kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: people
Question: Martha Jefferson, wife of President Thomas Jefferson, gave birth to two children.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady from 1817 to 1825, had a child who died from whooping cough.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: One of the children of Louisa Catherine Adams, First Lady from 1825 to 1829, was the victim of a kidnapping.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Elizabeth Monroe, First Lady from 1817 to 1875, never had health problems.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Which First Lady lost a son as a result of a train accident?
Choices: None of these; Jane Pierce; Mary Todd Lincoln; Carolyn Harrison
Answer: Jane Pierce
Category: people
Question: Letitia Christian Tyler, who was First Lady from 1841 to 1842, so disdained the great unwashed that she would not participate in public affairs.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Barbara Bush, First Lady from 1989 to 1993, gave birth to six children.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Louisa Catherine Adams, First Lady from 1825 to 1829, had only three pregnancies.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: One U.S. First Lady wrote an autobiography entitled Adventures of a Nobody.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Which first lady single-handedly protected her husband from contact with the public after he suffered a stroke?
Choices: Edith Bolling Wilson; Saxton McKinley; Bess Truman; Anna Harrison
Answer: Edith Bolling Wilson
Category: people
Question: New York City was originally established as which other New city?
Choices: New Paris; New Madrid; New Amsterdam; New Lisbon
Answer: New Amsterdam
Category: people
Question: How many US states contain the New adjective in their names?
Choices: 4; 5; 3; 2
Answer: 4
Category: people
Question: New Orleans is a city in southern US. Where is Orleans located?
Choices: England; Italy; Spain; France
Answer: France
Category: people
Question: What is New South Wales?
Choices: It is a fictional name.; a state in Australia; a UK overseas territory on the Pacific Ocean; a UK offshore island
Answer: a state in Australia
Category: people
Question: Which of these is the correct official name of a Canadian province?
Choices: Nouvelle-Ãcosse; New Scotland; Alba Nuadh; Nova Scotia
Answer: Nova Scotia
Category: people
Question: New Zealand was named after which of the following?
Choices: Zeeland (a town in Michigan, US); Zeeland (a province in Holland); Zealandia (a submerged continent that sank after breaking from Antarctica some 70 million years ago); Zealand (an island in Denmark)
Answer: Zeeland (a province in Holland)
Category: people
Question: New Brunswick was named in honor of whom/what?
Choices: HMS Brunswick, a ship of the British Royal Navy; King George III of the House of Brunswick; A town in English West Midlands; Brunswick Corporation, an American manufacturing company
Answer: King George III of the House of Brunswick
Category: people
Question: Which US state is part of New England?
Choices: Rhode Island; New York; Pennsylvania; Delaware
Answer: Rhode Island
Category: people
Question: Which present day territory was NOT part of Nueva EspaÃ±a (New Spain)?
Choices: Texas; Philippines; Peru; Mexico
Answer: Peru
Category: people
Question: The Rookie Jock-Name of the Year award should go to Minnesota Twins pitcher Boof Bonser, especially because its his real name, too.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: The original first and middle names of former Orioles first baseman Boog Powell are the same as the names of which historic religious figure?
Choices: Jesus H.; Martin Luther; John Wesley; Brigham  Young
Answer: John Wesley
Category: people
Question: Oakland Athletics slugger Milton Bradley has been tagged with which of the following jock names?
Choices: Yahtzee; Scrabble; None of these; Boggle
Answer: None of these
Category: people
Question: What are the last names of the top-flight golfers, nicknamed Fuzzy and Chi Chi?
Choices: Rodriquez and Zoeller; Gonzalez and Heller; Bartle and James; Hernandez and Zeller
Answer: Rodriquez and Zoeller
Category: people
Question: This Yankee shortstops clutch home run made a real dent in the Red Sox in the 1978 playoffs. His given name is Russell Earl. What is his jock name?
Choices: Bucky; Hopalong; Lucky; Ducky
Answer: Bucky
Category: people
Question: Which one of the prominent Reds listed below had the given first and middle names Arnold Jacob?
Choices: Schoendienst; Grange; Ruffing; Auerbach
Answer: Auerbach
Category: people
Question: Which of the hoop stars below played with his actual name?
Choices: World B. Free; Penny Hardaway; Wali Jones; Cazzie Russell
Answer: Cazzie Russell
Category: people
Question: Born with the first and middle names Jacobus Franciscus, this legendary athlete is the first American sports figure to ever have a small town named after him.
Choices: Joe Montana; Wilt Chamberlain; Jim Brown; Jim Thorpe
Answer: Jim Thorpe
Category: people
Question: Denton True Young is the true birth name of this pioneer pitcher, whose name graces baseballs premier annual pitching award (the Cy Young Award). But how did he acquire the nickname Cy?
Choices: Its short for Seymour, his mothers name.; He would sigh audibly on the rare occasions when he walked a batter.; Its short for Cyclops, the fearsome, one-eyed monster.; Its short for cyclone, because of the power of his fastball.
Answer: Its short for cyclone, because of the power of his fastball.
Category: people
Question: Which of the following athletes has the jock name closest to his real name?
Choices: Boss Bailey; Chone Figgins; Mookie Wilson; Champ Bailey
Answer: Champ Bailey
Category: people
Question: What US President was shot and later passed away only four months after his inauguration?
Choices: John F. Kennedy; Andrew Jackson; James A. Garfield; Abraham Lincoln
Answer: James A. Garfield
Category: people
Question: According to the Bible, Nebuchadrezzar I was king of what?
Choices: Egypt; Sodom; Babylon; Jerusalem
Answer: Babylon
Category: people
Question: What member of the rock band KISS dated Cher after she separated with Gregg Allman?
Choices: Paul Stanley; Eric Singer; Gene Simmons; Tommy Thayer
Answer: Gene Simmons
Category: people
Question: Who revolutionized medical surgery by introducing sterilization?
Choices: Joseph Lister; Walter Freeman; Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov; Walter Freeman
Answer: Joseph Lister
Category: people
Question: What was the first name of Richard Chamberlain?
Choices: Justin; George; Zachary; King
Answer: George
Category: people
Question: To what comedy team did Graham Chapman belong?
Choices: The Three Stoogies; Monty Python; The Goons; The Kids In the Hall
Answer: Monty Python
Category: people
Question: In 1985, who broke Ty Cobbs major league record for career hits?
Choices: Pete Rose; Brian Kingman; Mike Witt; Roger Maris
Answer: Pete Rose
Category: people
Question: Who was the first US Vice President to die in office?
Choices: George Clinton; James Sherman; Spiro Agnew; John Nance Garner
Answer: George Clinton
Category: people
Question: Who was Sergey Korolyovs western rival?
Choices: Wernher von Braun; Ben Franklin; Albert Einstein; Michael Phelps
Answer: Wernher von Braun
Category: people
Question: How many English Kings bore the name William?
Choices: Three; Two; Four; Five
Answer: Four
Category: people
Question: William of Normandy lived during what  period of time?
Choices: 1028 to 1087; 1035 to 1087; 1028 to 1066; 1020 to 1070
Answer: 1028 to 1087
Category: people
Question: Who was King of England 1042 to 1066.  This King is the King from
Choices: Ethelred II; Godwine; Harold II; Edward the Confessor
Answer: Edward the Confessor
Category: people
Question: William, Duke of Normandy, married whom?
Choices: Jane Grey; Anne of Cleves; Jane Seymour; Matilda of Flanders
Answer: Matilda of Flanders
Category: people
Question: Where did William, (later to become William the Conqueror) reside prior to the Norman Conquest?
Choices: France; Wales; Ireland; Italy
Answer: France
Category: people
Question: Edward the Confessor of England tried to gain support from William, Duke of Normandy, prior to the Norman Conquest.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: By which king was William of Normandy knighted?
Choices: The King of England; The King of France; The King of Normandy; The King of Spain
Answer: The King of France
Category: people
Question: What is the name of the decisive battle of the Conquest of Normandy?
Choices: Battle of Pevensey; Battle of Hastings; Battle for Stamford Bridge; Battle for the Throne of England
Answer: Battle of Hastings
Category: people
Question: William, Duke of Normandy, was crowned King of England on December 25, 1066.
Choices:  became William I.; False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: William I, King of England, William the Conqueror, is responsible for all the following except which one?
Choices: The Tower of London; The Domesday Book; The Church of England; Separate Court for Canon Law
Answer: The Church of England
Category: people
Question: In what year did William the Conqueror die?
Choices: 1090; 1087; 1081; 1080
Answer: 1087
Category: people
Question: Finish the nursery rhyme:
Choices: ter Piper picked a peck of .........; pickles; Peppers; pickled peppers; pickled pickles
Answer: pickled peppers
Category: people
Question: Name the famous Peter who played Frank Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond.
Choices: Peter Doyle; Peter Billingsley; Peter Berg; Peter Boyle
Answer: Peter Boyle
Category: people
Question: Who voices Peter Griffin in the animated show Family Guy?
Choices: Seth Macfarlane; Mike Henry; Seth Green; Alex Borstein
Answer: Seth Macfarlane
Category: people
Question: What musician is a founding member and guitarist of the popular rock band Kiss as well as writer of the bands biggest hits?
Choices: Paul Young; Paul Stanley; Paul Davis; Paul McCartney
Answer: Paul Stanley
Category: people
Question: What film director is not correctly matched with the movie he directed?
Choices: Paul Verhoven - Basic Instinct; Paul Newman - Rachel, Rachel; Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood; All of them are correctly matched.
Answer: All of them are correctly matched.
Category: people
Question: According to official versions, Van Gogh cut off his ear with a razor after a row with this French painter.
Choices: Paul Cezanne; Paul Gaughin; Paul Verlaine; Paul Henry
Answer: Paul Gaughin
Category: people
Question: According to Christian tradition, St. Paul was beheaded in Rome during the reign of this emperor.
Choices: Caligula; Marcus Aurelius; Vespasian; Nero
Answer: Nero
Category: people
Question: American entrepreneur Paul Allen, known as one of the wealthiest people in the world, is a co-founder of what corporation?
Choices: DaimlerChrysler; Apple Inc.; Allianz Worldwide; Microsoft
Answer: Microsoft
Category: people
Question: French artist Paul Cezanne is often credited with forming the bridge between Impressionism and this art movement.
Choices: Cubism; Neoclassicism; Dadaism; Romanticism
Answer: Cubism
Category: people
Question: As head coach of this team, Paul Bear Bryant won six national championships and thirteen conference championships.
Choices: University of Maryland football team; University of Alabama football team; University of Kentucky football team; Texas AM University
Answer: University of Alabama football team
Category: people
Question: Paul Newman won the Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Fast Eddie Felson in the movie The Color of Money. Name the previous movie in which Newman played the same character.
Choices: The Towering Inferno; The Sting; The Hustler; The Verdict
Answer: The Hustler
Category: people
Question: This actor married Linda Cozlowski after co-starring with her in a 1986 comedy film and its 1988 sequel.
Choices: Paul Newman; Paul Hogan; Paul Young; Paul Lambert
Answer: Paul Hogan
Category: people
Question: What multiple Grammy Award-winning singer co-founded the band Wings with Linda Eastman and Denny Laine?
Choices: Paul Williams; Paul McCartney; Paul Stanley; Paul Simon
Answer: Paul McCartney
Category: people
Question: Elizabeth I of England, also known as the Virgin Queen, was the last monarch of this dynasty.
Choices: Windsor; Stuart; Lancaster; Tudor
Answer: Tudor
Category: people
Question: What was the birth name of Elizabeth Arden who built a cosmetics empire in the US?
Choices: Florence Nightingale Graham; Rosalind Elsie Franklin; Scarlett OHara Hamilton; Betty Naomi Goldstein
Answer: Florence Nightingale Graham
Category: people
Question: What actress is not correctly matched with the character she portrayed?
Choices: Elizabeth Taylor - Maggie the Cat (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof); Elizabeth Montgomery - Baby Jane Hudson (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?); Elizabeth Hurley - Sara (Serving Sara); Elizabet Shue - Elizabeth (Hide and Seek)
Answer: Elizabeth Montgomery - Baby Jane Hudson (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)
Category: people
Question: What Victorian author is famous for writing the social novel North and South and the biography of fellow novelist Charlotte BrontÃ«?
Choices: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Elizabeth Spencer; Elizabeth Smart; Elizabeth Gaskell
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: people
Question: Upon the death of her father King George VI in 1952, Elizabeth II ascended the thrones of seven countries. Which of the following is not one of them?
Choices: New Zealand; Australia; India; Canada
Answer: India
Category: people
Question: This celebrity, who once said, Big girls need big diamonds, wrote the 2002 book My Love Affair with Jewelry.
Choices: Bette Midler; Elizabeth Taylor; Bette Davis; Elizabet Hurley
Answer: Elizabeth Taylor
Category: people
Question: Elizabeth Blackwell, born in 1821 in Bristol, England, holds this distinction.
Choices: She was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.; All of these; She was the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.; She was the first woman to run for US President.
Answer: She was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Category: people
Question: In this Oscar-nominated movie, Elisabeth Shue stars as a prostitute who has a doomed love affair with a depressed alcoholic.
Choices: The Trigger Effect; City of Angels; The Saint; Leaving Las Vegas
Answer: Leaving Las Vegas
Category: people
Question: Whose mother was Saint Elizabeth according to the New Testament?
Choices: Zechariahs; Judas Iscariots; John the Baptists; Bartholomews
Answer: John the Baptists
Category: people
Question: In 1956, this poet and writer received the Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poetry, North  South.
Choices: Elizabeth Alexander; Elizabeth Gaskell; Elizabeth Bishop; Elizabeth Barret Browning
Answer: Elizabeth Bishop
Category: people
Question: Where was Senator Barack Obama born?
Choices: Gary, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; Honolulu, Hawaii; Peoria, Illinois
Answer: Honolulu, Hawaii
Category: people
Question: Which three colleges did Barack Obama attend as a student?
Choices: Illinois, Oxford, and Harvard; Illinois, Northwestern, and Harvard; Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard; Northwestern, Harvard, and Chicago
Answer: Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard
Category: people
Question: When did Barack Obamaâs term as Senator in the United States Senate begin?
Choices: 2005; 2000; 1997; 1999
Answer: 2005
Category: people
Question: Senator Barack Obama was the only African-American Senator in the Senate in 2006.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Where was Senator Barack Obamas father born?
Choices: Uganda; California; Illinois; Kenya
Answer: Kenya
Category: people
Question: To which country did Barack Obamaâs family move when he was six?
Choices: Kenya; Thailand; Uganda; Indonesia
Answer: Indonesia
Category: people
Question: In which subject did Senator Barack Obama get his B.A.?
Choices: Pre-Law; Political Science; Public Administration; History
Answer: Political Science
Category: people
Question: What job did Barack Obama start after finishing his education?
Choices: Assistant Mayor of Chicago; Assistant Ward Administrator in Chicago; Civil rights lawyer in Chicago; Assistant Mayor of Peoria
Answer: Civil rights lawyer in Chicago
Category: people
Question: What is the name of Barack Obamas first book?
Choices: The Audacity of Hope; The Audacity of Truth; Dreams from My Father; The Audacity of Hillary Clinton
Answer: Dreams from My Father
Category: people
Question: What is the name of Senator Barack Obamaâs 2004 book that became number one bestseller on the New York Times nonfiction list?
Choices: The Audacity of a Nation; The Audacity of War; The Audacity of Afro-Americans; The Audacity of Hope
Answer: The Audacity of Hope
Category: people
Question: Whom did Barack Obama defeat to win his Senate seat in 2005?
Choices: A. Keyes; Paul Simon and Richard Daily, Jr.; Harold Washington and Paul Simon; Bobby Rush and Peter Fitzgerald
Answer: A. Keyes
Category: people
Question: US Senator Barack Obama has won a Grammy.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: This Atlanta area woman was charged with the beating death of her 5-month-old daughter. Can you name her?
Choices: Kim Fields; Deanna Laney; Carisa Ashe; Andrea Yates
Answer: Carisa Ashe
Category: people
Question: This Texas mom killed her 11-month-old daughter in 2004 by amputating the babys arms with a knife and then offered her to God.
Choices: Andrea Yates; Dena Schlosser; Janie Lou Gibbs; Nannie Doss
Answer: Dena Schlosser
Category: people
Question: Diane Downs was convicted in 1984 for shooting which of these?
Choices: Her 2 sons and 2 daughters; Her 3 daughters; Her 3 sons; Her 1 son and 2 daughters
Answer: Her 1 son and 2 daughters
Category: people
Question: Susan Smith was convicted of killing her 2 sons by drowning them in her car in 1994.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Genene Jones was a pediatric nurse in Texas whose shift was commonly referred to as the Death Shift.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: This Texas mom, convicted in 1996 of killing her 2 young sons, claimed an intruder broke in and murdered them.
Choices: Ruth Snyder; Piper Rountree; Susan Smith; Darlie Routier
Answer: Darlie Routier
Category: people
Question: Who is the author of The Caballeros Way, The Gift of the Magi, Memoirs of a Yellow Dog, Cherchez la Femme?
Choices: Saki; Stephen Crane; H. H. Munroe; William Sydney Porter
Answer: William Sydney Porter
Category: people
Question: Notes From the Underground and The Thief are short stories by this writer.
Choices: Anton Chekov; Leo Tolstoi; Fyodor Dostoevsky; Franz Kafka
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Category: people
Question: Who wrote the short stories .007, How the Leopard Got Its Spots, Kidnapped, The Man Who Would Be King?
Choices: George Louis Costanza; Ian Fleming; Rudyard Kipling; Robert Louis Stevenson
Answer: Rudyard Kipling
Category: people
Question: The Redheadded Outfield, The Rube, False Colors were penned by this author.
Choices: Zane Grey; Harte Crane; Bret Harte; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer: Zane Grey
Category: people
Question: Who is the author of the following short stories: The Iliad of Sandy Bar, Tennessees Partner, The Outcasts of Poker Flats, High Water Mark?
Choices: Stephen Benet; Bret Harte; Harte Crane; Stephen Crane
Answer: Bret Harte
Category: people
Question: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Psychological Shipwreck, Beyond the Wall, Haita the Shepherd are short stories by this writer.
Choices: Stephen Crane; Stephen Benet; Ambroise Bierce; Ambroise LaFollette
Answer: Ambroise Bierce
Category: people
Question: Who penned The Open Boat, The Snake, Four Men in a Cave and The Veteran?
Choices: Bret Harte; Crane Harte; Hart Crane; Stephen Crane
Answer: Stephen Crane
Category: people
Question: The Secret Sharer, The Return, Heart of Darkness, The Lagoon are short stories written by this Polish-born author.
Choices: Joseph Conrad; Ambroise Bierce; Stephen Benet; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer: Joseph Conrad
Category: people
Question: Who is the author The Red-headed League, The Adventure of the Blue Carbunkle and The Adventure of the Speckled Band?
Choices: Zola Vernon Hayes; Edgar Allan Poe; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Stephen Crane
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: people
Question: The Penal Colony, Before the Law, The Next Village, A Country Doctor, On the Train are short stories written by this author.
Choices: Emile Zola; Franz Kafka; Franz Werfel; Emile Barrenas
Answer: Franz Kafka
Category: people
Question: Which of these US Presidents was assassinated?
Choices: Andrew Johnson; John Tyler; Andrew Jackson; James A. Garfield
Answer: James A. Garfield
Category: people
Question: What US President served more than two terms?
Choices: Theodore Roosevelt; Thomas Jefferson; Grover Cleveland; Franklin D. Roosevelt
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Category: people
Question: He served one term as President and two terms as Vice President.
Choices: John Tyler; Martin Van Buren; Millard Fillmore; John Adams
Answer: John Adams
Category: people
Question: In 1901, he became the youngest person to enter office as President.
Choices: James Madison; William McKinley; Barack Obama; Theodore Roosevelt
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
Category: people
Question: Which of these was physically the heaviest US President weighing over 300 pounds?
Choices: John Tyler; Zachary Taylor; William Howard Taft; John Quincy Adams
Answer: William Howard Taft
Category: people
Question: This Founding Father and US President promoted the ideals of republicanism in the US and supported the separation of church and state.
Choices: James Monroe; Andrew Jackson; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Category: people
Question: The son of a US President, he later became US President himself and took part in formulating the Monroe Doctrine.
Choices: Franklin D. Roosevelt; John Quincy Adams; George W. Bush; Zachary Taylor
Answer: John Quincy Adams
Category: people
Question: Who was the first US President to die in office?
Choices: John F. Kennedy; William Henry Harrison; Warren G. Harding; James A. Garfield
Answer: William Henry Harrison
Category: people
Question: Who is the first US President to remain a lifelong bachelor?
Choices: Calvin Coolidge; William McKinley; Benjamin Harrison; James Buchanan
Answer: James Buchanan
Category: people
Question: Who was the last US President to be born in the 18th century?
Choices: Abraham Lincoln; James Buchanan; Franklin Pierce; Millard Fillmore
Answer: James Buchanan
Category: people
Question: In this movie Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale play the roles of acclaimed real-life actresses who were both involved with Leonardo DiCaprios character.
Choices: The Departed; The Aviator; Catch Me If You can; This Boys Life
Answer: The Aviator
Category: people
Question: Which of these events is believed to have been instigated by Catherine de Medici, who was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559?
Choices: The Storming of the Bastille; The 100 Years War; St. Bartholomews Day massacre; The Thermidorian Reaction
Answer: St. Bartholomews Day massacre
Category: people
Question: In this 2001 movie, directed by Barry Levinson, Kate Blanchet portrays Kate Wheeler, a housewife disappointed with her marriage?
Choices: Heaven; Sphere; Disclosure; Bandits
Answer: Bandits
Category: people
Question: In what movie do Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio star as a married couple living in a Connecticut suburb?
Choices: Titanic; The Reader; The Basketball Diaries; Revolutionary Road
Answer: Revolutionary Road
Category: people
Question: In the 1990s, Kate Moss waif look and her depiction in a Calvin Cline advertising campaign drew criticism from what President of the US?
Choices: Ronald Reagan.; George W. Bush; George H. W. Bush; Bill Clinton
Answer: Bill Clinton
Category: people
Question: Kate Bushs debut single is named after and based on this novel by Emily Bronte.
Choices: Wuthering Heights; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Jane Air
Answer: Wuthering Heights
Category: people
Question: Actress Katie Holmes first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on this television teen drama.
Choices: Dawsons Creek; One Tree Hill; Point Pleasant; Beverly Hills 90210
Answer: Dawsons Creek
Category: people
Question: Henry VIIIs attempt to have the 24-year marriage with his first wife annulled led to Englands break with the Roman Catholic Church. Which Cathrine was his first wife?
Choices: Catherine of Aragon; Catherine de Medici; Catherine Parr; Catherine Howard
Answer: Catherine of Aragon
Category: people
Question: Who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the portrayal of Velma Kelly, a vaudevillian who murdered her adulterous husband and her sister?
Choices: Kate Winslet; Catherine Zeta-Jones; Kate Bosworth; Katharine Hepburn
Answer: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Category: people
Question: This popular French king who tried to provide his citizens with a âchicken in the pot every Sundayâ became known for his refusal to bathe and mask his odor with cologne after hunting.
Choices: Antoine of Navarre; Louis XIII of France; Henry IV of France; Nicholas Henri, Duke of OrlÃ©ans
Answer: Henry IV of France
Category: people
Question: This celebrity became a recluse, who refused to bathe and trimmed his hair and nails only once a year.
Choices: Ron Howard; Edward Howard; Clark Howard; Howard Hughes
Answer: Howard Hughes
Category: people
Question: This king who ruled France for 72 years was probably hydrophobic and refused to bathe.
Choices: Louis V; Charles V; Louis XVI; Louis XIV
Answer: Louis XIV
Category: people
Question: Frederick II of Prussia refused to bathe and stopped changing his clothes.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: What German composer, who was attracted to the ideals of the Enlightenment, refused to bathe?
Choices: Siegfried Wagner; Ludwig van Beethoven; Johann Sebastian Bach; Johann Christoph Bach
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Category: people
Question: He believed that cleanliness was a bourgeoisie excess.
Choices: Adolf Hitler; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
Answer: Karl Marx
Category: people
Question: One of the richest women in history, she bathed just a few times and wore several black dresses her entire life.
Choices: Coco Chanel; Marlin Monroe; None of these; Henrietta Green
Answer: Henrietta Green
Category: people
Question: Mao Zedong refused to brush his teeth.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Benedict of Aniane was a monk that spent most of his life in rags.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: According to a biography by Clark Gable she was extremely dirty, and not in the sexual sense.
Choices: Marilyn Monroe; Elizabeth Taylor; Audrey Hepburn; Audrey Manson
Answer: Marilyn Monroe
Category: people
Question: Which American politician is credited with writing the Declaration of Independence?
Choices: Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Franklin; John Adams; George Washington
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Category: people
Question: Gregor Mendel wrote On the Origins of Species in 1859.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: Which scholastic tome was NOT written by Issac Newton?
Choices: Opticks; Gravity and Physics: An In-depth Study; An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture; Arithmetica Universalis
Answer: Gravity and Physics: An In-depth Study
Category: people
Question: Which President of the United States wrote, Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation?
Choices: John Quincy Adams; Chester B. Arthur; James Madison; George Washington
Answer: George Washington
Category: people
Question: Profiles in Courage is the book written by John F. Kennedy that won him the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after he was jailed for eating at a segregated lunch counter.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: The famed Dead Sea Scrolls which contain ancient scriptures from the Hebrew Bible were written by which ancient people?
Choices: Aztecs; Mayan; Essenes; Ican
Answer: Essenes
Category: people
Question: Ancient Egyptians wrote on papyrus.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: Whose autobiography was titled  An Autobiography or My Experiments with Truth?
Choices: Mohandas Ghandi; Harry Truman; George H.W Bush; Winston Churchill
Answer: Mohandas Ghandi
Category: people
Question: I attended Indiana University and was drafted 2nd overall in the 1981 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons.  Who am I?
Choices: Joe Dumars; Bill Laimbeer; Larry Bird; Isiah Thomas
Answer: Isiah Thomas
Category: people
Question: Jack Nicklaus is also known as The Golden Bear.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: people
Question: I won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals including 8 golds, during my career that spanned from 1979 to 1996. My events were the 100, 200, 4X100 relay and the long jump. Who am I?
Choices: Carl Lewis; Maurice Greene; Marion Jones; Torri Edwards
Answer: Carl Lewis
Category: people
Question: In 1975 I defeated then popular player, Jimmy Conners, and went on to win the Wimbledon singles title. I retired in 1980 due to health problems with 818 wins and 51 titles. Who am I?
Choices: James Blake; Althea Gibson; Arthur Ashe; Donald Young
Answer: Arthur Ashe
Category: people
Question: Tug McGraw played for the New York Mets from 1975-1984.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: people
Question: The phrase United we stand, divided we fall has been used in mottoes and songs. Who is this phrase attributed to?
Choices: William Shakespeare; Benjamin Franklin; Plato; Aesop
Answer: Aesop
Category: people
Question: May you live all the days of your life is a quote by this famous person.
Choices: Bob Marley; Jonathan Swift; Herbert Hoover; C.S. Lewis
Answer: Jonathan Swift
Category: people
Question: Who is credited with the quote, Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.?
Choices: Queen Victoria; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Hypatia of Alexandria; Socrates
Answer: Hypatia of Alexandria
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Question: Who is this expression attributed to?
Choices: e voice of the people is the voice of God.; Samuel Adams; William Butler Yeats; Pope John Paul the first; Alcuin
Answer: Alcuin
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Question: What feminist activist made this statement?
Choices: men are not inherently passive or peaceful. Were not inherently anything but human.; Susan B. Anthony; Elizabeth Blackwell; Rosa Parks; Robin Morgan
Answer: Robin Morgan
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Question: Which Canadian Prime Minister won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957?
Choices: John Difenbaker; Wilfird Laurier; Lester B. Pearson; Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Answer: Lester B. Pearson
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Question: This Prime Minister served only 9 months in office.
Choices: John A MacDonald; Robert Borden; Joe Clark; Brian Mulroney
Answer: Joe Clark
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Question: This Canadian Prime Minister, who served from November 15, 1948, to June 21, 1957, was born February 1, 1882 in Compton PQ.
Choices: Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Arthur Meighen; Sir Robert Borden; Louis St. Laurent
Answer: Louis St. Laurent
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Question: This Canadian Prime Minister is considered to be âthe father of confederation.
Choices: Sir John Thompson; John Abbott; Alexander Mackenzie; Sir John A. Macdonald
Answer: Sir John A. Macdonald
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Question: Being the 8th Prime Minister of the country, this politician led Canada through World War I.
Choices: Louis St. Laurent; Sir Robert Borden; Richard Bennett; Sir Charles Tupper
Answer: Sir Robert Borden
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Question: Which Canadian Prime Ministers was born on October 18, 1919 in MontrÃ©al, Quebec?
Choices: Joe Clark; Brian Mulroney; Jean ChrÃ©tien; Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Answer: Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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Question: Which Canadian Prime Minister spent a record 21 years in office?
Choices: Sir Wilfrid Laurier; William Lyon Mackenzie King; Sir Charles Tupper; Sir John Thompson
Answer: William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Question: Which Canadian Prime Ministerâs photo is on the Canadian $5 bill?
Choices: Sir John Thompson; Sir Charles Tupper; Mackenzie King; Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Answer: Sir Wilfrid Laurier
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Question: This Canadian Prime Ministers term was only 5 months.
Choices: Kim Cambell; John Turner; Paul Martin; Joe Clark
Answer: Kim Cambell
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Question: Which Canadian Prime Minister was in office in the period between November 7, 1873 and October 8, 1878?
Choices: Alexander Mackenzie; Sir Mackenzie Bowell; John Abbott; John A. Macdonald
Answer: Alexander Mackenzie
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Question: This 19th century womens right activist was born in England in 1853. She was a poet,  a writer and a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was also active in the Republican Party in the state of Utah.
Choices: Susan Brownell Anthony; Anna Howard Shaw; Emmeline Blanche Wells; Ruth May Fox
Answer: Ruth May Fox
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Question: Born Anna Mary Robertson in 1860, this famous centenarian began painting in her 70s when arthritis caused her embroidering skills to deteriorate.
Choices: Susan Anthony; Lilly Hammer; Moms Mabley; Grandma Moses
Answer: Grandma Moses
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Question: This actor starred in over 200 movies in his career from 1931-1989, usually playing bit parts. His more notable parts include the voice of the carnival barker in Pinocchio and his portrayal of a used car salesman in the movie Detour.
Choices: Magic Johnson; Don Paul; Don Brodie; Ruth Moore
Answer: Don Brodie
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Question: Robert De Niros role in Casino was based on the real life gangster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Mickey Featherstone, member of  an organized crime gang the Westies, fled to Canada to avoid being drafted into Vietnam.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Mobster Tommy DeSimone attempted to rape Henry Hills wife, Karen Hill, while Henry Hill was in prison. Who was Karen having an affair with at the time?
Choices: Gino Alvera; Billy Batts; Paul Vario; John Gotti
Answer: Paul Vario
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Question: Mob lawyer Frank Ragano claimed that this Florida mob boss was involved in JFKs assassination.
Choices: Jimmy Burke; Santo Trafficante Jr.; Paul Castellano; Carlo Gambino
Answer: Santo Trafficante Jr.
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Question: Sonny Black of the Bonano family murdered Sonny Red who also belonged to the Bonano family.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Were Tommy DeSimone, Henry Hill, or Jimmy Burke ever made members of the Mafia?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: Stephen Cranes war novel The Red Badge of Courage is set during this war.
Choices: WWII; SpanishâAmerican War; American Civil War; Revolutionary War
Answer: American Civil War
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Question: What 1977 sci-fi classic is one of the few films both written and directed by Steven Spielberg?
Choices: A.I. Artificial Intelligence; War of the Worlds; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Question: Stephen King published several short novels, such as Rage, The Long Walk, and Roadwork under this pen name.
Choices: Richard Bachman; John Swithen; Acton Bell; Nicholas Blake
Answer: Richard Bachman
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Question: What 1984 hit single from the movie The Woman in Red earned Stevie Wonder an Academy Award for Best Original Song?
Choices: I Just Called to Say I Love You; You Are the Sunshine of My Life; Superstition; From the Bottom of My Heart
Answer: I Just Called to Say I Love You
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Question: What famous American musician, known for his trademark scarves, was born Steven Victor Tallarico in New York, NY in 1948?
Choices: Stevie Wonder; Steven Tyler; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Steven Adler
Answer: Steven Tyler
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Question: What actor is not correctly paired with the movie in which he starred?
Choices: Steve Martin  - Father of the Bride; Steve McQueen -The Magnificent Seven; Steve Buscemi - The Big Lebowski; Steven Seagal - The Delta Force
Answer: Steven Seagal - The Delta Force
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Question: What late-night NBC talk show was hosted by Steve Allen from 1954 to 1957?
Choices: Saturday Night Live; Meeting of Minds; Smile Time; The Tonight Show
Answer: The Tonight Show
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Question: What actor won a Golden Globe for the leading role of Michael Scott in the American adaptation of the British series The Office?
Choices: Steve Martin; Steve Krasinski; Steve Carell; Steve Buscemi
Answer: Steve Carell
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Question: In 1990, rock drummer Steve Adler was fired from this band because he was unable to perform well during the recording session of the song Civil War.
Choices: Guns N Roses; Alcatrazz; Pearl Jam; AC/DC
Answer: Guns N Roses
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Question: What Greek mythical hero did American bodybuilder and actor Steve Reeves portray in a 1958 movie?
Choices: Theseus; Achilles; Hercules; Prometheus
Answer: Hercules
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Question: Who wrote the plays Pericles Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline and Titus Andronicus?
Choices: Richard Sheridan; William Shakespeare; Christopher Marlowe; Ben Jonson
Answer: William Shakespeare
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Question: What playwright wrote Tambourlaine, Dido and Edward II?
Choices: William Shakespeare; Christopher Marlowe; Richard Sheridan; Ben Jonson
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
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Question: Volpone, The Alchemist and Sejanus are plays by this dramatist.
Choices: Richard Sheridan; Ben Jonson; Christopher Marlowe; William Congreve
Answer: Ben Jonson
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Question: Who penned the plays The Rivals, The School for Scandal, Pizarro and The Critic?
Choices: Ben Jonson; Richard Sheridan; Christopher Marlowe; William Congreve
Answer: Richard Sheridan
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Question: What playwright is the author of The Way of the World, The Mourning Bride and Love for Love?
Choices: William Congreve; Christopher Marlowe; Richard B. Sheridan; Ben Jonson
Answer: William Congreve
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Question: Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People and Ghosts are plays written by this playwright.
Choices: Heinrich Ibsen; George Bernard Shaw; Anton Chekhov; Sean OCasey
Answer: Heinrich Ibsen
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Question: What playwright penned Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy, Till the Day I Die and Awake and Sing?
Choices: Samuel Beckett; Clifford Odets; J.D. Salinger; Eugene Ionesco
Answer: Clifford Odets
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Question: Who is the author of the plays Nathan the Wise, The Education of Mankind, The Freethinker?
Choices: Gotthold Lessing; Doris Lessing; Dorothy Lessing; J.D. Salinger
Answer: Gotthold Lessing
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Question: The Killer, A Stroll in the Air, Rhinoceros and Hunger and Thirst are plays by this dramatist.
Choices: Eugene Ionesco; Edmond Rostand; Samuel Beckett; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Answer: Eugene Ionesco
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Question: What playwright is the author of The Misanthrope, The Miser, Tartuffe and The School for Wives?
Choices: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin; Voltaire; Edmond Rostand; None of these
Answer: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
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Question: Name the author of the plays Cyrano de Bergerac, Les Romanesques, Chantecler.
Choices: Voltaire; none of these; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin; Edmond Rostand
Answer: Edmond Rostand
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Question: Waiting for Godot, Krapps Last Tape, Happy Days, Catastrophe are some of the plays written by this playwright.
Choices: none of these; Eugene Ionesco; Edmond Rostand; Samuel Beckett
Answer: Samuel Beckett
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Question: Who is the author of the plays Oedipe, Eriphile, Mahomet and Naine?
Choices: None of these; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin; Edmond Rostand; Moliere
Answer: None of these
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Question: What novel by Joseph Heller is a sequel to Catch-22 and revisits some characters of the original, including Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder?
Choices: Closing Time; Something Happened; Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man; Good as Gold
Answer: Closing Time
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Question: Joseph Conrad, the author of the popular novel Heart of Darkness, is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, although he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties. What was his native language?
Choices: Czech; French; Hungarian; Polish
Answer: Polish
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Question: Joseph Haydn, often called the Father of the Symphony, was one of the most prominent composers of this period.
Choices: Classical period; Baroque; Romantic period; Medieval period
Answer: Classical period
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Question: In 1939, Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany which was violated when Germany invaded the Soviet Union during WWII. What was the code name for this invasion?
Choices: Operation Kremlin; D-Day; Operation Silver Fox; Operation Barbarossa
Answer: Operation Barbarossa
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Question: Who recorded the song We Didnt Start the Fire that makes reference to headline events and mentions Joe DiMaggio, Josef Stalin and Joseph McCarthy?
Choices: Billy Joel; Bob Dylan; David Bowie; Bruce Springsteen
Answer: Billy Joel
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Question: US Senator Joseph McCarthy gained national attention and began his anti-communist pursuits with a famous speech delivered on this day in 1950.
Choices: Memorial Day; Columbus Day; St. Patrics Day; Lincoln Day
Answer: Lincoln Day
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Question: What was Joe DiMaggios uniform number retired by the Yankees in 1952?
Choices: 52; 5; 1; 3
Answer: 5
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Question: At the start of World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., the patriarch of the prominent political clan, served as the United States Ambassador to this country.
Choices: The Soviet Union; France; The United Kingdom; Germany
Answer: The United Kingdom
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Question: What 18th-century British theologian, natural philosopher and educator is credited with the discovery of oxygen?
Choices: Joseph John Thomson; Joseph Priestly; Joseph Campbell; Joseph Boor
Answer: Joseph Priestly
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Question: What British physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases?
Choices: Joseph Jacobs; Joseph Priestley; Joseph John Thomson; Joseph DeRisi
Answer: Joseph John Thomson
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Question: What was the goal of Roosevelts New Deal program?
Choices: start government programs that would help the economy recover; provide relief to people too poor to adequately meet the basic necessities of life.; make reforms that would improve society and the economy; all of these
Answer: all of these
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Question: In a famous statement from his first inaugural address, President Roosevelt said that this was the only thing Americans had to fear.
Choices: fear itself; foreign economic epidemics; too much government intervention in the economy; greedy bankers and financiers
Answer: fear itself
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Question: The Public Works Administration (PWA), that was created as part of the New Deal program, attempted to improve the economy by which of the following?
Choices: None of these; allowing banks to give low interest rates on loans for construction projects; hiring many unemployed people to build schools, roads, etc.; reducing the amount of government money spent on infrastructure
Answer: hiring many unemployed people to build schools, roads, etc.
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Question: Which of the following US population groups was LEAST likely to support Roosevelt and the New Deal?
Choices: poor whites; farmers; African Americans; upper middle class whites
Answer: upper middle class whites
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Question: Why did many people criticise the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) of 1933?
Choices: Gave aid only to Caucasian farmers; Paid farmers to grow less than previously; Encouraged overproduction by farmers; Gave all farmers very large subsidies
Answer: Paid farmers to grow less than previously
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Question: President Roosevelt skillfully communicated with the American people through which of the following?
Choices: use of television for the first time in US politics; frequent train trips throughout the nation in which he spoke at many gatherings; radio fireside chats; weekly newspaper column called Why a New deal?
Answer: radio fireside chats
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Question: Which of these was created by Roosevelt to insure that the stock market was properly regulated?
Choices: Investigative branch of the Treasury Department; financial and securities branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Securities and Exchange Commission; enlarged Justice Department
Answer: Securities and Exchange Commission
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Question: Although it did not happen, many Americans feared that the Great Depression would greatly increase the power of this political party.
Choices: The Black Power Party; The Democratic Party; The Communist Party of the USA; The American Labor Party
Answer: The Communist Party of the USA
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Question: George W. Bush, who became U.S. President in 2001, was born in which city?
Choices: Midland, USA; Houston, Texas, USA; Washington DC, USA; New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Answer: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Question: In 2004, George W. Bush was reelected as which U.S. President in succession?
Choices: The 43rd president; The 40th president; The 53rd president; The 33rd president
Answer: The 43rd president
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Question: In 2002, U.S. President  George W. Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair that the problem with the French is that they dont have a word for entrepreneur.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In 1968 George W. Bush obtained a bachelorâs degree in history from which university?
Choices: Harvard University; Yale University; Harvey; University of Texas
Answer: Yale University
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Question: U.S. President George W. Bush was the first Governor in Texas that was elected to two 4-year terms in a row.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: In 1975, U.S. President George W. Bush received a masters degree in business administration from which university?
Choices: Texas AM; University of Texas; Harvard Business School; Princeton
Answer: Harvard Business School
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Question: U. S. President George W. Bush is the son of George H. W. Bush, who served as U.S. President from 1989 to 1993. However, who were the first father and son, who both served as U. S. Presidents?
Choices: None of these; John Adams and John Quincy Adams; Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt; William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
Answer: John Adams and John Quincy Adams
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Question: An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition, a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint. is a quote by U. S. President George W. Bush.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: After the 2000 presidential elections, Richard B. Cheney became U.S. Vice President under President George W. Bush.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which of these was the tallest U.S. President?
Choices: Millard Fillmore; Abraham Lincoln; James Garfield; William Henry Harrison
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
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Question: George Washington was related to which other US President?
Choices: John Adams; William Henry Harrison; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison
Answer: James Madison
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Question: George Washington was related to  which King of England?
Choices: Henry VIII; King George I; William the Conqueror; King Edward III
Answer: King Edward III
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Question: George Washington was of small to medium stature.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Which of the following is true regarding George Washingtons teeth by the time he was inaugurated as president?
Choices: He had a full set of natural teeth.; He had lower teeth, upper wooden dentures.; He had one tooth remaining.; He had wooden dentures.
Answer: He had one tooth remaining.
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Question: How many children did George Washington have?
Choices: One; Three; None; Two
Answer: None