qa_pairs.json

[
    {"question": "Who was the first President of the United States?", "answer": "George Washington"},
    {"question": "What year did World War II end?", "answer": "1945"},
    {"question": "Who discovered America?", "answer": "Christopher Columbus"},
    {"question": "What was the capital of the Roman Empire?", "answer": "Rome"},
    {"question": "Who was the first emperor of China?", "answer": "Qin Shi Huang"},
    {"question": "Who wrote the Republic, a vision of a society ruled by a philosopher king?", "answer": "Plato"},
    {"question": "Who were Henry VIII's six wives?", "answer": "Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, and Katherine Parr"},
    {"question": "At which battle did Admiral Horatio Nelson lose his life, but defeat the French?", "answer": "The Battle of Trafalgar"},
    {"question": "Which African country did the French try to block from gaining independence under their secret force, the O.A.S.?", "answer": "Algeria"},
    {"question": "Which Hun leader received 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans each year as part of a treaty?", "answer": "Attila the Hun"},
    {"question": "Which English king was beheaded during the English Civil War?", "answer": "Charles I"},
    {"question": "How many sacraments are in the Catholic Church?", "answer": "Seven Sacraments"},
    {"question": "When did WWI officially end?", "answer": "November 11, 1918"},
    {"question": "What year was the Battle of Yorktown? ", "answer": "1781"},
    {"question": "Mary Antoinette was married to which French king?", "answer": "Louis XVI"},
    {"question": "What is the name of the period of starvation lasting from 1845 to 1852 in Ireland?", "answer": "The Irish Potato Famine"},
    {"question": "Who were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War?", "answer": "Athens and Sparta"},
    {"question": "What is Amerigo Vespucci famous for?", "answer": "Inspiring the term America"},
    {"question": "Where was William Shakespeare born?", "answer": "Stratford-upon-Avon, England"},
    {"question": "Who wrote the Illyad?", "answer": "Homer"},
    {"question": "What leader came to power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution?", "answer": "Fidel Castro"},
    {"question": "Who was England's longest-ruling monarch?", "answer": "Queen Elizabeth II"},
    {"question": "What political party was Mao Zedong the leader of?", "answer": "The Chinese Communist Party"},
    {"question": "Who was the last Queen of Hawai'i before it was annexed by the US?", "answer": "Queen Lili'uokalani"},
    {"question": "What year did Australia stop being a penal colony?", "answer": "1868"},
    {"question": "What year did Constantinople become Istanbul?", "answer": "1930"},
    {"question": "Which two wives did Henry VIII have beheaded?", "answer": "Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard"},
    {"question": "Who is often called the father of the atomic bomb?", "answer": "J. Robert Oppenheimer"},
    {"question": "What war ended dynastic rule in China in 1912?", "answer": "The Xinhai Revolution"},
    {"question": "When did India win independence from the United Kingdom?", "answer": "1947"},
    {"question": "What is the real name of the founder of Buddhism, commonly known as the Buddha?", "answer": "Siddartha Gautama"},
    {"question": "Who was the first democratically elected president of South Africa?", "answer": "Nelson Mandela"},
    {"question": "Who were the main combatants of the First Kashmir War?", "answer": "India and Pakistan"},
    {"question": "What country was ruled by Pol Pot until he was overthrown by the Vietnamese army in 1979?", "answer": "Cambodia"},
    {"question": "How many US vice presidents have gone on to become president?", "answer": "15, with the most recent being Joe Biden."},
    {"question": "What modern-day countries make up the land once known as the Babylonian Empire?", "answer": "Iraq and Iran"},
    {"question": "how big was donald trump's 2024 election victory", "answer": "77,302,580 votes, 49.8%"},
    {"question": "What does the term Khmer Rouge refer to?", "answer": "The Khmer Rouge was the radical Communist movement that violently came to power and ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979."},
    {"question": "What are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?", "answer": "The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria."},
    {"question": "Who is the most decorated Olympian athlete of all time?", "answer": "Michael Phelps with 28 Olympic medals"},
    {"question": "Who was the final ruler of Assyria?", "answer": "Ashur-uballit II"},
    {"question": "What was the original name of the Caribbean island that eventually became Haiti and the Dominican Republic?", "answer": "Quisqueya"},
    {"question": "Which ancient civilization built the city of Carthage?", "answer": "The Phoenicians of Tyre"},
    {"question": "Who is the current president of China?", "answer": "Xi Jinping"},
    {"question": "What year was Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City?", "answer": "1975"},
    {"question": "What year did the Titanic sink?", "answer": "1912"},
    {"question": "Who is credited with patenting the telephone?", "answer": "Alexander Graham Bell"},
    {"question": "Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote?", "answer": "New Zealand, on September 19, 1893"},
    {"question": "Which Greek goddess was the Parthenon dedicated to?", "answer": "Athena"},
    {"question": "When was the last eruption of Mount St. Helens?", "answer": "1980"}
]