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history	At the beginning of WW II, The British and the French were so surprised by the swiftness of the German attack on its neighbor that for some time no response ensued. This period lasted till May, 1940 and is known by what name?	[ "Phony War", "Blitzkrieg", "Anschluss", "Boer War" ]	Phony War
history	In February 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Yalta to discuss the future of post - war Europe. The Yalta Conference produced important decisions, one of which stated that there would be free elections in Czechoslovakia.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
history	This operation, led by General Dwight Eisenhower, was launched on 8 November 1942 and it was aimed at gaining control over Morocco and Algeria.	[ "Operation Overlord", "Operation Anthropoid", "Operation Torch", "Operation Countenance" ]	Operation Torch
history	The Tripartite Pact was signed on September 27, 1940 by Germany, Italy and Japan. Later, three more countries joined - Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. When did Bulgaria join the pact?	[ "November 20, 1940", "March 3, 1941", "November 23, 1940", "March 1, 1941" ]	March 1, 1941
history	This May 1942 battle was the first one to be fought only by aircraft carriers.	[ "Battle of the Coral Sea", "Battle of Midway", "Battle of the Aleutian Islands", "Battle of the Leyte Gulf" ]	Battle of the Coral Sea
history	Even though mainland Britain was not actually invaded in World War II, it had prepared a resistance movement, known under what name?	[ "Home Guard", "Dukes", "Auxiliary Units", "Partisans" ]	Auxiliary Units
history	Who accepted the surrender of the German military forces in Northwest Germany, Holland and Denmark on May 4, 1945?	[ "General Zhukov", "General Jacques Leclerc", "General Montgomery", "General George Marshall" ]	General Montgomery
history	Before committing suicide, Adolf Hitler appointed his successors. Schwerin von Krosigk was one of them.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
history	Which plane was the first operational turbojet to take part in WW II?	[ "Heinkel He 178", "Gloster Meteor", "Messerschmitt 262", "Arado Ar 234" ]	Messerschmitt 262
history	During World War I Germany built and used one of the biggest guns in military history, Big Bertha. It fired 2,100 lb (820 kg) shells at a range of 15 km (9.3 miles) and was used in the assault of Verdun. Big Bertha was named after this member of the designers family.	[ "His mother", "His wife", "His grandmother", "His mother-in-law" ]	His wife
history	Even though Bertha was a formidable gun, this one was even bigger. Paris Gun was used to bombard Paris during World War I. What was its main purpose?	[ "To demolish large buildings", "To kill as many civilians as possible", "To bombard important bunkers", "To attack the morale of enemy soldiers" ]	To attack the morale of enemy soldiers
history	Lange Max (long Max) was a World War I German cannon officially called 38cm SKL/45. Long Max was derived from the Paris Gun.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
history	One of the most accomplished ballistics engineers, Gerald Bull, was head of project HARP. The Pentagon and the Canadian Department of National Defence joined efforts in this project, trying to study ballistics of re-entry vehicles at low cost. They used 16 inch (406 mm) 50 caliber gun, which was later extended to 100 calibers (40 m), to fire shells toward the Atlantic at 3600 m/s. Do you know what HARP stood for?	[ "Hazard Assessment of Rocket Propellants", "Helping to Attract and Recruit Project", "Highly Autonomous Roving Projectile", "High Altitude Research Project" ]	High Altitude Research Project
history	During World War I and II, this German family created some of the biggest guns in the world. In the years of WW I they sold cannons to the the Entente as well as the Central Powers. Their work became the center for German rearmament after 1933 (when Hitler came to power).	[ "Krupp", "Nathan", "Kramer", "Gustav" ]	Krupp
history	Two of the German K5(E) guns were called Anzio Annes, because they shelled the coast of Anzio during WW II.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	Six gigantic guns were created during World War II, with the help of general Karl Baker. They were called Karl Monsers and were used in the Brest-Litovsk and Warsaw uprisings. What was their other deployment during the War?	[ "The defence of Berlin", "The siege of Stalingrad", "The siege of Moscow", "The siege of Sevastopol" ]	The siege of Sevastopol
history	This is the biggest gun ever to be completed. It was 43 m (141 feet) long, weighed 1350 tons and fired 7 ton shells at range of 40 km (25 miles). It was capable of piercing a meter (3.3 feet) of steel or 7 meters (23 feet) of concrete. One of the two ever built guns of this type was called Schwerer Gustav. What was the name of the other one?	[ "Sturmtiger", "Leopold", "Robert", "Dora" ]	Dora
history	Tsar Pushka, the biggest cannon of its time, was created in Russia in 1586 and was later used to defend the Kremlin.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
history	Gerald Bull took part in another supergun program - project Babylon. He supplied the plans for a series of gigantic guns, but fortunately only one of them (the smallest one) was completed. This person commissioned the project.	[ "William Clinton", "Saddam Hussein", "Slobodan Milosevic", "Yasser Arafat" ]	Saddam Hussein
history	The 1990s introduced us all to grunge music. Which popular grunge band are known for their 1994 song Black Hole Sun?	[ "Alice in Chains", "Nirvana", "Soundgarden", "Pearl Jam" ]	Soundgarden
history	On what cartoon from the 90s did we meet the characters Tommy, Angelica, and Chuckie?	[ "Animaniacs", "Hey Arnold!", "Rugrats", "Rockos Modern Life" ]	Rugrats
history	John Gray wrote the popular book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
history	This independent horror film tells the story of 3 student filmmakers who get lost in the woods and are tormented by a legend witch.	[ "The Amityville Curse", "Bad Moon", "Army of Darkness", "The Blair Witch Project" ]	The Blair Witch Project
history	On August 12 of this year, the Major League Baseball players went on strike which resulted in the cancellation of the World Series.	[ "1991", "1993", "1994", "1996" ]	1994
history	In what year did the popular sitcom, Friends, first air?	[ "1994", "1992", "1993", "1995" ]	1994
history	Which movie star was featured in the only movie about the Vietnam War that was made during the war?	[ "John Wayne", "Forest Whitaker", "Tom Cruise", "Tom Berenger" ]	John Wayne
history	This Hollywood veteran played Sgt. Muldoon in a 1968 movie about the war in Vietnam.	[ "Jim Hutton", "Tim Hutton", "Aldo Ray", "R. Lee Ermey" ]	Aldo Ray
history	This 1978 movie was about a group of American soldiers who went to fight in Vietnam. They could get out of combat if they threw a soccer match, but they refused to do so.	[ "Full Metal Jacket", "Pork Chop Hill", "Hamburger Hill", "The Boys in Company C" ]	The Boys in Company C
history	This actor, who starred in the movie Good Morning, Vietnam, also acted in the TV series Walker: Texas Ranger.	[ "Chuck Norris", "Noble Willingham", "R. Lee Ermey", "John McGinty" ]	Noble Willingham
history	Which Vietnam movie featured Tom Cruise, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe?	[ "Full Metal Jacket", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Platoon", "Hamburger Hill" ]	Born on the Fourth of July
history	Who directed the 1986 movie Platoon?	[ "Oliver Stone", "Willem Dafoe", "Brian DePalma", "Tom Berenger" ]	Oliver Stone
history	The main actors in Platoon had to go through a 14-day military boot camp.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	Who directed the 1989 movie Casualties of War?	[ "Brian DePalma", "Oliver Stone", "Stanley Kubrick", "Ray Kellogg" ]	Brian DePalma
history	Who directed the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket?	[ "Oliver Stone", "Roy Kovic", "Stanley Kubrick", "Brian DePalma" ]	Stanley Kubrick
history	For his role as Pvt. Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, Vincent DOnofrio, had to gain 70 pounds. This broke the previous record for weight gained by a featured actor for a role. Who had held this record?	[ "Marlon Brando", "John Wayne", "Robert De Niro", "Al Pacino" ]	Robert De Niro
history	This 1989 movie was about an injured Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war protester.	[ "Full Metal Jacket", "Hamburger Hill", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Casualties of War" ]	Born on the Fourth of July
history	Which of these movies did not feature R. Lee Ermey?	[ "Full Metal jacket", "Apocalypse Now", "The Boys in Company C", "Platoon" ]	Platoon
history	Who directed the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now?	[ "Francis Ford Coppola", "Oliver Stone", "Brian DePalma", "Stanley Kubrick" ]	Francis Ford Coppola
history	The Orient Express, a long-distance passenger train that has become a synonym with luxury travel, made its first run on October 4, 1883. This was the final destination of its first route.	[ "Viena", "Ankara", "Ruse", "Istanbul" ]	Istanbul
history	On October 7, 1982, this show made its debut in Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. It eventually closed after nearly 18 years on September 10, 2000.	[ "Aida", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Cats", "Sunset Boulevard" ]	Cats
history	The Great Chicago Fire, one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century, started on October 8, 1871. The fire destroyed approximately 17,450 buildings, killed 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless, before it was extinguished on this date.	[ "October 24", "October 10", "October 14", "October 18" ]	October 10
history	On October 11, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	On October 16, 1978, the Papal Conclave elected Karol JÃ³zef WojtyÅa, who became known as Pope John Paul II. How old was he when this happened?	[ "48", "68", "38", "58" ]	58
history	On October 18, 1968, a police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Onos apartment revealed 168 grams of marijuana. This is what happened to Lennon and Ono as a result.	[ "The evidence mysteriously disappeared and the case was dismissed", "They were found guilty and were sent to prison", "They were found not guilty and released, due to Lennons great contribution to British music", "They plead guilty and were fined Â£150" ]	They plead guilty and were fined Â£150
history	What year did the Holocaust begin?	[ "1929", "1945", "1946", "1933" ]	1933
history	Holocaust is a Greek word, originally meaning sacrifice by fire.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
history	Not only Jews were targeted by Hitler, but also the Gypsies and the mentally and physically disable.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
history	Beginning with racially discriminatory laws in Germany, the Nazi campaign expanded to the mass murder of a great part of European Jews.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	The armed uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in April-May 1943 was one of the most forceful Jewish uprising in the organized resistance to the Nazis.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
history	Although the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wasnt successful, it was the first significant uprising in German-occupied Europe during WW II.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	Who is widely recognized as the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during WW II?	[ "Mordechai Anielewicz", "Chaim Rumkowski", "Henry Morgentaler", "Hilary Minc" ]	Mordechai Anielewicz
history	During WW II, Polish-Jewish industrialist Chaim Rumkowski was the leader of the Lodz Ghetto.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
history	At the end of the Nazi rule, Hitler expressed his sincere regret for all the deaths he and his subordinates had caused during the Holocaust.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
history	Which of the following was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity in 313 AD?	[ "Constantine", "Marcus Aurelius", "Nerva", "Commodus" ]	Constantine
history	Which writer witnessed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD?	[ "Pliny the Younger", "Pompey the Great", "Plautus", "Plutarch" ]	Pliny the Younger
history	Which Roman Emperor wrote The Meditations that was actually a sort of personal diary?	[ "Constantine", "Hadrian", "Marcus Aurelius", "Julius Caesar" ]	Marcus Aurelius
history	Who was the great Roman orator who created a Latin stylebook which is still used in Latin classes today?	[ "Cicero", "Nerva", "Marcus Aurelius", "Constantine" ]	Cicero
history	In Ancient Rome, who were the Lares?	[ "Household spirits of dead ancestors", "The elite corps of the Roman army", "The Muses", "The Roman counterpart of the Greek Furies" ]	Household spirits of dead ancestors
history	Which of these poets wrote many poems of love and manners widely read by Ancient Romans?	[ "Cato", "Ovid", "Plutarch", "Virgil" ]	Ovid
history	This invention (named by Edward Jenner) is not an object, but a process of administering live, albeit weakened, microbes to people.	[ "Mastectomy", "Decompression", "Ophthalmoscopy", "Vaccination" ]	Vaccination
history	The optical telegraph (a collective term) preceded the electrical telegraph. It was much faster than riding couriers in to deliver messages over long distances. One of these is not an optical telegraph.	[ "Semaphores", "Morse code", "Ship flags", "Smoke signals" ]	Morse code
history	According to some theories, the parachute was invented in 1783 by Sebastien Lenormand in France. Two years later, Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as a means of safely getting down on earth from this.	[ "Tree", "Cliff", "Building", "Balloon" ]	Balloon
history	The first military submarine (Turtle) could accommodate this number of people.	[ "3", "1", "2", "0 as it was unmanned" ]	1
history	In 1807, Robert Fulton used a steam engine to power the first commercially successful one of these.	[ "Steam ship", "Steam car", "Steam locomotive", "Steam factory" ]	Steam ship
history	The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel invented in 1764 in this country.	[ "France", "England", "Germany", "The US" ]	England
history	Charlie Chaplins movie The Gold Rush, which took in more than $4,250,000 at the box office in 1925, was set in his city.	[ "Denver", "Otago", "Klondike", "Transvaal" ]	Klondike
history	Most gold rushes began with the discovery of placer gold by a single man or a party of people. Which one of these statements about placer mining is wrong?	[ "Placer mining is not used any more", "Placer gold is mined without tunneling", "Hydrostatic pressure is used whenever possible", "Placer gold deposits are usually found near big rivers and mountain streams" ]	Placer mining is not used any more
history	Which one of these famous writers took part in the Klondike Gold Rush?	[ "Ernest Hemingway", "Jack London", "Maine Reed", "Mark Twain" ]	Jack London
history	The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 was followed by a silver boom (a period of great silver mining).	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	One man who made a fortune out of gold rushes was Levi Strauss. He developed the concept of this.	[ "Electric lamp", "Mattock", "Denim", "Explosives" ]	Denim
history	This technique for extracting gold was discovered by chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1783, and was later developed in 1887 by John Seward MacArthur.	[ "Gold cyanidation", "Gold zincanization", "Hydraulic mining", "Gold panning" ]	Gold cyanidation
history	Many people seeking an easy fortune emigrated to California, USA during the California Gold Rush (1848-1858). The gold rush was sparked by the discovery of gold near this city.	[ "San Francisco", "San Diego", "Los Angeles", "Sacramento" ]	Sacramento
history	The San Francisco 49ers are an NFL team named after the prospectors that took part in the California Gold Rush.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
history	One of the earliest gold rushes was probably the Spanish search for the mythical city of El Dorado. According to early legends, the King of the Muiscas would do this as part of a religious ceremony.	[ "Drink liquid gold", "Give away gold to everybody", "Cover himself with gold dust", "Turn whatever he touches into gold" ]	Cover himself with gold dust
history	The nickname of Wisconsin, âBadger Stateâ?, was given to it in irony, because no gold rushes occurred in the region.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
history	Which of the following was NOT an Egyptian pharaoh?	[ "Akhenaten", "Imhotep", "Seti", "Ramses I" ]	Imhotep
history	Which was the first Egyptian pyramid?	[ "The Red pyramid", "The Great pyramid", "The Bent Pyramid", "The Step Pyramid" ]	The Step Pyramid
history	What was Cleopatras ethnic background?	[ "Roman", "Macedonian", "Upper Egyptian", "Lower Egyptian" ]	Macedonian
history	Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt?	[ "Thutmose III", "Kahfre", "Imhotep", "Menes" ]	Menes
history	Which of the following was referred to as the Gift of the Nile?	[ "The annual Nile flood", "Egypt", "The development of writing", "The creation of civilization" ]	Egypt
history	Where is the Nile Delta located?	[ "Lake Victoria in central Africa", "at the source of the river", "Upper Egypt", "Lower Egypt" ]	Lower Egypt
history	Who was the first king in history to foster a belief in one God?	[ "Tutankhamen", "Ramses II", "Akhenaten", "Khufu" ]	Akhenaten
history	How many distinct kingdoms were there in Ancient Egypt?	[ "one", "four", "two", "three" ]	three
history	Incestuous royal marriages were common in Ancient Egypt.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	Former Enron executive Kenneth Lay died of a heart attack at the age of 66 on July 5, 2006.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
history	On what day in July did the Space Shuttle Discovery touch down on Earth after a 13-day trip to the International Space Station?	[ "July 10, 2006", "July 17, 2006", "July 11, 2006", "July 12, 2006" ]	July 17, 2006
history	On what date in August did the Israeli and Hezbolah conflict end with a ceasefire?	[ "August 20, 2006", "August 14, 2006", "August 2, 2006", "August 8, 2006" ]	August 14, 2006
history	On what date in September of 2006 did Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter die due to a stingray attack?	[ "September 4", "September 2", "September 6", "September 8" ]	September 4
history	This bagged vegetable was recalled on September 16, 2006 after E. coli affected people in 19 U. S. states.	[ "Celery", "Spinach", "Carrots", "Lettuce" ]	Spinach
history	On October 9, 2006, this Internet company announced its purchase of the popular YouTube site?	[ "Amazon", "Ebay", "Yahoo", "Google" ]	Google
history	On October 19, 2006 Nissan Motor Company recalled 80,000 cars in U.S. due to what defects?	[ "in the air bags", "in the ignition key", "in the door locks", "in the seatbelts" ]	in the ignition key
history	Who was chosen to be the 2006 Time Magazines Person of the Year?	[ "Me", "You", "The Democrats", "George W. Bush" ]	You
history	Who was the last Tsar of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland?	[ "Alexander III", "Alexander II", "Nicholas II", "Peter I" ]	Nicholas II
history	Which of these refers to the lower house of the Russian Parliament ?	[ "Duma", "Red House", "Reichstag", "Storting" ]	Duma
history	During the Russian Revolution in 1917, which of these people belonged to the Mensheviks?	[ "Lev Kamenev", "Joseph Stalin", "Pavel Axelrod", "Matvei Muranov" ]	Pavel Axelrod
history	What was the title of Karl Marxs influential treatise on political economy, first published in 1867?	[ "Crime and Punishment", "War and Peace", "Capital", "Communism" ]	Capital
history	In his testament, Lenin stated that he did not approve of Joseph Stalin having so much power and that he didnt want him to rule Russia.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
history	Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky was assassinated in which country?	[ "France", "Mexico", "Bulgaria", "Russia" ]	Mexico
history	Alexander Kerensky was the first Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
history	During the Russian Revolution of 1917, which city was capital of Russia?	[ "Volgograd", "Kiev", "Saint Petersburg", "Moscow" ]	Saint Petersburg

history

At the beginning of WW II, The British and the French were so surprised by the swiftness of the German attack on its neighbor that for some time no response ensued. This period lasted till May, 1940 and is known by what name?

[ "Phony War", "Blitzkrieg", "Anschluss", "Boer War" ]

Phony War

history

In February 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Yalta to discuss the future of post - war Europe. The Yalta Conference produced important decisions, one of which stated that there would be free elections in Czechoslovakia.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

history

This operation, led by General Dwight Eisenhower, was launched on 8 November 1942 and it was aimed at gaining control over Morocco and Algeria.

[ "Operation Overlord", "Operation Anthropoid", "Operation Torch", "Operation Countenance" ]

Operation Torch

history

The Tripartite Pact was signed on September 27, 1940 by Germany, Italy and Japan. Later, three more countries joined - Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. When did Bulgaria join the pact?

[ "November 20, 1940", "March 3, 1941", "November 23, 1940", "March 1, 1941" ]

March 1, 1941

history

This May 1942 battle was the first one to be fought only by aircraft carriers.

[ "Battle of the Coral Sea", "Battle of Midway", "Battle of the Aleutian Islands", "Battle of the Leyte Gulf" ]

Battle of the Coral Sea

history

Even though mainland Britain was not actually invaded in World War II, it had prepared a resistance movement, known under what name?

[ "Home Guard", "Dukes", "Auxiliary Units", "Partisans" ]

Auxiliary Units

history

Who accepted the surrender of the German military forces in Northwest Germany, Holland and Denmark on May 4, 1945?

[ "General Zhukov", "General Jacques Leclerc", "General Montgomery", "General George Marshall" ]

General Montgomery

history

Before committing suicide, Adolf Hitler appointed his successors. Schwerin von Krosigk was one of them.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

history

Which plane was the first operational turbojet to take part in WW II?

[ "Heinkel He 178", "Gloster Meteor", "Messerschmitt 262", "Arado Ar 234" ]

Messerschmitt 262

history

During World War I Germany built and used one of the biggest guns in military history, Big Bertha. It fired 2,100 lb (820 kg) shells at a range of 15 km (9.3 miles) and was used in the assault of Verdun. Big Bertha was named after this member of the designers family.

[ "His mother", "His wife", "His grandmother", "His mother-in-law" ]

His wife

history

Even though Bertha was a formidable gun, this one was even bigger. Paris Gun was used to bombard Paris during World War I. What was its main purpose?

[ "To demolish large buildings", "To kill as many civilians as possible", "To bombard important bunkers", "To attack the morale of enemy soldiers" ]

To attack the morale of enemy soldiers

history

Lange Max (long Max) was a World War I German cannon officially called 38cm SKL/45. Long Max was derived from the Paris Gun.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

history

One of the most accomplished ballistics engineers, Gerald Bull, was head of project HARP. The Pentagon and the Canadian Department of National Defence joined efforts in this project, trying to study ballistics of re-entry vehicles at low cost. They used 16 inch (406 mm) 50 caliber gun, which was later extended to 100 calibers (40 m), to fire shells toward the Atlantic at 3600 m/s. Do you know what HARP stood for?

[ "Hazard Assessment of Rocket Propellants", "Helping to Attract and Recruit Project", "Highly Autonomous Roving Projectile", "High Altitude Research Project" ]

High Altitude Research Project

history

During World War I and II, this German family created some of the biggest guns in the world. In the years of WW I they sold cannons to the the Entente as well as the Central Powers. Their work became the center for German rearmament after 1933 (when Hitler came to power).

[ "Krupp", "Nathan", "Kramer", "Gustav" ]

Krupp

history

Two of the German K5(E) guns were called Anzio Annes, because they shelled the coast of Anzio during WW II.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

history

Six gigantic guns were created during World War II, with the help of general Karl Baker. They were called Karl Monsers and were used in the Brest-Litovsk and Warsaw uprisings. What was their other deployment during the War?

[ "The defence of Berlin", "The siege of Stalingrad", "The siege of Moscow", "The siege of Sevastopol" ]

The siege of Sevastopol

history

This is the biggest gun ever to be completed. It was 43 m (141 feet) long, weighed 1350 tons and fired 7 ton shells at range of 40 km (25 miles). It was capable of piercing a meter (3.3 feet) of steel or 7 meters (23 feet) of concrete. One of the two ever built guns of this type was called Schwerer Gustav. What was the name of the other one?

[ "Sturmtiger", "Leopold", "Robert", "Dora" ]

Dora

history

Tsar Pushka, the biggest cannon of its time, was created in Russia in 1586 and was later used to defend the Kremlin.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

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Gerald Bull took part in another supergun program - project Babylon. He supplied the plans for a series of gigantic guns, but fortunately only one of them (the smallest one) was completed. This person commissioned the project.

[ "William Clinton", "Saddam Hussein", "Slobodan Milosevic", "Yasser Arafat" ]

Saddam Hussein

history

The 1990s introduced us all to grunge music. Which popular grunge band are known for their 1994 song Black Hole Sun?

[ "Alice in Chains", "Nirvana", "Soundgarden", "Pearl Jam" ]

Soundgarden

history

On what cartoon from the 90s did we meet the characters Tommy, Angelica, and Chuckie?

[ "Animaniacs", "Hey Arnold!", "Rugrats", "Rockos Modern Life" ]

Rugrats

history

John Gray wrote the popular book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

history

This independent horror film tells the story of 3 student filmmakers who get lost in the woods and are tormented by a legend witch.

[ "The Amityville Curse", "Bad Moon", "Army of Darkness", "The Blair Witch Project" ]

The Blair Witch Project

history

On August 12 of this year, the Major League Baseball players went on strike which resulted in the cancellation of the World Series.

[ "1991", "1993", "1994", "1996" ]

1994

history

In what year did the popular sitcom, Friends, first air?

[ "1994", "1992", "1993", "1995" ]

1994

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Which movie star was featured in the only movie about the Vietnam War that was made during the war?

[ "John Wayne", "Forest Whitaker", "Tom Cruise", "Tom Berenger" ]

John Wayne

history

This Hollywood veteran played Sgt. Muldoon in a 1968 movie about the war in Vietnam.

[ "Jim Hutton", "Tim Hutton", "Aldo Ray", "R. Lee Ermey" ]

Aldo Ray

history

This 1978 movie was about a group of American soldiers who went to fight in Vietnam. They could get out of combat if they threw a soccer match, but they refused to do so.

[ "Full Metal Jacket", "Pork Chop Hill", "Hamburger Hill", "The Boys in Company C" ]

The Boys in Company C

history

This actor, who starred in the movie Good Morning, Vietnam, also acted in the TV series Walker: Texas Ranger.

[ "Chuck Norris", "Noble Willingham", "R. Lee Ermey", "John McGinty" ]

Noble Willingham

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Which Vietnam movie featured Tom Cruise, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe?

[ "Full Metal Jacket", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Platoon", "Hamburger Hill" ]

Born on the Fourth of July

history

Who directed the 1986 movie Platoon?

[ "Oliver Stone", "Willem Dafoe", "Brian DePalma", "Tom Berenger" ]

Oliver Stone

history

The main actors in Platoon had to go through a 14-day military boot camp.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Who directed the 1989 movie Casualties of War?

[ "Brian DePalma", "Oliver Stone", "Stanley Kubrick", "Ray Kellogg" ]

Brian DePalma

history

Who directed the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket?

[ "Oliver Stone", "Roy Kovic", "Stanley Kubrick", "Brian DePalma" ]

Stanley Kubrick

history

For his role as Pvt. Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, Vincent DOnofrio, had to gain 70 pounds. This broke the previous record for weight gained by a featured actor for a role. Who had held this record?

[ "Marlon Brando", "John Wayne", "Robert De Niro", "Al Pacino" ]

Robert De Niro

history

This 1989 movie was about an injured Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war protester.

[ "Full Metal Jacket", "Hamburger Hill", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Casualties of War" ]

Born on the Fourth of July

history

Which of these movies did not feature R. Lee Ermey?

[ "Full Metal jacket", "Apocalypse Now", "The Boys in Company C", "Platoon" ]

Platoon

history

Who directed the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now?

[ "Francis Ford Coppola", "Oliver Stone", "Brian DePalma", "Stanley Kubrick" ]

Francis Ford Coppola

history

The Orient Express, a long-distance passenger train that has become a synonym with luxury travel, made its first run on October 4, 1883. This was the final destination of its first route.

[ "Viena", "Ankara", "Ruse", "Istanbul" ]

Istanbul

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On October 7, 1982, this show made its debut in Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. It eventually closed after nearly 18 years on September 10, 2000.

[ "Aida", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Cats", "Sunset Boulevard" ]

Cats

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The Great Chicago Fire, one of the worst disasters of the nineteenth century, started on October 8, 1871. The fire destroyed approximately 17,450 buildings, killed 250 people and left another 90,000 homeless, before it was extinguished on this date.

[ "October 24", "October 10", "October 14", "October 18" ]

October 10

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On October 11, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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On October 16, 1978, the Papal Conclave elected Karol JÃ³zef WojtyÅa, who became known as Pope John Paul II. How old was he when this happened?

[ "48", "68", "38", "58" ]

58

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On October 18, 1968, a police raid on John Lennon and Yoko Onos apartment revealed 168 grams of marijuana. This is what happened to Lennon and Ono as a result.

[ "The evidence mysteriously disappeared and the case was dismissed", "They were found guilty and were sent to prison", "They were found not guilty and released, due to Lennons great contribution to British music", "They plead guilty and were fined Â£150" ]

They plead guilty and were fined Â£150

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What year did the Holocaust begin?

[ "1929", "1945", "1946", "1933" ]

1933

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Holocaust is a Greek word, originally meaning sacrifice by fire.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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Not only Jews were targeted by Hitler, but also the Gypsies and the mentally and physically disable.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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Beginning with racially discriminatory laws in Germany, the Nazi campaign expanded to the mass murder of a great part of European Jews.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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The armed uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in April-May 1943 was one of the most forceful Jewish uprising in the organized resistance to the Nazis.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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Although the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wasnt successful, it was the first significant uprising in German-occupied Europe during WW II.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Who is widely recognized as the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during WW II?

[ "Mordechai Anielewicz", "Chaim Rumkowski", "Henry Morgentaler", "Hilary Minc" ]

Mordechai Anielewicz

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During WW II, Polish-Jewish industrialist Chaim Rumkowski was the leader of the Lodz Ghetto.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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At the end of the Nazi rule, Hitler expressed his sincere regret for all the deaths he and his subordinates had caused during the Holocaust.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

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Which of the following was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity in 313 AD?

[ "Constantine", "Marcus Aurelius", "Nerva", "Commodus" ]

Constantine

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Which writer witnessed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD?

[ "Pliny the Younger", "Pompey the Great", "Plautus", "Plutarch" ]

Pliny the Younger

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Which Roman Emperor wrote The Meditations that was actually a sort of personal diary?

[ "Constantine", "Hadrian", "Marcus Aurelius", "Julius Caesar" ]

Marcus Aurelius

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Who was the great Roman orator who created a Latin stylebook which is still used in Latin classes today?

[ "Cicero", "Nerva", "Marcus Aurelius", "Constantine" ]

Cicero

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In Ancient Rome, who were the Lares?

[ "Household spirits of dead ancestors", "The elite corps of the Roman army", "The Muses", "The Roman counterpart of the Greek Furies" ]

Household spirits of dead ancestors

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Which of these poets wrote many poems of love and manners widely read by Ancient Romans?

[ "Cato", "Ovid", "Plutarch", "Virgil" ]

Ovid

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This invention (named by Edward Jenner) is not an object, but a process of administering live, albeit weakened, microbes to people.

[ "Mastectomy", "Decompression", "Ophthalmoscopy", "Vaccination" ]

Vaccination

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The optical telegraph (a collective term) preceded the electrical telegraph. It was much faster than riding couriers in to deliver messages over long distances. One of these is not an optical telegraph.

[ "Semaphores", "Morse code", "Ship flags", "Smoke signals" ]

Morse code

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According to some theories, the parachute was invented in 1783 by Sebastien Lenormand in France. Two years later, Jean-Pierre Blanchard demonstrated it as a means of safely getting down on earth from this.

[ "Tree", "Cliff", "Building", "Balloon" ]

Balloon

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The first military submarine (Turtle) could accommodate this number of people.

[ "3", "1", "2", "0 as it was unmanned" ]

1

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In 1807, Robert Fulton used a steam engine to power the first commercially successful one of these.

[ "Steam ship", "Steam car", "Steam locomotive", "Steam factory" ]

Steam ship

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The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel invented in 1764 in this country.

[ "France", "England", "Germany", "The US" ]

England

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Charlie Chaplins movie The Gold Rush, which took in more than $4,250,000 at the box office in 1925, was set in his city.

[ "Denver", "Otago", "Klondike", "Transvaal" ]

Klondike

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Most gold rushes began with the discovery of placer gold by a single man or a party of people. Which one of these statements about placer mining is wrong?

[ "Placer mining is not used any more", "Placer gold is mined without tunneling", "Hydrostatic pressure is used whenever possible", "Placer gold deposits are usually found near big rivers and mountain streams" ]

Placer mining is not used any more

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Which one of these famous writers took part in the Klondike Gold Rush?

[ "Ernest Hemingway", "Jack London", "Maine Reed", "Mark Twain" ]

Jack London

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The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 was followed by a silver boom (a period of great silver mining).

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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One man who made a fortune out of gold rushes was Levi Strauss. He developed the concept of this.

[ "Electric lamp", "Mattock", "Denim", "Explosives" ]

Denim

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This technique for extracting gold was discovered by chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1783, and was later developed in 1887 by John Seward MacArthur.

[ "Gold cyanidation", "Gold zincanization", "Hydraulic mining", "Gold panning" ]

Gold cyanidation

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Many people seeking an easy fortune emigrated to California, USA during the California Gold Rush (1848-1858). The gold rush was sparked by the discovery of gold near this city.

[ "San Francisco", "San Diego", "Los Angeles", "Sacramento" ]

Sacramento

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The San Francisco 49ers are an NFL team named after the prospectors that took part in the California Gold Rush.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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One of the earliest gold rushes was probably the Spanish search for the mythical city of El Dorado. According to early legends, the King of the Muiscas would do this as part of a religious ceremony.

[ "Drink liquid gold", "Give away gold to everybody", "Cover himself with gold dust", "Turn whatever he touches into gold" ]

Cover himself with gold dust

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The nickname of Wisconsin, âBadger Stateâ?, was given to it in irony, because no gold rushes occurred in the region.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

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Which of the following was NOT an Egyptian pharaoh?

[ "Akhenaten", "Imhotep", "Seti", "Ramses I" ]

Imhotep

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Which was the first Egyptian pyramid?

[ "The Red pyramid", "The Great pyramid", "The Bent Pyramid", "The Step Pyramid" ]

The Step Pyramid

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What was Cleopatras ethnic background?

[ "Roman", "Macedonian", "Upper Egyptian", "Lower Egyptian" ]

Macedonian

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Who unified Upper and Lower Egypt?

[ "Thutmose III", "Kahfre", "Imhotep", "Menes" ]

Menes

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Which of the following was referred to as the Gift of the Nile?

[ "The annual Nile flood", "Egypt", "The development of writing", "The creation of civilization" ]

Egypt

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Where is the Nile Delta located?

[ "Lake Victoria in central Africa", "at the source of the river", "Upper Egypt", "Lower Egypt" ]

Lower Egypt

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Who was the first king in history to foster a belief in one God?

[ "Tutankhamen", "Ramses II", "Akhenaten", "Khufu" ]

Akhenaten

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How many distinct kingdoms were there in Ancient Egypt?

[ "one", "four", "two", "three" ]

three

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Incestuous royal marriages were common in Ancient Egypt.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Former Enron executive Kenneth Lay died of a heart attack at the age of 66 on July 5, 2006.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

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On what day in July did the Space Shuttle Discovery touch down on Earth after a 13-day trip to the International Space Station?

[ "July 10, 2006", "July 17, 2006", "July 11, 2006", "July 12, 2006" ]

July 17, 2006

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On what date in August did the Israeli and Hezbolah conflict end with a ceasefire?

[ "August 20, 2006", "August 14, 2006", "August 2, 2006", "August 8, 2006" ]

August 14, 2006

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On what date in September of 2006 did Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter die due to a stingray attack?

[ "September 4", "September 2", "September 6", "September 8" ]

September 4

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This bagged vegetable was recalled on September 16, 2006 after E. coli affected people in 19 U. S. states.

[ "Celery", "Spinach", "Carrots", "Lettuce" ]

Spinach

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On October 9, 2006, this Internet company announced its purchase of the popular YouTube site?

[ "Amazon", "Ebay", "Yahoo", "Google" ]

Google

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On October 19, 2006 Nissan Motor Company recalled 80,000 cars in U.S. due to what defects?

[ "in the air bags", "in the ignition key", "in the door locks", "in the seatbelts" ]

in the ignition key

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Who was chosen to be the 2006 Time Magazines Person of the Year?

[ "Me", "You", "The Democrats", "George W. Bush" ]

You

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Who was the last Tsar of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland?

[ "Alexander III", "Alexander II", "Nicholas II", "Peter I" ]

Nicholas II

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Which of these refers to the lower house of the Russian Parliament ?

[ "Duma", "Red House", "Reichstag", "Storting" ]

Duma

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During the Russian Revolution in 1917, which of these people belonged to the Mensheviks?

[ "Lev Kamenev", "Joseph Stalin", "Pavel Axelrod", "Matvei Muranov" ]

Pavel Axelrod

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What was the title of Karl Marxs influential treatise on political economy, first published in 1867?

[ "Crime and Punishment", "War and Peace", "Capital", "Communism" ]

Capital

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In his testament, Lenin stated that he did not approve of Joseph Stalin having so much power and that he didnt want him to rule Russia.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky was assassinated in which country?

[ "France", "Mexico", "Bulgaria", "Russia" ]

Mexico

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Alexander Kerensky was the first Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government in 1917.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

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During the Russian Revolution of 1917, which city was capital of Russia?

[ "Volgograd", "Kiev", "Saint Petersburg", "Moscow" ]

Saint Petersburg