kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
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Question: This notable author dropped out of school at the age of 12, when his father died. He became a printers apprentice and later worked as a steamboat pilot, an occupation that gave him his pen name.
Choices: Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; Herman Melville; Theodore Dreiser
Answer: Mark Twain
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Question: This Irish playwright, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar, harboured a lifelong animosity toward schools and teachers.
Choices: Harold Pinter; George Bernard Shaw; James Joyce; William Butler Yeats
Answer: George Bernard Shaw
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Question: This prominent science fiction author dropped out of school at the age of 14, when his father, a professional cricket player, fractured his thigh. His unhappy apprenticeship as a draper inspired his novels The Wheels of Chance and Kip.
Choices: Jules Verne; George Orwell; Hugo Gernsback; H. G. Wells
Answer: H. G. Wells
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Question: Financial circumstances forced this author to leave the University of California, Berkeley in 1897 and he sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush.
Choices: Jack London; Herman Melville; Sinclair Lewis; E.L. Doctorow
Answer: Jack London
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Question: This author, noted for his childrens stories, moved to Copenhagen at the age of 14 to seek employment as an actor. In 1835 he published the first installment of his immortal Fairy Tales.
Choices: Hans Christian Andersen; Lewis Carroll; Charles Perrault; Carlo Collodi
Answer: Hans Christian Andersen
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Question: This playwright, director and actor, born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, was thrown out of New York University after one semester for poor grades.
Choices: Tennessee Williams; Woody Allen; Philip Roth; Eugene ONeill
Answer: Woody Allen
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Question: What dance is featured in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, starring Anthony Quinn?
Choices: mazurka; pentozali; horo; sirtaki
Answer: sirtaki
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Question: What cocktail is made with vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice and lime juice?
Choices: Manhattan; Cosmopolitan; Cuba Libre; Margarita
Answer: Cosmopolitan
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Question: What kind of flower was named in honor of Lady Diana in Singapore?
Choices: tulip; hyacinth; orchid; rose
Answer: orchid
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Question: The original Ferris Wheel was created for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition, held in this city.
Choices: Toronto; Munich; London; Chicago
Answer: Chicago
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Question: Veni, vidi, vici is a Latin sentence reportedly written by in 47 BC by this Roman statesman.
Choices: Julius Caesar; Augustus; Marcus Junius Brutus; Mark Antony
Answer: Julius Caesar
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Question: This author, famous for his novel The Human Comedy, made the following statement to the Associated Press five days before his death in 1981: Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case?
Choices: William Faulkner; William Burroughs; William Saroyan; Mark Twain
Answer: William Saroyan
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Question: Sachertorte, a specific type of chocolate cake, was invented by chance in this European city.
Choices: Paris; Frankfurt; Vienna; London
Answer: Vienna
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Question: What WWII operation is NOT correctly matched with its code name?
Choices: Arcadia - Allied offensive in Italy; Barbarossa - German offensive against the USSR; Overlord - the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe; Juno - German naval operation to disturb allied supplies to Norway
Answer: Arcadia - Allied offensive in Italy
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Question: What European politician and former Prime Minister co-wrote the anthem of a famous football club?
Choices: Tony Blair; Vladimir Putin; Dominique de Villepin; Silvio Berlusconi
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi
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Question: This country, famous for its fjords, has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea.
Choices: Norway; Denmark; Sweden; Finland
Answer: Norway
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Question: Which king was portrayed by Colin Firth in the Oscar-winning movie The Kings Speech?
Choices: Edward VIII; George VI; None of these; George V
Answer: George VI
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Question: What historical figure was played by Brian Keith in the movie The Wind and the Lion, which was loosely based on the Perdicaris incident of 1904?
Choices: William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; General George Armstrong Custer; Dwight D. Eisenhower
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
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Question: In the historical drama Braveheart, Mel Gibson portrays 13th-century Scottish warrior William Wallace who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against this English king.
Choices: Henry VIII; Edward I; William the Conqueror; Richard the Lionheart
Answer: Edward I
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Question: What actress won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen in the 1998 biographical film Elizabeth?
Choices: Gwyneth Paltrow; Emma Thompson; Kate Winslet; Cate Blanchett
Answer: Cate Blanchett
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Question: What English actress has played tragic historical characters such as Isadora Duncan, Anne Boleyn and Mary, Queen of Scots?
Choices: Judi Dench; Vanessa Redgrave; Jane Seymour; Vivien Leigh
Answer: Vanessa Redgrave
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Question: The movie A Man for All Seasons portrays Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England, who refused to take an Oath of Supremacy declaring the monarch the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Who was the monarch?
Choices: Queen Elizabeth I; Queen Victoria; Queen Mary I; King Henry VIII
Answer: King Henry VIII
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Question: Which of these actors has portrayed and Irish revolutionary leader, a German industrialist who employed over 1000 Jews in his factories, and a Scottish hero?
Choices: Sean Connery; Russel Crowe; Liam Neeson; Mel Gibson
Answer: Liam Neeson
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Question: Judy Dench won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in the movie Shakespeare in Love. What other queen did she play in the movie Mrs. Brown?
Choices: Queen Mary I; Queen Margot; Queen Elizabeth II; Queen Victoria
Answer: Queen Victoria
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Question: Which of the following actors has NOT played King Arthur?
Choices: Sean Connery; Edward Atterton; Clive Owen; Corin Redgrave
Answer: Corin Redgrave
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Question: What actress won an Academy Award for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the movie The Iron Lady?
Choices: Judy Dench; Susan Sarandon; Meryl Streep; Helen Hunt
Answer: Meryl Streep
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Question: What two colors, when mixed together, make the color purple?
Choices: Brown and Blue; Cyan and Brown; Brown and Red; Red and Blue
Answer: Red and Blue
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Question: The word serif in the context of typefaces refers to what?
Choices: headline; thickness; a small projecting feature; middle curves
Answer: a small projecting feature
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Question: Where was the idea of making purchases on a credit card first described?
Choices: bank brochure; doctoral paper; newspaper; novel
Answer: novel
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Question: The Phillips screwdriver was first used by the multinational electronics manufacturer Philips Electronics.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Where were the 1936 Summer Olympics held?
Choices: Athens; Moscow; Berlin; London
Answer: Berlin
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Question: What Italian dish consists of salami, anchovies, artichokes, olives, and other appetizers?
Choices: prosciutto; antipasto; crostini; bruschetta
Answer: antipasto
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Question: How were presidents Frankin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt related?
Choices: they were fifth cousins; they were father and son; they were brothers; they were first cousins
Answer: they were fifth cousins
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Question: Were was it raining for singer Buddy Holly?
Choices: In the streets of LA; In his soul; On the moon; In his heart
Answer: In his heart
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Question: In 1970, the hit Snowbird launched whose successful career?
Choices: Van Morrison; Anne Murray; Roy Orbison; Monkees
Answer: Anne Murray
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Question: The classic commercial for what product used the line There is a man in the bathtub!
Choices: Mr. Clean; Mr. Bubble; Lyson; Clorox
Answer: Mr. Bubble
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Question: What term means the possible transformation of harsh environments into ones suited for living?
Choices: terraforming; hospitalization; marsation; habitability
Answer: terraforming
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Question: No Oscars were awarded during the years of World War II, because the gold for the statuettes was too expensive to acquire.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The drug Minoxidil was created to treat what?
Choices: reduced libido; loss of hair; insomnia; appetite disorders
Answer: loss of hair
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Question: Angola won its independence in 1975, from what country?
Choices: England; Morocco; France; Portugal
Answer: Portugal
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Question: What important invention did American Jonas Salk make in 1954?
Choices: hydrogen fuel; three stage rocket; gamma rays; polio vaccine
Answer: polio vaccine
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Question: What color is powdered caffeine?
Choices: white; brown; red; black
Answer: white
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Question: What is significant about the history of the Republic of Armenia?
Choices: first Christian state; fought USSR and remained independent; first democracy; first Muslim state
Answer: first Christian state
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Question: World War one broke out in 1914 but the US did not enter the war as a belligerent until what year?
Choices: 1921; 1915; 1917; 1919
Answer: 1917
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Question: Which of the following were factors that caused the US to enter World War One on the side of the Allies (Britain, France, Russia and other smaller nations)?
Choices: All of these; Britain and France were democracies, while German and Austrian governments were much less democratic.; US cultural ties with Britain and France; German sinking of US merchant ships by German submarines
Answer: All of these
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Question: Who was President of the United States during World War One?
Choices: Theodore Roosevelt; Woodrow Wilson; William McKinley; Warren G. Harding
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
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Question: The US President said that the purpose of the US fighting in World War One was which of the following?
Choices: to destroy the German Empire; to gain colonies for the United States; to make the world safe for democracy; to show that the US was a powerful nation
Answer: to make the world safe for democracy
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Question: What was the only part of the US military establishment that was reasonably prepared for war at the beginning of US participation in World War One?
Choices: the US government in Washington DC; The US Navy; the US Army; the US Air Force
Answer: The US Navy
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Question: Who was the military commander of US Army forces in Europe in World War One?
Choices: John Pershing; Douglas MacArthur; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton
Answer: John Pershing
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Question: In World War One US Army Sergeant Alvin York is best remembered as which of the following?
Choices: A battlefield hero and Medal of Honor recipient; A traitor who gave military information to the Germans; The first American killed in France; An army pilot who was the first to become an ace by shooting down five enemy planes
Answer: A battlefield hero and Medal of Honor recipient
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Question: When US troops reached Europe to join the fighting in World War One, they had to learn quickly how to fight this type of warfare.
Choices: air warfare which completely dominated the battlefield as well as the air.; nearly static trench warfare; armored warfare; mobile warfare using cavalry and fast moving foot soldiers
Answer: nearly static trench warfare
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Question: US forces played a major part in stopping the final great German offensive of World War One partly by stopping the German advance at this location.
Choices: Paris; Chateau-Thierry; Verdun; the Somme
Answer: Chateau-Thierry
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Question: What future US President fought as an artillery captain in World War One?
Choices: Franklin Roosevelt; Calvin Coolidge; Harry Truman; Herbert Hoover
Answer: Harry Truman
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Question: Most Americans were angry when they heard about the Zimmerman Telegram.  What did the German foreign minister promised Mexico in this telegram?
Choices: None of these; a large reward in gold which would be part of the indemnity the Allies would pay after the German victory (which of course did not occur) if Mexico declared war on the US; the latest submarine technology in return for German Submarine bases in Mexico; territory in the southwest United States which had once been Mexican territory if Mexico would form an alliance with Germany against the US
Answer: territory in the southwest United States which had once been Mexican territory if Mexico would form an alliance with Germany against the US
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Question: A revolution in one of the main powers eventually forced that nation to drop out of World War One. Fortunately for the Allies the entry of the US largely made up for the loss of this nation. What was the nation?
Choices: Russia; France; Irish Free State; Italy
Answer: Russia
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Question: This horror film, which focuses on a love triangle, marked Tony Scotts directorial debut.
Choices: Revenge; The Hunger; Crimson Tide; Top Gun
Answer: The Hunger
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Question: What do directors Tony Scott and Sir Ridley Scott have in common?
Choices: They are brothers.; They are cousins.; They are not related.; They are father and son.
Answer: They are brothers.
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Question: What thriller set in Mexico and directed by Tony Scott, starred Kevin Costner, Madeleine Stowe and Anthony Quinn?
Choices: Days of Thunder; Man on Fire; Revenge; The Hunger
Answer: Revenge
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Question: Director Tony Scott stated that while making this movie, he stole from all race movies to date ... then tried to build on them.
Choices: The Taking of Pelham 123; Days of Thunder; The Fan; The Last Boy Scout
Answer: Days of Thunder
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Question: Which of the following Tony Scott movies does NOT star Denzel Washington?
Choices: Unstoppable; Crimson Tide; The Taking of Pelham 123; Spy Game
Answer: Spy Game
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Question: Two days prior to his death, Tony Scott was with this actor exploring locations for a sequel to Top Gun.
Choices: Val Kilmer; John Travolta; Anthony Edwards; Tom Cruise
Answer: Tom Cruise
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Question: In 2010, Tony Scott and Ridley Scott produced the feature film adaptation of this action-adventure television series about fictional soldiers of fortune.
Choices: Smallville; Doctor Who; 24; The A-Team
Answer: The A-Team
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Question: What 1998 conspiracy thriller directed by Tony Scott was the highest grossing movie of the 1990s?
Choices: All the Presidents Men; The Bourne Identity; Spy Game; Enemy of the State
Answer: Enemy of the State
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Question: Who stars as a private eye and former Secret Service agent in Tony Scotts action movie The Last Boy Scout?
Choices: Russell Crowe; Mel Gibson; John Travolta; Bruce Willis
Answer: Bruce Willis
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Question: What 2010 action thriller, starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine, was the last movie directed by Tony Scott?
Choices: DÃ©jÃ  Vu; The Taking of Pelham 123; Unstoppable; The Fan
Answer: Unstoppable
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Question: What Roman Emperor, who ruled from 54 to 68, ordered ice to be brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit toppings?
Choices: Vespasian; Nero; Caligula; Augustus
Answer: Nero
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Question: What famous explorer is credited with bringing to Italy the technique of making ice cream?
Choices: Pietro di Brazza; Marco Polo; Amerigo Vespucci; Christopher Columbus
Answer: Marco Polo
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Question: When this historical figure married the Duke of OrlÃ©ans (Henry II of France) in 1533, she brought with her to France some Italian chefs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets.
Choices: Margaret of Valois; Marie Antoinette; Catherine de Medici; Marie de MÃ©dici
Answer: Catherine de Medici
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Question: It is generally accepted that the name of the ice cream dessert sundae originated from which of the following words?
Choices: sundries; sunny day; sunrise; Sunday
Answer: Sunday
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Question: Gelato, which is made with milk, cream, sugar, fresh fruit and nut purees, originated in this country.
Choices: Italy; Finland; Spain; The UK
Answer: Italy
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Question: The Peach Melba was named in honor of Australian soprano Nellie Melba, who in 1892 was performing in Wagners opera Lohengrin at Covent Garden. The French chef at the Savoy Hotel, London created the new dessert, and to display it, he used an ice sculpture of what animal?
Choices: dolphin; swan; snake; horse
Answer: swan
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Question: Which of the following frozen desserts does NOT contain dairy ingredients?
Choices: Melba; sorbet; gelato; frozen custard
Answer: sorbet
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Question: What French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher made the following remark about ice cream: Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isnt illegal.?
Choices: Guy de Maupassant; Albert Camus; Voltaire; Blaise Pascal
Answer: Voltaire
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Question: The mixture of shaved ice and evaporated milk, known as Halo-halo, originated in this country.
Choices: Thailand; Japan; The Philippines; China
Answer: The Philippines
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Question: What US First Lady served ice cream at her husbands second Inaugural Ball in 1813?
Choices: Elizabeth Monroe; Abigail Adams; Dolley Madison; Louisa Catherine Adams
Answer: Dolley Madison
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Question: What federation, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, governs competitive swimming?
Choices: FINA; FITA; FIFA; FIBA
Answer: FINA
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Question: What stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle swimming race?
Choices: breaststroke; front crawl; butterfly; back crawl
Answer: front crawl
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Question: In which of the two swimming strokes can the flip turn be used in competitions?
Choices: backstroke and breast stroke; butterfly and breaststroke; butterfly and free style; free style and backstroke
Answer: free style and backstroke
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Question: How many meters can be swum underwater in swimming races from the start and from each turn?
Choices: 15; 20; 10; 5
Answer: 15
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Question: During which Olympics were swimming goggles first used?
Choices: 1976 Montreal; 1984 Los Angeles; 1980 Moscow; 1906 Athens
Answer: 1976 Montreal
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Question: Australian Sydney Cavill is credited as the originator of this swimming stroke, which was first swum in competition in 1933 and is the newest of the four major strokes.
Choices: free style; breaststroke; backstroke; butterfly
Answer: butterfly
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Question: In what order are the strokes in Individual Medley swum?
Choices: Butterfly, Breaststroke, Freestyle, Backstroke; Freestyle, Backstroke, Butterfly, Breaststroke; Breaststroke, Backstroke, Butterfly, Free Style; Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle
Answer: Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Freestyle
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Question: In a relay race, which swimmer is called an anchor?
Choices: the slowest; the second fastest; the one who swims first; the one who swims last
Answer: the one who swims last
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Question: Who is the first swimmer in history to have won eight gold medals in a single Olympics?
Choices: Ian Thorpe; Matt Biondi; Michael Phelps; Johnny Weissmuller
Answer: Michael Phelps
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Question: At the age of 14 she became the youngest-ever female Olympic champion in swimming. She is the first female swimmer to have ever won the same swimming event at 3 consecutive Summer Olympics.
Choices: Kyoko Iwasaki; Krisztina Egerszegi; Franziska van Almsick; Jennifer Thompson
Answer: Krisztina Egerszegi
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Question: What painter wrote the following lines to describe to his brother Theo how he composed a sky, The dark blue sky is spotted with clouds of an even darker blue than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a lighter blue, like the bluish white of the Milky Way..?
Choices: Henri Matisse; Mark Rothko; Vincent van Gogh; Auguste Renoir
Answer: Vincent van Gogh
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Question: In what sci-fi comedy series is the Hooloovoo described as a superintelligent shade of the color blue that participated in the construction of the starship Heart of Gold?
Choices: The Time Machine; The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; The War of the Worlds
Answer: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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Question: Who composed The Blue Danube waltz, which has become a sort of unofficial Austrian national anthem?
Choices: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Johann Strauss II; FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin; Johannes Brahms
Answer: Johann Strauss II
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Question: The term blue blood was originally used to refer to the the pale skin and prominent blue veins of nobles from this country.
Choices: Italy; Spain; England; France
Answer: Spain
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Question: What expression was used in the 18th century for women who cared about culture and intellectual life and disregarded fashion?
Choices: Blue ribbon; Blue lace; Blue collar; Bluestocking
Answer: Bluestocking
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Question: Which of these popular types of cheese is not blue?
Choices: Roquefort; Gorgonzola; Gouda; Stilton
Answer: Gouda
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Question: What countrys National Football Team wear blue in honour of the royal House of Savoy which unified the country?
Choices: Spain; Italy; The Netherlands; England
Answer: Italy
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Question: What people of Africa are also known as the Blue People due to the indigo colour of their veils?
Choices: The Tuareg; The Amhara; The Hottentots; The Bushmen
Answer: The Tuareg
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Question: What blue movie is not correctly matched with the starring actors?
Choices: Mickey Blue Eyes - Tom Cruise, Elizabeth Hurley; Blue Thunder - Roy Sheider, Malcolm McDowell; My Blue Heaven - Steve Martin, Joan Cusack; Blue Velvet - Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Answer: Mickey Blue Eyes - Tom Cruise, Elizabeth Hurley
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Question: Where is the color blue located on the optical spectrum?
Choices: between violet and green; between gray and green; between yellow and green; between black and red
Answer: between violet and green
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Question: What disease is named after the main character of an epic poem by Italian physician and poet Girolamo Fracastoro?
Choices: Rubella; Syphilis; Gonorrhea; Polio
Answer: Syphilis
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Question: The word maverick refers to a person who refuses to abide by the dictates of a group and was derived from the name of Samuel Maverick. Who was he?
Choices: a land agent who refused to lower rents; a man who illegally sold whiskey; a rancher who refused to brand his cattle despite the common practice at the time; a man who refused to pay taxes
Answer: a rancher who refused to brand his cattle despite the common practice at the time
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Question: What technology term comes from the epithet of a king who united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom?
Choices: Bluetooth; Java; Mozilla; Linux
Answer: Bluetooth
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Question: What clothing item was named after a British Army Major General who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War?
Choices: vest; sweater; pullover; cardigan
Answer: cardigan
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Question: What word supposedly originated from the name of a soldier who was ridiculed because of his excessive devotion to Napoleon?
Choices: fervor; allegiance; patriotism; chauvinism
Answer: chauvinism
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Question: What plant was named after a French ambassador who was sent to Portugal to negotiate the marriage of six-year-old Princess Marguerite de Valois?
Choices: hazel; basil; the tobacco plant (Nicotiana); willow
Answer: the tobacco plant (Nicotiana)
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Question: The term masochism is derived from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an Austrian writer who penned this novel.
Choices: The 120 Days of Sodom; Guilty Pleasures; Venus in Furs; Quills
Answer: Venus in Furs
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Question: What word originated from the name of a French finance minister whose name became eponymous with anything done or made cheaply?
Choices: silhouette; discount; profile; shade
Answer: silhouette
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Question: The term lynching derives from the name of Virginia planter Charles Lynch who headed an irregular court during this war.
Choices: Vietnam War; American Civil War; MexicanâAmerican War; American Revolutionary War
Answer: American Revolutionary War
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Question: What snack was named after a British Earl was so keen on gambling that he would refuse to leave the table even to have a meal?
Choices: hamburger; bagel; pancake; sandwich
Answer: sandwich
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Question: What is the occupation of the beautiful and mysterious Catherine Tramell, who is the prime suspect in the thriller Basic Instinct?
Choices: crime novelist; gay rights activist; architect; journalist
Answer: crime novelist
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Question: In the movie L.A Confidential, Kim Basinger portrays a prostitute who is this actress look-alike.
Choices: Veronica Lake; Lana Turner; Ava Gardner; Rita Hayworth
Answer: Veronica Lake
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Question: In what movie does Milla Jovovich play a supreme humanoid being, who lands in the flying taxicab of a former major in the Special Forces?
Choices: The Matrix; Gattaka; The 5th Element; Seven
Answer: The 5th Element
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Question: In what movie does Lana Turners character entice drifter John Garfield into a web of deceit and murder?
Choices: Chinatown; The Postman Always Rings Twice; Double Indemnity; Fatal Attraction
Answer: The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Question: What actress plays a character who cuts her wrists in a suicide attempt, fakes a pregnancy, kidnaps a child and boils a pet bunny?
Choices: Glen Close; Kathleen Turner; Rebecca De Mornay; Sharon Stone
Answer: Glen Close
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Question: In the silent movie Flesh and the Devil, this actress stars as a countess whose devastating allure drives men to ruin.
Choices: Kim Novak; Vivian Lee; Marlene Dietrich; Greta Garbo
Answer: Greta Garbo
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Question: The movie Original Sin stars Angelina Jolie as a cunning con-woman who tricks a wealthy businessman into marriage. In what country is the movie mostly set?
Choices: Mexico; England; Brazil; Cuba
Answer: Cuba
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Question: What movie stars Gloria Swanson as faded film star Norma Desmond who lures an aspiring screenwriter into her world of delusions?
Choices: Body Heat; Sunset Boulevard; The Woman in the Window; Vertigo
Answer: Sunset Boulevard
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Question: The story of the movie Black Widow involves two women - a femme fatale (Theresa Russel) who preys on wealthy middle-aged men and a detective who grows obsessed with bringing her to justice. Who plays Justice Department agent Alexandra Barnes?
Choices: Rebecca De Mornay; Geena Davis; Kathleen Turner; Debra Winger
Answer: Debra Winger
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Question: What happened to Nikita before she got transformed from a degenerate drug addict to a femme fatale into Luc Bessons self-titled thriller?
Choices: She attempted suicide.; She married  a secret agent.; She was raped.; She was sentenced to life in prison.
Answer: She was sentenced to life in prison.
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Question: A man was in his home, looking at a photograph. He used the following words to describe one particular person in that photograph. Brothers and sisters I have none: But that mans father is my fathers son. Who was he talking about?
Choices: His son; His father; His grandfather; Himself
Answer: Himself
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Question: The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marked the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne. Who is the only other monarch in the history of the United Kingdom to have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee?
Choices: Queen Victoria; King Henry VIII; King George VI; Queen Elizabeth I
Answer: Queen Victoria
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Question: In 1947, Elizabeth II married Prince Philip who was a member of this countrys royal family.
Choices: Denmark; Austria; Greece; Russia
Answer: Greece
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Question: Who of the following was NOT Prime Minister of the UK under Elizabeth II?
Choices: David Cameron; Clement Attlee; Margaret Thatcher; Winston Churchill
Answer: Clement Attlee
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Question: Queen Elizabeth II is known for her love of these dogs and is known to have at least four of them in her retinue.
Choices: Golden Retriever; Dachshund; Welsh Corgi; Wire Fox Terrier
Answer: Welsh Corgi
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Question: All of which unmarked birds in England are owned by Queen Elizabeth II?
Choices: pigeons; ducks; ravens; mute swans
Answer: mute swans
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Question: Why did Queen Elizabeth II refer to 1992 as her annus horribilis (horrible year)?
Choices: Prince Harry was expelled from school.; It marked the breakdown of her childrens marriages.; Her mother and sister died in 1992.; Princes Diana died in a car crash in 1992.
Answer: It marked the breakdown of her childrens marriages.
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Question: Upon her accession to the throne, Elizabeth II became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries. Which of these countries does not recognize her as queen?
Choices: Pakistan; Canada; Australia; India
Answer: India
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Question: Upon the death of her father, Elizabeth II was staying at the Treetops Hotel, built into the tops of the trees of the Aberdares National Park. In what country was Elizabeth II when she went up a princess and came down a queen?
Choices: Jamaica; Australia; The Dominican Republic; Kenya
Answer: Kenya
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Question: What Academy Award-winning actress portrays Queen Elizabeth II in the British drama The Queen, which depicts a fictional account of the events following the death of Princess Diana?
Choices: Anjelica Houston; Helena Bonham Carter; Helen Mirren; Meryl Streep
Answer: Helen Mirren
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Question: Queen Elizabeths official birthday has generally been celebrated on a selected day around the end of May to the start of June. In what month is her actual birthday?
Choices: April; July; November; March
Answer: April
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Question: In this ballet a young man, named Franz, becomes infatuated with a life-size dancing doll.
Choices: The Nutcracker; Giselle; Swanhilda; Coppelia
Answer: Coppelia
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Question: What ballet tells the story of a peasant girl whose ghost protects her lover after her premature death?
Choices: The Nutcracker; Giselle; Swan Lake; La Sylphide
Answer: Giselle
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Question: The Lilac Fairy and Carabosse represent the two main conflicting forces of good and evil in this famous ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Choices: Swan Lake; The Sleeping Beauty; Romeo and Juliet; The Nutcracker
Answer: The Sleeping Beauty
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Question: What ballet features a battle between an army of Gingerbread man soldiers and the mice, led by the Mouse King?
Choices: La Bayadere; The Nutcracker; Giselle; La Sylphide
Answer: The Nutcracker
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Question: The music to which of these ballets was not composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
Choices: Swan Lake; The Nutcracker; Don Quixote; Sleeping Beauty
Answer: Don Quixote
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Question: What is the name the character in Swan Lake which is generally known as the Black Swan?
Choices: Odile; Swanhilda; Odette; Ovidia
Answer: Odile
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Question: Who composed the music to the classical ballet La Bayadere, which is in ancient India?
Choices: Andrei Droznin; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Alexander Borodin; Ludwig Minkus
Answer: Ludwig Minkus
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Question: Which character is not correctly matched with the ballet?
Choices: Von Rothbart - Swan Lake; Albrecht - Giselle; Swanhilda - Ciderella; Sugar Plum Fair - The Nutcracker
Answer: Swanhilda - Ciderella
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Question: How many dancers traditionally perform the Danse des petits cygnes (Dance of the Little Swans) in Swan Lake?
Choices: 6; 4; 3; 5
Answer: 4
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Question: In the ballet La Sylphide, what is James doing in act one when a sylph (a forest fairy) gazes lovingly upon him?
Choices: crying; fighting; sleeping; dancing
Answer: sleeping
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Question: What was the code word for the secret project to develop the atomic bomb?
Choices: Mushroom; Big Boy; X Plan; Manhattan Project
Answer: Manhattan Project
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Question: Hitler inadvertently helped the US to develop the atomic bomb by doing which of the following?
Choices: boasting that Germany had developed an atomic weapon; causing many Jewish physicists to leave Germany and eventually work on developing the bomb; selling the Soviet Union large stocks of uranium; announcing that Germany had developed long range aircraft that could bomb any US city
Answer: causing many Jewish physicists to leave Germany and eventually work on developing the bomb
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Question: What country began working on developing an atomic weapon before the United States and eventually joined with the US in its development?
Choices: the Soviet Union; Canada; France; Great Britain
Answer: Great Britain
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Question: Name the American physicist who led the team of scientists and engineers who developed the atomic bomb.
Choices: Edwin Hubble; Enrico Fermi; Albert Einstein; Robert Oppenheimer
Answer: Robert Oppenheimer
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Question: In what US state was much of the development of the atomic bomb and the first test of an atomic bomb carried out?
Choices: Montana; Alaska; New Mexico; California
Answer: New Mexico
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Question: Who made the final decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?
Choices: General Eisenhower; President Truman; President Roosevelt; General MacArthur
Answer: President Truman
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Question: After US forces captured this island, a major air base was built there because it was close enough to Japan. The plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan flew from the base on this island.
Choices: Luzon (Philippines); Tinian; Guadalcanal; Midway
Answer: Tinian
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Question: The precise number of people killed at Hiroshima by the atomic bomb is not known due to destruction of records, etc.  
Choices: at is the best estimate of the number killed immediately (not counting those who died later of radiation effects or other injuries)?; 80,000; 250,000; 25,000; 720,000
Answer: 80,000
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Question: What leader of a nation besides the US and Britain had some information about the development of the atomic bomb in the US?
Choices: None of these; Chiang Kai-shek of China because the US informed him about the project; De Gaulle of France because several French scientists worked on the project; Stalin of the Soviet Union because of Soviet spies
Answer: Stalin of the Soviet Union because of Soviet spies
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Question: Why was Hiroshima  chosen as the target of the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan?
Choices: All of these; Hiroshima had suffered almost no damage from conventional bombing, so it could be possible to discern how much damage would the atomic bomb cause.; It was the second largest industrial city of Japan.; The Japanese emperors summer home was in Hiroshima.
Answer: Hiroshima had suffered almost no damage from conventional bombing, so it could be possible to discern how much damage would the atomic bomb cause.
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Question: Who was Agatha Christies second husband?
Choices: Max Mallowan; Michael Upton Jones; Thomas Lipton; Julius Hyde
Answer: Max Mallowan
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Question: What was the Agatha Christie novel that related Hercule Poirots final adventure?
Choices: The Final Solution; Evil Under The Sun; Curtain; Nemesis
Answer: Curtain
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Question: What is the first name of Miss Marple, one of Agatha Christies most famous creations?
Choices: Ruth; Dorothy; Mary; Jane
Answer: Jane
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Question: Which of the following is not a recurring character in the Hercule Poirot stories?
Choices: Arthur Hastings; Miss Lemon; Inspector Japp; John Moffat
Answer: John Moffat
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Question: Agatha Christie wrote a story called The Love Detectives, featuring a Mr Harley Quin.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Which of the following characters was not created by Agatha Christie?
Choices: Mr J. G. Reeder; Parker Pyne; Tommy Beresford; Ariadne Oliver
Answer: Mr J. G. Reeder
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Question: Which  Billy Wilder film, starring Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton, was adapted from an Agatha Christie play?
Choices: Cat among the Pigeons; Dumb Witness; Ten Little Indians; Witness for the Prosecution
Answer: Witness for the Prosecution
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Question: Which of these films is not based on a book by Agatha Christie?
Choices: Ordeal by Innocence; Murder Ahoy; Endless Night; The Alphabet Murders
Answer: Murder Ahoy
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Question: Ray Bradbury was free to start a career in writing when he was rejected admission into the military during World War II due to this condition.
Choices: anaemia; bad hearing; asthma; bad eyesight
Answer: bad eyesight
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Question: Ray Bradbury was greatly inspired by American author Edgar Rice Burroughs. Which of these famous novels was penned by Burroughs?
Choices: A Farewell to Arms; Tarzan of the Apes; A Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Fall of the House of Usher
Answer: Tarzan of the Apes
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Question: What is emblazoned on the arm of Guy Montags uniform in Ray Bradburys dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451?
Choices: a cross; a snake; a salamander; blazing flames
Answer: a salamander
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Question: In which of his novels does Ray Bradbury describe a nightmarish traveling carnival called Cooger  Darks Pandemonium Shadow Show?
Choices: Fahrenheit 451; Something Wicked This Way Comes; Death Is a Lonely Business; Dandelion Wine
Answer: Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Question: In Ray Bradburys book The Martian Chronicles, upon seeing their home planet Earth dwindle to the size of a pin dot, most colonisers succumb to this disease.
Choices: the Great Loneliness; the Red Planet Depression; the Great Wrath; the Red Desperation
Answer: the Great Loneliness
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Question: In 1971, an impact crater on Earths moon was named by the Apollo 15 astronauts in honor of one of Ray Bradburys novels. What is the name of the crater?
Choices: The Halloween Tree; Mr Electrico; Dandelion Crater; 451 Crater
Answer: Dandelion Crater
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Question: In 1953, Ray Bradbury was hired by John Huston to work on the screenplay of the movie adaptation of this famous classic novel.
Choices: The Prince and the Pauper; Moby-Dick; The Sound and the Fury; An American Tragedy
Answer: Moby-Dick
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Question: What is Ray Bradburys home city of Waukegan called in some of his novels?
Choices: Grim Town; Blue Town; Green Town; Ghost Town
Answer: Green Town
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Question: What filmmaker stated that Ray Bradbury was [his] muse for the better part of [his] sci-fi career?
Choices: Steven Spielberg; Peter Weir; Robert Zemeckis; George Lucas
Answer: Steven Spielberg
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Question: Ray Bradbury died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91 during what rare astronomical event?
Choices: transit of Venus; None of these; total solar eclipse; meteor shower
Answer: transit of Venus
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Question: Why did Claire move in in the book The Clique?
Choices: She is Massies relative.; It is part of a foreign exchange program.; Her dad was an old college friend of Massies dad.; Her mom is always offering their guesthouse to the less fortunate.
Answer: Her dad was an old college friend of Massies dad.
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Question: What private school do the Clique members attend in the Clique series?
Choices: Avian-Drakkhar Day; Octavian Country Day; Lenkin Country Day; Westchester Academy
Answer: Octavian Country Day
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Question: In The Clique, Dylans famous mother, Merri-Lee Marvil, is the host of what famous morning talkshow?
Choices: The Daily Grind; Marvil-ous!; Get Up, Westchester!; The REAL Merri-Lee Marvil
Answer: The Daily Grind
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Question: Why is Kristen  different from the rest of the original Clique girls?
Choices: She is smart.; All of these; She is athletic.; She is poor.
Answer: All of these
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Question: In which books did Alicia try to tear apart the Clique?
Choices: Best Friends for Never, Revenge of the Wannabes; A Tale of Two Pretties, My Little Phony; Revenge of the Wannabes, Boys R Us; These Boots are Made for Stalking, A Tale of Two Pretties
Answer: Revenge of the Wannabes, Boys R Us
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Question: In what book of The Clique series does Claire move in Massies room during renovations?
Choices: The Pretty Committee Strikes Back; A Tale of Two Pretties; My Little Phony; Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
Answer: Invasion of the Boy Snatchers
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Question: In Dial L for Loser, Alicias cousin Nina visits and tears apart the Clique.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Where did the Clique characters meet?
Choices: A Masquerade Ball; A New Years Yves Party; A High School House Party; A Christmas Evening Spectacular
Answer: A New Years Yves Party
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Question: Who are Massies crushes in The Clique series of books?
Choices: Michael, Finnick, Chris, Eric; Chris, Landon, Derrington, Cam; Derrick, Chris, Kemp, Dune; Cam, Landon, Michael, Finnick
Answer: Chris, Landon, Derrington, Cam
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Question: Where does Massie move in the last book of The Clique series?
Choices: Tokyo; Malibu; Paris; London
Answer: London
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Question: What are the first names of author D. H. Lawrence?
Choices: David Hugh; Dylan Hector; David Herbert; Denis Harold
Answer: David Herbert
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Question: Select the first and middle name of H. G. Wells.
Choices: Herbert George; Hugh Gordon; Hector George; Herbert Gordon
Answer: Herbert George
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Question: Pick the correct first and middle names of C. S. Lewis.
Choices: Clive Stanley; Clive Staples; Charles Staples; Charles Stanley
Answer: Clive Staples
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Question: Select the names of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Choices: Jeremy Reginald Robert; John Roderick Rupert; John Ronald Reuel; Joseph Rupert Ronald
Answer: John Ronald Reuel
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Question: Select the names of P. G. Wodehouse.
Choices: Plumleigh Glossop; Phineas Geoffrey; Pelham Grenville; Percival Gideon
Answer: Pelham Grenville
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Question: What are the names of E. L. Doctorow?
Choices: Eric Landor; Ephraim Lionel; Edgar Lawrence; Edgar Lionel
Answer: Edgar Lawrence
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Question: What are the names of author J. P. Donleavy?
Choices: Joseph Peter; James Patrick; John Patrick; Joseph Paul
Answer: James Patrick
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Question: What are the names of H. P.  Lovecraft?
Choices: Howard Phillips; Henry Philip; Hector Pryce; Herbert Peter
Answer: Howard Phillips
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Question: Select the names of J. D. Salinger.
Choices: Jerome David; Joseph Daniel; Joseph David; Jacob Daniel
Answer: Jerome David
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Question: Select the names of E. B. White.
Choices: Edward Boston; Evan Bryce; Elwyn Brooks; Eric Blair
Answer: Elwyn Brooks
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Question: Which is the only novel by Charles Dickens that doesnt have scenes set in London?
Choices: Oliver Twist; David Copperfield; A Christmas Carol; Hard Times
Answer: Hard Times
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Question: What famous character depicted by Bram Stoker goes to London in order to seduce Mina Harker?
Choices: Dracula; Faustus; Manfred; Frankenstein
Answer: Dracula
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Question: On what famous London street does famous detective Sherlock Holmes live?
Choices: Charing Cross Road; Oxford Street; Downing Street; Baker Street
Answer: Baker Street
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Question: What novel opens on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton observing artist Basil Hallwards work?
Choices: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Ulysses; Vanity Fair
Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Question: Name the author of the The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, all of which have scenes set in London.
Choices: H. G. Wells; Jules Verne; Joseph Conrad; D. H. Lawrence
Answer: H. G. Wells
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Question: What fictional character is blown by the East wind to 17Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks household to care for their children?
Choices: Mrs Dalloway; Mary Poppins; Malvina; Bellatrix Lestrange
Answer: Mary Poppins
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Question: Winston Smith, the protagonist of this novel lives in London, the chief city of Airstrip One.
Choices: Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four; A Clockwork Orange; The Lord of the Flies
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Question: What author described a day in the life of Mrs Dalloway, who goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party?
Choices: Muriel Spark; Virginia Woolf; Emily Bronte; Erica Jong
Answer: Virginia Woolf
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Question: This novel is said to be about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay. Following a violent riot against the novel, the Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa calling on all good Muslims to kill its author.
Choices: Rights of Man; The Satanic Verses; The Grapes of Wrath; Lady Chatterleys Lover
Answer: The Satanic Verses
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Question: Becky Sharp, a strong-willed and cunning young woman, is the protagonist of this classic novel.
Choices: Desperate Remedies; The Mill on the Floss; Vanity Fair; The Professor
Answer: Vanity Fair
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Question: What was the first major battle of the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War?
Choices: Bull Run; Antietam; Chancellorsville; Cedar Creek
Answer: Bull Run
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Question: The site of this 1862 battle had been the scene of a previous battle?
Choices: Second Bull Run; Gettysburg; Chancellorsville; Antietam
Answer: Second Bull Run
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Question: Which battle featured the defence of Maryes Heights?
Choices: Gettysburg; Shiloh; Fredericksburg; Rich Mountain
Answer: Fredericksburg
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Question: Which battle saw the defence of the Sunken Road or Bloody Lane as it was called after the battle?
Choices: Second Bull Run; Fredericksburg; Savages Station; Antietam
Answer: Antietam
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Question: Ulysses Grant had been given top command in the west, before the battle of Shiloh.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In which battle was Stonewall Jackson killed?
Choices: Chancellorsville; Shiloh; Antietam; Mechanicsville
Answer: Chancellorsville
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Question: Which of these is not a battle of the Seven Days Battles?
Choices: Fraysers Farm; Gaines Mill; Malvern Hill; Bunker Hill
Answer: Bunker Hill
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Question: What battle of the American Civil war raged for 12 days from 8 may to 19 May 1864?
Choices: Kennesaw Mountain; Spotsylvania Court House; Yellow Tavern; Gettysburg
Answer: Spotsylvania Court House
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Question: At which battle was J E B Stuart killed?
Choices: Yellow Tavern; Spotsylvania Court House; Trevilian Station; Petersburg
Answer: Yellow Tavern
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Question: Which battle of the American Civil War featured Picketts charge?
Choices: Gettysburg; Fredericksburg; Antietam; Chancellorsville
Answer: Gettysburg
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Question: What famous character leaves his family in Gascony and travels to Paris, encountering Milady de Winter on the way?
Choices: dArtagnan; La Mole; Edmond DantÃ¨s; Porthos
Answer: dArtagnan
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Question: What famous author wrote, If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast?
Choices: Ernest Hemingway; James Joyce; F. Scot Fitzgerald; Ezra Pound
Answer: Ernest Hemingway