diff --git a/lm_eval/tasks/mlmm/multilingual_truthfulqa.py b/lm_eval/tasks/mlmm/multilingual_truthfulqa.py
index cc916d6590..ff3d599ba8 100644
--- a/lm_eval/tasks/mlmm/multilingual_truthfulqa.py
+++ b/lm_eval/tasks/mlmm/multilingual_truthfulqa.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def create_task(lang):
     class ATest(TruthfulQAMultipleChoice):
         def __init__(self):
             self.DATASET_NAME = f"truthfulqa_{lang}"
-            super().__init__(lang)
+            super().__init__()
 
     return ATest