kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: general
Question: The first novel of this Nobel Prize-winning author was called Lord of the Flies. The title is a literal English translation of one of the alternate names of the Devil -- Beelzebub.
Choices: William Golding; J. R. R. Tolkien; Peter Sinfield; Steven Brust
Answer: William Golding
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Question: This man established The Church of Satan. It is an organization that promotes an interesting form of Satanism - everyone views himself as his or her own god and is therefore responsible for his or her own destiny.
Choices: Ambrose Bierce; Marquis De Sade; Friedrich Nietzsche; Anton Szandor LaVey
Answer: Anton Szandor LaVey
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Question: In the 1997 movie Devils Advocate, Keanu Reeves character, Kevin Lomax, starts work in John Miltons huge law firm. Which one of these actors played Milton?
Choices: Jeffrey Jones; Al Pacino; Val Kilmer; Robert De Niro
Answer: Al Pacino
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Question: Not surprisingly, the Devil is a major Arcana Tarot card. The image on the card depicts a Satyr standing over two naked human-like demons, who are chained together. What is the interpretation of this Tarot card?
Choices: Death; Self bondage; Marriage; Bad luck
Answer: Self bondage
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Question: In this fifth novel in Anne Rices The Vampire Chronicles, Lestat is offered a job by the devil himself. The Devil explains to him many things about heaven and hell, and reveals some of the secrets of the world. What is the title of the novel?
Choices: Tale of the Body Thief; Inferno; Memnoch the Devil; Devils
Answer: Memnoch the Devil
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Question: Sympathy for the Devil is a song, originally released by this British rock band.
Choices: Black Sabbath; The Rolling Stones; Queen; Sex Pistols
Answer: The Rolling Stones
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Question: Humans are the only species that make love face-to-face.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What animal is responsible for the most human deaths in the world?
Choices: Great White Shark; Mosquito; Pitbull; Wasp
Answer: Mosquito
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Question: What book is said to be the most shoplifted?
Choices: The Bible; Websters Dictionary; Thesaurus of English Words  Phrases; National Geographic Atlas of the World
Answer: The Bible
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Question: What company is generally regarded as the largest toy distributor in the world?
Choices: Mattel; Barbie; Fisher Price; McDonalds
Answer: McDonalds
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Question: What percent of movies released in theaters in 1985 were R-rated?
Choices: 81%; 45%; 90%; 95%
Answer: 81%
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Question: The Eiffel Tower is 6 inches taller in the summer than in the winter.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Austin, Texas is called The Live Music Capital of the World.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: In Utah, wine used in wine tasting cannot be swallowed.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What is the maximum distance between Mars and the Sun?
Choices: 249,000,000; 500,000,000; 275,000,000; 327,000,000
Answer: 249,000,000
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Question: Which royal abode has had visitations from the ghosts of Thomas Becket, Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII and Lady Jane Grey amongst many others (including a bear)?
Choices: Windsor Castle; Sandringham; The Tower of London; Buckingham Palace
Answer: The Tower of London
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Question: In Native American beliefs, humans could be transformed into a dangerous cannibalistic spirits if they ate human flesh. What is the name given to these creatures?
Choices: Wendigo; Banshee; Shaman; Boggart
Answer: Wendigo
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Question: Once occupied by the Romans and then later the Vikings, which Yorkshire city is said to be the most haunted in Europe if not the world?
Choices: Kingston upon Hull; Ripon; Leeds; York
Answer: York
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Question: Reports of poltergeist activity date back as far as ancient Roman times.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Which famous hoax of the early twentieth century fooled many including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Choices: Will-o-the-Wisp; The Amherst haunting.; The Cottingley Fairies.; The Cock Lane ghost.
Answer: The Cottingley Fairies.
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Question: Is the Edgar Allen Poe House in Baltimore supposedly haunted by the ghost of the eponymous author?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: Which one of the following is not said to be haunted by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln?
Choices: Fords Theatre.; The Lincoln Memorial.; The White House.; The family home in Springfield, Illinois.
Answer: The Lincoln Memorial.
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Question: This seemingly lifelike substance is allegedly extruded from the bodies of mediums. It can be vaporous or solid and is said to smell of ozone. What is it?
Choices: Plasma; Endoplasm; Cytoplasm; Ectoplasm
Answer: Ectoplasm
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Question: Which two famous ghosts supposedly haunt the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel?
Choices: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.; Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift.; Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.; Laurel and Hardy.
Answer: Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift.
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Question: Which one of the following is not a Japanese ghost or spirit?
Choices: zashiki-warashi; ekimmu; mujina; ubume
Answer: ekimmu
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Question: What make of pistol did actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth use to kill President Lincoln?
Choices: Derringer; Smith and Wesson; Winchester; Colt
Answer: Derringer
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Question: In astronomy, what is a syzygy?
Choices: An alignment of 3 celestial bodies; A shooting star; A comet; An eclipse
Answer: An alignment of 3 celestial bodies
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Question: Which of these celebrities was named after the Biblical character who was Namomis daughter-in-law?
Choices: Moonunit Zappa; Uma Thurman; Oprah Winfrey; Penelope Cruz
Answer: Oprah Winfrey
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Question: Which of these statements is true about the way Michelangelo drew the snake in the Sistine Chapel?
Choices: The snake is walking; The snake appears to be speaking; The snake is a woman; The snake has no fangs
Answer: The snake is a woman
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Question: What is the longest river in Asia  Minor?
Choices: Tigris; Ganges; Euphrates; Mekong
Answer: Euphrates
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Question: The  protest march from Philadelphia to Teddy Roosevelts home in 1903 was called this.
Choices: The March of the Mill Children; The March of the Veterans; The March of the Unemployed; The March of the Suffrajets
Answer: The March of the Mill Children
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Question: Which was the first jazz single to sell one million copies?
Choices: Laura; Take the A Train; In the Mood; Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Answer: Chattanooga Choo-Choo
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Question: Which of the following people was a big fan of bowling?
Choices: Luther; Mozart; Cromwell; Napolen
Answer: Luther
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Question: Which famous actor was Arthur Millers son-in-law?
Choices: Daniel  Day-Lewis; Anthony Hopkins; Kirk Douglas; William Shatner
Answer: Daniel  Day-Lewis
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Question: This United States Army lieutenant general was in command of the American army at the beginning of the American Civil War. He developed the Union strategy popular as the Anaconda Plan, that would be used to defeat the Confederacy.
Choices: U.S. Grant; Joseph Longstreet; Robert E. Lee; Winfield Scott
Answer: Winfield Scott
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Question: This song, composed by George Harrison, one of the members of the Beatles, caused a plagiarism trial.
Choices: Michelle; My Sweet Lord; Woman; Love Me Do
Answer: My Sweet Lord
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Question: The name of this company, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1889, roughly translates as leave luck to heaven.
Choices: Toshiba; Subaru; Nokia; Nintendo
Answer: Nintendo
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Question: It is generally accepted that this term, whose usage was reported by Newsweek in 1951, first appeared in Dr. Seusss book If I Ran the Zoo, where it names one of the comical, imaginary animals.
Choices: Nerd; Yahoo; Bluetooth; Spam
Answer: Nerd
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Question: This country was formerly known as the Republic of Upper Volta. On August 4, 1984, President Thomas Sankara gave it a new name which means the land of upright people.
Choices: Burundi; Kyrgyzstan; Burkina Faso; Djibouti
Answer: Burkina Faso
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Question: This small agricultural town, whose motto is solidarity in work, is located in Quebec, Canada, near the St. Lawrence River.
Choices: Cape Circumcision; Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!; Broken Back Springs; Readymoney Cove
Answer: Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!
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Question: Chuck Berry recorded this song in 1972 and used to call it My Alma Mater. Mary Whitehouse, a British morality campaigner, made an unsuccessful attempt to get the song banned.
Choices: Johnny B. Goode; My Ding-a-Ling; Roll Over Beethoven; Maybelline
Answer: My Ding-a-Ling
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Question: This ABC TV series showed the events in an American History class at the fictional Walt Whitman High School in Los Angeles.
Choices: 704 Hauser; Room 222; Gloria; Maude
Answer: Room 222
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Question: This popular African-American group was founded in 1954. Its original members -- OKelly, Rudolph, Ronald and Vernon were from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Choices: The Allman Brothers; The Walers; The Who; The Isley Brothers
Answer: The Isley Brothers
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Question: This scale is used to measure the intensity of a tornado by examining the damage caused by the tornado, when passing over man-made structures.
Choices: Fujita; Mercalli; Scoville; Hamilton
Answer: Fujita
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Question: The album Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones was released in this year.
Choices: 1962; 1978; 1966; 1974
Answer: 1966
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Question: The Black Sea is not connected to the Sea of Azov.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The concept of Men in Black (men dressed in black suits claiming to be government agents) can be observed in all of these movies except one.
Choices: Memento; A Beautiful Mind; The Matrix; Men In Black
Answer: Memento
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Question: Three of the four players have been recognized as Most Valuable Player of the Chicago White Sox, which bore the nickname The Chicago Black Sox for a while. Who is the odd one?
Choices: Ozzie GuillÃ©n; Frank Thomas; Dick Allen; Nellie Fox
Answer: Ozzie GuillÃ©n
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Question: One of the following statements concerning black tea is wrong.
Choices: In Chinese, black tea is known as brown tea.; Its flavor is stronger than that of most other teas.; It is made from heavily oxidized leaves.; It contains more caffeine than other teas.
Answer: In Chinese, black tea is known as brown tea.
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Question: The Hollywood production Meet Joe Black had 5 wins and 2 nominations.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: According to Christianity, besides black magic, there is also white magic.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: The largest one-day decline in recorded stock market history is called Black Monday and occurred on this date.
Choices: September 22, 1964; October 19, 1987; December 8, 1990; November 23, 1982
Answer: October 19, 1987
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Question: This force prevents anything from escaping black holes.
Choices: Centripetal force; Nuclear force; Centrifugal force; Gravity force
Answer: Gravity force
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Question: In which city and state was the first motion picture created?
Choices: Chicago, IL; Hollywood, CA; Alexandria, VA; West Orange, NJ
Answer: West Orange, NJ
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Question: What was the first movie shown in the White House?
Choices: The Sheik; Cabira; Wings; The Birth of a Nation
Answer: Cabira
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Question: Which U.S. president had the first bowling alley put in the White House?
Choices: Nixon; Eisenhower; Taft; Truman
Answer: Truman
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Question: At one time both Canada and Ireland were governed by people of this same name.
Choices: John McKenzie; Sarah Mosely; Mary Robinson; Robert Hall  Briscoe
Answer: Mary Robinson
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Question: Which of these represents the largest group of soldiers?
Choices: Company; Battalion; Squad; Platoon
Answer: Battalion
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Question: Which was the first nation to become Christian?
Choices: Antioch; Romania; Armenia; Rome
Answer: Armenia
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Question: In the USA, what is the longest month?
Choices: August; January; October; April
Answer: October
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Question: Which element is number two in the periodic table, following hydrogen?
Choices: Carbon; Lithium; Helium; Oxygen
Answer: Helium
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Question: Which form of cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States?
Choices: Prostate Cancer; Breast Cancer; Lung Cancer; Leukemia
Answer: Lung Cancer
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Question: Which of these conditions is the most common reason for a doctor to prescribe Lithium?
Choices: Bipolar disorder; Anemia; Diabetes; Glaucoma
Answer: Bipolar disorder
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Question: What is the plural form of dice?
Choices: It already is plural; Dicess; Bidice; Dices
Answer: It already is plural
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Question: Which US President was nicknamed Young Hickory?
Choices: Polk; Jackson; Taylor; Martin Van Buren
Answer: Polk
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Question: Which Japanese car brand is also a word in Spanish?
Choices: Toyota; Honda; Nissan; Mazda
Answer: Honda
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Question: Pax Romana,  the long period of relative peace experienced by states within the Roman Empire took place between these years.
Choices: 27BC - 180; 33 - 180; 180 - 436; 145 - 254
Answer: 27BC - 180
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Question: In the American version of Monopoly, which are the two most expensive properties?
Choices: Boardwalk and Fifth Avenue; Boardwalk and Park Place; Broadway and North Carolina Avenue.; Boardwalk and  Ventnor Avenue
Answer: Boardwalk and Park Place
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Question: In which decade were sneakers, or tennis shoes invented?
Choices: 1940s; 1890s; 1920s; 1830s
Answer: 1830s
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Question: Which scientist discovered that blood could be separated into blood plasma and red blood cells and the components frozen separately, thus lasting longer?
Choices: Karl Landsteiner; Paul Ehrlich; Richard Keating; Charles Drew
Answer: Charles Drew
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Question: What animal is the largest land predator?
Choices: Kodiak bear; Elephant; Giant anteater; Man
Answer: Kodiak bear
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Question: If you roll two fair dice, what is the probability you will get a seven?
Choices: 1/36; 7/36; 1/6; 7/6
Answer: 1/6
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Question: Who was the only US President to have never married?
Choices: Buchanan; Cleveland; McKinley; Taft
Answer: Buchanan
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Question: Charles Darwin and this US president were born on the same day of the same year.
Choices: Jackson; Andrew Johnson; Abraham Lincoln; Washington
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
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Question: Which of the following best describes heavy water?
Choices: Water with several isotopes of hydrogen; Polluted water; Water carrying silt down a river; Water loaded with fluorides
Answer: Water with several isotopes of hydrogen
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Question: What is the name of the scary creature that was tamed in a legend about Saint Martha?
Choices: Tarasque; Yomi; Tarabon; Sphinx
Answer: Tarasque
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Question: This enormous mythical white bird, which appears in 8th-century Middle-Eastern books, is said to be able to lift and eat even elephants.
Choices: Medusa; Lordi; Roc; Phoenix
Answer: Roc
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Question: Often referred to as Sasquatch, this unbelievable creature is said to be a large hairy humanoid living in the wild parts of North America.
Choices: Bigfoot; Rodan; Bogeyman; Yeti
Answer: Bigfoot
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Question: What is the name of this legendary monster, which appears in Jewish folklore as an animated creature created from inanimate material?
Choices: Golem; Grendel; Draka; Kraken
Answer: Golem
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Question: What is the other name of the creature, which is often called the Abominable Snowman and is thought to inhabit the Himalayas?
Choices: Rodan; Bigfoot; Scylla; Yeti
Answer: Yeti
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Question: This strange man-sized beast is thought to have been seen many times in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia around the late 60s of the twentieth century.
Choices: Jabberwock; Ghidorah; Gorgon; Mothman
Answer: Mothman
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Question: Which is the horrible creature, whose name literally translates as goat-sucker from Spanish?
Choices: Chimera; Chupacabra; Kitsune; Cthulhu
Answer: Chupacabra
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Question: According to Japanese folklore, this kind of fox is unusual and has special abilities.
Choices: Kitsune; Nuckalavee; Gamera; Ghidorah
Answer: Kitsune
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Question: What is the name of a famous guarding monster in Greek Mythology?
Choices: Cerberus; Golem; Hyde; Dagon
Answer: Cerberus
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Question: Vukodlak is one of the Slavonic names of which scary mythical monster?
Choices: Werewolf; Dragon; Vampire; Ghost
Answer: Werewolf
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Question: Who was the first centerfold of Playboy magazine?
Choices: Bette Paige; Joan Crawford; Jayne Mansfield; Marilyn Monroe
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
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Question: How many feet are in a mile?
Choices: 1770; 1000; 1665; 5280
Answer: 5280
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Question: In 1864, the US government issued a two-cent coin. What was so special about this coin ?
Choices: It was golden; It was the first to say In God We Trust; It was shunned by the South; It was the first to have a picture of a President on it
Answer: It was the first to say In God We Trust
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Question: Whose real name was Leonard Sly?
Choices: Roy Rogers; Leonardo DiCaprio; Gerald Ford; Leonard Nimoy
Answer: Roy Rogers
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Question: Where is the Henry Ford museum located?
Choices: Detroit; Taos; Greenfield Village; Dearborn
Answer: Greenfield Village
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Question: Which of these great books was first published in 1771?
Choices: The Encyclopedia Britannica; Gullivers Travels; Roberts Rules of Order; Paradise Lost
Answer: The Encyclopedia Britannica
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Question: What was the original name of the melodramatic musical, West Side Story?
Choices: War and Love; East Side Story; The Gangs of New York; Jets and Sharks
Answer: East Side Story
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Question: If I were to visit the wrist-wrestling capital of the world, where would I go?
Choices: Riga, Latvia; Sofia, Bulgaria; Norman, Oklahoma; Petaluma, California.
Answer: Petaluma, California.
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Question: Which is the only US state to have two Ivy League colleges in it ?
Choices: Connecticut; New Jersey; Massachusetts; New York
Answer: New York
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Question: Which word goes with the Oriental symbol Yang?
Choices: Tao; Yin; Sutra; Ying
Answer: Yin
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Question: The student Rosencrantz is coupled with what fellow student?
Choices: Hamlet; Waskowitcz; Rabinowski; Guildenstern
Answer: Guildenstern
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Question: Which of these Disney characters go together?
Choices: All of these; Mickey and Minnie; Cinderella and Charming; Lady and Tramp
Answer: All of these
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Question: Who is Shreks sidekick in the films Shrek, Shrek 2, and Shrek the Third?
Choices: Puss in Boots; The Frog King; Fairy Godmother; Donkey
Answer: Donkey
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Question: Who is Harry Potters best friend and schoolmate?
Choices: Neville Longbottom; Sirius Black; Albus Dumbledore; Ron Weasley
Answer: Ron Weasley
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Question: Who was Nero Wolfs legman and confidant?
Choices: Dr. Watson; Coleman his butler; Rex Stout; Archie Goodwin
Answer: Archie Goodwin
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Question: What are the Latin terms that refer to plant and animal life?
Choices: etcetera and et alia; flora and fauna; habeas and corpus; ipso and facto
Answer: flora and fauna
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Question: Who were the legendary founders of  the city of Rome?
Choices: Romulus and Remus; Castor and Pollux; Troilus and Cressida; Damon and Pythias
Answer: Romulus and Remus
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Question: Which of the following are old time cartoon characters?
Choices: Fibber McGee and Molly; Amos and Andy; Mutt and Jeff; All of these
Answer: Mutt and Jeff
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Question: Name the two famous streets that were the heart of the hippie movement.
Choices: Haight and Ashbury; Hollywood and Vine; Times Square and 42nd Street; Washington Square and Alphabet City
Answer: Haight and Ashbury
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Question: What two colors are mixed together to get orange?
Choices: Yellow and green; Blue and red; White and blue; Red and yellow
Answer: Red and yellow
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Question: There is no word in the English language that rhymes with orange.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which word refers to a specialized type of building in a garden that is used for the growing of citrus trees?
Choices: Orange garden; Orangeton; Orangery; Orange-greenhouse
Answer: Orangery
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Question: In what year did Stanley Kubrick direct his Oscar-nominated film A Clockwork Orange?
Choices: 1971; 1970; 1972; 1969
Answer: 1971
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Question: What was the nationality of William III of England who was often called William of Orange?
Choices: French; Spanish; English; Dutch
Answer: Dutch
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Question: What type of insect is the Orange Tip?
Choices: Grasshopper; Ladybug; Moth; Butterfly
Answer: Butterfly
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Question: The Orange River is the longest river in which country?
Choices: Canada; Republic of South Africa; Chile; Australia
Answer: Republic of South Africa
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Question: What is the name of the essential oil made from the blossom of the bitter orange?
Choices: Lavender; Natterdum; Neroli; Orange oilscent
Answer: Neroli
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Question: Orange Pekoe is a type of what?
Choices: Tropical Fish; Gemstone; Tea; Wildflower
Answer: Tea
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Question: Suleiman the Magnificent personally led Ottoman armies to conquer Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Which famous painter, a representative of the romantic period, delivered the following words: Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Choices: Picasso; Modigliani; Renoir; Delacroix
Answer: Delacroix
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Question: In 1927 Austrian baker and confectioner, Eduard Haas invented what?
Choices: The electric mixer; AM radio; The CAT scan; PEZ candy
Answer: PEZ candy
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Question: This word refers to the ancient art of aerodynamically stabilizing arrows from materials, such as feathers or modern plastics.
Choices: Feathereting; Fletching; Cooperring; Chancelloring
Answer: Fletching
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Question: This 7-year-old pilot trainee died in her attempt to become the youngest person to fly a plane across the United States.
Choices: Lisa Blair Hathaway; Lisa Dubroff; Jessica Dubroff; Jane Hathaway
Answer: Jessica Dubroff
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Question: What award was given to President George W. Bush in 2004?
Choices: The Stillman Award for Leadership; The Raspberry Award for worst leading actor; The Hendley Award for Great Americans; The Thurbridge Award  for Freedom
Answer: The Raspberry Award for worst leading actor
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Question: This island, which is a French territory, is located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 km southwest of Mauritius.
Choices: Saint Denis; Cilaos; Reunion; San Guadalupe
Answer: Reunion
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Question: This movie, directed by Bo Welch, won the 2003 Raspberry award in the category, Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie.
Choices: Charlies Angels:Full Throttle; Gigli; Cat in the Hat; From Justin to Kelly
Answer: Cat in the Hat
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Question: This Chinese city, the capital of Hubei province, lies at the confluence of the Yangtze River and Han River.
Choices: Xia Jong; Fujian; Wuhan; Shanghai
Answer: Wuhan
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Question: This prion disease is also known as laughing sickness due to the outbursts of laughter that mark its second phase.
Choices: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Kuru; Scrapie; None of these
Answer: Kuru
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Question: This US President granted a posthumous pardon to Robert Edward Lee, a general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
Choices: Richard Nixon; John Kennedy; Gerald Ford; Lyndon Johnson
Answer: Gerald Ford
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Question: This 1968 song, recorded by the Beatles, was written by Paul McCartney, who wanted to cheer up Lennons son, Julian.
Choices: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Hey Jude; Happy Birthday
Answer: Hey Jude
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Question: What city, nicknamed The Mile-High City, is located on the plains east of the Rocky Mountains?
Choices: Aurora, Colorado; Aspen, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; Denver, Colorado
Answer: Denver, Colorado
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Question: The Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963 by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate what?
Choices: The war crimes in Vietnam; The shooting at Kensington University; The assassination of John F. Kennedy; The Watergate Scandal
Answer: The assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Question: In what year did President Franklin Roosevelt give the approval for dropping the first atom bomb on Japan?
Choices: He never did; 1946; 1945; 1944
Answer: He never did
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Question: In 2004, this famous show business family became the second clan to have three generations of Oscar winners.
Choices: The Douglases; The Coppolas; The Howards; The Weavers
Answer: The Coppolas
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Question: What do American Presidents John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and George W. Bush all have in common?
Choices: They all were re-elected.; They won the electoral vote but not the popular vote.; They all were senators.; They all served as vice-presidents.
Answer: They won the electoral vote but not the popular vote.
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Question: Gunnery sergeant John Basilone of the US Marine Corps, was awarded the Medal of Honor for what reason?
Choices: Outstanding heroism during the attack on Pearl Harbour; Outstanding heroism during the Vietnam War; Outstanding heroism at Guadalcanal during World War II; Outstanding heroism during the Gulf Wars
Answer: Outstanding heroism at Guadalcanal during World War II
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Question: This annual plant, also called brinjal, is native to southern India and Sri Lanka.
Choices: Eggplant; Tomato; Cucumber; Yam
Answer: Eggplant
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Question: The world-class hospital in Maryland was named after a person whose last name was Hopkins. What was his first name?
Choices: Johns; Reed; John; James
Answer: Johns
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Question: Which of the following are well known English puppets?
Choices: Kukla Fran and Ollie; Chip and Dale; Thomas and Gerald; Punch and Judy
Answer: Punch and Judy
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Question: Who were the star-crossed lovers from West Side Story ?
Choices: Nardo and Anita; Juan and Juanita; Tony and Maria; Jose and Jorge
Answer: Tony and Maria
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Question: Which of the following were an old-time radio duo?
Choices: Jack Benny and Dennis Day; George Burns and Gracie Allen; Jack Benny and Mary Livingston; All of these
Answer: All of these
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Question: Which of the following are among the top female comedy writers in British television?
Choices: Edie and Patsy; Judi Dench and Patricia Rutledge; Saunders and French; Stephanie and Holly Blue
Answer: Saunders and French
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Question: Which of these is the name of the company that manufactures several first aid remedies?
Choices: Johnson and Johnson; Proctor and Gamble; Clark and Lewis; Black and Decker
Answer: Johnson and Johnson
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Question: Which of these comedy teams consists of a husband and wife, whose son is an Emmy Award-winning actor?
Choices: Bergen and McCarthy; Burns and Allen; Shields and Yarnell; Stiller and Meara
Answer: Stiller and Meara
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Question: Complete the name of the American printmaking firm that produced prints by hand-colored lithography: ........... and Ives.
Choices: Crasnston; Cuttler; Commings; Currier
Answer: Currier
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Question: Who were the two teenagers who were transported into various time periods in a series of movies?
Choices: George and Henry; Bill and Ted; Joe and Tom; Archie and Reggie
Answer: Bill and Ted
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Question: Which of the following are usually part of every restaurant table setting?
Choices: Salt and pepper; Bread and butter; Ketchup and mustard; Olive oil and vinegar
Answer: Salt and pepper
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Question: In the U.S., the maximum term of an issued patent is this many years, from the earliest claimed filing date.
Choices: 20; 17; 7; 5
Answer: 20
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Question: Regardless of its size, approximately this much of an iceberg is visible above the waterline.
Choices: 3/4; 1/3; 1/9; 1/25
Answer: 1/9
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Question: In the game of Scrabble, if a player uses all seven of their letters in a turn, they receive a bonus of how many points?
Choices: 10; 100; 50; 25
Answer: 50
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Question: Teams in the NHL and the NBA both usually play this many regular season games.
Choices: 82; 104; 55; 96
Answer: 82
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Question: Over the course of the complete works of William Shakespeare, the bard uses this many different words.
Choices: 29,066; 101,009; 3030; 15,400
Answer: 29,066
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Question: Before making the change to a decimal based monetary system, one English guinea was comprised of this many shillings.  Coincidentally, it is also the number of letters in the Italian alphabet.
Choices: 4; 18; 29; 21
Answer: 21
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Question: The number of weeks the Barenaked Ladies hit, One Week was #1 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart in 1998.
Choices: 10; 5; 1; 3
Answer: 1
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Question: The top price for a ticket to the Super Bowl I in 1967.
Choices: $27; $55; $100; $12
Answer: $12
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Question: Homers epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are made up of this many books each.
Choices: 24; 3; 61; 15
Answer: 24
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Question: What term derives from a Latin word meaning rods bundled around an axe ?
Choices: Fascism; Despot; Caesar; Sovereign
Answer: Fascism
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Question: At the end of his historic performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, this musician set his guitar Fender Stratocaster on fire.
Choices: Little Richard; Janis Joplin; Jimi Hendrix; Peter Townsend
Answer: Jimi Hendrix
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Question: This rhythm and blues song from 1951 is claimed by the owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips, to be the first rock and roll song.
Choices: Roll With me Henry; Rocket 88; Rock Around the Clock; Its All Right Baby
Answer: Rocket 88
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Question: What American state, known also as the Silver State, is named after a weather condition?
Choices: Wyoming; Colorado; Oklahoma; Nevada
Answer: Nevada
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Question: During the reign of George III, this British politician held the position of Prime Minister from 1783 to 1801, and again from 1804 until his death.
Choices: Pitt the Younger; Pitt the Elder; Thatcher; Churchill
Answer: Pitt the Younger
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Question: In what year did Nicolas Cugnot invent the first successful steam-powered road vehicle?
Choices: 1842; 1645; 1769; 1816
Answer: 1769
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Question: In 1839, while spending the winter with George Sand in Majorca, this composer completed a work  consisting of 24 short preludes. Each prelude was in a different major or minor key.
Choices: Schubert; Schumann; Chopin; Lizst
Answer: Chopin
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Question: This Greek word, used in Homers works, means virtue or being the best you can be.
Choices: Terre firma; Cantus firmus; Hamartia; Arete
Answer: Arete
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Question: This author wrote a book in which the story is told from the view poin of the mulatto slave Cynara, born on the plantation Tata.  The book is a parody of  the novel Gone with the Wind.
Choices: Maya Angelu; Toni Morrisson; Valerie Drew Pierce; Alice Randall
Answer: Alice Randall
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Question: Alban W. Phillips is the discoverer of the Phillips Curve. What does this curve show?
Choices: Rising wages favor capital-intensive investments.; Inflation is inversely proportional to unemployment.; Rising wages favor labor-intensive investments.; Property is the real basis for wealth in a capitalistic society.
Answer: Inflation is inversely proportional to unemployment.
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Question: This tall actress is famous for her portrayal of Ripley in the film Alien.
Choices: Sigourney Weaver; Heather Graham; Laura Dern; Sarah Silverman
Answer: Sigourney Weaver
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Question: Which of these books was not  written by Steve Allen?
Choices: The Murder Game; Murder in Manhattan; The Talk Show Murders; Murder in the Valley
Answer: Murder in the Valley
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Question: According to a study published in the Annals of Neurology, people who regularly come into contact with pesticides are 70 % more likely to develop what disease?
Choices: Brain Cancer; Alzheimers disease; Jakob-Brezlov disease; Parkinsons disease
Answer: Parkinsons disease
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Question: Handel, Bach and  Scarlatti were all born in what year?
Choices: 1685; 1789; 1785; 1613
Answer: 1685
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Question: What was the last name of Italian brothers Carlo, Bindo, Alfieri, Ettore, and Ernesto who were all in the automobile business?
Choices: Romeo; Peugeot; Ferrari; Maserati
Answer: Maserati
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Question: Which is the correct definition for oxter?
Choices: the armpit; having much snow; walrus ivory; to polish
Answer: the armpit
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Question: What is true about all objects that emit heat?
Choices: They are all composed of plasmas.; They all emit infra-red waves.; They all emit ultraviolet rays.; They obey Snells Law
Answer: They all emit infra-red waves.
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Question: What did  Wilhelm Schickard invent?
Choices: the first automatic calculator; the pneumatic drill; celluloid; the integrated circuit
Answer: the first automatic calculator
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Question: Which list contains four of the five basic ballet moves?
Choices: Cabriole, Arabesque, Pirouettem, Atimitudes; Pirouette, Arabesque, Pas des deux, Grande cabriole; Cabriole, Pirouette, Arabesque , Atimitudes; Fouette, Attitude, Pirouette, Arabesque
Answer: Fouette, Attitude, Pirouette, Arabesque
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Question: The USA owns a territory in the Pacific called  The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. What is its capital city?
Choices: Pago Pago; Saipan; Agana; Charlotte Amalie
Answer: Saipan
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Question: The Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki are the sacred texts of which religion?
Choices: Taoism; Sikhism; Shinto; Zoroastrianism
Answer: Shinto
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Question: The dram is the monetary unit of this country whose capital city is Yerevan.
Choices: Moldova; Azerbaijan; Armenia; Andorra
Answer: Armenia
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Question: The Virginia General Assembly was founded in Jamestown in what year?
Choices: 1774; 1719; 1819; 1619
Answer: 1619
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Question: This city state, also called Ragusa, was first to recognize the independence of the newly formed United States of America.
Choices: Vatican; Dubrovnik; Monaco; Malta
Answer: Dubrovnik
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Question: What was the currency of the Netherlands, before the adoption of the euro?
Choices: Gulden; Dinar; Krona; Florin
Answer: Gulden
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Question: SMERSH, the organization mentioned in the James Bond film, From Russia with Love, was a real Russian organization.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: This US President, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.
Choices: Dwight Eisenhower; Lyndon Johnson; James Carter; Gerald Ford
Answer: James Carter
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Question: This US President was an instructor in classical languages. Being ambidextrous, he could simultaneously write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other.
Choices: Garfield; Chester A. Arthur; Jefferson; Teddy Roosevelt
Answer: Garfield
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Question: This abstract strategy board game is the national game of Ghana. The board has two straight rows of six pits or cavities, called houses.
Choices: Checkers; Backgammon; Oware; Chess
Answer: Oware
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Question: This English rock musician changed his name to avoid confusion with a singer from the Monkees, who had the same family name.
Choices: Elvis Costello; David Crosby; Earl The Monkey  Hinson; David Bowie
Answer: David Bowie
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Question: Edaphic deserts can be found on some volcanic islands, in parts of Iceland and on the Colorado plateau in the USA. Which of these most accurately defines an edaphic desert?
Choices: One that gets less than 2.5 cm of rain a year; One that gets enough rain but still lacks plants; One that is so cold that nothing can grow; One that has been a desert for at least 1 million years
Answer: One that gets enough rain but still lacks plants
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Question: Dactyloscopy, a technique perfected by anthropologist Juan Vucetichs, studies what?
Choices: Fingerprints; The shape of human head; Flightless birds; Land dinosaurs
Answer: Fingerprints
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Question: This US city is located at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Ohio River.
Choices: Cairo, Illinois; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee
Answer: Cairo, Illinois
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Question: A square has four unequal sides.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: How many are in a Bakers Dozen?
Choices: 10; 12; 13; 5
Answer: 13
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Question: Ann has $5.00 and Jeff gives her $2.50, then she goes and buys $3.38 worth of candy. How much money does she have left?
Choices: $4.12; $3.92; nothing; $5.00
Answer: $4.12
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Question: The Spanish word for dog is pero.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: A lion is part of which animal class?
Choices: Mammalia; Amphibia; Aves; Arachnida
Answer: Mammalia
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Question: What 2 prominent actors did the movie Colors star?
Choices: Sean Penn and Robert Duvall; Sean Penn and Robert De Niro; Dennis Hopper and Heath Ledger; Robert Duvall and Aidan Quinn
Answer: Sean Penn and Robert Duvall
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Question: Nails and hair continue to grow even after you die.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Said to be the first of the Film Noir genre, The Maltese Falcon starred Humphrey Bogart as the one and only Sam Spade.  How many appearances did Bogart make as this character?
Choices: 3; 6; 1; 4
Answer: 1
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Question: The Killers was a film based on a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, which starred Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: In 1971 one of the classics of the Film Noir genre was made in color - Chinatown.  The cast was stellar, as well as the director.  Can you name him?
Choices: William Friedkin; John Huston; Roman Polanski; Billy Wilder
Answer: Roman Polanski
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Question: Laura is one of the most memorable films made in the Film Noir genre, even more so thanks to Clifton Webbs performance.  What was his film characters name?
Choices: Whit Sterling; Jules Amthor; Kaspar Gutman; Waldo Lydecker
Answer: Waldo Lydecker
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Question: A notable movie in the Film Noir genre is Out of the Past.  This movie featured Robert Mitchum as Jeff Bailey, who is forced to confront his past by one unsavory adversary, played by an actor who is not known for his roles playing a heavy.  Name him.
Choices: Raymond Burr; Charles Laughton; Kirk Douglas; Vincent Price
Answer: Kirk Douglas
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Question: The famous fictional modern detective Philip Marlowe was played by many actors over the years, from Humphrey Bogart to Elliot Gould.  Can you name the author who created him.
Choices: Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler; Mickey Spilane; Cornell Woolrich
Answer: Raymond Chandler
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Question: Mildred Pierce put Joan Crawfords name back up there in lights.  It was nominated for several Academy Awards.  Both Ann Blyth and Eve Arden were nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Body Heat, written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan of Star Wars, has everything; scheming lovers, murder, blackmail and betrayal.  Can you name the actor who played Matty Walkers doomed husband, Edmund?
Choices: Richard Crenna; E. G. Marshall; Peter Boyle; Harvey Keitel
Answer: Richard Crenna
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Question: Periander of Corinth, Pittacus of Mitylene and Thales of Miletus have something in common. What is it?
Choices: They are three of the most famous Greek characters.; They are three of the Seven mathematicians of Greece.; They are the Three princes of Greece.; They are three of the Seven Sages of Greece.
Answer: They are three of the Seven Sages of Greece.
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Question: These US Presidents - William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Warren G. Harding, all have this in common.
Choices: They have been elected without a plurality of popular votes.; They were all democrats.; They died in office of natural causes.; They resigned from office.
Answer: They died in office of natural causes.
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Question: Three of the listed singers are baritones. Who is the odd one?
Choices: Elvis Presley; Roberto Alagna; Robert Goulet; Frank Sinatra
Answer: Roberto Alagna
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Question: What did Jean Michel Jarre, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Lord Byron, and Sir Winston Churchill all have for pets?
Choices: Cats; Birds; Horses; Dogs
Answer: Cats
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Question: Who is the odd one of the four writers?
Choices: Thomas More; Edmund Spenser; Charles Dickens; Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Charles Dickens
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Question: Les Barker, Richard Digance and Bill Oddie are famous for being what?
Choices: Musical comedians; Radio comedians; Impersonators; Satirists
Answer: Musical comedians
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Question: Paul Ehrlich, Otto Diels, and Hans Fischer are known as what?
Choices: German physicists; Austrian biologists; German biologists; German chemists
Answer: German chemists
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Question: Tomas Tranströmer, Assia Djebar and Raja Rao have won one, what is it?
Choices: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Neustadt International Prize for Literature; Nobel Prize in Literature
Answer: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
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Question: Which group consists of these three members: Thomas (Tom) Matthew DeLonge on guitar, Markus (Mark) Allan Hoppus on bass, and Travis Landon Barker on drums?
Choices: East 17; Take That; Blink-182; Wax
Answer: Blink-182
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Question: Which of these psychologists was not a student of Freuds?
Choices: Wilhelm Reich; Alfred Adler; Ulrich Neisser; Otto Rank
Answer: Ulrich Neisser
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Question: Which sport is mentioned in Shakespeares Henry V?
Choices: Tennis; Golf; Bowling; Darts
Answer: Tennis
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Question: What was the name of Sir Isaac Newtons first wife?
Choices: Iris Barrow; Elizabeth Rachel Sandal; Mary Chennille; He never had a wife
Answer: He never had a wife
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Question: Who was the first singer to get a Gold Record for a single?
Choices: Tex Beneke; Perry Como; Elvis Presley; Frank Sinatra
Answer: Perry Como
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Question: He was a great silent screen star.  He was well known as the best pie thrower in the movies.  He was a great athlete and did almost all of his own stunts.  He was famous for rarely showing emotion in his face.  Who was he?
Choices: Buster Keaton; Joseph Schenck; Charlie  Chaplin; Fatty Arbuckle
Answer: Buster Keaton
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Question: Rabbi Levi and Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra are places on the moon.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: What organization was started by Carrie Chapman Catt?
Choices: League of Women Voters; National Universal Suffrage League; Democratic National Committee; The Right to Life Party
Answer: League of Women Voters
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Question: Which answer best describes how many Congressional Medal of Honor medals were awarded during the Civil War
Choices: Less than 600; Between 1200 and 2000; Between 2000 and 4000; Between 600 and 1200
Answer: Between 1200 and 2000
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Question: When did Americas military actions in Korea first begin?
Choices: 1951; 1871; 1950; 1958
Answer: 1871
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Question: Which of these was supposedly built to house 8 human hairs?
Choices: The Torii Pagoda; The Shwedagon Pagoda; The Masudi Temple; The Chenwuku Temple
Answer: The Shwedagon Pagoda
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Question: Who discovered the gyroscope effect, now used for measuring orientation?
Choices: Thomas A. Edison; Leon Foucault; Booker T. Washington; Johann Bohenberger
Answer: Johann Bohenberger
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Question: Which one of these authors created the famous fictional White Rabbit which wears a waistcoat and is always worried about being late?
Choices: J. R. R. Tolkien; J. K. Rowling; Edgar Allan Poe; Lewis Carrol
Answer: Lewis Carrol
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Question: Which of these cartoon characters is Bugs Bunnys rival?
Choices: Martian Marvin; All of these; Yosemite Sam; Elmer Fudd
Answer: All of these
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Question: Which of these is characteristic of Rabbit, a fictional character in the series Winnie the Pooh?
Choices: Bouncing and confident; Gloomy and pessimistic; Ashamed of being small; Busy and responsible
Answer: Busy and responsible
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Question: The Playboy Bunny outfit, worn by waitresses at the Playboy Clubs, consisted of bunny ears, a corset, a collar, cuffs and what else?
Choices: Chains; Fluffy tail; Bandana; Whiskers
Answer: Fluffy tail
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Question: Which American author wrote the so called Rabbit novels - Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest and Rabbit Remembered?
Choices: William Faulkner; John Updike; Michael Crichton; Ken Kesey
Answer: John Updike
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Question: Who voiced Roger Rabbit in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Choices: Charles Fleischer; Bob Hoskins; Mae Questel; Mel Blanc
Answer: Charles Fleischer
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Question: Who wrote and illustrated the famous childrens book The Tale of Peter Rabbit, first published in 1902?
Choices: Hans Christian Andersen; Oscar Wilde; Lewis Carroll; Beatrix Potter
Answer: Beatrix Potter
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Question: What was the name of the rabbit in Disneys animated movie Bambi?
Choices: Flower; Faline; Ronno; Thumper
Answer: Thumper
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Question: Who played the role of Jimmy B-Rabbit in the 2002 movie 8 Mile, directed by Curtis Hanson?
Choices: Michael Shannon; Kim Basinger; Evan Jones; Eminem
Answer: Eminem
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Question: Which characters drink tea together with the March Hare at the neverending tea party in Alices Adventures in Wonderland?
Choices: The Duchess and the Mad Hatter; Dinah and the Duchess; The Dormouse and the Mad Hatter; The Gryphon and the Dormouse
Answer: The Dormouse and the Mad Hatter
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Question: Which term is defined as fear of crowds, public places or open areas?
Choices: Aviophobia; None of these; Claustrophobia; Agoraphobia
Answer: Agoraphobia
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Question: Which disorder is characterised by a fear of the number 13?
Choices: Caligynephobia; Triskaidekaphobia; Anglophobia; Xylophobia
Answer: Triskaidekaphobia
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Question: Which condition is described as a fear of cats?
Choices: Cynophobia; Pedophobia; Ailurophobia; Alektorophobia
Answer: Ailurophobia
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Question: What medical term refers to the fear of death or dying?
Choices: Dinophobia; Triskadekaphobia; Thanatophobia; Brontophobia
Answer: Thanatophobia
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Question: What term refers to the fear of imperfection?
Choices: Atelophobia; Ailurophobia; Autophobia; Arachnophobia
Answer: Atelophobia
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Question: A person who is afraid of heights, suffers from what disorder?
Choices: Acrophobia; Agoraphobia; Arachnophobia; Anglophobia
Answer: Acrophobia