kth8/OpenTriviaQA · Datasets at Hugging Face

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humanities	What is the term for a female baby kangaroo?	[ "Fawn", "Joey", "Filly", "Josephine" ]	Joey
humanities	Where will you most likely hear howdy as a greeting?	[ "Scotland", "Singapore", "Texas", "Zimbabwe" ]	Texas
humanities	Shalom aleichem and Salam alaikum are common greetings in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. What is the meaning of both?	[ "How are you", "Good day", "Peace to you", "May God be with you" ]	Peace to you
humanities	In which language is Hola used as a greeting?	[ "Greek", "Japanese", "Spanish", "Polish" ]	Spanish
humanities	A Japanese greeting meaning good morning is pronounced like the name of this US state.	[ "Utah", "Idaho", "Mississippi", "Ohio" ]	Ohio
humanities	How could you welcome your Italian friend in his/her native language?	[ "Hasta luege", "Ahoj", "Salve", "CzeÅÄ" ]	Salve
humanities	At what time of the day is it proper to use the Dutch greeting goedenavond?	[ "Morning", "Evening", "Noon", "All day" ]	Evening
humanities	What is the literal meaning of the French greeting bon jour?	[ "Hello", "How are you", "Peace to you", "Good day" ]	Good day
humanities	The Chinese term Kowtow refers to an act of deep respect. How is it performed?	[ "By kissing hand", "By kissing cheek", "By bowing", "By kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground" ]	By kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground
humanities	You probably wouldnt be able to pronounce the word czeÅÄ, but try to guess in which language is it used as a greeting.	[ "Malay", "Polish", "Hindu", "Danish" ]	Polish
humanities	In south Germany and Austria, GrÃ¼Ã Gott is commonly used as a greeting. What does it literally mean?	[ "Good day", "How are you", "Peace to you", "God bless you" ]	God bless you
humanities	Sik Jo Fan Mei means have you eaten yet?. In which country it is used as a greeting?	[ "China", "Vietnam", "Japan", "Korea" ]	China
humanities	In which culture is pressing noses used as a greeting?	[ "Eskimo (Finland)", "Inca (Peru,Bolivia)", "Zulu (South Africa)", "Maori (New Zealand)" ]	Maori (New Zealand)
humanities	Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be antonyms.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
humanities	What word means the same as meager?	[ "same", "alot", "multiply", "paltry" ]	paltry
humanities	Constant means changing.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
humanities	Sick is the same as ill.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
humanities	Which of these words is a synonym of research?	[ "populate", "regulate", "try", "investigate" ]	investigate
humanities	There many words that have the same meaning as low. Which of the following is NOT one of them?	[ "escape", "soft", "miserable", "humble" ]	escape
humanities	The words barbed, biting, nipping or pungent could mean what?	[ "morbid", "moronic", "casual", "sarcastic" ]	sarcastic
humanities	Whats the name of the singer who was involved with bicyclist Lance Armstrong?	[ "Sheryl Crow", "Sheila Winestein", "Sheryl Underwood", "Laura Sheen" ]	Sheryl Crow
humanities	This prolific author was also a screenwriter, penning the likes of I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart and The Patty Duke Show.	[ "Paul Sheldon", "Shelby Davis", "Arthur Sherwood", "Sidney Sheldon" ]	Sidney Sheldon
humanities	The Jeffersons TV series, starring Sherman Hemsley, was a spinoff of All In The Family.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
humanities	The group S.H.E plays country music in China.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
humanities	In chemistry SHE stands for Standard Helium Electrode.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
humanities	This actress is best known for playing Olive Oyl in 1979 and Wendy Torrance in 1980.	[ "Laura Sheath", "Norma Sheer", "Shelly Winters", "Shelley Duvall" ]	Shelley Duvall
humanities	This influential English political philosopher believed in rule by absolute sovereign and the need for a social contract. His masterwork is Leviathan.	[ "Thomas Hobbes", "John Locke", "Rene Descarte", "Bertrand Russell" ]	Thomas Hobbes
humanities	This early scholastic philosopher was a Franciscan friar best known for his principle that opposes multiplying unnecessary entities in making propositions or drawing conclusions.	[ "William of Ockham", "St. Jerome", "John Scottus", "St. Augustine" ]	William of Ockham
humanities	This Twentieth Century English pacifist was the founder of analytic philosophy. His History of Western Philosophy helped him garner the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.	[ "Georg Hegel", "G.E. Moore", "Alfred Whitehead", "Bertrand Russell" ]	Bertrand Russell
humanities	This influential philosopher espoused the master-slave theory of morality and believed in the will to power as the motivating force behind animal and human behavior.	[ "Wittgenstein", "Hegel", "Nietzsche", "Dewey" ]	Nietzsche
humanities	This Seventeenth Century Dutch rationalist was a pantheist excommunicated from the Jewish Church for heresy. He believed mind and body were of one substance. His greatest contributions were in the field of moral philosophy.	[ "Spinoza", "Dewey", "Wittgenstein", "Leibniz" ]	Spinoza
humanities	His Categorical Imperative was a concept for moral actions based on the premise that one should act only according to the maxim that such action could or would be made into a universal law.	[ "Kant", "Locke", "Rousseau", "Moore" ]	Kant
humanities	He was a Seventeenth Century rationalist who invented calculus, put forth the doctrine of Windowless Monads, and believed that this universe was the best possible one God could have created.	[ "Spinoza", "Hume", "Rousseau", "Leibniz" ]	Leibniz
humanities	The sailors in South Pacific love a woman whose skin is as tender as DiMaggios glove and is always chewin betel nuts. If anyone has objections, Well aint that too damn bad.	[ "o is the woman that can speak English as well as any damn marine?", "Bloody Mary", "Sweet Pea", "Roxie", "Sally Bowles" ]	Bloody Mary
humanities	The Andrew Lloyd Webber song I Dont Know How to Love Him is about what character?	[ "The Phantom of the Opera", "Jesus Christ", "Judas Iscariot", "Juan PerÃ³n" ]	Jesus Christ
humanities	Which of these songs from the movie Cabaret originated in the Broadway version?	[ "Mein Herr", "Maybe this Time", "Money, Money", "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" ]	Tomorrow Belongs to Me
humanities	These songs all appear in the original Broadway version of The Sound of Music, but not in the movie version. Which one of them is NOT sung by Max and the Baroness?	[ "An Ordinary Couple", "None of these", "No Way to Stop It", "How Can Love Survive?" ]	An Ordinary Couple
humanities	This ensemble song was removed just prior to the opening of the musical Show Boat, but its music remained as part of the overture.	[ "Cotton Blossom", "Til Good Luck Comes My Way", "Life Upon the Wicked Stage", "Misrys Comin Around" ]	Misrys Comin Around
humanities	The song Send in the Clowns from the musical A Little Night Music was specifically written for which actress?	[ "Glynis Johns", "Shirley Jones", "Elizabeth Taylor", "Barbra Streisand" ]	Glynis Johns
humanities	Which of these movie musical numbers was NOT nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar?	[ "Blame Canada, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut", "Under the Sea, The Little Mermaid", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz", "Come What May, Moulin Rouge" ]	Come What May, Moulin Rouge
humanities	The song A Little Priest, from Stephen Sondheims 1979 musical Sweeney Todd, is about what?	[ "Cannibalism", "Christian Charity", "Catholicism vs. Protestantism", "Clergy Corruption" ]	Cannibalism
humanities	According to a popular song from the 2003 puppet musical Avenue Q, what is the Internet for?	[ "Porn", "Quizzes", "MySpace", "Scholarly Research" ]	Porn
humanities	One of the best-known tales of Arthurian times is The Sword in the Stone, written by T. H. White. In the book, the soon-to-be-king, Arthur, is lives with which of these people?	[ "King Pellinore", "Merlyn", "Sir Grummore Grummursum", "Sir Ector" ]	Sir Ector
humanities	In the popular childrens animated musical, Quest For Camelot, what well-known female singer provided the singing voice for Lady Juliana?	[ "Brittney Spears", "Faith Hill", "Amy Grant", "CÃ¨line Dion" ]	CÃ¨line Dion
humanities	In 1456, Sir Thomas Mallory completed what is one of the most well-known accounts of the life of King Arthur, called Le Morte DArthur.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
humanities	During the reign of King Henry II, what is thought to be the grave of King Arthur, was discovered where in England?	[ "Salisbury", "Glastonbury", "London (or, as it was once called, Londres)", "Avalon" ]	Glastonbury
humanities	Is it true that in Greek mythology, Medusa, who was a beautiful girl with beautiful hair, became a Gorgon with serpents in her hair because she was arrogant and dared to compare her beauty to that of Athena?	[ "Yes", "No" ]	No
humanities	What does Gigantoleteira mean?	[ "The giants destroyer", "The worshipper of giants", "The giant hero", "The friend of giants" ]	The giants destroyer
humanities	What does the name Ergane mean?	[ "Hero", "Maiden", "Strong", "Worker" ]	Worker
humanities	What kind of musical instrument did Athena invent?	[ "Harp", "Flute", "Lyre", "Guitar" ]	Flute
humanities	What does Korih, one of Athenas names, mean?	[ "Hero", "Goddess", "Worker", "Virgin" ]	Virgin
humanities	Ancient Greeks believed that this Titan created man.	[ "Ouranos", "Kronos", "Prometheus", "Epimetheus" ]	Prometheus
humanities	This Titan overthrew his father, Ouranos and ruled over the Earth before the gods.	[ "Oceanus", "None of these", "Cronus", "Zeus" ]	Cronus
humanities	These mythological figures were gigantic beings with one hundred hands.	[ "Cyclops", "Hecatoncheires", "Gorgons", "None of these" ]	Hecatoncheires
humanities	Which Greek god is known as the Earth-shaker?	[ "Neptune", "Hephaestus", "Poseidon", "Hades" ]	Poseidon
humanities	Zeus is the Greek god of the sky and the chief of the gods.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
humanities	Name the mythological giant three-headed dog that guarded the gate to the underworld.	[ "Cerberus", "Chimaera", "Echidna", "Orthrus" ]	Cerberus
humanities	What was the home of the gods in Greek mythology?	[ "the Elysian Fields", "Tartarus", "Mt. Olympus", "None of these" ]	Mt. Olympus
humanities	According to Greek mythology, Pegasus and his brother, Chrysaor were born when Perseus decapitated this monster.	[ "Medusa", "Akimbo", "None of these", "Minotaur" ]	Medusa
humanities	According to Greek mythology, Odysseus and his men landed on the island of the Lotus Eaters following the Trojan War.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
humanities	Polyphemus, the one-eyed son of Poseidon, asked his father not to allow this mythological hero to return home.	[ "Eurymachus", "Telemachus", "Maron", "Odysseus" ]	Odysseus
humanities	Baroque painters Caravaggio and Rembrandt used chiaroscuro, an art technique, related to the distribution of light and dark in a painting.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
humanities	Diego Velazquez, a Spanish Baroque Era painter, became most famous with what kind of paintings?	[ "Paintings on war subject", "Still lives", "Portraits", "Paintings on biblical subject" ]	Portraits
humanities	Boy Blowing a Horn, a sculpture created by Italian Baroque Era sculptor Pietro Tacca, is displayed where?	[ "in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK", "in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia", "in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.", "in the Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York" ]	in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
humanities	Works of Pietro Bernini, a Baroque Era sculptor, are displayed in which American museum?	[ "Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina", "Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts", "The Metropolian Museum of Art, New York City", "Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia" ]	The Metropolian Museum of Art, New York City
humanities	Ottavio Leoni, an Italian Baroque Era printmaker and painter, painted which of the following drawings?	[ "Ritratto di Paolo Morigia", "Urban III", "Judith with the Head of Holofernes", "Grotesque Head" ]	Urban III
humanities	Rubens, one of the most famous Flemish Baroque Era painters, was a student of Cornelis de Vos.	[ "True", "False" ]	False
humanities	Where did Diego Velazquez, a Spanish Baroque Era painter, spend his middle period?	[ "Madrid", "Genoa", "Barcelona", "Florence" ]	Madrid
humanities	In India dacoit is a synonym for what word?	[ "bandit", "miner", "wagon", "mongoose" ]	bandit
humanities	Dear Elle:hes a lucky guy--	[ ", like, gonna cry--", "got tears coming out of my nose! ", "d props!.... ", "So Much Better", "Bend Snap", "Ireland", "Omigod You Guys" ]	Omigod You Guys
humanities	What division is based on the different treatment of the three original velar rows?	[ "Satem and Centum languages", "Balto-Slavic and Indo-Hittite languages", "Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages", "Anatolian and Tocharian languages" ]	Satem and Centum languages
humanities	Venetic is an extinct language from the Indo-European family that was spoken in what country?	[ "Spain", "France", "Italy", "Belgium" ]	Italy
humanities	The official language of the Hittite Empire, the Hittite language, is part of what group of extinct Indo-European languages?	[ "Celtic", "Tocharian", "Anatolian", "Indo-Iranian" ]	Anatolian
humanities	What language of the Baltic group is extinct?	[ "Samogitian", "Latgalian", "Selonian", "New Curonian" ]	Selonian
humanities	English belongs to what group of languages in the Indo-European family?	[ "Germanic", "Celtic", "Italic", "Baltic" ]	Germanic
humanities	The Grimms law describes what Proto-Indo-European language?	[ "Proto-Germanic language", "Proto-Celtic language", "Proto-Greek language", "Proto-Balto-Slavic language" ]	Proto-Germanic language
humanities	To what group belongs the Spanish language?	[ "Anatolian", "Germanic", "Celtic", "Italic" ]	Italic
humanities	What language from the South-Slavic branch usees Cyrillic script?	[ "Slovenian", "Croatian", "Bulgarian", "Bosnian" ]	Bulgarian
humanities	The Scythians, who dominated the Pontic steppe throughout Classical Antiquity. spoke a language that belongs to what Indo-European group?	[ "Tocharian", "Slavic", "Anatolian", "Indo-Iranian" ]	Indo-Iranian
humanities	What is the largest subdivision of Indo-European as regards the largest number of native speakers and of individual languages?	[ "Indo-Iranian", "Slavic", "Italic", "Germanic" ]	Indo-Iranian
humanities	How is the Echidna described Greek mythology?	[ "Womans body, with a fish tail", "Half-woman, half-serpent", "None of these", "Womans body, with serpents instead of hair" ]	Half-woman, half-serpent
humanities	What kind of creature is Pegasus according to Greek legends?	[ "Winged ram", "Winged dog", "Winged horse", "Winged dragon" ]	Winged horse
humanities	During which century did Italian painter Michelangelo live and work?	[ "13th-14th century", "7th-8th century", "10th-11th century", "15th-16th century" ]	15th-16th century
humanities	According to painter and sculpture Michelangelo, art originated from which of the following?	[ "Madness", "Pain", "Inner inspiration", "Divine gift" ]	Inner inspiration
humanities	What was Michelangelos view of nature and its place in art?	[ "He saw it as an enemy.", "He believed the human being was a masterpiece of Mother Nature.", "He saw nature as a miracle.", "None of these" ]	He saw it as an enemy.
humanities	Which of these statements is true about Michelangelo?	[ "He lived an extravagant life.", "He enjoyed eating and drinking most of all.", "He lived in poverty.", "None of these" ]	He lived in poverty.
humanities	Painter and sculptor Michelangelo is believed to have had homosexual inclinations.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
humanities	Which of these phrases is a synonym of limbo?	[ "Social ground", "Core ground", "Muddy ground", "Middle ground" ]	Middle ground
humanities	Which of these phrases refers to cemetery?	[ "Isoglosses ground", "Exclusive ground", "Social ground", "Burying ground" ]	Burying ground
humanities	What phrase is a synonym of jungle?	[ "Kindred ground", "Solid ground", "Uncultivated ground", "Wet ground" ]	Uncultivated ground
humanities	What does the term swale refer to?	[ "Low ground", "Grooved ground", "Atomic ground", "Middle ground" ]	Low ground
humanities	Which phrase is a synonym of chase?	[ "Low ground", "Hunting ground", "Quick ground", "Sacred ground" ]	Hunting ground
humanities	What does the word bog mean?	[ "Low ground", "Spongy ground", "Dumping ground", "Bleery ground" ]	Spongy ground
humanities	What is the meaning of the word hardpan?	[ "Still ground", "Spongy ground", "Hard ground", "Low ground" ]	Hard ground
humanities	What syntactic element is not part of the predicate?	[ "Adjunct", "Subject", "Subject Complement", "Direct Object" ]	Subject
humanities	What category is never marked on Non-Finite Verb Phrases such us to have been studying, being studied, etc?	[ "Correlation", "Aspect", "Tense", "Voice" ]	Tense
humanities	In the sentence Cristiano Ronaldo was the best player available, what is the syntactic function of the Noun Phrase the best player available?	[ "Subject Complement", "Object Direct", "Subject", "Object Indirect" ]	Subject Complement
humanities	What sentence is not in the indicative clause type (or mood)?	[ "Are you alone?", "Dont move!", "You are beautiful.", "What a clever girl she is!" ]	Dont move!
humanities	What sentence contains an Obligatory Adjunct, also known as Predicator Complement?	[ "The bus stopped suddenly.", "The baby weighs 9 pounds.", "The police found him without much difficulty.", "She has left her husband for him." ]	The baby weighs 9 pounds.
humanities	Identify the Operator in the sentence: The football match must have been played last Saturday.	[ "have", "must", "been", "played" ]	must

humanities

What is the term for a female baby kangaroo?

[ "Fawn", "Joey", "Filly", "Josephine" ]

Joey

humanities

Where will you most likely hear howdy as a greeting?

[ "Scotland", "Singapore", "Texas", "Zimbabwe" ]

Texas

humanities

Shalom aleichem and Salam alaikum are common greetings in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. What is the meaning of both?

[ "How are you", "Good day", "Peace to you", "May God be with you" ]

Peace to you

humanities

In which language is Hola used as a greeting?

[ "Greek", "Japanese", "Spanish", "Polish" ]

Spanish

humanities

A Japanese greeting meaning good morning is pronounced like the name of this US state.

[ "Utah", "Idaho", "Mississippi", "Ohio" ]

Ohio

humanities

How could you welcome your Italian friend in his/her native language?

[ "Hasta luege", "Ahoj", "Salve", "CzeÅÄ" ]

Salve

humanities

At what time of the day is it proper to use the Dutch greeting goedenavond?

[ "Morning", "Evening", "Noon", "All day" ]

Evening

humanities

What is the literal meaning of the French greeting bon jour?

[ "Hello", "How are you", "Peace to you", "Good day" ]

Good day

humanities

The Chinese term Kowtow refers to an act of deep respect. How is it performed?

[ "By kissing hand", "By kissing cheek", "By bowing", "By kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground" ]

By kneeling and bowing so low as to touch the head to the ground

humanities

You probably wouldnt be able to pronounce the word czeÅÄ, but try to guess in which language is it used as a greeting.

[ "Malay", "Polish", "Hindu", "Danish" ]

Polish

humanities

In south Germany and Austria, GrÃ¼Ã Gott is commonly used as a greeting. What does it literally mean?

[ "Good day", "How are you", "Peace to you", "God bless you" ]

God bless you

humanities

Sik Jo Fan Mei means have you eaten yet?. In which country it is used as a greeting?

[ "China", "Vietnam", "Japan", "Korea" ]

China

humanities

In which culture is pressing noses used as a greeting?

[ "Eskimo (Finland)", "Inca (Peru,Bolivia)", "Zulu (South Africa)", "Maori (New Zealand)" ]

Maori (New Zealand)

humanities

Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be antonyms.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

humanities

What word means the same as meager?

[ "same", "alot", "multiply", "paltry" ]

paltry

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Constant means changing.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

humanities

Sick is the same as ill.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Which of these words is a synonym of research?

[ "populate", "regulate", "try", "investigate" ]

investigate

humanities

There many words that have the same meaning as low. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

[ "escape", "soft", "miserable", "humble" ]

escape

humanities

The words barbed, biting, nipping or pungent could mean what?

[ "morbid", "moronic", "casual", "sarcastic" ]

sarcastic

humanities

Whats the name of the singer who was involved with bicyclist Lance Armstrong?

[ "Sheryl Crow", "Sheila Winestein", "Sheryl Underwood", "Laura Sheen" ]

Sheryl Crow

humanities

This prolific author was also a screenwriter, penning the likes of I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart and The Patty Duke Show.

[ "Paul Sheldon", "Shelby Davis", "Arthur Sherwood", "Sidney Sheldon" ]

Sidney Sheldon

humanities

The Jeffersons TV series, starring Sherman Hemsley, was a spinoff of All In The Family.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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The group S.H.E plays country music in China.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

humanities

In chemistry SHE stands for Standard Helium Electrode.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

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This actress is best known for playing Olive Oyl in 1979 and Wendy Torrance in 1980.

[ "Laura Sheath", "Norma Sheer", "Shelly Winters", "Shelley Duvall" ]

Shelley Duvall

humanities

This influential English political philosopher believed in rule by absolute sovereign and the need for a social contract. His masterwork is Leviathan.

[ "Thomas Hobbes", "John Locke", "Rene Descarte", "Bertrand Russell" ]

Thomas Hobbes

humanities

This early scholastic philosopher was a Franciscan friar best known for his principle that opposes multiplying unnecessary entities in making propositions or drawing conclusions.

[ "William of Ockham", "St. Jerome", "John Scottus", "St. Augustine" ]

William of Ockham

humanities

This Twentieth Century English pacifist was the founder of analytic philosophy. His History of Western Philosophy helped him garner the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.

[ "Georg Hegel", "G.E. Moore", "Alfred Whitehead", "Bertrand Russell" ]

Bertrand Russell

humanities

This influential philosopher espoused the master-slave theory of morality and believed in the will to power as the motivating force behind animal and human behavior.

[ "Wittgenstein", "Hegel", "Nietzsche", "Dewey" ]

Nietzsche

humanities

This Seventeenth Century Dutch rationalist was a pantheist excommunicated from the Jewish Church for heresy. He believed mind and body were of one substance. His greatest contributions were in the field of moral philosophy.

[ "Spinoza", "Dewey", "Wittgenstein", "Leibniz" ]

Spinoza

humanities

His Categorical Imperative was a concept for moral actions based on the premise that one should act only according to the maxim that such action could or would be made into a universal law.

[ "Kant", "Locke", "Rousseau", "Moore" ]

Kant

humanities

He was a Seventeenth Century rationalist who invented calculus, put forth the doctrine of Windowless Monads, and believed that this universe was the best possible one God could have created.

[ "Spinoza", "Hume", "Rousseau", "Leibniz" ]

Leibniz

humanities

The sailors in South Pacific love a woman whose skin is as tender as DiMaggios glove and is always chewin betel nuts. If anyone has objections, Well aint that too damn bad.

[ "o is the woman that can speak English as well as any damn marine?", "Bloody Mary", "Sweet Pea", "Roxie", "Sally Bowles" ]

Bloody Mary

humanities

The Andrew Lloyd Webber song I Dont Know How to Love Him is about what character?

[ "The Phantom of the Opera", "Jesus Christ", "Judas Iscariot", "Juan PerÃ³n" ]

Jesus Christ

humanities

Which of these songs from the movie Cabaret originated in the Broadway version?

[ "Mein Herr", "Maybe this Time", "Money, Money", "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" ]

Tomorrow Belongs to Me

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These songs all appear in the original Broadway version of The Sound of Music, but not in the movie version. Which one of them is NOT sung by Max and the Baroness?

[ "An Ordinary Couple", "None of these", "No Way to Stop It", "How Can Love Survive?" ]

An Ordinary Couple

humanities

This ensemble song was removed just prior to the opening of the musical Show Boat, but its music remained as part of the overture.

[ "Cotton Blossom", "Til Good Luck Comes My Way", "Life Upon the Wicked Stage", "Misrys Comin Around" ]

Misrys Comin Around

humanities

The song Send in the Clowns from the musical A Little Night Music was specifically written for which actress?

[ "Glynis Johns", "Shirley Jones", "Elizabeth Taylor", "Barbra Streisand" ]

Glynis Johns

humanities

Which of these movie musical numbers was NOT nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar?

[ "Blame Canada, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut", "Under the Sea, The Little Mermaid", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow, The Wizard of Oz", "Come What May, Moulin Rouge" ]

Come What May, Moulin Rouge

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The song A Little Priest, from Stephen Sondheims 1979 musical Sweeney Todd, is about what?

[ "Cannibalism", "Christian Charity", "Catholicism vs. Protestantism", "Clergy Corruption" ]

Cannibalism

humanities

According to a popular song from the 2003 puppet musical Avenue Q, what is the Internet for?

[ "Porn", "Quizzes", "MySpace", "Scholarly Research" ]

Porn

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One of the best-known tales of Arthurian times is The Sword in the Stone, written by T. H. White. In the book, the soon-to-be-king, Arthur, is lives with which of these people?

[ "King Pellinore", "Merlyn", "Sir Grummore Grummursum", "Sir Ector" ]

Sir Ector

humanities

In the popular childrens animated musical, Quest For Camelot, what well-known female singer provided the singing voice for Lady Juliana?

[ "Brittney Spears", "Faith Hill", "Amy Grant", "CÃ¨line Dion" ]

CÃ¨line Dion

humanities

In 1456, Sir Thomas Mallory completed what is one of the most well-known accounts of the life of King Arthur, called Le Morte DArthur.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

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During the reign of King Henry II, what is thought to be the grave of King Arthur, was discovered where in England?

[ "Salisbury", "Glastonbury", "London (or, as it was once called, Londres)", "Avalon" ]

Glastonbury

humanities

Is it true that in Greek mythology, Medusa, who was a beautiful girl with beautiful hair, became a Gorgon with serpents in her hair because she was arrogant and dared to compare her beauty to that of Athena?

[ "Yes", "No" ]

No

humanities

What does Gigantoleteira mean?

[ "The giants destroyer", "The worshipper of giants", "The giant hero", "The friend of giants" ]

The giants destroyer

humanities

What does the name Ergane mean?

[ "Hero", "Maiden", "Strong", "Worker" ]

Worker

humanities

What kind of musical instrument did Athena invent?

[ "Harp", "Flute", "Lyre", "Guitar" ]

Flute

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What does Korih, one of Athenas names, mean?

[ "Hero", "Goddess", "Worker", "Virgin" ]

Virgin

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Ancient Greeks believed that this Titan created man.

[ "Ouranos", "Kronos", "Prometheus", "Epimetheus" ]

Prometheus

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This Titan overthrew his father, Ouranos and ruled over the Earth before the gods.

[ "Oceanus", "None of these", "Cronus", "Zeus" ]

Cronus

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These mythological figures were gigantic beings with one hundred hands.

[ "Cyclops", "Hecatoncheires", "Gorgons", "None of these" ]

Hecatoncheires

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Which Greek god is known as the Earth-shaker?

[ "Neptune", "Hephaestus", "Poseidon", "Hades" ]

Poseidon

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Zeus is the Greek god of the sky and the chief of the gods.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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Name the mythological giant three-headed dog that guarded the gate to the underworld.

[ "Cerberus", "Chimaera", "Echidna", "Orthrus" ]

Cerberus

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What was the home of the gods in Greek mythology?

[ "the Elysian Fields", "Tartarus", "Mt. Olympus", "None of these" ]

Mt. Olympus

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According to Greek mythology, Pegasus and his brother, Chrysaor were born when Perseus decapitated this monster.

[ "Medusa", "Akimbo", "None of these", "Minotaur" ]

Medusa

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According to Greek mythology, Odysseus and his men landed on the island of the Lotus Eaters following the Trojan War.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Polyphemus, the one-eyed son of Poseidon, asked his father not to allow this mythological hero to return home.

[ "Eurymachus", "Telemachus", "Maron", "Odysseus" ]

Odysseus

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Baroque painters Caravaggio and Rembrandt used chiaroscuro, an art technique, related to the distribution of light and dark in a painting.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Diego Velazquez, a Spanish Baroque Era painter, became most famous with what kind of paintings?

[ "Paintings on war subject", "Still lives", "Portraits", "Paintings on biblical subject" ]

Portraits

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Boy Blowing a Horn, a sculpture created by Italian Baroque Era sculptor Pietro Tacca, is displayed where?

[ "in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK", "in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia", "in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.", "in the Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York" ]

in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Works of Pietro Bernini, a Baroque Era sculptor, are displayed in which American museum?

[ "Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina", "Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts", "The Metropolian Museum of Art, New York City", "Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia" ]

The Metropolian Museum of Art, New York City

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Ottavio Leoni, an Italian Baroque Era printmaker and painter, painted which of the following drawings?

[ "Ritratto di Paolo Morigia", "Urban III", "Judith with the Head of Holofernes", "Grotesque Head" ]

Urban III

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Rubens, one of the most famous Flemish Baroque Era painters, was a student of Cornelis de Vos.

[ "True", "False" ]

False

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Where did Diego Velazquez, a Spanish Baroque Era painter, spend his middle period?

[ "Madrid", "Genoa", "Barcelona", "Florence" ]

Madrid

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In India dacoit is a synonym for what word?

[ "bandit", "miner", "wagon", "mongoose" ]

bandit

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Dear Elle:hes a lucky guy--

[ ", like, gonna cry--", "got tears coming out of my nose! ", "d props!.... ", "So Much Better", "Bend Snap", "Ireland", "Omigod You Guys" ]

Omigod You Guys

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What division is based on the different treatment of the three original velar rows?

[ "Satem and Centum languages", "Balto-Slavic and Indo-Hittite languages", "Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages", "Anatolian and Tocharian languages" ]

Satem and Centum languages

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Venetic is an extinct language from the Indo-European family that was spoken in what country?

[ "Spain", "France", "Italy", "Belgium" ]

Italy

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The official language of the Hittite Empire, the Hittite language, is part of what group of extinct Indo-European languages?

[ "Celtic", "Tocharian", "Anatolian", "Indo-Iranian" ]

Anatolian

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What language of the Baltic group is extinct?

[ "Samogitian", "Latgalian", "Selonian", "New Curonian" ]

Selonian

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English belongs to what group of languages in the Indo-European family?

[ "Germanic", "Celtic", "Italic", "Baltic" ]

Germanic

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The Grimms law describes what Proto-Indo-European language?

[ "Proto-Germanic language", "Proto-Celtic language", "Proto-Greek language", "Proto-Balto-Slavic language" ]

Proto-Germanic language

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To what group belongs the Spanish language?

[ "Anatolian", "Germanic", "Celtic", "Italic" ]

Italic

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What language from the South-Slavic branch usees Cyrillic script?

[ "Slovenian", "Croatian", "Bulgarian", "Bosnian" ]

Bulgarian

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The Scythians, who dominated the Pontic steppe throughout Classical Antiquity. spoke a language that belongs to what Indo-European group?

[ "Tocharian", "Slavic", "Anatolian", "Indo-Iranian" ]

Indo-Iranian

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What is the largest subdivision of Indo-European as regards the largest number of native speakers and of individual languages?

[ "Indo-Iranian", "Slavic", "Italic", "Germanic" ]

Indo-Iranian

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How is the Echidna described Greek mythology?

[ "Womans body, with a fish tail", "Half-woman, half-serpent", "None of these", "Womans body, with serpents instead of hair" ]

Half-woman, half-serpent

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What kind of creature is Pegasus according to Greek legends?

[ "Winged ram", "Winged dog", "Winged horse", "Winged dragon" ]

Winged horse

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During which century did Italian painter Michelangelo live and work?

[ "13th-14th century", "7th-8th century", "10th-11th century", "15th-16th century" ]

15th-16th century

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According to painter and sculpture Michelangelo, art originated from which of the following?

[ "Madness", "Pain", "Inner inspiration", "Divine gift" ]

Inner inspiration

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What was Michelangelos view of nature and its place in art?

[ "He saw it as an enemy.", "He believed the human being was a masterpiece of Mother Nature.", "He saw nature as a miracle.", "None of these" ]

He saw it as an enemy.

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Which of these statements is true about Michelangelo?

[ "He lived an extravagant life.", "He enjoyed eating and drinking most of all.", "He lived in poverty.", "None of these" ]

He lived in poverty.

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Painter and sculptor Michelangelo is believed to have had homosexual inclinations.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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Which of these phrases is a synonym of limbo?

[ "Social ground", "Core ground", "Muddy ground", "Middle ground" ]

Middle ground

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Which of these phrases refers to cemetery?

[ "Isoglosses ground", "Exclusive ground", "Social ground", "Burying ground" ]

Burying ground

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What phrase is a synonym of jungle?

[ "Kindred ground", "Solid ground", "Uncultivated ground", "Wet ground" ]

Uncultivated ground

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What does the term swale refer to?

[ "Low ground", "Grooved ground", "Atomic ground", "Middle ground" ]

Low ground

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Which phrase is a synonym of chase?

[ "Low ground", "Hunting ground", "Quick ground", "Sacred ground" ]

Hunting ground

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What does the word bog mean?

[ "Low ground", "Spongy ground", "Dumping ground", "Bleery ground" ]

Spongy ground

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What is the meaning of the word hardpan?

[ "Still ground", "Spongy ground", "Hard ground", "Low ground" ]

Hard ground

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What syntactic element is not part of the predicate?

[ "Adjunct", "Subject", "Subject Complement", "Direct Object" ]

Subject

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What category is never marked on Non-Finite Verb Phrases such us to have been studying, being studied, etc?

[ "Correlation", "Aspect", "Tense", "Voice" ]

Tense

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In the sentence Cristiano Ronaldo was the best player available, what is the syntactic function of the Noun Phrase the best player available?

[ "Subject Complement", "Object Direct", "Subject", "Object Indirect" ]

Subject Complement

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What sentence is not in the indicative clause type (or mood)?

[ "Are you alone?", "Dont move!", "You are beautiful.", "What a clever girl she is!" ]

Dont move!

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What sentence contains an Obligatory Adjunct, also known as Predicator Complement?

[ "The bus stopped suddenly.", "The baby weighs 9 pounds.", "The police found him without much difficulty.", "She has left her husband for him." ]

The baby weighs 9 pounds.

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Identify the Operator in the sentence: The football match must have been played last Saturday.

[ "have", "must", "been", "played" ]

must