kth8/OpenTriviaQA huggingface dataset:
Category: literature
Question: The Devils Dictionary
Choices: Stephen King; Ambrose Bierce; Beelzebub; Truman Capote
Answer: Ambrose Bierce
Category: literature
Question: The Doll Who Ate His Mother
Choices: Chucky; Ramsey Campbell; Clive Barker; Jack Kerouac
Answer: Ramsey Campbell
Category: literature
Question: Which Scottish poet, born in 1759, wrote the famous song Auld Lang Syne which goes like this:
Choices: ould auld acquaintance be forgot,; ould auld acquaintance be forgot,; Robert Burns; Walter Scott; Oscar Wilde; Bob Dylan
Answer: Robert Burns
Category: literature
Question: How old was the prominent English poet John Keats when he died in 1821?
Choices: 26 years old; 56 years old; 46 years old; 16 years old
Answer: 26 years old
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Question: Which one of these plays by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is not a comedy?
Choices: Macbeth; A Midsummer Nights Dream; Loves Labours Lost; As You Like It
Answer: Macbeth
Category: literature
Question: Which one of these poems was written by American Modernist poet T. S. Eliot and describes his feeling of depression and pessimism about society after World War I?
Choices: Childe Harold; The Times They Are a-Changin; The Hollow Men; The Road Not Taken
Answer: The Hollow Men
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Question: This American poet, born in 1874, won the Pulitzer Prize four times and recited his poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Choices: Robert Nesta Marley; Robert Louis Stevenson; Robert Frost; Robert Burns
Answer: Robert Frost
Category: literature
Question: Which Anglo-Scottish poet, author of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, died in Greece where he participated in the fight for the countrys independence?
Choices: Oscar Wilde; George Gordon Byron; William Blake; Walt Whitman
Answer: George Gordon Byron
Category: literature
Question: Which famous work by American poet Henry W. Longfellow was based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians?
Choices: Paul Reveres Ride; The Evening Star; The Song of Hiawatha; Evangeline
Answer: The Song of Hiawatha
Category: literature
Question: Which Norwegian band used William Blakes influential poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as lyrics for their 1998 album Themes from William Blakes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?
Choices: Immortal; Isengard; Ulver; Dimmu Borgir
Answer: Ulver
Category: literature
Question: Which one of these poems from Walt Whitmans masterpiece collection Leaves of Grass was dedicated to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?
Choices: O Captain! My Captain!; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking; Song of Myself; I Sing the Body Electric
Answer: O Captain! My Captain!
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Question: The title of the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard written by which English poet?
Choices: Percy Bysshe Shelley; Edgar Allan Poe; Alfred Tennyson; Alexander Pope
Answer: Alexander Pope
Category: literature
Question: And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Choices: nt home and put a bullet through his head.; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Randall Jarrell; John Berryman; Luke Havergall
Answer: Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Question: From my mothers sleep, I fell into the State.
Choices: hunched in its body till my wet fur froze.; s miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life...; en I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.; Wallace Stevens; Randall Jarrell; John Crowe Ransom; Robinson Jeffers
Answer: Randall Jarrell
Category: literature
Question: Success is counted sweetest
Choices:  comprehend a nectar; Hilda Doolittle; Gertrude Stein; None of these; Emily Dickinson
Answer: Emily Dickinson
Category: literature
Question: A heap of broken images, where the Sun beats...
Choices: will show you fear in a handful of dust.; T.S. Eliot; Gertrude Stein; Ezra Pound; Allen Ginsberg
Answer: T.S. Eliot
Category: literature
Question: I spit upon this dreadful bankers grave
Choices: ho alas alas; en will indifference come, I moan  rave;  like to scrabble till I got right down; Philip Booth; None of these; John Berryman; Hart Crane
Answer: John Berryman
Category: literature
Question: I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Choices: Stephen Crane; Walt Whitman; Denise Levertov; Robert Lowell
Answer: Stephen Crane
Category: literature
Question: I have gone out, a possessed witch, 
Choices: woman like that is not a woman, quite. ; have been her kind.; Gwendolyn Brooks; Sylvia Plath; Anne Sexton; Emily Dickinson
Answer: Anne Sexton
Category: literature
Question: I was ten when they buried you.
Choices:  twenty I tried to die; d get back, back, back to you.; thought even the bones would do.; t they pulled me out of the sack,; d they stuck me together with glue.; d then I knew what to do.; made a model of you,; man in black with a Meinkampf look; Joyce Carol Oates; Anne Sexton; June Jordan; Sylvia Plath
Answer: Sylvia Plath
Category: literature
Question: In which book by Mark Twain is Jim a major character?
Choices: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Puddnhead Wilson
Answer: Huckleberry Finn
Category: literature
Question: In which novel does the evil Injun Joe appear?
Choices: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court; The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg; Letters From the Earth
Answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Category: literature
Question: In which work by Mark Twain do we find Adam and Eve writing their diaries?
Choices: Innocents Abroad; The Mysterious Stranger; Letters from the Earth; The Gilded Age
Answer: Letters from the Earth
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Question: Which story features a character named Jim Smiley who was responsible for one of the tallest tales of the Old West?
Choices: Roughing It; Innocents Abroad; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; At Adams Tomb
Answer: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
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Question: Sir Boss is the protagonist of which novel?
Choices: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court; Letters from the Earth; Roughing It; The Prince and the Pauper
Answer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Category: literature
Question: Aunt Polly is a character from which book?
Choices: Roughing it; Life on the Mississippi; Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Category: literature
Question: In which novel did Mark Twain- Special Travelling Correspondent of the Alta appear?
Choices: The Innocents Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; The Damned Human Race; The Gilded Age
Answer: The Innocents Abroad
Category: literature
Question: In this novel we find Cal Higbie and Mark Twain celebrating the curious time when the two were millionaires for ten days?
Choices: Life on the Mississippi; Innocents Abroad; The Gilded Age; Roughing It
Answer: Roughing It
Category: literature
Question: In which novel do the Duke and the King do their best to swindle god-fearin folk?
Choices: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court; Huckleberry Finn; A Tramp Abroad; The Mysterious Stranger
Answer: Huckleberry Finn
Category: literature
Question: In which story does Danl Webster appear as a leading character?
Choices: The Celebrated Jumping Frog; The Prince and the Pauper; Innocents Abroad; Letters from the Earth
Answer: The Celebrated Jumping Frog
Category: literature
Question: This history play by Shakespeare, focusing on a kings Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent reign of terror, contains the following exchange:
Choices:  beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. ; t I know none, and therefore am no beast.; Henry V; Julius Caesar; Richard III; King John
Answer: Richard III
Category: literature
Question: This pastoral comedy contains one of Shakespeares most quoted monologues, which opens with the lines, All the worlds a stage,
Choices: d all the men and women merely players.; The Winters Tale; The Merry Wives of Windsor; As You Like It; A Midsummer Nights Dream
Answer: As You Like It
Category: literature
Question: Dying is an art like everything else. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real.
Choices: Gregory Corso; Anne Sexton; Emily Dickenson; Sylvia Plath
Answer: Sylvia Plath
Category: literature
Question: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked
Choices: Maye Swenson; Allen Ginsburg; Gregory Orr; Lawrence Ferlenghetti
Answer: Allen Ginsburg
Category: literature
Question: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Choices: Anne Sexton; Immamu Amiri Baraka; Sylvia Plath; Hart Crane
Answer: Immamu Amiri Baraka
Category: literature
Question: Penetrating a Fresh Abyss
Choices: David Payne, Jr.; Robert Haas; Robert Frost; Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: David Payne, Jr.
Category: literature
Question: This is the way they ring the bells in Bedlam
Choices: Theodore Roethke; Anne Sexton; T.S. Eliot; Dylan Thomas
Answer: Anne Sexton
Category: literature
Question: Why talk of beauty? What could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter? They did not stop to think--they died instead. Then shall the voice of liberty be mute?
Choices: None of these; Allen Ginsberg; E. E. Cummings; Sharon Olds
Answer: E. E. Cummings
Category: literature
Question: In the desert I saw a creature naked, bestial. Squatting on the ground he held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I asked Is it good, friend? It is bitter--bitter he replied but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.
Choices: Stephen Crane; William Carlos Williams; Elizabeth Bishop; Hilda Doolittle
Answer: Stephen Crane
Category: literature
Question: We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together-- headpiece filled with straw--alas! Our dried voices when we whisper together are meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats feet over broken glass in our dry cellar....This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
Choices: T.S. Eliot; June Jordan; Robert Penn Warren; Stephen King
Answer: T.S. Eliot
Category: literature
Question: The Book of Nightmares
Choices: Galway Kinnel; Gary Snyder; David Bottoms; James Tate
Answer: Galway Kinnel
Category: literature
Question: In the novel Twilight, Bellas dad Charlie buys her an old Chevy truck as a homecoming gift. What colour is it?
Choices: Blue; Silver; Black; Red
Answer: Red
Category: literature
Question: Though it is girls choice, who asks Bella to the spring dance in the book Twilight?
Choices: Tyler Crowley; Mike Newton; Eric Yorkie; All of these
Answer: All of these
Category: literature
Question: In the book Twilight, Edward says he is 17, but admits he has been 17 for a while. In what year was he actually born?
Choices: 1917; 1901; 1801; 1918
Answer: 1901
Category: literature
Question: Bella, the protagonist of the novel Twilight, is tracked by a vampire intent on killing her. What is his name?
Choices: Laurent; George; John; James
Answer: James
Category: literature
Question: In the novel Twilight, Jasper is the newest member of the Cullen family and the last to adopt their vegetarian diet.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: literature
Question: During his round of questions in the novel Twilight, Edward asks Bella what her favourite gemstone is, to which she immediately answers Topaz, the colour of Edwards eyes. Until recently she would have given a different answer. What did her favourite gemstone use to be?
Choices: Ruby; Onyx; Amethyst; Garnet
Answer: Garnet
Category: literature
Question: In chapter 6 of the novel Twilight, Mike Newton organises a beach trip to this beach.
Choices: First Beach; Forks Beach; Forrest Beach; La Push Beach
Answer: First Beach
Category: literature
Question: In the novel Twilight, Carlisle found Edward whilst working in a hospital in Chicago. What was Edward dying of?
Choices: Tuberculosis; Spanish Influenza; Typhoid Fever; Scarlet Fever
Answer: Spanish Influenza
Category: literature
Question: What game do the Cullens play in the thunderstorm in the novel Twilight?
Choices: Basketball; Football; Cricket; Baseball
Answer: Baseball
Category: literature
Question: In the novel Twilight, who accompanied Bella, when she went to Phoenix to try escape the tracker?
Choices: Esme and Carlisle; Alice and Jasper; Edward and Carlisle; Rosalie and Emmett
Answer: Alice and Jasper
Category: literature
Question: What American hero does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow write about in this poem:
Choices: rough all our history, to the last,;  the hour of darkness, and peril, and need,; e people will waken and listen to hear; e hurrying hoof-beats of that stead; d the midnight message of?; Patrick Henry; Ethan Allen; Paul Revere; George Washington
Answer: Paul Revere
Category: literature
Question: This poet, who is famous for his use of lowercase letters and word space, wrote the following:
Choices: e e cummings; A. E houseman; Carl Sandburg; T. S Elliot
Answer: e e cummings
Category: literature
Question: What is the name of this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Choices:  candle burns at both ends;;  will not last the night;; t ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-;  gives a lovely light!?; Candlelight; Friends and Foes; First Fig; Before Morning
Answer: First Fig
Category: literature
Question: In 2008, EW.com asked readers for their choice for favorite author of the last 25 years. Which author
Choices: Nora Roberts; J. K. Rowling; John Grisham; Steven King
Answer: J. K. Rowling
Category: literature
Question: Lestat was made into a vampire by Marius.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: In The Vampire Chronicles Akasha was known as the Mother of all Vampires
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
Category: literature
Question: What is the full name of Bastian, the main character in the book The Neverending Story?
Choices: Bastian Burrthar Buc; Bastian Benlazar Buz; None of these; Bastian Balzazar Bux
Answer: None of these
Category: literature
Question: In Michael Endes novel, The Neverending Story, Bastian stole The Neverending Story from Mr. Smith.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: Atreyu, one of the characters in the book The Neverending Story, is what kind of warrior?
Choices: Greenskin warrior; Orangeskin warrior; Blueskin warrior; Purpleskin warrior
Answer: Greenskin warrior
Category: literature
Question: What is Ygramuls secrete in the fantasy novel, The Neverending Story?
Choices: It is afraid of fire.; It is an elfs servant.; If direct sunlight hits it, it dies.; It has magic poison.
Answer: It has magic poison.
Category: literature
Question: What kind of dragon is Falkor in Michael Endes novel The Neverending Story?
Choices: A Holy dragon; A Mystic dragon; A Luck dragon; A Moon-light dragon
Answer: A Luck dragon
Category: literature
Question: Where did Atreyus horse die in the fantasy novel, The Neverending Story?
Choices: in the Swamp of Misfortune; None of these; in the Swamp of Death; in the Swamps of Sadness
Answer: in the Swamps of Sadness
Category: literature
Question: In the book The Neverending Story, what kind of creature is Engywook?
Choices: Goblin; Gnome; Elf; Troll
Answer: Gnome
Category: literature
Question: Uyulala, is a character in the novel The Neverending Story, that only speaks in rhymes.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: literature
Question: How many wind giants are there in the book The Neverending Story?
Choices: 5; 3; 4; 2
Answer: 4
Category: literature
Question: What name does Bastian give to the Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story?
Choices: Moon Child; none of these.; Sun Child; Star Child
Answer: Moon Child
Category: literature
Question: This conservative, aristocratic poet and novelist was the pride of both Scotland and England. His martial poetry was an inspiration during war. What author of âWaverlyâ penned the following poem?
Choices: und, sound the clarion, fill the fife!;  all the sensual world proclaim,; e crowded hour of glorious life;  worth an age without a name.; Rudyard Kipling; Sir Walter Scott; Thomas Carlyle; Thomas DeQuincy
Answer: Sir Walter Scott
Category: literature
Question: Who wrote these famous lines and in what poem can they be found?
Choices: at is all ye know on earth, ; d all ye need to know.; ShellyâOzymandias; ShellyâTo a Skylark; KeatsâOde to a Nightingale; KeatsâOde on a Grecian Urn
Answer: KeatsâOde on a Grecian Urn
Category: literature
Question: He was a close friend of Wordsworth. He wrote âKubla Khanâ and the following lines from his most popular poem:
Choices: e Mariner, whose eye is bright,; ose beard with age is hoar,;  gone; and now the Wedding-Guest; rned from the bridegroomâs door.; Coleridge; Keats; Carlyle; Sir Walter Scott
Answer: Coleridge
Category: literature
Question: He was a close friend of Byron and an incredibly popular singer, songwriter.  Which Irish entertainer and poet, who wrote the lyrics to âThe Minstrel Boy,â wrote these lines as well?
Choices: e Harp that once through Taraâs halls the soul of music shed,; w hangs as mute on Taraâs walls as if that soul were fled.;  sleeps the pride of former days, so gloryâs thrill is oâer,; d hearts that once beat high for praise now feel that pulse no more.; Thomas Carlyle; Thomas Peacock; Thomas Campbell; Thomas Moore
Answer: Thomas Moore
Category: literature
Question: I weep for Adonaisâhe is dead!
Choices: , weep for Adonais! Though our tears; aw not the frost which binds so dear a head!; at poet wrote these elegiac lines from âAdonaisâ in memoriam to John Keats, who died of T.B. at the tender age of only 24 years?; William Wordsworth; Percy Bysshe Shelly; Lord Byron; William Blake
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelly
Category: literature
Question: Which of the following books, published in 1903, brought everlasting fame to Jack London?
Choices: White Fang; The Iron Heel; The Call of the Wild; The Sea-Wolf
Answer: The Call of the Wild
Category: literature
Question: The life of which character, depicted by Jack London, resembles very much the authors life?
Choices: Martin Eden; Dick Forrest; Humphrey van Weyden; Wolf Larsen
Answer: Martin Eden
Category: literature
Question: Which of the following novels by Jack London tells the story of the intellectual Humphrey van Weyden, who is forced to become a common seaman?
Choices: Burning Daylight; The Sea-Wolf; The Little Lady of the Big House; The Iron Hill
Answer: The Sea-Wolf
Category: literature
Question: Which novel by Jack London depicts the rise of a fascist-like regime in America?
Choices: The Sea-Wolf; The Iron Heel; The Valley of the Moon; The Scarlet Plague
Answer: The Iron Heel
Category: literature
Question: What breed is the dog Buck, the protagonist in The Call of the Wild by Jack London?
Choices: St. Bernard/Collie mix; Wolf/Alaskan husky mix; St. Bernard/Wolf mix; Alaska Malamute/Alaskan husky mix
Answer: St. Bernard/Collie mix
Category: literature
Question: Which of the following tales is not part of the collection Children of the Frost (1902) by Jack London?
Choices: The Master of Mystery; Li-Wan the Fair; To Build a Fire; In the Forests of North
Answer: To Build a Fire
Category: literature
Question: In 1910 Jack London bought a ranch in Glen Ellen, California, and since then he began to write mostly to finance it.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: literature
Question: Which of the following novels played a decisive role in Jack Londons life according to his own words, and turned him to literature when he was only eight years old?
Choices: Henry Adamss Democracy; John Esten Cookes The Youth of Jefferson; Ouidas Signa; Louisa May Alcotts Little Men
Answer: Ouidas Signa
Category: literature
Question: The main story in The Little Lady of the Big House  (1916) by Jack London focuses on what?
Choices: The gold rush; A love triangle; The life of a widow; Human rights
Answer: A love triangle
Category: literature
Question: In Song of Susannah, Susannah is pregnant with whose baby?
Choices: Roland; Eddie; Oy; Jake
Answer: Roland
Category: literature
Question: Song of Susannah takes place mostly in our world, in New York and which other US State?
Choices: Maine; Colorado; Illinois; Maryland
Answer: Maine
Category: literature
Question: Once born, the child carried by Susannah/Mia was called what?
Choices: Stephen; Arthur; Mordred; Galahad
Answer: Mordred
Category: literature
Question: Jake and Father Callahan travel to New York of 1999 and store the Wizards Glass known as Black Thirteen in a deposit box under which famous building?
Choices: World Trade Center; Chrysler Building; Empire State Building; Trump World Tower
Answer: World Trade Center
Category: literature
Question: In Song of Susannah, Roland and Eddie travel to New York of 1977 in an attempt to buy a plot of land from which man?
Choices: John Cullum, a retired businessman; Enrico Balazar, a gangster; Calvin Tower, a bookstore owner; Jack Andolini, a gangster
Answer: Calvin Tower, a bookstore owner
Category: literature
Question: While in Maine, Roland and Eddie hear that they are near the home of the author Stephen King, a name that interests them because of the link with which book in their possession?
Choices: The Stand; Desperation; Salems Lot; Hearts in Atlantis
Answer: Salems Lot
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Question: When he meets Stephen King, Roland the gunslinger hypnotises him.  What does Roland use to hypnotise people?
Choices: A bullet; A pendant in the shape of an eye; A watch; A pendulum
Answer: A bullet
Category: literature
Question: While he has Stephen King hypnotised, Roland implants an instruction in the authors mind, what is it?
Choices: To collect a package from a location in New York City; To write an epic poem about Susan Delgado; To read Charlie the Choo-Choo; To continue writing the Dark Tower series of novels
Answer: To continue writing the Dark Tower series of novels
Category: literature
Question: Jake and Father Callahan attempt to rescue Susannah from a restaurant in New York, where she is being held by the soldiers of The Crimson King. What is the name of the restaurant?
Choices: The Manhattan Restaurant of The Mind; The Dixie Pig; The Tower View; Mystic Pizza
Answer: The Dixie Pig
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Question: Susannah had left a scrimshaw ornament behind before she was taken into the restaurant, which gave Jake and Father Callahan hope when they found it.  What animal shape had the scrimshaw been carved into?
Choices: Bear; Crow; Turtle; Billy-Bumbler
Answer: Turtle
Category: literature
Question: Where was Edgar Allan Poe born?
Choices: England; Italy; Virginia; Massachusetts
Answer: Massachusetts
Category: literature
Question: What was Edgar Allan Poes first poem to be published?
Choices: The Raven; Eldorado; The Haunted Palace; A Dream Within A Dream
Answer: The Raven
Category: literature
Question: What branch of the military did Edgar Allan Poe enlist in?
Choices: Marines; Air Force; Coast Guard; US Army
Answer: US Army
Category: literature
Question: What was Edgar Allan Poes only completed novel?
Choices: The Balloon Hoax; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket; Eureka: A Pose Poem; The Philosophy of Composition
Answer: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Category: literature
Question: What Edgar Allan Poe poem are the following lines from?
Choices: me up, in despite of the lion,;  shine on us with her bright eyes.; me up, through the lair of the lion,; The Bells; Lenore; Eldorado; Ulalume
Answer: Ulalume
Category: literature
Question: Which of the following poems was not written by Edgar Allan Poe?
Choices: I Carry Your Heart With Me; Annabel Lee; The Raven; The City In The Sea
Answer: I Carry Your Heart With Me
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Question: At what age did Edgar Allan Poe die?
Choices: 60; 30; 80; 40
Answer: 40
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Question: What was the name of Edgar Allan Poes last book to be published?
Choices: Eureka; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; Berenice
Answer: Eureka
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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 Fisherman and his Soul; A House of Pomegranates; The Sphinx; The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Answer: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Category: literature
Question: What is the name of the main characters daemon in the novel The Golden Compass?
Choices: Prantolemon; Pantalaimon; Prentaleman; Pancedelamon
Answer: Pantalaimon
Category: literature
Question: What is the mysterious substance that is being researched in the North by Lord Asriel in Phillip Pullmans book The Golden Compass?
Choices: Dust; Fairy Blood; Smoke; Glimmer
Answer: Dust
Category: literature
Question: In the novel The Golden Compass, the Master gives the main character an Alethiometer and instructs her to deliver it to Lord Asriel.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: Who takes the main character of The Golden Compass as a personal assistant?
Choices: The Master; Lord Asriel; Mr. Scoresby; Mrs. Coulter
Answer: Mrs. Coulter
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Question: In the book The Golden Compass, who is the main characters best friend that turns up missing?
Choices: Roger; Tony; Iorek; Billy
Answer: Roger
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Question: The story of the novel The Golden Compass begins in the fictional Jordan College in Oxford.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: In the novel The Golden Compass, are the main character and her friends often at war with the local children of Oxford?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: Yes
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Question: In The Golden Compass, what is Lyras daemons favorite form to sleep in?
Choices: Canary; Tiny Lion; Ermine; Moth
Answer: Ermine
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Question: In the novel The Golden Compass, what do the storytellers call those on the General Oblation Board?
Choices: The Skraelings; Gobblers; Panserbjorne; Oblates
Answer: Gobblers
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Question: Who is Lyras uncle in Philip Pullmans novel The Golden Compass?
Choices: Lord Asriel; The Librarian; Tony Makarios; The Master
Answer: Lord Asriel
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Question: In the book The Golden Compass, can adult daemons change into any form they want?
Choices: No; Yes
Answer: No
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Question: In which English city was author Clive Barker born?
Choices: Manchester; London; Chester; Liverpool
Answer: Liverpool
Category: literature
Question: In Clive Barkers book Weaveworld, what is the name of the magical world which lies woven within a rug?
Choices: The Fugue; The Scourge; The Kingdom; The Ararat
Answer: The Fugue
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Question: The novel Weaveworld was made into a comic series in 1991, published by which comic house?
Choices: Marvel Comics; Crossgen Comics; Epic Comics; D C Comics
Answer: Epic Comics
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Question: What is the name of the magic sea in the book The Great and Secret Show?
Choices: Ataraxia; Quiddity; Aquaratine; Meritania
Answer: Quiddity
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Question: The 1987 movie Hellraiser was based upon the Clive Barker novella The Damnation Game.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
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Question: In the Hellraiser film series, what is the name of the puzzle-box used to open the gateway to the other world?
Choices: Midnight configuration; Lacrimal configuration; Lament configuration; Pandemonium configuration
Answer: Lament configuration
Category: literature
Question: Complete the title of this Clive Barker novel, written as a fable for children: The Thief of _________.
Choices: Time; England; Baghdad; Always
Answer: Always
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Question: Which Clive Barker novel tells a Hollywood ghost story?
Choices: Absolute Midnight; Everville; Tortured Souls; Coldheart Canyon
Answer: Coldheart Canyon
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Question: Clive Barker had his screenplay for the remake of the Japanese monster film Gojira rejected because it was too dark and disturbing.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
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Question: This book that launched the Discworld series was first published in the U.K. in 1983.
Choices: Pyramids; The Light Fantastic; The Colour of Magic; Sourcery
Answer: The Colour of Magic
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Question: Which surly, jaded denizen of Ankh-Morpork, depicted by Terry Pratchett, is Commander of the Night Watch?
Choices: Fred Colon; Samuel Vimes; Mustrum Ridcully; Lord Vetinari
Answer: Samuel Vimes
Category: literature
Question: Which one of these is not a guild from the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork?
Choices: Sewer Workers Guild; Seamstresses Guild; Assassins Guild; Fools Guild
Answer: Sewer Workers Guild
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Question: In Terry Pratchetts Discworld series, Death once took over The Hogfathers job and attempted to deliver his version of holiday presents to all the children of Discworld, much like in Tim Burtons film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
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Question: Cohen the Barbarian, the greatest hero that Discworld has ever produced, is about 90 years old. He thinks that which one of these is not one of the greatest things in life?
Choices: Good dentistry; Hot water baths; A lovely bit of music; Soft lavatory paper
Answer: A lovely bit of music
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Question: What popular musical was parodied by Terry Pratchetts 18th Discworld book, Maskerade?
Choices: Oklahoma; Cats; The Sound of Music; The Phantom of the Opera
Answer: The Phantom of the Opera
Category: literature
Question: Bloody Stupid Johnson, Discworlds famous dyslexic architect, is Terry Pratchetts version of Leonardo da Vinci.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: Discworld, the fictional planet on which Terry Pratchetts famous series of novels is set, is carried on the back of four great space elephants. What are the elephants standing on?
Choices: Four space mice; Nothing; ATuin, the star turtle; The Milky Way
Answer: ATuin, the star turtle
Category: literature
Question: How many books of the Discworld series were published prior to 2007?
Choices: 35; 30; 29; 32
Answer: 35
Category: literature
Question: What pen name did Isaac Asimov use for his science fiction series for teenagers titled Lucky Starr?
Choices: Paul French; Ivan Efremov; Richard Philips; John Riverside
Answer: Paul French
Category: literature
Question: Isaac Asimov and these other two writers were considered the Big Three science-fiction writers during Asimovs lifetime.
Choices: Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert; Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke; H. G. Wells and Arthur C Clarke; Frank Herbert and H.G. Wells
Answer: Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke
Category: literature
Question: Which of these series was not written by Isaac Asimov?
Choices: Foundation series; Dune series; Galactic Empire series; Robot series
Answer: Dune series
Category: literature
Question: Isaac Asimov suffered from which of the following disorders?
Choices: fear of flying; claustrophobia; Frankenstein complex; agyrophobia
Answer: fear of flying
Category: literature
Question: Which of these entries from the Oxford English dictionary is not a word created by Isaac Asimov?
Choices: robotics; cyberspace; positronic; psychohistory
Answer: cyberspace
Category: literature
Question: What was the name of the first science fiction short story Isaac Asimov wrote?
Choices: Robbie; Liar!; Marooned Off Vesta; Cosmic Corkscrew
Answer: Cosmic Corkscrew
Category: literature
Question: Which of these is not a science fiction novel co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg?
Choices: The Ugly Little Boy; Nightfall; The Shrouded Planet; The Positronic Man
Answer: The Shrouded Planet
Category: literature
Question: In what genre of literature other than science fiction did Isaac Asimov write?
Choices: mystery; biography; historical fiction; horror
Answer: mystery
Category: literature
Question: This book penned by Isaac Asimov won the Hugo (1972), Nebula (1973) and Locus (1973) Awards for best science fiction novel.
Choices: The Caves of Steel; The Gods Themselves; The End of Eternity; Nemesis
Answer: The Gods Themselves
Category: literature
Question: What is the full name of English writer Terry Pratchett born in 1948?
Choices: Terry Joseph Pratchett; Terence Joseph Elias Pratchett; Terrance Dewar John Pratchett; Terence David John Pratchett
Answer: Terence David John Pratchett
Category: literature
Question: What was the title of Terry Pratchetts first published work, a short story printed in his school magazine?
Choices: Night Dweller; Mort; The Carpet People; The Hades Business
Answer: The Hades Business
Category: literature
Question: Which of these books by Terry Pratchett does not belong to his Discworld series?
Choices: Feet of Clay; Guards! Guards!; The Unadulterated Cat; Equal Rites
Answer: The Unadulterated Cat
Category: literature
Question: What is fantasy writer Terry Pratchetts astrological sign?
Choices: Sagittarius; Libra; Leo; Taurus
Answer: Taurus
Category: literature
Question: In Terry Pratchetts Discworld series, the lines of what  character are usually  typed in capital letters?
Choices: Samuel Vimes; Death; Magrat Garlick; Rincewind
Answer: Death
Category: literature
Question: When was Terry Pratchett appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature?
Choices: 1998; Never.; 1963; 2001
Answer: 1998
Category: literature
Question: Which of these four books of Terry Pratchetts Discworld series was published first?
Choices: Soul Music; Pyramids; The Colour of Magic; Reaper Man
Answer: The Colour of Magic
Category: literature
Question: Terry Pratchett supports this organization in many ways, one of which is fundraising by auctions where people bid money in order to get a Discworld character named after them in the writers next book.
Choices: Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs; The Great Ape Project; The Shark Trust Organization; The Orangutan Foundation
Answer: The Orangutan Foundation
Category: literature
Question: Which British artist worked on the UK covers of Terry Pratchetts books of the Discworld series until 2001?
Choices: Frank Frazetta; Josh Kirby; Harry Clarke; Norman Rockwell
Answer: Josh Kirby
Category: literature
Question: What is the name of writer Terry Pratchetts daughter, born in 1976?
Choices: Mariah; Rhianna; Joan; Dorothy
Answer: Rhianna
Category: literature
Question: How did Bilbo Baggins come across the One Ring in the novel The Fellowship of the Ring?
Choices: Gollum gives it to him after their riddles.; When he gets lost in the goblins cave, he finds it in the dirt.; Thorin Oakenshield gave it to him as a gift after the Battle of Five Armies.; He found it in the dragons lair during his journey.
Answer: When he gets lost in the goblins cave, he finds it in the dirt.
Category: literature
Question: Tolkiens character Frodo was 33 when he left for Rivendell.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: Which elf did the Hobbits talk to on their way to Bree in the novel The Fellowship of the Ring?
Choices: Glorfindel; Finarfin; Gildor; Gil-Galad
Answer: Gildor
Category: literature
Question: Which character helped Frodo and Sam rescue Merry and Pippin from the trees?
Choices: Beorn; Bard the Bowman; Barliman Butterbur; Tom Bombadil
Answer: Tom Bombadil
Category: literature
Question: In the book The Fellowship of the Ring, Arwen was the elf that brought Frodo Baggins across the river into the land of Rivendell.
Choices: False; True
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: What was the name of the river that Glorfindel took Frodo Baggins across?
Choices: Bruinen; Baranduin; Isen; Anduin
Answer: Bruinen
Category: literature
Question: 24 October was the day that Tolkiens character Frodo awoke in Rivendell after his ailment.
Choices: True; False
Answer: True
Category: literature
Question: It is stated in The Fellowship of the Ring that the emblems of Durin are wrought of ithildin that mirrors only starlight and moonlight.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: literature
Question: What gift did Lady Galadriel give to Samwise Gamgee in The Fellowship of the Ring?
Choices: Three hairs from her golden head; Lembas bread; A wooden box with a silver rune; A dagger
Answer: A wooden box with a silver rune
Category: literature
Question: The Uruk-hai, which were described in The Fellowship of the Ring, could only run in the light of the moon.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: Thorne Smiths Topper series consists of how many novels?
Choices: Four; Five; Two; Three
Answer: Three
Category: literature
Question: In the Topper novels by Thorne Smith, who is Cosmo Topper?
Choices: A banker; An undertaker; A ghost; An accountant
Answer: A banker
Category: literature
Question: Which of these best describes the plot line of the novel Turnabout by Thorne Smith?
Choices: A voodoo witch places a curse on a vain young man.; The husband and wifes bodies are magically interchanged.; A skeleton is returned to life.; A 17th century witch is transported to the 20th Century.
Answer: The husband and wifes bodies are magically interchanged.
Category: literature
Question: In the novel The Glorious Pool by Thorne Smith, what happens to the middle-aged man, his wife, and his mistress?
Choices: They are made invisible by an alien.; They are turned into a lion, a monkey and a donkey.; They become young again.; They die and become spirits.
Answer: They become young again.
Category: literature
Question: The protagonist of which Thorne Smith novel has the ability to turn statues into living people?
Choices: The Glorious Pool; The Night Life of the Gods; Rain in the Doorway; Skin and Bones
Answer: The Night Life of the Gods
Category: literature
Question: In the novel The Bishops Jaegers by Thorne Smith, what are the jaegers?
Choices: Animals; Paintings; Underwear; Communion wafers
Answer: Underwear
Category: literature
Question: Which of these is the most accurate description of plot line of Thorne Smiths novel Passionate Witch?
Choices: A witch is reborn as a man who seeks revenge on those who killed him.; A 17th Century witch is transported into the 20th Century.; A curse by a witch follows a elderly couple through life.; A living statue of Aphrodite complicates the life of a mild-mannered accountant.
Answer: A 17th Century witch is transported into the 20th Century.
Category: literature
Question: In Night life of the Gods by Thorne Smith what object is responsible for the transformations that occur throughout the story?
Choices: A ring; A magic amulet; A voodoo doll; A magic wand
Answer: A ring
Category: literature
Question: In which novel by Thorne Smith do all the main characters end up in court before a totally befuddled judge?
Choices: Nightlife of the Gods; Topper; The Glorious Pool; all of these
Answer: all of these
Category: literature
Question: The main character of which novel by Thorne Smith is turned into a skeleton?
Choices: Skin and Bones; Bats in the Belfry; Topper Takes a Trip; Did She Fall?
Answer: Skin and Bones
Category: literature
Question: First published in 1915, this poem by T. S. Eliot portrays upper class society as quite empty and lonely. Its epigraph is from Marlowes The Jew of Malta-
Choices: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; Portrait of a Lady; Sweeney Among the Nightingales; The Hollow Men
Answer: Portrait of a Lady
Category: literature
Question: William Shakespeare had two daughters and one son, named Susanna, Judith, and Hamlet.
Choices: True; False
Answer: False
Category: literature
Question: From what Shakespeare play did Aldous Huxley derive the title of his famous novel, Brave New World?
Choices: Richard III; The Winters Tale; A Midsummer Nights Dream; The Tempest
Answer: The Tempest
Category: literature
Question: The popular Globe Theatre was owned by actors in what famous playing company of the Elizabethan age?
Choices: Shakespeares Troupe; The Burbage Players; King Jamess Merry Men; Lord Chamberlains Men
Answer: Lord Chamberlains Men
Category: literature
Question: Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. What other famous author died on the same day?
Choices: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Dante Alighieri; Ben Jonson; Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Category: literature
Question: What character from the play Hamlet made famous the line, Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!?
Choices: Horatio; Ophelia; King Claudius; Marcellus
Answer: Marcellus
Category: literature
Question: Which Shakespeare comedy contains the following lesser known characters:  Quince, Snug, Snout, Flute, Bottom, and Starveling?
Choices: As You Like It; Much Ado About Nothing; The Tempest; A Midsummer Nights Dream
Answer: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Category: literature
Question: The drama, My Own Private Idaho, starring Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix, is adapted from this Shakespeare play.
Choices: Richard III; Henry IV; King John; Henry VI
Answer: Henry IV
Category: literature
Question: For what role did Laurence Olivier win a Best Actor Oscar in 1948?
Choices: Richard III; Hamlet; Henry V; Othello
Answer: Hamlet
Category: literature
Question: The famous Wedding March is incorporated in the music that German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote in 1842 for what Shakespeare play?
Choices: Romeo and Juliet; King Lear; Much Ado About Nothing; A Midsummer Nights Dream
Answer: A Midsummer Nights Dream
Category: literature
Question: What English poet wrote the poem In the Bleak Midwinter in which Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Choices: ow on snow?; Elizabeth Barret Browning; Christina Rossetti; Robert Browning; Matthew Arnold
Answer: Christina Rossetti
Category: literature
Question: What American Modernist poet wrote the poem The Snow Man, which opens with the lines, 
Choices: e must have a mind of winter;  regard the frost and the boughs;  the pine-trees crusted with snow;?; Emily Dickinson; Ezra Pound; Walt Whitman; Wallace Stevens
Answer: Wallace Stevens
Category: literature
Question: Name the play by William Shakespeare in which the character Sir Andrew Aguecheek appears.
Choices: Twelfth Night; Alls Well That Ends Well; The Taming of the Shrew; Much Ado about Nothing
Answer: Twelfth Night
Category: literature
Question: In which play by William Shakespeare is the character King Claudius introduced?
Choices: Henry VIII; Hamlet; The Tempest; King Lear
Answer: Hamlet
Category: literature
Question: Shylock is a character depicted in this Shakespearean play.
Choices: The Taming of the Shrew; The Merchant of Venice; The Two Noble Kinsmen; Loves Labours Lost
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
Category: literature
Question: Angelo is a character from this famous play by William Shakespeare.
Choices: As You Like It; Titus Andronicus; Measure for Measure; Macbeth
Answer: Measure for Measure
Category: literature
Question: Iago is the antagonist of which play by William Shakespeare?
Choices: A Midsummer Nights Dream; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet; Othello
Answer: Othello
Category: movies
Question: I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit. (2000)
Choices: Don Juan DeMarco; Ever After; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Dracula
Answer: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Category: movies
Question: There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made of? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. (1995)
Choices: When Harry Met Sally; Don Juan DeMarco; Cant Hardly Wait; Ten Things I Hate About You
Answer: Don Juan DeMarco
Category: movies
Question: I have crossed oceans of time to find you. (1992)
Choices: Moulin Rouge; Notting Hill; A Knights Tale; Dracula
Answer: Dracula
Category: movies
Question: I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. (1989)
Choices: When Harry Met Sally; Wuthering Heights; Youve Got Mail; The Mask of Zorro
Answer: When Harry Met Sally
Category: movies
Question: Love has given me wings so I must fly. (2001)
Choices: A Knights Tale; Phenomenon; Ever After; Forget Paris
Answer: A Knights Tale
Category: movies
Question: Love? Above all things I believe in love! Love is like oxygen! Love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love! 
Choices: Hope Floats; Some Like It Hot; Casablanca; Moulin Rouge
Answer: Moulin Rouge
Category: movies
Question: It doesnt matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other. (1997)
Choices: Forest Gump; The Shawshank Redemption; Citizen Kane; Good Will Hunting
Answer: Good Will Hunting
Category: movies
Question: I am someone else when Im with you, someone more like myself. (2001)
Choices: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans; Trouble in Paradise; In America; Original Sin
Answer: Original Sin
Category: movies
Question: If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldnt love you as much as I do in a single day. (1992)
Choices: Romeo and Juliet; Wuthering Heights; Shakespeare in Love; Sideways
Answer: Wuthering Heights
Category: movies
Question: Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you. (1998)
Choices: Moulin Rouge; My Best Friends Wedding; Message In A Bottle; Meet Joe Black
Answer: Meet Joe Black
Category: movies
Question: One of these James Bond movies was not released during the 80s.
Choices: A View to a Kill; Octopussy; Moonraker; For Your Eyes Only
Answer: Moonraker
Category: movies
Question: This is Babys real name in Dirty Dancing (1987).
Choices: Barbara; Frances; Susan; Jennifer
Answer: Frances
Category: movies
Question: In A Nightmare On Elm Street, Nancy lives on Elm Street, located in this fictional city in Ohio.
Choices: Derry; Ambervale; Springwood; Blackwood County
Answer: Springwood
Category: movies
Question: In the movie Rain Man, Raymond and Charlie are at the restaurant when a waitress drops a box of toothpicks. This prompts Raymond to instantly calculate the number of toothpicks on the floor. This was their number.
Choices: 246; 250; 321; 123
Answer: 246
Category: movies
Question: One of these actors did not star in Tootsie.
Choices: Jessica Lange; Teri Garr; Dustin Hoffman; Larry Gelbart
Answer: Larry Gelbart
Category: movies
Question: Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop is originally a policeman from this city.
Choices: Detroit; Chicago; Denver; San Fransisco
Answer: Detroit
Category: movies
Question: Indiana Jones from the movie of the same name could write and speak this number of languages.
Choices: 11; 27; 2; 6
Answer: 27
Category: movies
Question: A group of Earth children help a stranded alien botanist return home is the plot outline of this movie.
Choices: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; Cyborg; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Category: movies
Question: What year did the movie The Shawshank Redemption hit the movie theatres?
Choices: 1992; 1994; 1990; 1996
Answer: 1994
Category: movies
Question: What was the name of the Warden in the hit movie The Shawshank Redemption ?
Choices: Byron Hadley; Samuel Norton; Ellis Redding; Spencer Heywood
Answer: Samuel Norton
Category: movies
Question: What decade was Andy Dufresne sent to the Shawshank prison in the movie The Shawshank Redemption?
Choices: 1940s; 1920s; 1930s; 1950s
Answer: 1940s
Category: movies
Question: In the popular movie The Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne has a poster hanging on his wall in his jail cell. Who is the famous actress on this poster?
Choices: Greta Garbo; Jayne Mansfield; Rita Hayworth; Bette Davis
Answer: Rita Hayworth
Category: movies
Question: In the movie The Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne had a best friend in jail named Red. Why did they call him Red?
Choices: He had red hair.; It was short for his last name.; His favorite color was red.; He had a horrible temper.
Answer: It was short for his last name.
Category: movies
Question: Andy Dufresne, the main character in the movie The Shawshank Redemption, asks Captain Byron Hadley for some suds for his fellow workers, while they are working together on the roof. What kind of beer did the prisoners get?
Choices: Strohs; Budweiser; Amstel; Heineken
Answer: Strohs
Category: movies
Question: Clancy Brown, who played Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, appeared in a 1983 movie with actor Sean Penn.
Choices: False; True
Answer: True
Category: movies
Question: In the movie The Shawshank Redemption, what was Reds jail cell number?
Choices: 237; 125; 416; 444
Answer: 237