kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: literature
Question: What Shakespearean tragic heroine is advised by her father to lock herself from Hamlets resort?
Choices: Gertrude; Viola; Rosaline; Ophelia
Answer: Ophelia
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Question: Which Shakespearean heroine is not correctly matched with the play in which she appears?
Choices: Titania - Twelfth Night; The Three Witches - Macbeth; Beatrice - Much Ado About Nothing; Lady Capulet - Romeo and Juliet
Answer: Titania - Twelfth Night
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Question: In Calla Bryn Sturgis, in the book Wolves of the Calla, the ka-tet meet a priest who, together with most of the townsfolk, asks them to protect them against the Wolves. What is the priests name?
Choices: Father Brautigan; Father Callahan; Father ONeill; Father Ted
Answer: Father Callahan
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Question: The priest in the novel Wolves of the Calla has appeared previously in which Stephen King novel?
Choices: Cujo; Pet Sematary; Salems Lot; Carrie
Answer: Salems Lot
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Question: The crystal ball in the novel Wolves of the Calla is used by Roland and his ka-tet to travel to 1977 to a borough of New York. Which Borough did they travel to?
Choices: Queens; New Jersey; Brooklyn; Manhattan
Answer: Manhattan
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Question: In the novel Wolves of the Calla, Roland and the ka-tet team travelled to New York to protect what?
Choices: Eddies brother, Henry, from a drug dealer; The headquarters of the Tet Corporation; Prevent Jake from being killed by Jack Mort; A single red rose growing in a vacant lot
Answer: A single red rose growing in a vacant lot
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Question: Susannah begins to undergo yet another change of character in Wolves of the Calla. What is this characters name?
Choices: Coral; Rhea; Mia; Susan
Answer: Mia
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Question: When the priest first appeared near Calla Bryn Sturgis in the book Wolves of the Calla, he was found by a religious group. What is their name?
Choices: Wolves; Taheen; Manni; Crimson Acolytes
Answer: Manni
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Question: Why are the Wolves such a problem to the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis in the novel Wolves of the Calla?
Choices: They always beat the Bryn Sturgis soccer team when they visit.; They have awful table manners.; They come down from the mountains and kill all of the sheep, which are the main livestock in the area.; They abduct one twin of a pair from a family whenever they appear.
Answer: They abduct one twin of a pair from a family whenever they appear.
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Question: The Wolves in the novel The Wolves of the Calla have an arsenal of weapons, including hand-grenades called what?
Choices: Landies; Starbombs; Sneetches; Loopers
Answer: Sneetches
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Question: This  type of  poem is usually a long poem that tells the story of a significant event or a significant persons life.
Choices: Hokku; Lyric Poetry; Epic Poetry; Iamb
Answer: Epic Poetry
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Question: This type of poem consists of 14 lines with this rhyme pattern: abba cddc effe gg
Choices: Acrostic; Sonnet; Ode; Strophe
Answer: Sonnet
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Question: Which word means a set of two lines in a poem?
Choices: iamb; caesura; bisody; couplet
Answer: couplet
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Question: This type of poem is one that is relatively short and tells a story.
Choices: Prosdic poem; Lyric poem; Narrative poem; Epode
Answer: Narrative poem
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Question: In this type of poem, the first letters of each line help give the meaning of the poem.
Choices: Iamb; Ode; Lyric; Acrostic
Answer: Acrostic
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Question: This is a type of Japanese poem that is made of three parts; the first has five syllables, the second seven and the third have five.
Choices: Hokku; Haiku; Jintishi; Basho
Answer: Haiku
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Question: This is a type of Chinese poetry .
Choices: Rubiyat; Hokku; Haiku; Jintishi
Answer: Jintishi
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Question: This expression means an audible pause that breaks up a line of poetry.
Choices: Rubiyat; Hokku; Shwa; Caesura
Answer: Caesura
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Question: This  type of poem is typified by a great poem by Omar Khayyam
Choices: Jintishi; Haiku; Hokku; Rubiyat
Answer: Rubiyat
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Question: In which book by Mark Twain does the following phrase appear:  Lead us into temptation?
Choices: The Prince and the Pauper; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg; The Mysterious Stranger
Answer: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
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Question: I wish I owned half of that dog.  Why? somebody asked.  Because I would kill my half is a conversation from what book by Mark Twain?
Choices: Puddnhead Wilson; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.; The Autobiography of Mark Twain; Life on the Mississippi
Answer: Puddnhead Wilson
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Question: What Mark Twain book is the following quote from: Tom lost his temper.  I notice a person most always does thatâs got laid out in an argument. He told us to shut up.?
Choices: Innocents Abroad; Captain Stormfield Visists Heaven; Tom Sawyer Abroad; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Answer: Tom Sawyer Abroad
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Question: From which Mark Twain book does the following line come: âI never felt so filled with a blessed peace as I did yesterday - when I learned that Michangelo was dead.?
Choices: The Prince and the Pauper; Roughing it; Life on the Mississippi; The Innocents Abroad
Answer: The Innocents Abroad
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Question: What book by Mark Twain is the following excerpt from: If man could be crossed with a cat - it would improve man - but it would deteriorate the cat.?
Choices: The Autobiography of Mark Twain; Puddnhead Wilson; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn
Answer: The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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Question: The difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat only has nine lives. Which book by Mark Twain is this quote from?
Choices: Pudd nhead Willson; Tom Sawyer; Roughing It; The Innocents Abroad
Answer: Pudd nhead Willson
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Question: What book does the following quote come from: You dont know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that aint no matter. ?
Choices: Huckleberry Finn; The Gilded Age; Letters From the Earth; Life on the Mississippi
Answer: Huckleberry Finn
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Question: I came in with Halleys Comet...it will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I dont go out with it. is a quote from what book by Mark Twain?
Choices: The Autobiography of Mark Twain; Tom Sawyer; The Gilded Age; Letters From the Earth
Answer: The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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Question: What Mark Twain book is the following line from: All right, then, Ill go to hell!?
Choices: Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; Captain Stormfield Visits Heaven; The Diary of Adam and Eve
Answer: Huckleberry Finn
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Question: What book by Mark Twain does this quote come from: In mans heaven...it shall contain each and every thing that is repulsive to a man, and not a single thing he likes....it pays no compliment to the intellect...in fact never even mentions it. ?
Choices: Letters From the Earth; Roughing It; The Innocents Abroad; Huckleberry Finn
Answer: Letters From the Earth
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Question: Which poet wrote the poems The Germ, Listen, A Word to Husbands, and Very Like a Whale?
Choices: Ogden Nash; W. H. Auden; C. Day Lewis; Langston Hughes
Answer: Ogden Nash
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Question: Which of the following poems was not written by C. Day Lewis?
Choices: Almost Human; The Unknown Citizen; Newsreel; Come, Live With Me And Be My Love
Answer: The Unknown Citizen
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Question: Gwendolyn Brooks wrote all of the following poems except one. Can you find the odd one out?
Choices: We Real Cool; The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield; Way Out Morgan; The Chicago Defender Sends A Man To Little Rock
Answer: The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield
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Question: All of these poems were written by Allen Ginsberg except one. Which one was written by poet James Dickey?
Choices: My Sad Self; Howl; The Beholders; A Supermarket in California
Answer: The Beholders
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Question: This poet wrote the poems Moss Gathering and My Papas Waltz in 1948 and Elegy for Jane in 1953.
Choices: Theodore Roethke; Gwendolyn Brooks; Robert Hayden; Elizabeth Bishop
Answer: Theodore Roethke
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Question: Which of these poems was not written by Robert Lowell?
Choices: For the Union Dead; The Mouth of the Hudson; Grandparents; Digging for China
Answer: Digging for China
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Question: Which poet wrote the poems Still I Rise, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Remembrance?
Choices: Elizabeth Bishop; Gwendolyn Brooks; Anne Sexton; Maya Angelou
Answer: Maya Angelou
Category: literature
Question: Which 20th century poet wrote the phrase Candy is Dandy, But Liquor is Quicker?
Choices: Ogden Nash; James Dickey; Dylan Thomas; Allen Ginsberg
Answer: Ogden Nash
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Question: John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in this city.
Choices: New York City; Salinas, California; Moscow, Soviet Union; Heiligenhaus, Germany
Answer: Salinas, California
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Question: Which of the following books by John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer prize?
Choices: East of Eden; none of these; Of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
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Question: Name the sequel to John Steinbecks 1945 book Cannery Row.
Choices: The Pearl; The Wayward Bus; East of Eden; Sweet Thursday
Answer: Sweet Thursday
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Question: What was John Steinbecks first published novel?
Choices: Tortilla Flat; The Red Pony; Cup of Gold; The Pastures of Heaven
Answer: Cup of Gold
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Question: In 1960 John Steinbeck set off on a trip around America, which he described in a book. What name did Steinbeck give to the vehicle he used during the trip?
Choices: America; Rocinante; Charley; Don Quihote
Answer: Rocinante
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Question: Upon its publishing in 1939 this book by John Steinbeck was banned from public schools and libraries in a lot of places in America.
Choices: To a God Unknown; In Dubious Battle; The Moon Is Down; The Grapes of Wrath
Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
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Question: During World War II John Steinbeck worked as a war correspondent for this newspaper.
Choices: New York Herald Tribune; San Francisco Chronicle; The New York Times; Los Angeles Times
Answer: New York Herald Tribune
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Question: George Milton and Lennie Small were characters in which book by John Steinbeck?
Choices: The Wayward Bus; Of Mice and Men; The Pearl; Cannery Row
Answer: Of Mice and Men
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Question: Which of the following women was not married to John Steinbeck?
Choices: Carol Henning Steinbeck Brown; Elaine Anderson Scott Steinbeck; Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck; Mary Steinbeck Dekker
Answer: Mary Steinbeck Dekker
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Question: What prize did John Steinbeck receive in 1962?
Choices: New York Drama Critics Circle Award; Nobel Prize for Literature; Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Best Novel by a Californian; Pulitzer Prize Fiction Award
Answer: Nobel Prize for Literature
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Question: He graduated from Harvard in 1916. He wrote The Enormous Room (1922) about a prison camp during WWI.
Choices: Gary Porter; e.e. cummings; Robert Frost; Ernest Hemingway
Answer: e.e. cummings
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Question: He is largely considered to be the most popular American poet of the 19th century as well as the first professional American poet.
Choices: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Edgar Allen Poe; Robert Frost; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Question: She was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and bore the same first name as her mother.
Choices: Jane Austin; Emily Dickinson; Sylvia Plath; Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Answer: Emily Dickinson
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Question: He was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri and began writing in the 8th grade even though his father discouraged him.
Choices: Thurgood Marshall; E.G. Marshall; Langston Hughes; Barnard Hughes
Answer: Langston Hughes
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Question: She wrote Cold Comfort in 1986 and A Space Filled with Movement in 1992.
Choices: Maggie Anderson; Louise McNeil; Maude Anderson; Louisa Mae Alcott
Answer: Maggie Anderson
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Question: Writer and artist Edward St. John Gorey was born on February 22 in what year?
Choices: 1915; 1925; 1935; 1920
Answer: 1925
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Question: Edward Gorey, who gained fame for his illustrative and writing abilities, did not have any formal art education at all.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was fond of animals, which were also the subject of some of his works. What pets did Gorey keep in his house?
Choices: ferrets; lizards; cats; dogs
Answer: cats
Category: literature
Question: Writer and artist Edward Gorey never married.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Edward Gorey won a Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the 1977 Broadway production Dracula.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: Writer and artist Edward Gorey died at the age of 75 at his home in Cape Cod. What caused his death?
Choices: Prostate Cancer; Car Accident; Heart Attack; Natural causes-old age
Answer: Heart Attack
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Question: What are the names of Rolands mother and father in The Dark Tower series?
Choices: Gabrielle and Roland; Gillian and Roland; Gabrielle and Steven; Gillian and Steven
Answer: Gabrielle and Steven
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Question: Which of the following Steven King books is not connected to the Dark Tower series?
Choices: Salems Lot; They are all connected.; The Eye of the Dragon; Rose Madder
Answer: They are all connected.
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Question: What was the name of the book that contained the short story The Little Sisters of Eluria, a prequel to The Gunslinger?
Choices: Nightmares and Dreamscapes; Skeleton Crew; Everythingâs Eventual; Different Seasons
Answer: Everythingâs Eventual
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Question: John Farson was the gunslinger who brought down the Affiliation in The Dark Tower series.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Oscar Wilde is associated with this art movement that began in the late Victorian period and is considered to have ended with Oscar Wildes trial in in 1895.
Choices: Art Nouveau; Neo-Classicism; Symbolism; Aestheticism
Answer: Aestheticism
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Question: Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for two years after being convicted of this crime.
Choices: treason; domestic abuse; gross indecency; sexual assault
Answer: gross indecency
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Question: This literary work, whose preface ends with the sentence, All art is quite useless, is Oscar Wildes only published novel.
Choices: A Woman of No Importance; The Importance of Being Earnest; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Canterville Ghost
Answer: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Question: What drama film, starring Scarlett Johansson as Meg Windermere, is based on Oscar Wildes play Lady Windermeres Fan?
Choices: A Good Woman; The Nanny Diaries; The Other Boleyn Girl; Lost in Translation
Answer: A Good Woman
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Question: This Oscar Wilde tragedy, originally written in French in 1891, was banned in England until 1931.
Choices: A Florentine Tragedy; Salome; Vera; or, The Nihilists; An Ideal Husband
Answer: Salome
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Question: While in prison Oscar Wilde wrote De Profundis, an extended letter in which he expressed his bitter criticism towards this English author, better known as Wildes intimate friend.
Choices: Lord Alfred Tennyson; Lord Alfred Douglas; Matthew Arnold; Robert Seymour Bridges
Answer: Lord Alfred Douglas
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Question: Which characters created by Oscar Wilde are not correctly paired with the literary work?
Choices: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Basil Hallward, Sybil Vane; Lady Windermeres Fan - Mrs Erlynne, Lord Darlington; The Importance of Being Earnest - Gwendolen Fairfax, Algernon (Algy) Moncrieff; Salome - Simone Grosso, Beatrice
Answer: Salome - Simone Grosso, Beatrice
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Question: Name the witty nobleman who conveys to Dorian Gray his view of indulgent hedonism in one of Oscar Wildes most famous works?
Choices: Henry Wotton; Basil Hallward; Alan Campbell; James Vane
Answer: Henry Wotton
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Question: The death penalty is the main theme of this poem by Oscar Wilde which contains the following often quoted lines:
Choices: t each man kills the thing he loves;  each let this be heard,; me do it with a bitter look,; me with a flattering word,; e coward does it with a kiss,; e brave man with a sword!; The Sphinx; The Fisherman and his Soul; A House of Pomegranates; The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Answer: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Question: Complete the following statement made by one of Oscar Wildes characters: Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is ..............
Choices: a genius; beautiful; a sinner; a good lover
Answer: a sinner
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Question: The novel The Dark Tower begins where Song of Susannah left off.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: In the book The Dark Tower, Susannah becomes physically separated from Mia and gives birth to Mordred, while Mia is killed by a group of vampires.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In Stephen Kings novel The Dark Tower, Mordred has the ability to transform himself into what type of creature?
Choices: Spider; Wolf; Crow; Snake
Answer: Spider
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Question: Once reunited in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet travel to a town called Fedic to stop the activity of a group of individuals who use their psychic powers to break apart the beams that hold the Dark Tower and Mid-World together. What is the name given to this group of psychics?
Choices: Breakers; The Great Old Ones; Sanitisers; Crimson Acolytes
Answer: Breakers
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Question: Which member of the ka-tet is mortally wounded in The Dark Tower in the battle to free the psychics of Fedic?
Choices: Oy; Eddie; Jake; Susannah
Answer: Eddie
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Question: In the final novel of The Dark Tower series, Jake, Roland and Oy travel to Maine in 1999 to do what important task?
Choices: Deliver a rose to Jakes dying mother; Open the Tet Corporation Tower; Close a tear between the worlds that was causing strange creatures to enter 1999; Save the life of Stephen King
Answer: Save the life of Stephen King
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Question: On their travels in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet come to a place called ODDS LANE (the S had been added by hand). The only person who lived here was an old guy who called himself Joe Collins, but what was his real name?
Choices: Dandelo; Cuthbert; Walter; Pennywise
Answer: Dandelo
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Question: In the novel The Dark Tower, in Joe Collins basement the ka-tet discover a young man named Patrick Danville imprisoned in a cage. What particular skill does Patrick have?
Choices: He is blind and cannot be influenced by the all-seeing eye of The Crimson King.; He can travel between worlds simply by thinking about them.; He can block the destructive thoughts of the psychics who are destroying the Beams.; He is a gifted artist whose drawings become reality.
Answer: He is a gifted artist whose drawings become reality.
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Question: When close to his goal, The Dark Tower, Roland is attacked by Mordred. Who saves Rolands life, but dies in the process?
Choices: Eddie; Oy; Jake; Susannah
Answer: Oy
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Question: In The Dark Tower, Stephen King urges the reader to stop reading at a certain point in the book and not go any further.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Driven by jealousy, anguish and ambition, this character from a history play by Shakespeare uttered the words, I am determined to prove a villain / and hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Choices: Henry V; King Lear; Claudius; Richard III
Answer: Richard III
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Question: What Shakespearean character usurped the throne by murdering his brother and then married the late kings widow?
Choices: Julius Caesar; Claudius; Polonius; Iago
Answer: Claudius
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Question: Name the Scottish King whom Macbeth murdered, led by his thirst for power and desire to obtain the throne.
Choices: King Duncan; King Malcolm II; King Henry; King Kenneth
Answer: King Duncan
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Question: This character, often regarded as one of Shakespeares most malevolent villains, is an expert manipulator, who states, I am not what I am.
Choices: Polonius; Claudius; Cassius; Iago
Answer: Iago
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Question: This complex Shakespearean character, who is a villain at one point and a victim at another, demanded a pound of flesh and rendered no mercy.
Choices: Horatio; Tubal; Antonio; Shylock
Answer: Shylock
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Question: This character, who commits a number of villainous acts throughout the course of the play King Lear, is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester.
Choices: Edmund; Antonio; Edgar; Philip
Answer: Edmund
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Question: What character from the play Julius Caesar incites the conspiracy against Caesar and plays a leading role in his assassination?
Choices: Brutus; Taurus; Arviragus; Cassius
Answer: Cassius
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Question: Name King Lears brutal son-in-law who gouged out Gloucesters eyes in Shakespeares tragedy King Lear.
Choices: Duke of Burgundy; Edmund; Earl of Kent; Duke of Cornwall
Answer: Duke of Cornwall
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Question: In the play Cymbeline, this dishonest Roman soldier tricked Posthumos into believing that he had seduced his wife, Imogen.
Choices: Iachimo; Philario; Brutus; Cassius
Answer: Iachimo
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Question: In what Shakespearean comedy did Don John acknowledge, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am plain-dealing villain?
Choices: The Comedy of Errors; Much Ado About Nothing; The Taming of the Shrew; Measure for Measure
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
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Question: Why does the group of eco-terrorists, featured in the book Ark Angel, call themselves Force Three?
Choices: It does not say.; The Earth is the third nearest planet to the sun.; The group has three main goals.; When the group was created, there were three members in it.
Answer: The Earth is the third nearest planet to the sun.
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Question: In the book Ark Angel, what are the nicknames Alex Rider gives to the four men who break into St. Dominics hospital looking for Paul Drevin?
Choices: Canvas Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth; Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth; Canvas Jacket, Spectacles, Metal Watch, Silver Tooth; Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Metal Watch, Steel Tooth
Answer: Combat Jacket, Spectacles, Steel Watch, Silver Tooth
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Question: Fictional character Alex Rider says that the leader of Force Three has what parts of the world tattooed on the back of his head?
Choices: Brazil and West Africa; Russia and China; The US and Canada; Europe
Answer: Russia and China
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Question: In the novel Ark Angel, what natural disaster does Alex Rider think would occur if the leader of Force Three was to sneeze?
Choices: Landslide; Earthquake; Tsunami; Volcanic Eruption
Answer: Earthquake
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Question: In the sixth book in the Alex Rider series, what were Force Three going to send with the ransom note to Nikolei Drevin in order to show him that they meant business?
Choices: One of their captives toes.; A picture of their captive.; A lock of their captives hair.; One of their captives fingers.
Answer: One of their captives fingers.
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Question: In Ark Angel, after Force Three find out that the boy they captured is not Paul Drevin, but Alex Rider, they try to kill him by doing what?
Choices: They lock Alex in a room and leave him there to starve to death.; They lock Alex in a room and leave a time bomb right outside.; They lock Alex in a room and weaken the supports of the building so that it falls down.; They lock Alex in a room and set the building aflame.
Answer: They lock Alex in a room and set the building aflame.
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Question: What was the name of Alexs guardian in the novel Ark Angel?
Choices: Mrs. Jones; Alan Blunt; Jack Starbright; Diana Meacher
Answer: Jack Starbright
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Question: Jack Starbright, a recurring character in the Alex Rider books, enjoys cooking.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Living a life of self imposed isolation due to self doubt, fictional Navy officer Hornblower still considered one fellow officer his friend. Who was he?
Choices: Capt. Jack Aubrey; Stephen Maturin; ABS Brown; Lt. Bush
Answer: Lt. Bush
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Question: One aspect of the physical constitution of fictional officer Hornblowers isolates him from a simple human pleasure. What is it?
Choices: Hornblower has no sense of smell or taste resulting in joyless eating.; Poor eyesight and color blindness result in his inability to comprehend beauty and art.; Dyslexia, or a dyslexia-like condition, prevents Hornblower from being able to read and write.; Tone deafness prevents Hornblower from enjoying or even comprehending music.
Answer: Tone deafness prevents Hornblower from enjoying or even comprehending music.
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Question: What was the name of the first wife of fictional British Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower?
Choices: Penny; Maggie; Mildred; Maria
Answer: Maria
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Question: Which of these is true about the second wife of fictional British Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower?
Choices: She is the sister of Marie Antoinette, infamous for excesses, and executed early in the French Revolution.; She is the sister of Anglo-Irish statesman Arthur Wellesley, the future victor at Waterloo and Duke of Wellington.; She is the widow of Horatio Nelson, hero of the Nile and Trafalgar.; She is the illegitimate daughter of Benjamin Franklin.
Answer: She is the sister of Anglo-Irish statesman Arthur Wellesley, the future victor at Waterloo and Duke of Wellington.
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Question: During the Peace of Amiens,â fictional adventure series character Hornblower is beached and penniless. How does Hornblower make ends meet during this period?
Choices: Gambling on horses; Playing whist; Prize fighting; Working as a fishing boat captain
Answer: Playing whist
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Question: Fictional officer Horatio Hornblower is dispatched round the Horn to assist the Spanish in the Pacific. Hornblower meets and assists a despotic, psychopathic Spanish commander. What is his name?
Choices: Hugo Chavez; Augusto Pinochet; El Supremo; El Rey Del Mundo
Answer: El Supremo
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Question: Where does fictional character Stephanie Plum live?
Choices: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Albany, New York; San Francisco, California; Trenton, New Jersey
Answer: Trenton, New Jersey
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Question: What is the occupation of Janet Evanovichs character Stephanie Plum?
Choices: bounty hunter; police officer; spy; pastry chef
Answer: bounty hunter
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Question: Fictional character Stephanie Plum is employed by her cousin.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: In the Stephanie Plum series of novels, what is the name of the plus-sized black woman who sometimes is Stephanies partner?
Choices: Latasha; Lula; Lila; Laila
Answer: Lula
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Question: In Janet Evanovichs series of books, Stephanie Plums relationship with her boyfriend is often overshadowed by her crush on this character.
Choices: Vinnie; Alex; Ranger; Alfred
Answer: Ranger
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Question: Stephanie Plum has different cars throughout the various novels. However, the one that used to belong to her Uncle Sandor was affectionately called by this name.
Choices: Big Bertha; Big Ben; Big Betsy; Big Blue
Answer: Big Blue
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Question: In the Stephanie Plum series of books, Stephanies mother approves of her job as a bounty-hunter.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Stephanie Plums eccentric Grandma Mazur has a weird obsession with attending viewings at the local funeral parlor.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: What is the job of Stephanies boyfriend in the Stephanie Plums series of novels?
Choices: a police officer; a lifeguard; an EMS; a firefighter
Answer: a police officer
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Question: How many children does Harry Potter have as revealed in the last book of the harry Potter series?
Choices: 1; 3; 5; 4
Answer: 3
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Question: Harry Potter kisses Cho Chang.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Harry Potter marries Hermione in the last book of the series.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Who does Hermione Granger kiss in the Battle of Hogwarts, in the final book of the Harry Potter series?
Choices: None of these; Harry; Ron; Krum
Answer: Ron
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Question: What year were fictional characters Harry Potter and Ron Weasley born?
Choices: 1990; 1982; 1989; 1985
Answer: 1989
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Question: Harry Potter once kissed Luna Lovegood.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In what book of the Harry Potter series do Harry and Ginny kiss for the first time?
Choices: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Answer: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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Question: What potion do Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger use to infiltrate the Ministry of Magic?
Choices: Amortentia; Draught of Living Death; Polyjuice Potion; Felix Felicis
Answer: Polyjuice Potion
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Question: Which student does Slughorn Horace NOT favour in the Harry Potter series?
Choices: Harry; Ron; Zabini; Hermione
Answer: Ron
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Question: What character does Harry Potter first meet at Madam Malkins?
Choices: Ron; Dudley; Draco; Ginny
Answer: Draco
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Question: In The Silmarillion, Morgoth was a corrupt Ainu, a servant of Iluvatar, responsible for much evil on Middle Earth. What was his original name?
Choices: Melion; Mordred; The Evil One; Melkor
Answer: Melkor
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Question: The epic love story in The Silmarillion held great significance to Tolkien himself. This is evident by the fact that the names of the two lovers were engraved upon the tombstones of J.R.R. and his wife, Edith. What were these names?
Choices: Tuor and Idril; Thingol and Melian; Perseus and Andromeda; Luthien and Beren
Answer: Luthien and Beren
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Question: What was the name of the Great Elven Prince of the Noldor who created the Silmarils described by J. R. Tolkien?
Choices: Fingon; Fangorn; Feanor; Finarfin
Answer: Feanor
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Question: In The Silmarillion, the Elves call themselves this, meaning The Speakers, signifying their value of communication.
Choices: Quenya; Quendi; Quizlings; Quintet
Answer: Quendi
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Question: Known as the Wildman of the Woods, this tragic hero, described in The Silmarillion, was cursed by Morgoth because his father refused to reveal the location of the secret Elvin kingdom of Gondolin.
Choices: Turok; Tuor; Turgon; Turin
Answer: Turin
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Question: What transgression did fictional character Melkor commit to warrant the revenge of the Valor?
Choices: Creation fo the Orcs; Seduction of the men of Numenor; Creation of the Balrogs; Deception of the Elves
Answer: Creation fo the Orcs
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Question: In Tolkiens writings, Numenor was created as a reward to men by the Valar for their part in the War of the Silmarills. The first king was the son of Earendil, a mortal, and Elwing, an Elf, and brother to Elrond. Who was he?
Choices: Elros; Elendil; El Cid; Elfin
Answer: Elros
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Question: What are the names of the Three Kindreds of Elves in Toliens fictional universe?
Choices: Tanya, Ronald, and Valeri; Noldor, Baldar, and Teleporn; Vanya, Noldor , and Teleri; Vanwe, Manwe, and Elwe
Answer: Vanya, Noldor , and Teleri
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Question: At the time of the fictional War of the Ring, who were the only surviving leaders of the Noldor?
Choices: Celebrimbor and Cirdan; Gil-galad and Celegorm; Galadriel and Celeborn; Elrond and Celebrian
Answer: Galadriel and Celeborn
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Question: In Tolkiens book The Silmarillion, the kings of Numenor increasingly became rebellious against the Valar and mounted an attack against them. The result was that the island of Numenor sank into the sea. What was the reason for their revolt?
Choices: They wanted the Silmarils for themselves.; They were tired of Manna.; They wanted the riches of the Valor.; They lusted after immortality.
Answer: They lusted after immortality.
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Question: There were a number of notable inter-racial marriages in The Silmarillion. The first one mentioned was between a mortal and a Maia, a servant of the Valar. What were their names?
Choices: Tuor and Idril; Thingol and Melian; Earendil and Elwing; Beren and Luthian
Answer: Thingol and Melian
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Question: In The Silmarillion, Carcharoth slew Beren after swallowing a Silmaril. What was Carcharoth?
Choices: wolf; dragon; spider; Balrog
Answer: wolf
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Question: In the universe created by J. R. Tolkien, the Valar were gods and were to be worshipped by men and elves alike.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: What is the name of the main character in The Dark Tower?
Choices: Roland King; Roland Gilead; Roland Eld; Roland Deschain
Answer: Roland Deschain
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Question: What is the name of the dog-like billy-bumbler in the Dark Tower series?
Choices: Doggie; Ogg; Oy; Aye
Answer: Oy
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Question: In the Dark Tower series, the woman known as Susannah has a dissociative identity disorder. How many personalities does she have?
Choices: 8; 10; 6; 4
Answer: 4
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Question: In the Dark Towere series of books, Eddie Dean mysteriously resembles which one of Rolands dead friends?
Choices: Alain Johns; Jamie de Curry; Randall Flagg; Cuthbert Allgood
Answer: Cuthbert Allgood
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Question: What is the name of Rolands first love in The Dark Tower?
Choices: Mia; Detta Walker; Susan Delgado; Susannah Dean
Answer: Susan Delgado
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Question: There are a number of evil spheres in the Dark Tower books. What is the name of the most sinister of them?
Choices: Blue Fog; White Mist; Purple Haze; Black Thirteen
Answer: Black Thirteen
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Question: Roland, the protagonist of the Dark Tower books, is a descendant of this great king.
Choices: Arthur Eld; The Red King; The Prim lord; Steven Deschain
Answer: Arthur Eld
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Question: In the Dark Tower series of books, Jake has a very special ability called The Touch. What is it?
Choices: The power to turn things into gold; A kind of telekinesis; The power to kill by thought; The power to start fires
Answer: A kind of telekinesis
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Question: Among the servants of the Red King in the Dark Tower, there are bird-like creatures that can assume a human form. What are they called?
Choices: Grandfathers; Prims; Taheen; Slow muties
Answer: Taheen
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Question: In 2007 Marvel started a series of comic books based on The Dark Tower. What is the name of the first volume?
Choices: Roland The Gunslinger; The Gunslinger Born; Roland of Gilead; The Last Gunslinger
Answer: The Gunslinger Born
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Question: In the beginning of the novel Twilight, Isabella moved from Phoenix, Arizona to what city?
Choices: Forks, Washington; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Miami, Florida; Albany, New York
Answer: Forks, Washington
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Question: In the Twilight saga, both Edward and James are trackers.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: Is Twilight character Edward able to read minds?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
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Question: In the book Breaking Dawn, how many children does Bella have?
Choices: 4; 1; 3; 0
Answer: 1
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Question: In which book of the Twilight series did Edward propose to Bella?
Choices: Breaking Dawn; Eclipse; Twilight; New Moon
Answer: Eclipse
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Question: In the Twilight series, the Cullens love to play football during a thunderstorm.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: The Catcher in the Rye follows Holden Caulfields experiences in this city in the days following his expulsion from a fictional school in Pennsylvania.
Choices: Philadelphia; New York City; Boston; Los Angeles
Answer: New York City
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Question: What word does Holden Caulfield use to refer to everyone and everything he rejects?
Choices: crass; crap; phony; junk
Answer: phony
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Question: The protagonist of what movie is programmed to buy the novel The Catcher in the Rye whenever he sees it?
Choices: Gattaca; Conspiracy Theory; The Fifth Element; The Matrix
Answer: Conspiracy Theory
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Question: Holden Caulfields dream to be a catcher in the rye and to guard children playing in a rye field on the edge of a cliff is based on his mishearing of the poem Comin Through the Rye. What poet, known in Scotland as The Bard, wrote that poem?
Choices: Robert Burns; William Blake; Thomas Campbell; Lord Byron
Answer: Robert Burns
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Question: In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden drops by to see his former English teacher, Mr. Antolini, who offers him advice and a place to sleep. Holden is upset when he wakes up in the middle of the night to find Mr. Antolini doing which of the following?
Choices: holding Holdens hand; drinking heavily; ransacking Holdens luggage; patting Holdens head
Answer: patting Holdens head
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Question: At one point in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden and his sister Phoebe seem to exchange roles as the catcher and the fallen. What is the Catchers symbol that Holden gives Phoebe?
Choices: his hunting hat; a gold ring; his diary; his fishing rod
Answer: his hunting hat
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Question: Mark David Chapman was found with a copy of The Catcher in the Rye on the night he shot this person.
Choices: Rebecca Schaeffer; John Lennon; Ronald Reagan; Yoko Ono
Answer: John Lennon
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Question: What was written on Allies left-handed baseball glove, one of the most significant symbols in the novel The Catcher in the Rye?
Choices: the name of his first girlfriend; poems; the titles of his favourite books; the names of his siblings
Answer: poems
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Question: J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye opens in the week before this major holiday.
Choices: Thanksgiving Day; Memorial Day; Christmas; Easter
Answer: Christmas
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Question: In this Academy Award-winning movie, Woody Allens character says that he only has books with the word death or dying in them. Diane Keatons character holds a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and asks, What about this one?.
Choices: Manhattan; Annie Hall; Husbands and Wives; Hannah and Her Sisters
Answer: Annie Hall
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Question: Who was Nero Wolfes right-hand man?
Choices: Archie Goodwin; Theodore Horstmann; Fritz Brenner; Nathaniel Parker
Answer: Archie Goodwin
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Question: Where was fictional detective Nero Wolfe born?
Choices: London; Switzerland; New York City; Montenegro
Answer: Montenegro
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Question: What color shirt did Nero Wolfe invariably wear?
Choices: Pink; Yellow; White; Blue
Answer: Yellow
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Question: Fictional detective Nero Wolfe lived in a brownstone on West 34th Street in New York City.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
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Question: What was the name of Nero Wolfes fictional chef who lived in the basement of Wolfes brownstone and also served as majordomo and butler?
Choices: Nathaniel Parker; Archie Goodwin; Theodore Horstmann; Fritz Brenner
Answer: Fritz Brenner
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Question: Who was the newspaperman who helped fictional detective Nero Wolfe on occasion, and was one of the regular poker players.
Choices: Nathaniel Parker; Saul Panzer; Lon Cohen; Johnny Keems
Answer: Lon Cohen
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Question: Which of the following was not one of the regular gang of fictional detectives Nero Wolfe regularly used?
Choices: Saul Panzer; Fred Durkin; Orrie Cather; Purley Stebbins
Answer: Purley Stebbins
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Question: What was Nero Wolfes hobby, which he engaged in for four hours each day?
Choices: Writing detective stories; Collecting stamps; Building intricate models; Raising orchids
Answer: Raising orchids
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Question: Who was the love interest of Nero Wolfes right-hand man?
Choices: Carla Lovchen; Sally Colt; Lily Rowan; Del Bonner
Answer: Lily Rowan
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Question: What was the name of Nero Wolfes nemesis?
Choices: Anson Street; Arnold Zeck; Albert Hall; Arthur Dent
Answer: Arnold Zeck
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Question: What beverage did detective Nero Wolfe consume copious amounts of?
Choices: Coffee; Beer; Tea; Fine wine
Answer: Beer
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Question: Who was the cigar-chomping fictional police inspector who had a love-hate relationship with Nero Wolfe?
Choices: Cramer; Noonan; Rowcliff; Stebbins
Answer: Cramer
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Question: Which short story is listed with the WRONG author?
Choices: The Devil and Daniel Webster-Stephen Vincent  Benet; The Spinoza of Market Street-Isaac Bashevis Singer; Babylon Reconstructed-F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Devils Advocate-John Grisham
Answer: The Devils Advocate-John Grisham
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Question: What is the essential element of a short story?
Choices: The description of scenery  is used to paint a complete picture.; They open with a historic scene.; The complete description of  the main characters psyche is used to set  the scene.; A short period of time is covered.
Answer: A short period of time is covered.
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Question: Which term refers to a prose fiction work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel?
Choices: An allegory; A novella; An intermediary tale; A tale
Answer: A novella
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Question: Which short story is  listed with the WRONG author?
Choices: The Death of Ivan Ilych-Leo Tolstoy; The Life in the Iron Mills-Rebecca H. Davis; The Diamond Lens-Fitz James OBrien; Death in the Afternoon-John Steinbeck
Answer: Death in the Afternoon-John Steinbeck
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Question: Which story is listed with the CORRECT author?
Choices: The Man Without a Country-E. E. Hale; Marjorie Drew-F. M. Crawford; The Upper Berth-Mary E. Wilkins; The Humble Romance-T. B. Aldrich
Answer: The Man Without a Country-E. E. Hale
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Question: Which short story ids listed with the WRONG author?
Choices: Love in Old Clothes-H. C. Bunner; The Little Countess-Enrico Castlenuovo; A Man Called Horse-Louis LAmour; The Attack on the Mill-Emile Zola
Answer: A Man Called Horse-Louis LAmour
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Question: Which story is listed with the WRONG author?
Choices: The Gift of Cochise-Leo G. Carroll; The Yellow Wallpaper-Charles Perkins Gilman; Eagles Over Croaked Creek-Max Brand; Dubliners-James Joyce
Answer: The Gift of Cochise-Leo G. Carroll
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Question: What is The Western Star from Agatha Christies short story The Adventure of The Western Star?
Choices: A jewel; A ship; A stage play; A hotel
Answer: A jewel
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Question: Who is the murderer in Agatha Christies The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor?
Choices: The lover of the dead mans wife; The widow of the dead man; It is a suicide; The brother of the dead man
Answer: The widow of the dead man
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Question: How does Mr Bleibner die in Agatha Christies short story The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb?
Choices: Killed by a demon; Blood poisoning; Heart failure; Head trauma
Answer: Blood poisoning
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Question: What does Miss Violet Marsh have to do in order to inherit her Uncle Andrews possessions in Agatha Christies story The Case of the Missing Will?
Choices: Cut her long beautiful hair; Live as a beggar for one month; Prove her wits; Remain unmarried for the rest of her life
Answer: Prove her wits
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Question: Who killed the French Deputy Paul Deroulard in Agatha Christies short story The Chocolate Box?
Choices: His cousin; His wife; His doctor; His mother
Answer: His mother
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Question: What type of poison does Mrs. Merrowdene use in Agatha Christies short story Accident?
Choices: Mouse poison; Arsenic; Lead; Atropine
Answer: Arsenic
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Question: What does the blue geranium mean according to the fortuneteller in Agatha Christies exciting short story The Blue Geranium?
Choices: Death; Adultery; Danger; Warning
Answer: Death
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Question: What word was written with a capital letter in the middle of a sentence in the letter from some Georgine in Agatha Christies story The Four Suspects?
Choices: Love; Again; Honesty; Death
Answer: Honesty
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Question: What is the plant employed for the murder in Agatha Christies The Herb of Death?
Choices: Thornapple; Hemlock; Foxglove; Belladonna
Answer: Foxglove
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Question: What work by Alexandre Dumas, Sr. inspired Hercules Poirot how to solve the case in  The Augean Stables?
Choices: The Gold Thieves; The Queens Necklace; The Black Tulip; The Regents Daughter
Answer: The Queens Necklace
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Question: Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Choices: John Ford; John Steinbeck; William Faulkner; Ernest Hemingway
Answer: John Steinbeck
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Question: When was the novel The Grapes of Wrath first published?
Choices: 1961; 1928; 1950; 1939
Answer: 1939
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Question: What statement about the novel The Grapes of Wrath is true?
Choices: The author of the novel won neither the Nobel Prize for Literature nor the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.; The author of the novel won the Nobel Prize for Literature but not the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.; The author of the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the Nobel Prize for Literature.; The author of the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature but not the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Answer: The author of the novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Question: How did the author of The Grapes of Wrath come up with the title of the novel?
Choices: The author picked it out of The Bible.; The authors wife suggested he use a line from a song.; Marie Hemingway had published a poem containing the line  .. and the grapes of wrath poured forth from Pandoras box....; When the author was growing up in Mississippi, it  was a common expression for mans  troubles.
Answer: The authors wife suggested he use a line from a song.
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Question: When was the original movie The Grapes of Wrath released?
Choices: 1960; 1950; 1940; 1970
Answer: 1940
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Question: What is the name of the main family in the novel The Grapes of Wrath and in the movie adaptation?
Choices: Galati; Darwell; Joad; Adams
Answer: Joad
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Question: Where do the main characters travel in the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
Choices: From Oklahoma to California; From rural Mississippi to Texas; From Chicago, Illinois to San Joaquin, California; From New York to Texas
Answer: From Oklahoma to California
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Question: In the The Grapes of Wrath, we meet the first character, Tom, as he walks and hitchhikes home. Why is he away from home?
Choices: He served time in prison for burglary.; He served time in prison for homicide.; He had no money for the subway, so he had to walk home.; He lost his job in the Chicago slaughterhouses and had to walk the two miles to the Adams home.
Answer: He served time in prison for homicide.