kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: literature
Question: The director of the original film version of The Grapes of Wrath won an Oscar.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which best describes the plot of the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Choices: A middle-class family lose their home and must move to the Southwest to get work and stability.; A poor familys city home is foreclosed and they must travel to the mid-west to get work.; A poor family lose their home and farm and  travel West looking for work.; A poor family move from their Texas ranch to get work in the agricultural areas of California.
Answer: A poor family lose their home and farm and  travel West looking for work.
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Question: Which of these words best describes the attitudes of the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Choices: Pro-labor; Pro-big business; Anti-union; Anti-American
Answer: Pro-labor
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Question: In the original movie The Grapes of Wrath, the part of Jim Casey, the ex-minister is played by an actor  with this last name.
Choices: Carradine; Fonda; Alda; Douglas
Answer: Carradine
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Question: One of the characters in the novel and movie The Grapes of Wrath had this unusual name.
Choices: Rose of Sharon; Chicago Louie; Tainia; Brooklyn
Answer: Rose of Sharon
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Question: What animal is used in the novel The Grapes of Wrath to symbolize the familys problems?
Choices: Turtle; Wolf; Dog; Horse
Answer: Turtle
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Question: What two objects are used in the novel The Grapes of Wrath to symbolize evil?
Choices: the car and the bank; the telephone and the gun; the gun and the tractor; the tractor and the slot machine
Answer: the tractor and the slot machine
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Question: What does the name Hudson have to do with the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Choices: It is the name of the family the Adams live with in Texas.; It is the brand of car the family uses for transportation.; It is the name of the Texas ranch where the family gets part-time labor.; It is the name of the cruel Illinois governor whose laws force the Darwells out of Chicago.
Answer: It is the brand of car the family uses for transportation.
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Question: Find the correct statement about the original movie The Grapes of Wrath.
Choices: The character of Nick Adams was played by Robert J. Douglas.; The director refused to let anyone use makeup for the movie.; The producer had to raise $5,000,000 to make this movie.; Frank Galatai was portrayed by Robert J. Douglas.
Answer: The director refused to let anyone use makeup for the movie.
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Question: Which of the following banned the movie The Grapes of Wrath?
Choices: Nikita Khrushchev; Charles de Gaulle; Josef Stalin; Adolf Hitler
Answer: Josef Stalin
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Question: Which of these performers did not write a song based on the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Choices: Woody Guthrie; Bob Dylan; Kris  Kristofferson; Bruce Springsteen
Answer: Bob Dylan
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Question: The novel The Grapes of Wrath was made into an opera.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: The Pulitzer Prize, established by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, is administered by  this American university.
Choices: Columbia University; University of California, Berkeley; Princeton University; Harvard University
Answer: Columbia University
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Question: Newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst are regarded as the originators of this type of journalism.
Choices: yellow journalism; ambush journalism; Gonzo journalism; investigating journalism
Answer: yellow journalism
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Question: What author, born in the American South, won the Pulitzer Prize for her only novel?
Choices: Harper Lee; Geraldine Brooks; Margaret Leech; Eudora Welty
Answer: Harper Lee
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Question: In 1918, politician William Cabell Bruce won the Pulitzer Prize for the biography of this Founding Father.
Choices: Benjamin Franklin; Thomas Jefferson; John Adams; John Hancock
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
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Question: What poet, noted for his realistic depictions of rural life, received four Pulitzer Prizes?
Choices: George Dillon; John Gould Fletcher; Wallace Stevens; Robert Frost
Answer: Robert Frost
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Question: This Pulitzer Prize-winning work, written in Cuba by Ernest Hemingway, was also an important factor in Hemingways selection for the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Choices: Fiesta; A Farewell to Arms; The Old Man and the Sea; For Whom the Bell Tolls
Answer: The Old Man and the Sea
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Question: What Gus Van Sant movie mentions a fictional Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, titled Avalon Landing?
Choices: My Own Private Idaho; Psycho; Good Will Hunting; Finding Forrester
Answer: Finding Forrester
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Question: Who composed Blood on the Fields, the first piece of jazz music to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?
Choices: Duke Ellington; Wynton Marsalis; Don Ellis; Miles Davis
Answer: Wynton Marsalis
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Question: Who portrays Joseph Pulitzer, the founder of the Pulitzer Prize, in the 1992 Disney film musical, Newsies?
Choices: Sean Connery; Christian Bale; Robert Duvall; Alan Menken
Answer: Robert Duvall
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Question: Which of the following authors is not a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize?
Choices: Doris Lessing; Sinclair Lewis; William Faulkner; John Steinbeck
Answer: Doris Lessing
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Question: In Phillip Pullmans The Subtle Knife, who does Lyra, the protagonist of the first book, meet first in the new world?
Choices: Angelica; Tullio; Moxie; Will
Answer: Will
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Question: In the book The Subtle Knife what is the name of the city Lyra finds herself in, in the new world?
Choices: Oxford; Bolvanger; Aeshthaer; CittGazze
Answer: CittGazze
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Question: In the book, The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman, who is Will Parrys father?
Choices: Lord Asriel; Lee Scoresby; Stanislaus Grumman; Sir Walter
Answer: Stanislaus Grumman
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Question: What does the alethiometer tell Lyra she must do, in the book The Subtle Knife?
Choices: Find Lord Asriel; Help Will find his father; Search for a scholar who knows about dust; Find The Subtle Knife
Answer: Help Will find his father
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Question: In The Subtle Knifeâ Angelicaâs younger brother is Paolo. Who is her older brother?
Choices: Will; Oliver Payne; Asriel; Tullio
Answer: Tullio
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Question: In the second His Dark Materials book, how does the subtle knife indicate who it has chosen to be his bearer?
Choices: It gouges out an eye.; It splits a hair.; It leaves a scar across his forehead.; It cuts off the pinky and ring fingers on one hand.
Answer: It cuts off the pinky and ring fingers on one hand.
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Question: In His Dark Materials trilogy, what can be the subtle knife used for?
Choices: To cut windows between worlds.; All of these; To cut through anything, even metals, stones and souls.; To destroy The Authority.
Answer: All of these
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Question: In The Subtle Knife, what is the name by which the witches call Lyra, that if known by the wrong people, could mean her destruction?
Choices: Metatron; Lillith; Eve; Baroch
Answer: Eve
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Question: Does Will ever find his father in His Dark Materials trilogy?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
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Question: What city does the typical family of four reside in in the classic story Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Choices: New York City; Chicago; Albuquerque; Boston
Answer: New York City
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Question: In Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, what was the name of the turtle Peter got at Jimmy Fargos birthday party?
Choices: Buster; Dribble; Pickle; speedy
Answer: Dribble
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Question: In the book Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, what big account did Peters father lose because of Fudge?
Choices: Jelly-Yum; Juicy-O; Juice-Pop; Jell-O
Answer: Juicy-O
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Question: What is Fudges real name in the novel Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Choices: Frank Oslow Hatcher; Farley Drexel Hatcher; Franklin Osmond Hatcher; Bartholomew Isaac Hatcher
Answer: Farley Drexel Hatcher
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Question: How old is Peter in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Choices: 9; 7; 2; 8
Answer: 9
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Question: What did Fudge do to Peters turtle in the book Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Choices: He swallowed it.; He dropped it out of the window.; He hit it with a hammer.; He took it for a walk.
Answer: He swallowed it.
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Question: What classic line does Fudge say in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing when his mom discovers her flowers are missing?
Choices: ALL GONE yum yum; Done the hatch; Not me; Mmm, mmm, good!
Answer: ALL GONE yum yum
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Question: What happened when Fudge fell off the jungle gym in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Choices: He got a black eye.; He bit his lip.; He swallowed his top front teeth.; He broke his arm.
Answer: He swallowed his top front teeth.
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Question: Who said there was a missing four-year-old in the building?
Choices: a fisherman; Peter and Fudges father; a security guard; a waitress
Answer: a security guard
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Question: What did Fudges father dump on top of his head in the book Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing?
Choices: chowder; cheerios; cornflakes; chips
Answer: cornflakes
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Question: What is the protagonists occupation in the novel, The Mezzanine?
Choices: Food Services Employee; Courier; Office Worker; Statistician
Answer: Office Worker
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Question: When does the action in the novel, The Mezzanine take place?
Choices: During the protagonists lunch hour; During the 10 A.M. coffee break; Spring of 1987; During the protagonists morning commute to work
Answer: During the protagonists lunch hour
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Question: Where does most of the action in the novel The Mezzanine take place?
Choices: In line at the office supply store.; In the protagonists mind; On a park bench outside the office.; On the escalator in the Mezzanine.
Answer: In the protagonists mind
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Question: Which of the following does not happen with the protagonist in the novel, The Mezzanine?
Choices: He eats a hamburger; He rides an escalator.; He buys shoelaces at CVS.; He sits on a park bench across from the office.
Answer: He eats a hamburger
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Question: Why does the protagonist buy new shoelaces in the novel, The Mezzanine?
Choices: He did it on impulse.; Hes buying them for a co-worker.; He broke one earlier that morning.; His wife asked him to.
Answer: He broke one earlier that morning.
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Question: What object in the mens room does the author discuss in great detail in the novel The Mezzanine?
Choices: The toilet handle.; The faucets on the sink.; The hand drying air machine.; The mirror above the sink.
Answer: The hand drying air machine.
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Question: How much time elapses diegetically ( within the story )  in the novel The Mezzanine?
Choices: 2 - 3 months; 5 days; 1  hour; 2 to 3 minutes.
Answer: 2 to 3 minutes.
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Question: According to the protagonist in The Mezzanine, how did the world change irrevocably in 1970?
Choices: New TVs increased the number of pixels, leading to greater picture quality and resolution.; The rise of the Womens Movement in the US changed workplace ethics in the office forever.; Drinking straws switched from being made of paper to being made of plastic.; Introduction of the B-747 jet aircraft shrunk the globe in terms of air travel.
Answer: Drinking straws switched from being made of paper to being made of plastic.
Category: literature
Question: Much attention is paid to the common stapler in the novel The Mezzanine.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: In the novel Nicolae, Nicolae Carpathia begins to establish his one world Government.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: In the novel Nicolae, Rayford Steele is able to gain secret information about Nicolaes plans via a secret one way intercom that had been installed in Nicolaes plane, The Condor 216.  Who placed the intercom in the plane?
Choices: Pontifex Peter Matthews; Chloe; Earl Halliday; Buck
Answer: Earl Halliday
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Question: In the novel Nicolae, Buck Williams travels to Israel to rescue Tsion Ben-Judah, who is in hiding after his wife and children were murdered.  During a wild chase through the Israeli desert, they are aided aided by an angel.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Who tells Buck about Tsions family being murdered in the novel Nicolae?
Choices: Rayford; Hattie; Chaim; Nicolae
Answer: Chaim
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Question: Hattie considers terminating her pregnancy once she finds out she is carrying Nicolaes child.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: literature
Question: A massive earthquake effects the entire world simultaneously in the novel Nicolae.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: During the Wrath of the Lamb, how does Tsion get separated from Buck in the novel Nicolae?
Choices: Buck is arrested; The shelter Tsion is hiding in is caved in; Tsion is arrested; Buck gets lost looking for his wife
Answer: The shelter Tsion is hiding in is caved in
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Question: In the novel Nicolae, where is Amanda during The Wrath of the Lamb?
Choices: She is on a train when the wrath of the lamb occurs; She is on a ship when the wrath of the lamb occurs; She is on the ground when the wrath of the lamb occurs; She is flying back to New Babylon when the wrath of the lamb occurs
Answer: She is flying back to New Babylon when the wrath of the lamb occurs
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Question: Among the new characters introduced in the novel Nicolae is Mac Macullum.  What is Macs job?
Choices: He is First Officer of the Condor 216; He is Minister of Propaganda for Nicolae Carpathia; He is a military advisor; He is employed as a peace keeper
Answer: He is First Officer of the Condor 216
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Question: As the novel Nicolae ends, which 2 members of the Tribulation Force are unaccounted for?
Choices: Amanda and Buck; Chloe and Amanda; Chloe and Rayford; Chloe and Buck
Answer: Chloe and Amanda
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Question: Who are Dr. Malones new friends in The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: Gallevespians; Tualapi; Consistorial Court; Mulefa
Answer: Mulefa
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Question: What role will Dr. Malone play in Lyras destiny, in The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: Adam; The Serpent; Eve; God
Answer: The Serpent
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Question: In the novel The Amber Spyglass, Father Gomez was sent by the Consistorial Court to guide Lyra to Dr. Malone.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Who are Lyra and Wills new guardians in The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: Chevalier Tialys and Lady Salmakia; Dr. Malone and Father Gomez; Serafina Pekkala  and Ruta Skadi; Iorek Byrnisen and Lee Scoresby
Answer: Chevalier Tialys and Lady Salmakia
Category: literature
Question: How does Lyra betray Pantalaimon in the book The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: She gives him to Mrs. Coulter to fight Lord Asriel.; She travels to the land of the dead without him.; She gives him to Lord Asriel to fight Metatron.; She has him severed from her.
Answer: She travels to the land of the dead without him.
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Question: Which character of the book The Amber Spyglass sacrifices his/her life to save Lyra?
Choices: Lord Asriel; Both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter; Neither of them; Mrs. Coulter
Answer: Both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter
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Question: How does Dr. Malone tempt Lyra in The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: With Stories of Love; With Stories Of Strength; With Stories of Power; With Stories of Knowledge
Answer: With Stories of Love
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Question: Which character of the novel The Amber Spyglass calls Lyra to the Land of the Dead?
Choices: Roger; John Parry; Lee Scoresby; Stanislaus Gruuman
Answer: Roger
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Question: What/who helps Lyra and Will get onto the boat of the dead in The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: Her death; Her father; Her daemon; Her angel
Answer: Her death
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Question: How do Lyra and Will bring an end to death in The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: They open a door to a new world for the dead to escape.; They discover the fountain of everlasting life.; They seal the doorway to the land of the dead forever.; They destroy the boatsmen to the land of the dead.
Answer: They open a door to a new world for the dead to escape.
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Question: What is the price the dead must pay for the Harpys guidance in The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: A kiss; True stories of their life; Two silver pieces; one for each eye; Their soul
Answer: True stories of their life
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Question: Who does Lyra inadvertently destroy in The Amber Spyglass when trying to help him?
Choices: The Authority; Balthamos; Metatron; Baruch
Answer: The Authority
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Question: Do Lyra and Will end up together at the end of The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: What final form does Pantalaimon take at the end of The Amber Spyglass?
Choices: A pine marten; an ermine; A cat; A hummingbird
Answer: A pine marten
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Question: What was the code name of the former head of the British Secret Service, who died of a heart attack a year prior to the events outlined in the book Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
Choices: Chief; M; Control; C
Answer: Control
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Question: In the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, what was the name of the Operation launched by the former Head of the British Secret Service in a desperate attempt to root out the traitor in the Service?
Choices: Testify; Eagle; Vengeance; Witchcraft
Answer: Testify
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Question: What does the phrase Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy refer to in the novel of the same name?
Choices: code names for the British Intelligence Officers suspected of being the traitor; a pass phrase used to identify friendly agents.; an encryption key used to decipher intelligence material; names of safe-houses used by the British Secret Service.
Answer: code names for the British Intelligence Officers suspected of being the traitor
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Question: Central to the plot of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the fact that the New Head of the Service, Percy Alleline has come across a source supplying Soviet Intelligence. The name of the Intelligence supplied is codenamed Witchcraft, but what is the codename of the source supplying it?
Choices: Gandalf; Witch of the East; Genie; Merlin
Answer: Merlin
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Question: Is it true that in the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the name of the Soviet spymaster running the Mole is Karlov?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: What is wrong with Meggies mother in the novel Inkspell?
Choices: She cannot hear.; She became mute.; She is mentally disable.; She is retarted.
Answer: She became mute.
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Question: What is Meggies mothers name in the book Inkspell?
Choices: Diane; Sally; Resa; Jenny
Answer: Resa
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Question: In the novel Inkspell, what animal always goes around with the black prince?
Choices: A tiger; A dog; A bear; A snake
Answer: A bear
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Question: In the book Inkspell, whose house do Meggie and her parents live in?
Choices: A house that they own; Meggies aunts house; Meggies uncles house; Elinors house
Answer: Elinors house
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Question: What does Farid secretly call Orpheus in the book Inkspell?
Choices: Moonhead; Junkface; Cheeseface; Fatty
Answer: Cheeseface
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Question: What is Capricorns mothers name in the book Inkspell?
Choices: Julie; Tori; Mortola; Meggie
Answer: Mortola
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Question: What is the name of the famous tight rope walker described in the novel Inkspell?
Choices: Sheer-Pearl; Cloud-Dancer; Billy; Ravenclaw
Answer: Cloud-Dancer
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Question: What does Inkspell character Dustfinger call Meggies father?
Choices: Smelly; Silvertongue; Killertongue; Bigfoot
Answer: Silvertongue
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Question: Who is the author of the novel Inkspell?
Choices: Frank Baum; Cornelia Funke; Judy Blume; Clive Barker
Answer: Cornelia Funke
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Question: Jules Verne is often referred to as the Father of Science Fiction, along with what other author?
Choices: George Orwell; Charles Dickens; William Golding; H.G. Wells
Answer: H.G. Wells
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Question: When he was twelve, Jules Verne crept onto a ship that was bound for India, and was caught and whipped by his father. What famous phrase did Jules Verne say after that?
Choices: This shall not stop me, for it is pain that makes man grow stronger.; You shall be sorry for this one day, father.; Being curious really, really hurts.; I shall from now on only travel in my imagination.
Answer: I shall from now on only travel in my imagination.
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Question: What language did Jules Verne study at the boarding school at the Saint Donatien College, where he was sent at the age of nine?
Choices: Greek; English; Latin; Spanish
Answer: Latin
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Question: What did Jules Verne study in Paris after completing his studies at the Lyceum?
Choices: Medicine; Zoology; Law; Mathematics
Answer: Law
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Question: With what great French writer did Jules Verne establish a close friendship?
Choices: Alexandre Dumas, Sr.; George Sand; Stendhal; Alexandre Chatrian
Answer: Alexandre Dumas, Sr.
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Question: This novel by Jules Verne, often called his lost novel, was written in 1863 and published for the first time in 1994. It tells the story of a young man who lives in a highly technologically advanced world.
Choices: The Will of an Eccentric; Paris in the 20th Century; Back to the Future; The Flight to France
Answer: Paris in the 20th Century
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Question: What was the reason for Jules Vernes permanent limp with his left leg?
Choices: He was shot.; He tripped in his cat and broke his leg.; He fell down a staircase.; He was born with it.
Answer: He was shot.
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Question: Jules Vernes publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel suggested that Verne make what kind of major changes in all of his works?
Choices: Employing more female characters; Using shorter sentences.; Introducing a more optimistic tone; Simplifying his statements
Answer: Introducing a more optimistic tone
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Question: Which of these inventions did Jules Verne predict in his novels written in the 19th century?
Choices: Air conditioning; Jukeboxes; The Internet; All of these
Answer: All of these
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Question: What novel by Jules Verne was used as a base for a 2008 3-D science fiction movie directed by Eric Brevig?
Choices: From the Earth to the Moon; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Off on a Comet; Journey to the Center of the Earth
Answer: Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Question: What do the initials T. S. stand for in the name of the famous poet T. S. Eliot?
Choices: Tory Saunders; Terry Stephens; Theodore Sallings; Thomas Stearns
Answer: Thomas Stearns
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Question: T. S. Eliot was the last of 6 children surviving. How old were his parents when he was born?
Choices: 44; 28; 33; 38
Answer: 44
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Question: T. S. Eliots father, who came from a prominent New England family, was on the Board of Directors of Washington University. He was also a Chairman at Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. Louis, a successful business man and a chemist. He married Eliots mother in 1868. What was her occupation?
Choices: A homemaker; A chemist and a painter; A poet and a social worker; A music teacher at Washington University
Answer: A poet and a social worker
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Question: T. S. Eliot attended this prestigious Ivy League college, editing its literary magazine with Pulitzer- winning poet Conrad Aiken.
Choices: Dartmouth; Harvard; Duke; Yale
Answer: Harvard
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Question: While a doctoral student, T. S. Eliot studied Buddhism and Indic philology, learning Sanskrit and PÄli to read the religious texts. What languages did Eliot study/learn in prep school and college?
Choices: Latin and Greek; German, Polish, Russian; Latin, Greek, French, and German; Spanish, Italian, Latin
Answer: Latin, Greek, French, and German
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Question: In April 1915, T. S. Eliot met  Vivienne Haigh-Wood, a governess in Cambridge. They were married on 26 June 1915. Where were they married?
Choices: At the Eliot family church outside of Boston; At Eliots family home in St. Louis; In a local register office; At a church in Oxford
Answer: In a local register office
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Question: After marriage, T. S. Eliot gave up writing his dissertation, and never received his PhD.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: After leaving college in Oxford, T. S. Eliot took a teaching job at Highgate School. There he taught this future British Poet Laureate, documentarian of Metro-land, and self-described poet and hack.
Choices: Scofield Thayer; James Joyce; Collin Brooks; Sir John Betjeman
Answer: Sir John Betjeman
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Question: While a student at Harvard, T. S. Eliot befriended this Spanish-born philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist who wrote in Reason in Common Sense, Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
Choices: Ezra Pound; Bertrand Russell; Alexis de Tocqueville; George Santayana
Answer: George Santayana
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Question: What famous poem by T. S. Eliot was considered offensive and upsetting because of its opening lines describing the dusky sky as a patient etherised upon a table.?
Choices: The Hollow Men; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; The Waste Land; The Cocktail Party
Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Question: First published in 1915, this poem by T. S. Eliot portrays upper class society as quite empty and lonely. Its epigraph is from Marlowes The Jew of Malta-
Choices: Portrait of a Lady; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Sweeney Among the Nightingales; The Hollow Men
Answer: Portrait of a Lady
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Question: In 1920, T. S. Eliot published the collection Poems. It included the poem Gerontion. What famous phrase, often used to describe espionage and counter-intelligence, comes from this poem?
Choices: a tumid river; three trees against a low sky; wilderness of mirrors; this was all folly
Answer: wilderness of mirrors
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Question: In his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken refers to this radio talk show host as a Big Fat Idiot.
Choices: Sean Hannity; Ed Schultz; Rush Limbaugh; Bill OReilly
Answer: Rush Limbaugh
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Question: In his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Franken writes that these two words are Bill OReillys answer to any intelligent liberal comment.
Choices: wrong again; dream on; no chance; shut up
Answer: shut up
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Question: Al Franken is critical of this veteran news journalist, famous as managing editor of the Fox News Channel.
Choices: Brit Hume; Rupert Murdoch; Tony snow; Fred Barnes
Answer: Brit Hume
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Question: Who is Al Franken talking about when he says, He had us all supporting him and united after 9/11 and then he created a war in Iraq and he will never really have Mission Accomplished?
Choices: George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; Rush Limbaugh; Bill Clinton
Answer: George W. Bush
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Question: Why did Al Franken choose to run as a Democrat according to Franken himself?
Choices: Ann Coulter will never say she likes me again.; They care more about the poor than the Republicans; Rush is a Republican.; Paul Wellstone would have wanted me to do that.
Answer: They care more about the poor than the Republicans
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Question: What is the name of the church that Rayford Steele, Chloe Steele, Buck Williams and Bruce Barnes are members of in the second novel in the Left Behind series?
Choices: New Hope Christian Church; Hope Christian Church; New Beginnings Church; New Hope Village Church
Answer: New Hope Village Church
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Question: Who coined the name Tribulation Force for the group portrayed in the second book of the series Left Behind?
Choices: Rayford; Bruce; Chloe; Buck
Answer: Chloe
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Question: Fictional characters Both Buck and Rayford go to work for Nicolae Carpathia in Tribulation Force.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Hattie Durham becomes romantically involved with which character in Tribulation Force?
Choices: Ken Ritz; Nicolae; Rayford; Buck
Answer: Nicolae
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Question: One of the most interesting characters introduced in Tribulation Force is Rabinnacal Scholar Tsion (pronounced Zee-own) Ben-Judah, who made a startling announcement to the whole world that put him and his family in jeopardy. What was his announcement?
Choices: He believed Jesus was the promised Messiah.; He believed Nicolae was the Messiah promised in the Torrah.; He believed Nicolae was the Anti-Christ.; He believed Nicolae would unite the world into a glorious utopia.
Answer: He believed Jesus was the promised Messiah.
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Question: Both Rayford and his daughter Chloe are married in Tribulation Force
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: The American Military moves against Nicolae in the book Tribulation Force
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Nicolae Carpathia, the main antagonist in the Left Behind series, institutes a one-world religion.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What stunning announcement does Hattie make near the end of Tribulation Force?
Choices: Her and Nicolae are getting married.; She is pregnant with Rayfords child.; She is pregnant with Nicolaes child.; She is becoming a Christian.
Answer: She is pregnant with Nicolaes child.
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Question: Which member of the Tribulation Force dies at the end of the self-titled novel?
Choices: Buck; Bruce; Chloe; Rayford
Answer: Bruce
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Question: What was Dick Franciss profession before he became a writer?
Choices: Jockey; Pharmacist; Bookmaker; Accounting clerk
Answer: Jockey
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Question: What was the first novel Dick Francis wrote?
Choices: Nerve; Second Wind; Bolt; Dead Cert
Answer: Dead Cert
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Question: In what novel by Dick Francis does the popular character Sid Halley first appear?
Choices: Blood Sport; Odds Against; Flying Finish; For Kicks
Answer: Odds Against
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Question: Sid Halley, the protagonist of several novels by Dick Francis, is disabled. What is the nature of his disability?
Choices: He is deaf.; He has only one hand.; He is a paraplegic.; He is blind.
Answer: He has only one hand.
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Question: Only two Dick Francis characters appear as the protagonist of more than one book. Sid Halley is one of them. Who is the other?
Choices: Kit Fielding; William Derry; David Cleveland; Andrew Douglas
Answer: Kit Fielding
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Question: What is the profession of Charles Todd in the novel In the Frame?
Choices: Pilot; Painter; Architect; Jockey
Answer: Painter
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Question: How many non-fiction books did Dick Francis write in the 20th century?
Choices: three; two; five; none
Answer: two
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Question: Why didnt Dick Francis win the 1956 Grand National when he was a jump jockey for the Queen Mother?
Choices: He didnt ride in it.; He fell off.; His horse fell.; It wasnt held that year.
Answer: His horse fell.
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Question: What was the popular rumor that circulated about Dick Franciss books?
Choices: He paid a ghostwriter to write them.; His son wrote them.; His wife wrote them.; They contained subliminal messages.
Answer: His wife wrote them.
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Question: What did Dick Francis do after the death of his wife?
Choices: He began training racehorses.; He began collaborating with his older son Merrick.; None of these; He began collaborating with his younger son Felix.
Answer: He began collaborating with his younger son Felix.
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Question: The members of the Pretty Committee, described in the novel The Clique, get kicked out of school.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Kristen Gregory from the book The Clique is rich and always wears designer clothes.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In the novel The Clique, what school do the members of the Pretty Committee go to?
Choices: DDR; OCD; WHMS; CCD
Answer: OCD
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Question: Who is the Pretty Committees second in command in the book The Clique?
Choices: None of these; Massie; Dylan; Alicia
Answer: Dylan
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Question: Who comes back with Alicia from Spain in Lisi Harrisons The Clique?
Choices: Spencer; Nina; None of these; Jose
Answer: Nina
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Question: What movie does The Clique character Claire get a part in?
Choices: Dial P for Popular; Dial D for Dead; Dial L for Loser; Dial A for Alive
Answer: Dial L for Loser
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Question: The Clique protagonist Massie Block has a pet in the book.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Call me Ishmael.
Choices: th the above line, the narrator of this 1851 novel by Herman Melville laconically introduces himself in the very first sentence, making it one of the best-known opening sentences in English literature.; Mardi: And a Voyage Thither; Moby-Dick; Redburn; The Confidence-Man
Answer: Moby-Dick
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Question: There were four of us. 
Choices: is is the beginning of a humorous story of 1889 by Jerome K. Jerome, which has some real-life characters and was initially intended to be a serious work, but ended up one of the most successful comedy books, with a humour that has proven to be fresh and witty even nowadays.; The Diary of a Pilgrimage; They and I; The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men in a Boat
Answer: Three Men in a Boat
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Question: It was a pleasure to burn.
Choices: is popular novel by Ray Bradbury, depicting a fictional world of the near future, is in fact an indirect condemnation of the present and a considerate warning about the forthcoming fate of human society.; Vanity Fair; The Good Life; Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles
Answer: Fahrenheit 451
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Question: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than mans and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. 
Choices: is is the beginning of this Herbert Wells intense and suspenseful novel, where the existence of the world and human kind has been put in jeopardy.; Little Wars; The Invisible Man; The Chronic Argonauts; The War of the Worlds
Answer: The War of the Worlds
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Question: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. is the beginning of this famous Dickens historical novel, concerning the French Revolution and dealing with some timeless moral issues, such as guilt, treachery and patriotism.
Choices: Great Expectations; David Copperfield; Nicholas Nickleby; A Tale of Two Cities
Answer: A Tale of Two Cities
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Question: It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression as pretty as an airport.
Choices:  is typical for author Douglas Adams, this 1988 detective novel begins with a humorous and unusual line, grabbing attention from the very first sentence.; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; Life, the Universe and Everything; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Answer: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Question: If you really want to hear about it, the first thing youll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I dont feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. 
Choices: ing one of the most controversial and widely disputed literary works of the 20th century, this novel by J. D. Salinger has been banned several times in the United States for inappropriate and immoral content.; The Catcher in the Rye; Franny and Zooey; The Laughing Man; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Answer: The Catcher in the Rye
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Question: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Choices: me the famous Jane Austens novel, beginning with those words, concerning the problems of love and marriage, which was initially entitled First Impressionsâ?.; Pride and Prejudice; Lady Susan; Emma; Sense and Sensibility
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
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Question: This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.
Choices:  this Stephen King novel, these are the leading character and narrators first words of the story of his life, and the unusual encounter which changes it forever.; It; Insomnia; The Eyes of the Dragon; The Green Mile
Answer: The Green Mile
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Question: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Choices: guably the best of his works, Tolstoy severely criticizes the highest circles of Russian society through this tragic love story of two of its members, one of them being Alexei Vronsky.; Anna Karenina; A Confession; The Power of Darkness; Family Happiness
Answer: Anna Karenina
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Question: Both in the year when Mark Twain was born and the year when he died, the Halleys Comet passed by Earth.
Choices: Don Novello; Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Charles Farrar Browne; Johann Kaspar Schmidt
Answer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Question: This romantic hero is a wealthy gentleman who at first feels superior to Elizabeth Bennet and ignores her. Later, however, he falls in love with her, which is a blow to his pride.
Choices: Colonel Forster; Paul Morel; Mr. Bingley; Mr. Darcy
Answer: Mr. Darcy
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Question: This literary character from the only novel of Emily Bronte is passionately and intensely in love with Cathrine Earnshow, but she marries someone else because of her desire for social advancement.
Choices: Edward Rochester; Arthur Morel; Heathcliff; Roger Chillingworth
Answer: Heathcliff
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Question: This literary character has an obssessive love affair with Mildred Rogers, a shallow and self-centerd woman he encounters in London.
Choices: Philip Carey; Dorian Gray; Nick Caraway; Atticus Finch
Answer: Philip Carey
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Question: This fictional hero falls in love with his employee, the governess Jane Eyre, but their wedding ceremony is interrupted by the announcement that he has a wife who lives in the attic of his manor, Thornfield Hall.
Choices: William Lucas; Fitzgerald Darcy; Edward Rochester; Edward Gardiner
Answer: Edward Rochester
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Question: This romantic hero is obsessed with the beautiful Fermina Daza. He waits more than 50 years for her husband to die and declares his love for her.
Choices: Pedro Tercero; Esteban Trueba; Juvenal Urbino; Florentino Ariza
Answer: Florentino Ariza
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Question: This mysterious literary hero acquired an immense wealth in order to win back his beloved Daisy, who had married Tom Buchanan.
Choices: Jordan Baker; George Wilson; Jay Gatsby; Nick Caraway
Answer: Jay Gatsby
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Question: This American officer, the literary creation of Ernest Hemingway, deserts World War I  and escapes to Switzerland with his beloved Catherine Barkley.
Choices: Nick Caraway; Frederic Henry; Jake Barnes; Nick Carter
Answer: Frederic Henry
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Question: This romantic literary character loves passionately Estella, a beautiful girl, brought up by the cold, wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham.
Choices: David Copperfield; Pip; Oliver Twist; Wilkins Micawber
Answer: Pip
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Question: This pragmatic and opportunistic literary hero is attracted by the pretty and coquettish Scarlett OHara.
Choices: Oliver Mellors; Rhett Butler; Angel Clare; Gerald OâHara
Answer: Rhett Butler
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Question: This literary character, depicted by the Victorian writer Thomas Hardy, escapes with Tess, the woman he loves, although she had committed a murder.
Choices: Philip Carey; Oliver Mellors; Angel Clare; Alec dUrberville
Answer: Angel Clare
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Question: In this novel the main character, Rodion Razkolnikov, who lives in St. Petersburg, murders an old pawnbroker and her younger sister, and later, gets overwhelmed by feelings of paranoia and self-loathing.
Choices: War and Peace; Ana Karenina; Sleeping Murder; Crime and Punishment
Answer: Crime and Punishment
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Question: In this novel, American millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett is found stabbed to death during a journey. The case is investigated by detective Hercule Poarot, who is also among the passengers.
Choices: âFatal Visionâ; âMurder on the Orient Expressâ; âDeath Upon the Nileâ; âA Carribean Mysteryâ
Answer: âMurder on the Orient Expressâ
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Question: In the novel âA Study In Scarletâ, the word âRACHEâ is written in blood on the wall of a deserted house beside a dead body. Name the literary detective who investigates the case.
Choices: Sherlock Holmes; Drury Lane; Hercule Poirot; Perry Mason
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
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Question: In this famous play Claudius murders his brother, the King of Denmark, and marries the widowed Queen Gertrude.
Choices: âThe Merchant of Veniceâ; King Lear; âThe Tempestâ; Hamlet
Answer: Hamlet
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Question: In this novel, private eye Philip Marlowe is arrested on suspicion of the murder of Terry Lenoxâs wife. After Marlowe is released, he finds out that Terry Lenox, himself, has committed suicide in Mexico. When Marlowe gets home, he finds a cryptic note from Lenox and a $5000 bill.
Choices: âThe Purloined Letterâ; âThe Moving Fingerâ; âThe Long Goodbyeâ; âPlaybackâ
Answer: âThe Long Goodbyeâ
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Question: In this book, based on a true story, Truman Capote recounts the murders of Herb Clutter, a rich farmer from Kansas, his wife Bonnie, his sixteen-year-old daughter Nancy, and his fifteen-year-old son, Kenyon.
Choices: âIn Cold Bloodâ; âThe Glass Keyâ; âThe Moving Targetâ; âRed Harvestâ
Answer: âIn Cold Bloodâ
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Question: In this bestseller, based on a real case and written by Joe McGinnis, Jeffrey MacDonald is accused of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters.
Choices: âRed Harvestâ; âThe Thin Manâ; âThe Big Knockoverâ; âFatal Visionâ
Answer: âFatal Visionâ
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Question: This author wrote âThe Road to Gandolfoâ, a story in which the former General MacKenzie Hawkins makes up an outrageous plan to kidnap the Pope and to demand a ransom of $400 million â a dollar for every Catholic in the world.
Choices: Robert Ludlum; Daniel de Silva; Dan Brown; Michael Avallone
Answer: Robert Ludlum
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Question: This novel is narrated by the fictional character Frank Chambers, a drifter who stops at a roadside diner and meets âfemme fataleâ, Cora. After starting an affair, Cora and Frank murder Coraâs husband, Nick Papadakis, who is the owner of the diner.
Choices: âDeath in the Afternoonâ; âWoman in the Darkâ; âThe Partridge Familyâ; âThe Postman Always Rings Twiceâ
Answer: âThe Postman Always Rings Twiceâ
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Question: In this novel, written by Agatha Christie, the Banty family discover in their library the dead body of a young woman. Later, the remains of another dead girl are found in a nearby quarry. Which detective investigates the case?
Choices: Father Brown; Auguste Dupin; Miss Jane Marple; Hercule Poirot
Answer: Miss Jane Marple
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Question: How many works did Stephen King write under the pseudonym Richard Bachman?
Choices: 5; 3; 6; 4
Answer: 6
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Question: In the horror novel From a Buick 8, strange reptiles crawled out of the trunk of a car.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What is the name of Jacks werewolf friend in the novel The Talisman?
Choices: Wolf; Mike; Harry; Jojo
Answer: Wolf
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Question: What was one of Randall Flaggs nicknames in Stephen Kings novel The Stand?
Choices: the running man; Mutimbo; el diablo; the walking dude
Answer: the walking dude
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Question: In Stephen Kings novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, what position did Tom Gordon play for the Boston Red Sox?
Choices: relief picher; shortstop; catcher; right field
Answer: relief picher
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Question: In the novel Dolores Claiborne, what is the name of Dolores Claibornes daughter?
Choices: Selena Claiborne; Crystal Claiborne; Anita Claiborne; Selena St. George
Answer: Selena St. George
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Question: What is the name of the mouse in the book The Green Mile?
Choices: Mr. Mousie; Mr. Bojangles; Mr. Delacroix; Mr. Jingles
Answer: Mr. Jingles
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Question: In which of the parts that Tolkien originally divided the book in do Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas decide to go after Merry and Pippin in The Two Towers?
Choices: Seventh; Second; Third; First
Answer: First
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Question: In the book Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,  does Gollum ever decide to be on Frodos side?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: In the book, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, does Eowyn have romantic interest in Aragorn?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
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Question: Does Aragorn ever really have a doubt about his place on the throne of Gondor In the book, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: Is Wormtongue really sad when he sees the army of Uruk-Hai in the book, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers?
Choices: Maybe; Yes; A little; Not in the least
Answer: Not in the least
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Question: In the book, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, does Aragorn fall off of a cliff?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: No
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Question: Do the orcs ride wolves in the book, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers?
Choices: Yes; No
Answer: Yes
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Question: They hand in hand, with wandering steps  and slow,
Choices: rough Eden took their solitary way is from a work by this author.; John Milton; James Joyce; Geoffrey Chaucer; William Shakespeare
Answer: John Milton
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Question: The Diary of a Madman
Choices: Edgar Allan Poe; Allen Adler; Guy de Maupassant; Sheridan le Fanu
Answer: Guy de Maupassant
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Question: Servant of the Bones
Choices: Agatha Christie; Leo Tolstoy; Anne Rice; James Patterson
Answer: Anne Rice
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Question: The Hellbound Heart
Choices: Clive Barker; Edgar Allan Poe; None of these; Richard Matheson
Answer: Clive Barker
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Question: The Tell-tale Heart
Choices: Richard Christian Matheson; none of these; Edgar Allan Poe; Clive Barker
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
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Question: The Talisman; Black House
Choices: Peter Straub; Both; Neither; Stephen King
Answer: Both
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Question: As I Lay Dying
Choices: Mark Twain; Edgar Rice Burroughs; none of these; William Faulkner
Answer: William Faulkner
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Question: Battlefield Earth
Choices: None of these; Henry Kissinger; Tom Robbins; Charles Beaumont
Answer: None of these
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Question: The Dunwich Horror; The Colour Out of Space; The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Choices: Lord Dunsany; Poppy Z. Brite; C.J. Cherryh; H.P. Lovecraft
Answer: H.P. Lovecraft