berkeley
Category: history
Question: Which British band released the hit single Hippy Hippy Shake in 1963?
Choices: The Swinging Blue Jeans; The Kinks; The Rolling Stones; The Hollies
Answer: The Swinging Blue Jeans
Category: history
Question: Which of these 1960s famous hippie gatherings did not take place in San Francisco?
Choices: The Human Be-In; The Summer of Love; Nambassa; The Love Pageant Rally
Answer: Nambassa
Category: history
Question: Which 1970 book includes advice on such topics as growing marijuana, starting a pirate radio station and stealing food?
Choices: To Sail Beyond the Sunset; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Cat Who Walks Through Walls; Steal This Book
Answer: Steal This Book
Category: history
Question: In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two, week-long Bed-Ins for Peace. In which city was their first Bed-In?
Choices: Amsterdam; Los Angeles; Montreal; New York City
Answer: Amsterdam
Category: history
Question: The Vietnam War is viewed not just as a conflict between South Vietnam and North Vietnam, but as a conflict of ideology between the communist block and western values. Which of these countries did not belong to the coalition of forces that supported the western-oriented, South Vietnam?
Choices: The United Kingdom; Australia; New Zealand; South Korea
Answer: The United Kingdom
Category: history
Question: This Academy Award-winning film, directed by Oliver Stone, is based on the autobiographical book of Ron Kovic, a Vietnam War veteran, who became an anti-war activist.
Choices: Born on the 4th of July; Platoon; Apocalypse Now; Hair
Answer: Born on the 4th of July
Category: history
Question: This is the code name of the bombing operation in North Vietnam, carried out by the US armed forces, which lasted between 1965 and 1968.
Choices: Operation Farmgate; Operation Rolling Thunder; Operation Urgent Fury; Operation Arc Light
Answer: Operation Rolling Thunder
Category: history
Question: This US President introduced his policy of âvietnamizationâ- enabling the South Vietnamese to take more responsibility for fighting the war on their own.
Choices: Lyndon Johnson; Richard Nixon; Harry Truman; John Kennedy
Answer: Richard Nixon
Category: history
Question: This communist offensive, launched on January 30, 1968, which comprised attacks on major cities and military bases throughout South Vietnam, was named after an important Vietnamese public holiday.
Choices: Tet Offensive; Ram offensive; Ngay Offensive; Ong offensive
Answer: Tet Offensive
Category: history
Question: Shooting at anti-war demonstrators at this university on May 4, 1970, triggered a nationwide student strike across America.
Choices: University of Maryland; Western Washington University; Kent State University; University of Montana
Answer: Kent State University
Category: history
Question: Name the route running from South Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into North Vietnam, used by North Vietnamese for sending soldiers to the south and for supplying the NLF (National Liberation Front ).
Choices: Bao Dai Trail; Diem Trail; Chi Thien Trail; Ho Chi Minh Trail
Answer: Ho Chi Minh Trail
Category: history
Question: This American diplomat and statesman served as a National Security Advisor and later as a Secretary of State. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating a ceasefire and US withdrawal from the war in Vietnam.
Choices: Dean Rusk; Henry Kissinger; Robert McNamara; William Westmoreland
Answer: Henry Kissinger
Category: history
Question: This American was sentenced to life in prison, because in 1968 he led the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians, including women, children and elderly men.
Choices: Clark Clifford; John Kerry; William Calley; Ernest Medina
Answer: William Calley
Category: history
Question: In this film, set during the Vietnam war, the following words are delivered by Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore:  You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Choices: The Deer Hunter; Apocalypse Now; Platoon; Casualties of War
Answer: Apocalypse Now
Category: history
Question: Two months after South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 21, 1860, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina voted to secede as well.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: What Union General in charge was defeated during the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the American Civil War?
Choices: Fremont; Hunter; McClellan; McDowell
Answer: McDowell
Category: history
Question: During the American Civil War, in April 1862, Union Flag Officer David Farragut, who was in command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, took control of which vital port of the South?
Choices: Tampa; New Orleans; Mobile; Charleston
Answer: New Orleans
Category: history
Question: After the death of this Confederate general on on May 10, 1863, General Lee remarked, I have lost my right arm.
Choices: Pickett; Jackson; Boregaurd; Armstrong
Answer: Jackson
Category: history
Question: What African American Regiment helped to assault Fort Wagner in South Carolina during the American Civil War?
Choices: 31st Connecticut; 22nd Pennsylvania; 52nd New York; 54th Massachusetts
Answer: 54th Massachusetts
Category: history
Question: Which general commanded the Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg, that started on July 1, 1863?
Choices: George Meade; George Pickett; Robert E. Lee; James Longstreet
Answer: Robert E. Lee
Category: history
Question: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee served together in which military conflict, regarded as a prelude to the American Civil War?
Choices: Indian War; Mexican War; Harpers Ferry; Bleeding Kansas
Answer: Mexican War
Category: history
Question: What play was President Lincoln watching at Fords Theatre, when he was assassinated by a Southern sympathizer from Maryland?
Choices: Othello; Our American Cousin; Our Fair Lady; Macbeth
Answer: Our American Cousin
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Worcester, the Battle of Hopton Heath, and the Battle of Winceby are just three of the battles during this civil war.
Choices: Irish Civil War; English Wars of the Roses; American Civil War; English Civil War
Answer: English Civil War
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Grunwald, the Battle of Chojnice, and the Battle of Swiecin are three battles fought during this war.
Choices: Breton War of Succession; Onin War; War of Scottish Independence; Thirteen Years War
Answer: Thirteen Years War
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Ludford Bridge, the First Battle of St Albans, and the Battle of Blore Heath are three battles fought during this war.
Choices: Norman Conquest; Hundred Years War; Swabian War; Wars of the Roses
Answer: Wars of the Roses
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Sandepu, the Battle of Mukden, and the Battle of Dairen are just three of the battles fought during this war.
Choices: Russo-Japanese War; Long March in China; Second Sino-Japanese War; First Sino-Japanese War
Answer: Russo-Japanese War
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Passchendaele, the Battle of Cer, and the Battle of the Frontiers were fought during this war.
Choices: WWI; Turco-Italian War; Polish-Soviet War; Czechoslovak-Polish War
Answer: WWI
Category: history
Question: The Battle of El Alamein, the Battle of Narvik, and the Battle of Crete were fought during this war.
Choices: WWI; WWII; Great Poland Uprising; Polish-Lithuanian War
Answer: WWII
Category: history
Question: The Battle of the Nile, the Battle of Radzyn, and the Battle of Aspern-Essling.
Choices: The Great Game; Napoleonic Wars; Wars of Scottish Independence; Ten Great Campaigns
Answer: Napoleonic Wars
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Custoza, the Battle of Palestro, and the Battle of Calatafimi.
Choices: Italian Independence wars; Turco-Italian War; Italian Wars; Second Italo-Abyssinian War
Answer: Italian Independence wars
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Uji, the Battle of Dan-no-ura, and the Battle of Muroyama were all fought during this war.
Choices: First Sino-Japanese War; Genpei War; Wars of Sengoku Period in Japan; Russo-Japanese War
Answer: Genpei War
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Ap Bac, the Battle of Dak To, and the Battle of Hamburger Hill.
Choices: Korean War; Ogaden War; Vietnam War; Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
Answer: Vietnam War
Category: history
Question: The allies of WW2 initially consisted of three countries, which were later joined by others. Which of these countries never joined the Allies?
Choices: Japan; Italy; China; France
Answer: Japan
Category: history
Question: Which was the formal reason for the end of World War II, on September 2, 1945?
Choices: The surrender of Germany; The number of civilians that had died; The usage of an increased number of atomic weapons; The formal surrender of Japan
Answer: The formal surrender of Japan
Category: history
Question: What two countries were invaded by Germany on 9 April 1940?
Choices: Norway and Great Britain; Norway and France; France and Denmark; Norway and Denmark
Answer: Norway and Denmark
Category: history
Question: In which month of 1940 did the Soviet Union occupy Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia?
Choices: May; June; August; September
Answer: June
Category: history
Question: On 28 October 1940, launching the invasion from bases in Albania, Italy invaded this country.
Choices: Greece; Bulgaria; Checzoslovakia; France
Answer: Greece
Category: history
Question: Nazi Germanys attempt at invading the Soviet Union, known as Operation Barbarossa, started on what date?
Choices: 22 July, 1941; 22 June, 1941; 22 June, 1940; 22 August, 1941
Answer: 22 June, 1941
Category: history
Question: This strategic meeting between the heads of the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States took place from December 22, 1941 to January 14, 1942.
Choices: The Arcadia Conference; The Yalta Conference; The Allied Conference; The Strategic Conference
Answer: The Arcadia Conference
Category: history
Question: What happened on July 14,1789?
Choices: Japan opened ports to international shipping; Argentina gained independence from Spanish rule; The American Revolution ended; A mob of French peasants stormed the Bastille and started the French Revolution
Answer: A mob of French peasants stormed the Bastille and started the French Revolution
Category: history
Question: Which of these events occurred on November  22, 1963?
Choices: The United States bombed North Vietnam for the first time; Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles; John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas; The Beatles performed first concert in the US
Answer: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas
Category: history
Question: The date November 11, 1918 is famous with what event?
Choices: The first case of Asian flu was reported in the USA; Marie Curie discovered Radium; World War I ended; Adolf  Hitler was born
Answer: World War I ended
Category: history
Question: What historical event took place on October 14, 1066 AD?
Choices: The Vikings landed in America; The Muslims retook Jerusalem; The Chinese first used fireworks in battle; England was conquered by the Normans in the Battle of Hastings
Answer: England was conquered by the Normans in the Battle of Hastings
Category: history
Question: What happened on July 4, 1826?
Choices: Andrew Jackson resigned as President; Russia declared war on Turkey, starting the Crimean War; The Mexican army crossed into Texas; Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died
Answer: Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died
Category: history
Question: What historical event occurred on March 15, 44 BC?
Choices: Julius Caesar was assassinated by members of the Roman senate; The first calendar was started by the Mayans in Central America; Korea gained independence from Japan; Mark Antony married Cleopatra
Answer: Julius Caesar was assassinated by members of the Roman senate
Category: history
Question: Which of these events took place on June 18, 1815?
Choices: The noble gas Neon was discovered; Russia claimed the territory of Alaska; Napoleon was beaten at Waterloo; Andrew Jackson and his troops defeated the British at New Orleans
Answer: Napoleon was beaten at Waterloo
Category: history
Question: Which of the following events happened on March,1692?
Choices: An earthquake in Mexico killed over 10,000; The Salem witch trials began in New England; General Braddock was killed by the French; The Indians sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch
Answer: The Salem witch trials began in New England
Category: history
Question: The date July 2, 1937 is remembered with what event?
Choices: Japan bombed Shanghai, off the coast of China, killing over 2,000; Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot disappeared flying across the Pacific Ocean; The Spanish Civil War ended; Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic
Answer: Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot disappeared flying across the Pacific Ocean
Category: history
Question: Which of these events occurred on December 29, 1170 AD?
Choices: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in his church; Mongols crossed the Danube river into Hungary; Danish ships landed at Greenland and claimed it as a province; Black Plague began in Genoa, Italy
Answer: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in his church
Category: history
Question: With what nations military did the US conduct desert exercises in 1981?
Choices: Iraq; Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Iran
Answer: Egypt
Category: history
Question: The US mining of what nations harbors created a congressional frenzy in April of 1984 and was  a case heard by the International Court of Justice?
Choices: Japan; Qatar; Panama; Nicaragua
Answer: Nicaragua
Category: history
Question: The US Federal Governments deficit in 1983 exceeded $250 billion?
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: In what state was Claus von Bulow prosecuted?
Choices: Rhode Island; Arkansas; Illinois; Virginia
Answer: Rhode Island
Category: history
Question: President Reagan was shot in 1981 as he left this hotel.
Choices: Ritz-Carlton, Washington DC; The Washington Hilton; The St. Regis Washington DC; Park Hyatt, Washington
Answer: The Washington Hilton
Category: history
Question: By 1983, less than 10% of all movie theaters in America had only one of these.
Choices: Stadium seating theater; Ticket register; Concession stand; Screen
Answer: Screen
Category: history
Question: What major comic book character underwent a costume change in 1984, wearing a suit that was black and white instead of blue and red?
Choices: Superman; Spiderman; Captain America; Batman
Answer: Spiderman
Category: history
Question: Iran invaded Iraq in 1981.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on these dates.
Choices: July 1-2-3, 1863; June 28-29-30, 1863; September 4-5-6, 1863; July 10-11-12, 1863
Answer: July 1-2-3, 1863
Category: history
Question: Robert E. Lee commanded the Confederate army at Gettysburg. Who led the Union forces?
Choices: George Meade; Winfield Scott; Daniel Sickles; Ulysses Grant
Answer: George Meade
Category: history
Question: Which of these landmarks could not be found on the Gettysburg battlefield?
Choices: Little Round Top; Devils Den; Hells Half Acre; Seminary Ridge
Answer: Hells Half Acre
Category: history
Question: This twenty-year-old was the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Choices: Benjamin Bryan; Michael Cordori; Wesley Culp; Jennie Wade
Answer: Jennie Wade
Category: history
Question: This 70-year-old citizen of Gettysburg grabbed his rifle during the first day of the battle and joined the Unions Iron Brigade. Not surprisingly, he was the only civilian to take part in the battle itself.
Choices: Donald Pfanz; Richard Sommers; John Proctor; John Burns
Answer: John Burns
Category: history
Question: General Lees three corps commanders at Gettysburg were Longstreet,  A.P. Hill and who else?
Choices: Richard Ewell; Richard Garnett; Issac Trimble; Johnston Pettigrew
Answer: Richard Ewell
Category: history
Question: This Union general was killed by a sniper on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Choices: Abner Doubleday; Joshua Chamberlain; John Reynolds; John Sedgwick
Answer: John Reynolds
Category: history
Question: This cavalry officer commanded the Union cavalry at Gettysburg.
Choices: George Custer; John Buford; Judson Kilpatrick; Wesley Merritt
Answer: John Buford
Category: history
Question: Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: WW II started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded which country?
Choices: Poland; The Soviet Union; Austria; Czechoslovakia
Answer: Poland
Category: history
Question: At the beginning of WW II, The British and the French were so surprised by the swiftness of the German attack on its neighbor that for some time no response ensued. This period lasted till May, 1940 and is known by what name?
Choices: Phony War; Blitzkrieg; Anschluss; Boer War
Answer: Phony War
Category: history
Question: In February 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Yalta to discuss the future of  post - war Europe. The Yalta Conference produced important decisions, one of which stated that there would be free elections in Czechoslovakia.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: This operation, led by General Dwight Eisenhower, was launched on 8 November 1942 and it was aimed at gaining control over Morocco and Algeria.
Choices: Operation Overlord; Operation Anthropoid; Operation Torch; Operation Countenance
Answer: Operation Torch
Category: history
Question: The Tripartite Pact was signed on September 27, 1940 by Germany, Italy and Japan. Later, three more countries joined - Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. When did Bulgaria join the pact?
Choices: November 20, 1940; March 3, 1941; November 23, 1940; March 1, 1941
Answer: March 1, 1941
Category: history
Question: This May 1942 battle was the first one to be fought only by aircraft carriers.
Choices: Battle of the Coral Sea; Battle of Midway; Battle of the Aleutian Islands; Battle of the Leyte Gulf
Answer: Battle of the Coral Sea
Category: history
Question: Even though mainland Britain was not actually invaded in World War II, it had prepared a resistance movement, known under what name?
Choices: Home Guard; Dukes; Auxiliary Units; Partisans
Answer: Auxiliary Units
Category: history
Question: Who accepted the surrender of the German military forces in Northwest Germany, Holland and Denmark on May 4, 1945?
Choices: General Zhukov; General Jacques Leclerc; General Montgomery; General George Marshall
Answer: General Montgomery
Category: history
Question: Before committing suicide, Adolf Hitler appointed his successors. Schwerin von Krosigk was one of them.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Which plane was the first operational turbojet to take part in WW II?
Choices: Heinkel He 178; Gloster Meteor; Messerschmitt 262; Arado Ar 234
Answer: Messerschmitt 262
Category: history
Question: During World War I Germany built and used one of the biggest guns in military history, Big Bertha. It fired 2,100 lb (820 kg) shells at a range of 15 km (9.3 miles) and was used in the assault of Verdun. Big Bertha was named after this member of the designers family.
Choices: His mother; His wife; His grandmother; His mother-in-law
Answer: His wife
Category: history
Question: Even though Bertha was a formidable gun, this one was even bigger. Paris Gun was used to bombard Paris during World War I. What was its main purpose?
Choices: To demolish large buildings; To kill as many civilians as possible; To bombard important bunkers; To attack the morale of enemy soldiers
Answer: To attack the morale of enemy soldiers
Category: history
Question: Lange Max (long Max) was a World War I German cannon officially called 38cm SKL/45.  Long Max was derived from the Paris Gun.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: One of the most accomplished ballistics engineers, Gerald Bull, was head of project HARP. The Pentagon and the Canadian Department of National Defence joined efforts in this project, trying to study ballistics of re-entry vehicles at low cost. They used 16 inch (406 mm) 50 caliber gun, which was later extended to 100 calibers (40 m), to fire shells toward the Atlantic at 3600 m/s. Do you know what HARP stood for?
Choices: Hazard Assessment of Rocket Propellants; Helping to Attract and Recruit Project; Highly Autonomous Roving Projectile; High Altitude Research Project
Answer: High Altitude Research Project
Category: history
Question: During World War I and II, this German family created some of the biggest guns in the world. In the years of WW I they sold cannons to the the Entente as well as the Central Powers. Their work became the center for German rearmament after 1933 (when Hitler came to power).
Choices: Krupp; Nathan; Kramer; Gustav
Answer: Krupp
Category: history
Question: Two of the German K5(E) guns were called Anzio Annes, because they shelled the coast of Anzio during WW II.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Six gigantic guns were created during World War II, with the help of general Karl Baker. They were called Karl Monsers and were used in the Brest-Litovsk and Warsaw uprisings. What was their other deployment during the War?
Choices: The defence of Berlin; The siege of Stalingrad; The siege of Moscow; The siege of Sevastopol
Answer: The siege of Sevastopol
Category: history
Question: This is the biggest gun ever to be completed. It was 43 m (141 feet) long, weighed 1350 tons and fired 7 ton shells at range of 40 km (25 miles). It was capable of piercing a meter (3.3 feet) of steel or 7 meters (23 feet) of concrete. One of the two ever built guns of this type was called Schwerer Gustav. What was the name of the other one?
Choices: Sturmtiger; Leopold; Robert; Dora
Answer: Dora
Category: history
Question: Tsar Pushka, the biggest cannon of its time, was created in Russia in 1586 and was later used to defend the Kremlin.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Gerald Bull took part in another supergun program - project Babylon. He supplied the plans for a series of gigantic guns, but fortunately only one of them (the smallest one) was completed. This person commissioned the project.
Choices: William Clinton; Saddam Hussein; Slobodan Milosevic; Yasser Arafat
Answer: Saddam Hussein
Category: history
Question: The 1990s introduced us all to grunge music. Which popular grunge band are known for their 1994 song Black Hole Sun?
Choices: Alice in Chains; Nirvana; Soundgarden; Pearl Jam
Answer: Soundgarden
Category: history
Question: On what cartoon from the 90s did we meet the characters Tommy, Angelica, and Chuckie?
Choices: Animaniacs; Hey Arnold!; Rugrats; Rockos Modern Life
Answer: Rugrats
Category: history
Question: John Gray wrote the popular book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: This independent horror film tells the story of 3 student filmmakers who get lost in the woods and are tormented by a legend witch.
Choices: The Amityville Curse; Bad Moon; Army of Darkness; The Blair Witch Project
Answer: The Blair Witch Project
Category: history
Question: On August 12 of this year, the Major League Baseball players went on strike which resulted in the cancellation of the World Series.
Choices: 1991; 1993; 1994; 1996
Answer: 1994
Category: history
Question: In what year did the popular sitcom, Friends, first air?
Choices: 1994; 1992; 1993; 1995
Answer: 1994
Category: history
Question: Which movie star was featured in the only movie about the Vietnam War that was made during the war?
Choices: John Wayne; Forest Whitaker; Tom Cruise; Tom Berenger
Answer: John Wayne
Category: history
Question: This Hollywood veteran played Sgt. Muldoon in a 1968 movie about the war in Vietnam.
Choices: Jim Hutton; Tim Hutton; Aldo Ray; R. Lee Ermey
Answer: Aldo Ray
Category: history
Question: This 1978 movie was about a group of American soldiers who went to fight in Vietnam. They could get out of combat if they threw a soccer match, but they refused to do so.
Choices: Full Metal Jacket; Pork Chop Hill; Hamburger Hill; The Boys in Company C
Answer: The Boys in Company C
Category: history
Question: This actor, who starred in the movie Good Morning, Vietnam, also acted in the TV series Walker: Texas Ranger.
Choices: Chuck Norris; Noble Willingham; R. Lee Ermey; John McGinty
Answer: Noble Willingham
Category: history
Question: Which Vietnam movie featured Tom Cruise, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe?
Choices: Full Metal Jacket; Born on the Fourth of July; Platoon; Hamburger Hill
Answer: Born on the Fourth of July
Category: history
Question: Who directed the 1986 movie Platoon?
Choices: Oliver Stone; Willem Dafoe; Brian DePalma; Tom Berenger
Answer: Oliver Stone
Category: history
Question: The  main actors in Platoon had to go through a 14-day military boot camp.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Who directed the 1989 movie Casualties of War?
Choices: Brian DePalma; Oliver Stone; Stanley Kubrick; Ray Kellogg
Answer: Brian DePalma
Category: history
Question: Who directed the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket?
Choices: Oliver Stone; Roy Kovic; Stanley Kubrick; Brian DePalma
Answer: Stanley Kubrick
Category: history
Question: For his role as Pvt. Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, Vincent DOnofrio, had to gain 70 pounds. This broke the previous record for weight gained by a featured actor for a role. Who had held this record?
Choices: Marlon Brando; John Wayne; Robert De Niro; Al Pacino
Answer: Robert De Niro
Category: history
Question: This 1989 movie was about an injured Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war protester.
Choices: Full Metal Jacket; Hamburger Hill; Born on the Fourth of July; Casualties of War
Answer: Born on the Fourth of July
Category: history
Question: Which of these movies did not feature R. Lee Ermey?
Choices: Full Metal jacket; Apocalypse Now; The Boys in Company C; Platoon
Answer: Platoon
Category: history
Question: Who directed the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now?
Choices: Francis Ford Coppola; Oliver Stone; Brian DePalma; Stanley Kubrick
Answer: Francis Ford Coppola
Category: history
Question: The Orient Express, a long-distance passenger train that has become a synonym with luxury travel, made its first run on October 4, 1883. This was the final destination of its first route.
Choices: Viena; Ankara; Ruse; Istanbul
Answer: Istanbul
Category: history
Question: On October 7, 1982,  this show made its debut in Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. It eventually closed after nearly 18 years on September 10, 2000.
Choices: Aida; The Phantom of the Opera; Cats; Sunset Boulevard
Answer: Cats
Category: history
Question: The Great Chicago Fire, one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century, started on October 8, 1871. The fire destroyed approximately 17,450 buildings, killed 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless, before it was extinguished on this date.
Choices: October 24; October 10; October 14; October 18
Answer: October 10
Category: history
Question: On October 11, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: On October 16, 1978, the Papal Conclave elected Karol JÃ³zef WojtyÅa, who became known as Pope John Paul II. How old was he when this happened?
Choices: 48; 68; 38; 58
Answer: 58
Category: history
Question: On October 18, 1968,  a police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Onos apartment revealed 168 grams of marijuana. This is what happened to Lennon and Ono as a result.
Choices: The evidence mysteriously disappeared and the case was dismissed; They were found guilty and were sent to prison; They were found not guilty and released, due to Lennons great contribution to British music; They plead guilty and were fined Â£150
Answer: They plead guilty and were fined Â£150
Category: history
Question: What year did the Holocaust begin?
Choices: 1929; 1945; 1946; 1933
Answer: 1933
Category: history
Question: Holocaust is a Greek word, originally meaning sacrifice by fire.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Not only Jews were targeted by Hitler, but also the Gypsies and the mentally and physically disable.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Beginning with racially discriminatory laws in Germany, the Nazi campaign expanded to the mass murder of a great part of European Jews.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: The armed uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in April-May 1943 was one of the most forceful Jewish uprising in the organized resistance to the Nazis.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Although the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wasnt successful, it was the first significant uprising in German-occupied Europe during WW II.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Who is widely recognized as the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during WW II?
Choices: Mordechai Anielewicz; Chaim Rumkowski; Henry Morgentaler; Hilary Minc
Answer: Mordechai Anielewicz
Category: history
Question: During WW II, Polish-Jewish industrialist Chaim Rumkowski was the leader of the Lodz Ghetto.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: At the end of the Nazi rule, Hitler expressed his sincere regret for all the deaths he and his subordinates had caused during the Holocaust.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Which of the following was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity in 313 AD?
Choices: Constantine; Marcus Aurelius; Nerva; Commodus
Answer: Constantine
Category: history
Question: Which writer witnessed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD?
Choices: Pliny the Younger; Pompey the Great; Plautus; Plutarch
Answer: Pliny the Younger
Category: history
Question: Which Roman Emperor wrote The Meditations that was actually a sort of personal diary?
Choices: Constantine; Hadrian; Marcus Aurelius; Julius Caesar
Answer: Marcus Aurelius
Category: history
Question: Who was the great Roman orator who created a Latin stylebook which is still used in Latin classes today?
Choices: Cicero; Nerva; Marcus Aurelius; Constantine
Answer: Cicero
Category: history
Question: In Ancient Rome, who were the Lares?
Choices: Household spirits of dead ancestors; The elite corps of the Roman army; The Muses; The Roman counterpart of the Greek Furies
Answer: Household spirits of dead ancestors
Category: history
Question: Which of these poets wrote many poems of love and manners widely read by Ancient Romans?
Choices: Cato; Ovid; Plutarch; Virgil
Answer: Ovid
Category: history
Question: This invention (named by Edward Jenner) is not an object, but a process of administering live, albeit weakened, microbes to people.
Choices: Mastectomy; Decompression; Ophthalmoscopy; Vaccination
Answer: Vaccination
Category: history
Question: The optical telegraph (a collective term) preceded the electrical telegraph. It was much faster than riding couriers in to deliver messages over long distances. One of these is not an optical telegraph.
Choices: Semaphores; Morse code; Ship flags; Smoke signals
Answer: Morse code
Category: history
Question: According to some theories, the parachute was invented in 1783 by Sebastien Lenormand in France. Two years later, Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as a means of safely getting down on earth from this.
Choices: Tree; Cliff; Building; Balloon
Answer: Balloon
Category: history
Question: The first military submarine (Turtle) could accommodate this number of people.
Choices: 3; 1; 2; 0 as it was unmanned
Answer: 1
Category: history
Question: In 1807, Robert Fulton used a steam engine to power the first commercially successful one of these.
Choices: Steam ship; Steam car; Steam locomotive; Steam factory
Answer: Steam ship
Category: history
Question: The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel invented in 1764 in this country.
Choices: France; England; Germany; The US
Answer: England
Category: history
Question: Charlie Chaplins movie The Gold Rush, which took in more than $4,250,000 at the box office in 1925, was set in his city.
Choices: Denver; Otago; Klondike; Transvaal
Answer: Klondike
Category: history
Question: Most gold rushes began with the discovery of placer gold by a single man or a party of people. Which one of these statements about placer mining is wrong?
Choices: Placer mining is not used any more; Placer gold is mined without tunneling; Hydrostatic pressure is used whenever possible; Placer gold deposits are usually found near big rivers and mountain streams
Answer: Placer mining is not used any more
Category: history
Question: Which one of these famous writers took part in the Klondike Gold Rush?
Choices: Ernest Hemingway; Jack London; Maine Reed; Mark Twain
Answer: Jack London
Category: history
Question: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 was followed by a silver boom (a period of great silver mining).
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: One man who made a fortune out of gold rushes was Levi Strauss. He developed the concept of this.
Choices: Electric lamp; Mattock; Denim; Explosives
Answer: Denim
Category: history
Question: This technique for extracting gold was discovered by chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1783, and was later developed in 1887 by John Seward MacArthur.
Choices: Gold cyanidation; Gold zincanization; Hydraulic mining; Gold panning
Answer: Gold cyanidation
Category: history
Question: Many people seeking an easy fortune emigrated to California, USA during the California Gold Rush (1848-1858). The gold rush was sparked by the discovery of gold near this city.
Choices: San Francisco; San Diego; Los Angeles; Sacramento
Answer: Sacramento
Category: history
Question: The San Francisco 49ers are an NFL team named after the prospectors that took part in the California Gold Rush.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: One of the earliest gold rushes was probably the Spanish search for the mythical city of El Dorado. According to early legends, the King of the Muiscas would do this as part of a religious ceremony.
Choices: Drink liquid gold; Give away gold to everybody; Cover himself with gold dust; Turn whatever he touches into gold
Answer: Cover himself with gold dust
Category: history
Question: The nickname of Wisconsin, âBadger Stateâ?, was given to it in irony, because no gold rushes occurred in the region.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: Which of the following was NOT an Egyptian pharaoh?
Choices: Akhenaten; Imhotep; Seti; Ramses I
Answer: Imhotep
Category: history
Question: Which was the first Egyptian pyramid?
Choices: The Red pyramid; The Great pyramid; The Bent Pyramid; The Step Pyramid
Answer: The Step Pyramid
Category: history
Question: What was Cleopatras ethnic background?
Choices: Roman; Macedonian; Upper Egyptian; Lower Egyptian
Answer: Macedonian
Category: history
Question: Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt?
Choices: Thutmose III; Kahfre; Imhotep; Menes
Answer: Menes
Category: history
Question: Which of the following was referred to as the Gift of the Nile?
Choices: The annual Nile flood; Egypt; The development of writing; The creation of civilization
Answer: Egypt
Category: history
Question: Where is the Nile Delta located?
Choices: Lake Victoria in central Africa; at the source of the river; Upper Egypt; Lower Egypt
Answer: Lower Egypt
Category: history
Question: Who was the first king in history to foster a belief in one God?
Choices: Tutankhamen; Ramses II; Akhenaten; Khufu
Answer: Akhenaten
Category: history
Question: How many distinct kingdoms were there in Ancient Egypt?
Choices: one; four; two; three
Answer: three
Category: history
Question: Incestuous royal marriages were common in Ancient Egypt.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: history
Question: Former Enron executive Kenneth Lay died of a heart attack at the age of 66 on July 5, 2006.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: history
Question: On what day in July did the Space Shuttle Discovery touch down on Earth after a 13-day trip to the International Space Station?
Choices: July 10, 2006; July 17, 2006; July 11, 2006; July 12, 2006
Answer: July 17, 2006
Category: history
Question: On what date in August did the Israeli and Hezbolah conflict end with a ceasefire?
Choices: August 20, 2006; August 14, 2006; August 2, 2006; August 8, 2006
Answer: August 14, 2006
Category: history
Question: On what date in September of 2006 did Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter die due to a stingray attack?
Choices: September 4; September 2; September 6; September 8
Answer: September 4
Category: history
Question: This bagged vegetable was recalled on September 16, 2006 after E. coli affected people in 19 U. S. states.
Choices: Celery; Spinach; Carrots; Lettuce
Answer: Spinach
Category: history
Question: On October 9, 2006, this Internet company announced its purchase of the popular YouTube site?
Choices: Amazon; Ebay; Yahoo; Google
Answer: Google