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[ { "answer": "Professional dancer.", "query": " Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), is a professional dancer in a New York ballet company. Nina lives in New York City with her overprotective mother, Erica (Barbara Hershey). The company is preparing to open the season with Swan Lake. The director, Thomas Leroy (Vi...
[ { "answer": "the Bellman's map of the Ocean.", "query": " After crossing the sea guided by the Bellman's map of the Ocean—a blank sheet of paper—the hunting party arrive in a strange land, and the Bellman informs them of the five signs of a Snark: its \"meagre and hollow, but crisp\" taste; a habit of r...
[ { "answer": "Iowa", "query": " Ray Kinsella is a novice Iowa farmer who lives with his wife, Annie, and daughter, Karin. In the opening narration, he explains how he had a troubled relationship with his father, John Kinsella, who had been a devoted baseball fan. While walking through his cornfield one eveni...
[ { "answer": "On an isolated desert island in the Indian Ocean.", "query": " Ibn Tufail drew the name of the tale and most of its characters from an earlier work by Ibn Sina (Avicenna), but the plot was very different, and the book was a new and innovative work in its own right. Avicenna's story was essentia...
[ { "answer": "Elaine Harper", "query": " The plot revolves around the Brewster family of Brooklyn, New York, descended from the Mayflower and composed of illustrious White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ancestors whose portraits line the walls. The religious theme is repeatedly mentioned, and Elaine is the daughter ...
[ { "answer": "His father is unknown", "query": " In the isolated, desolate, decrepit village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as \"Yog-Sothoth\"). Strange events surroun...
[ { "answer": "Somewhere not known to her in Barsoom.", "query": " In this novel Burroughs focuses on a younger member of the family established by John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series. The heroine this time is their daughter Tara, princess of Helium, whose hand is...
[ { "answer": "a psychic ray", "query": " Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties, to be held at the house of her father, the eccentric Captain Shotover, an inventor in his late 80s who is trying to create a \"psychic ray\" that will destroy d...
[ { "answer": "Edgar Deems", "query": " Valentine \"Val\" McKee and Earl Basset work as handymen in Perfection, Nevada, an isolated ex-mining settlement in the high desert east of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They eventually tire of their jobs and leave for Bixby, the nearest town. As they leave, they discove...
[ { "answer": "Aubrey", "query": " Aubrey, a young Englishman, meets Lord Ruthven, a man of mysterious origins who has entered London society. Aubrey accompanies Ruthven to Rome, but leaves him after Ruthven seduces the daughter of a mutual acquaintance. Aubrey travels to Greece, where he becomes attracted to...
[ { "answer": "That she is leaving him", "query": " Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she...
[ { "answer": "California ", "query": " Convicted thief Albert Ganz is working as part of a road gang in California, when a big Native American man named Billy Bear drives up in a pickup truck and asks for water to cool off his truck’s overheating radiator. Ganz and Billy exchange insults and proceed to sta...
[ { "answer": "Poland.", "query": " In a speech before the Polish diet Demetrius asserts his claim to the throne of the czars. He hopes for assistance from Poland. He declares that he is the son of Ivan the Terrible and was not, as reputed, murdered in 1591 as a child, but raised in a cloister and that he aft...
[ { "answer": "Laura and Lizzie ", "query": " \"Goblin Market\" is about two close sisters, Laura and Lizzie, as well as the goblins to whom the title refers.\nAlthough the sisters seem to be quite young, they live by themselves in a house, and are accustomed to draw water every evening from a stream. As the ...
[ { "answer": "St. Paul", "query": " Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state capital. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart.\nWhen they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota (a ...
[ { "answer": "The Antartic waters", "query": " The mariner's tale begins with his ship departing on its journey. Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south by a storm and eventually reaches Antarctic waters. An albatross appears and leads them out of the ice jam where they are stuck, but even as ...
[ { "answer": "Because she was upset with her parents", "query": " In the woods outside of Cherry Falls, Virginia, a teenage couple, Rod Harper (Jesse Bradford) and Stacy Twelfmann (Bre Blair) are getting romantic in a car when a black-haired female appears and murders them both. Meanwhile, in town, teenager ...
[ { "answer": "They are brothers.", "query": " The Revenge tells the story of Clermont D'Ambois, the brother of the dead Bussy. Unlike the ruthless Bussy, Clermont is a Christian Stoic. Clermont is a follower of the Duc de Guise, a powerful nobleman—though this relationship breeds suspicion in the King, who...
[ { "answer": "Dr. James Mortimer", "query": " Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles died at his Devonshire estate, Baskerville Hall, and Mortimer now fears for Sir Charles's nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville. The death w...
[ { "answer": "Nick and Hendrick and Dale Arbus.", "query": " Nick Hendricks (Bateman) and Dale Arbus (Day) are friends who despise their bosses. Nick works at a financial firm for the sadistic David Harken (Spacey), who implies the possibility of a promotion for Nick for months, only to award it to himself. ...
[ { "answer": "A.D. 1300.", "query": " After being pulled through a time portal, Ash Williams lands in A.D. 1300, where he is soon captured by Lord Arthur's men, who suspect him to be an agent for Duke Henry, with whom Arthur is at war. He is enslaved along with the captured Henry, his gun and chainsaw confis...
[ { "answer": "The preacher who had baptizes him.", "query": " The film opens with Tom Joad (Henry Fonda), released from prison and hitchhiking his way back to his parents' family farm in Oklahoma. Tom finds an itinerant ex-preacher named Jim Casy (John Carradine) sitting under a tree by the side of the road....
[ { "answer": "By interpreting the dust on the floor of his daughter's bedroom as geographic coordinates and traveling to the location where they are being planned.", "query": " In a futuristic 21st-century era, crop blight on Earth has made farming increasingly difficult and threatens humanity's survival. Jo...
[ { "answer": "Robin is an Englishman.", "query": " Robin of Locksley was an English nobleman who joined Richard the Lionheart, King of England in the Third Crusade. Locksley is imprisoned in Jerusalem along with his comrade, Peter Dubois. Facing the amputation of his hand by the Ayyubid prison guards, Robin ...
[ { "answer": "Dolon", "query": " In the middle of the night Trojan guards on the lookout for suspicious enemy activity sight bright fires in the Greek camp. They promptly inform Hector, who almost issues a general call to arms before Aeneas makes him see how ill-advised this would be. Their best bet, Aeneas ...
[ { "answer": "Sophie Gamard", "query": " The Abbé François Birotteau and the Abbé Hyacinthe Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is...
[ { "answer": "Baldred", "query": " Prologue (1599): Auriol Darcy is surprised attempting to remove the heads of two traitors from the Southwark Gateway of Old London Bridge. He is injured by the warder, Baldred, and carried to the house of Dr Lamb, an alchemist and Auriol Darcy's grandfather, who is assisted...
[ { "answer": "Erik Lehnsherr.", "query": " In 1944 German-occupied Poland, the child Erik Lehnsherr is separated from his parents upon entering a concentration camp. While trying to reach them, he causes a set of metal gates to bend towards him, as though attracted by a magnetic force, before being knocked o...
[ { "answer": "Therese's mother died.", "query": " Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but in many ways is deeply selfish. Thérèse's husband, Camille, is sickly and egocentric, and when the opportunit...
[ { "answer": "Lucy", "query": " In the London suburb of Finchley, the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are endangered by a Second World War attack of German bombers. They are then evacuated to the country home of Professor Digory Kirke, who is not accustomed to having children in his house, ...
[ { "answer": "A holographic watch. ", "query": " Megamind is shown falling at the beginning of the film and he explains how. Megamind was born intelligent and was evacuated from his homeworld as a baby, as was Metro Man; the two fall into paths of super villainy and superheroism respectively and grow up as r...
[ { "answer": "Squire of Allington", "query": " The Small House at Allington concerns the Dale family, who live in the \"Small House\", a dower house intended for the widowed mother (Dowager) of the owner of the estate. The landowner, in this instance, is the bachelor Squire of Allington, Christopher Dale. Da...
[ { "answer": "Major Carteret", "query": " This is a fictional account of the rise of the white supremacist movement, specifically as it contributed to what was originally referred to as the \"race riots\" that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. Critics argue over what would be a more proper te...
[ { "answer": "about 130 gallons 492 litres", "query": " The story's narrator, Montresor, tells the story of the day that he took his revenge on Fortunato (Italian for \"the fortunate one\"), a fellow nobleman, to an unspecified person who knows him very well. Angry over numerous injuries and some unspecified...
[ { "answer": "Pluto", "query": " The story is presented as a first-person narrative using an unreliable narrator. He is a condemned man at the outset of the story. The narrator tells us that from an early age he has loved animals. He and his wife have many pets, including a large, beautiful black cat (as des...
[ { "answer": "At age six.", "query": " Born into slavery in Edenton, NC in 1813, Linda has happy years as a young child with her brother, parents, and maternal grandmother, who are relatively well-off slaves in good positions. It is not until her mother dies that Linda even begins to understand that she is a...
[ { "answer": "30 years before", "query": " In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as a \"looper.\" Since future technology has made it near-impossible to dispose of bodies, the syndicate uses time travel, invented thirty years later and outlawed instantly. Managed by a future man na...
[ { "answer": "Antwerp", "query": " After stealing an 86-carat (17.2 g) diamond in a heist in Antwerp, Franky \"Four-Fingers\" goes to London to see diamond dealer Doug \"The Head\" on behalf of New York jeweler \"Cousin Avi\". One of the other robbers advises Franky to obtain a gun from ex-KGB agent Boris \...
[ { "answer": "A bottle of malt liquor ", "query": " The film opens with Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) and a 12-year-old girl making out on a bed. With no adults around, Telly, who is slightly older, persuades the girl, who is a virgin, to have sex with him. Afterwards, he meets his friend, Casper (Justin Pierce), ...
[ { "answer": "A diary kept by Eve", "query": " It is written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the biblical creation story, Eve, and is claimed to be \"translated from the original MS.\" The \"plot\" of this story is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her burial by, her ...
[ { "answer": "40 million ", "query": " The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted s...
[ { "answer": "Throw away his police officer badge", "query": " Ned Ravine, who's both a police officer and a lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he'll throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, he encou...
[ { "answer": "New York.", "query": " This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as \"Deerslayer\": a young frontiersman in early 18th-century New York, who objects to the practice of taking scalps, on grounds that every living thing should follow \"the gifts\" of its nature, which would keep European Americans from ...
[ { "answer": "Butscha", "query": " The first part of Modeste Mignon is based on a traditional species of folktale known as La fille mal gardée (\"The Ill-Watched Girl\"), in which a young woman takes a lover despite the close attentions of her guardians, who are determined to preserve her chastity for a more...
[ { "answer": "handicapping football games", "query": " Brandon Lang (McConaughey) is a former college football star who, after sustaining a career-ending injury, takes a job handicapping football games. His success at choosing winners catches the eye of Walter Abrams (Pacino), the slick head of one of the bi...
[ { "answer": "The Dark Lady", "query": " The play is set at \"Fin de siècle 15-1600. Midsummer night on the terrace of the Palace at Whitehall, overlooking the Thames. The Palace clock chimes four quarters and strikes eleven.\"\nThe Man arrives at Whitehall where he meets a Beefeater guard. He persuades the...
[ { "answer": "The Gulf Coast.", "query": " The story begins with an account of how geologists in the mid-1960s came to understand that the \"Kiowa fault\" in the state of Colorado was actually part of a larger fault system running along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains from Texas to the Canada–US bo...
[ { "answer": "The manor becomes an orphanage.", "query": " Eight years after the death of district attorney Harvey Dent, the Dent Act grants the Gotham City Police Department powers which nearly eradicate organized crime. Police Commissioner James Gordon feels increasingly guilty for covering up the crimes c...
[ { "answer": "Continues to offer her to the creatures", "query": " As people are enjoying drinks in a bar, a man covered in blood—identified onscreen as \"Hero\" (Eric Dane)—enters through the door and warns them all of impending danger. No one heeds his warning, so he shows the bar patrons the head of a rep...
[ { "answer": "The murder of his wife and her lover.", "query": " In 1947 Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, and is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at the Shawshank State Penitentiary. Andy is befriended by contraband smuggler, Ellis \"Red\" Red...
[ { "answer": "After his mother dies.", "query": " Marius, a sensitive only child of a patrician family, growing up near Luna in rural Etruria, is impressed by the traditions and rituals of the ancestral religion of the Lares, by his natural surroundings, and by a boyhood visit to a sanctuary of Aesculapius. ...
[ { "answer": "Vomits.", "query": " Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are two high school seniors who lament their virginity and poor social standing. Best friends since childhood, the two are about to go off to different colleges, as Seth did not get accepted into Dartmouth like Evan. After Seth is p...
[ { "answer": "1913", "query": " In Texas in 1913, Pike Bishop (William Holden), the leader of a gang of aging outlaws, is seeking retirement with one final score: the robbery of a railroad office containing a cache of silver. They are ambushed by Pike's former partner, Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), who is lea...
[ { "answer": "plantation", "query": " Peyton Farquhar, a plantation owner in his mid-thirties, is being prepared for execution by hanging from an Alabama railroad bridge during the American Civil War. Six military men and a company of infantrymen are present, guarding the bridge and carrying out the sentence...
[ { "answer": "Jeff is a professional photographer.", "query": " After breaking his leg photographing a racetrack accident, a professional photographer, the adventurous L. B. \"Jeff\" Jefferies (James Stewart), is confined to a wheelchair in his Greenwich Village apartment to recuperate. His rear window looks...
[ { "answer": "InGen", "query": " Industrialist John Hammond and his bioengineering company, InGen, have created a theme park called Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, a tropical Costa Rican island populated with cloned dinosaurs. After one of the park workers is killed by a Velociraptor, the park's investors, rep...
[ { "answer": "Erica is Marin's mother.", "query": " Harry Sanborn is a wealthy New York music mogul who has had a 40-year habit of dating women under 30, including his latest conquest, Marin Klein. The two drive to her mother's Hamptons beach house expecting to be alone, but are surprised by Marin's mother, ...
[ { "answer": "The twins' mother died", "query": " Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Gr...
[ { "answer": "They are from opposing neighborhood", "query": " The story opens with Jimmie, at this point a young boy, trying by himself to fight a gang of boys from an opposing neighborhood. He is saved by his friend, Pete, and comes home to his sister Maggie, his toddling brother Tommie, his brutal and dru...
[ { "answer": "Sir Sampson Legend", "query": " Valentine has fallen under the displeasure of his father by his extravagance, and is besieged by creditors. His father, Sir Sampson Legend, offers him ÂŁ4000 (only enough to pay his debts) if he will sign a bond engaging to make over his right to his inheritance ...
[ { "answer": "Transuranic", "query": " The menace in this story consists of dust from the tail of a comet. It consists of a colloid, analogous to smoke, that incorporates an unknown transuranic element. That element has a great affinity for metal surfaces and it weakens their surface tension, thereby enablin...
[ { "answer": "To get Nella what she wants because her order of Steak and Beer was refused.", "query": " The protagonists are an American millionaire, Theodore Racksole, and his daughter Nella (Helen). While staying at the supremely exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel, Nella asks for a steak and Bass beer for dinne...
[ { "answer": "His father had a stroke", "query": " Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns to his logging home town of Lumberton, North Carolina from Oak Lake College after his father suffers a near-fatal stroke. While walking home from the hospital, he cuts through a vacant lot and discovers a severed ea...
[ { "answer": "A lot of money.", "query": " The story concerns two young French women, Louise de Chaulieu (1805–1835) and Renée de Maucombe (born 1807), who become close friends during their novitiate at the Carmelite convent of Blois. When they leave the convent, however, their lives follow two very differen...
[ { "answer": "Arbaces", "query": " Arbaces, King of Iberia, has been abroad, fighting in the wars, for many years; he returns home in triumph, bringing with him Tigranes, the defeated king of Armenia. He intends to marry his sister Panthea to Tigranes. Meanwhile, he learns that his mother, Arane, who hates h...
[ { "answer": "Dick Forrest.", "query": " The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his \"acorn song\" recalls London's play, \"The Acorn Planters.\"). His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman (in one scene, she rides ...
[ { "answer": "2008", "query": " In 2001, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is released from prison after serving eight years for insider trading and securities fraud. Seven years later, Gekko is promoting his new book Is Greed Good?, warning about the coming economic downturn. His estranged daughter, Winnie (Ca...
[ { "answer": "Henry Thorne and Mary Scatcherd.", "query": " When their father dies, Doctor Thomas Thorne and his younger, ne'er-do-well brother Henry are left to fend for themselves. Doctor Thorne begins to establish a medical practice, while Henry seduces Mary Scatcherd, the sister of stonemason Roger Scatc...
[ { "answer": "he becomes snobbish", "query": " The play begins with the coquettish Charlotte and Letitia talking about the forthcoming marriage and Maria’s distress due to her father’s marriage plans for her. Billy Dimple's father was Van Rough's business partner. Before the death of Dimple’s father, a marri...
[ { "answer": "Hannah Green", "query": " Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon). He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), w...
[ { "answer": "the court of Henri II", "query": " Mademoiselle de Chartres is a sheltered heiress, sixteen years old, whose mother has brought her to the court of Henri II to seek a husband with good financial and social prospects. When old jealousies against a kinsman spark intrigues against the young ingénu...
[ { "answer": "because Richard was orphaned at a young age", "query": " Foreword\nThe novel opens with a fictitious foreword, a brief note dated 1876, in which the purported editor of the memoirs, Daniel Clapsaddle Carvel, claims that they are just as his grandfather, Richard Carvel, wrote them, all the more ...
[ { "answer": "A mining engineer.", "query": " The novel centers on a young, independent, unnamed, wealthy traveler (the narrator), who visits a friend, a mining engineer. They explore a natural chasm in a mine which has been exposed by an exploratory shaft. The narrator reaches the bottom of the chasm safely...
[ { "answer": "To be able to purchase the controlling interest in the company.", "query": " In December 1958, Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), a business college graduate from Muncie, Indiana, arrives in New York City looking for a job. He struggles due to lack of experience and becomes a mailroom clerk at Huds...
[ { "answer": "USS Enterprise-E", "query": " Captain Jean-Luc Picard wakes from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier (shown in the television episode \"The Best of Both Worlds\"). Starfleet informs him of a new Borg attack against Earth, but orders the USS ...
[ { "answer": "Margot at the Wedding", "query": " Margot (Nicole Kidman) is a successful but neurotic writer who brings her 11-year-old son Claude (Zane Pais) to spend a weekend visiting her free-spirited sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) on the eve of her wedding to Malcolm (Jack Black) at Pauline & Malc...
[ { "answer": "When Clyde attempts to steal Bonnie's mother's car.", "query": " In the middle of the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mother's car. Bonnie, who is bored by her job as a waitress, is intrigued by Clyde, and d...
[ { "answer": "What will become North Texas.", "query": " The film opens in what will become North Texas, 35,000 BC. Entering a cave, two cavemen hunters stumble upon a large extraterrestrial life form. One is killed by the creature while the other one fights and wins, stabbing the creature to death, but he ...
[ { "answer": "he died", "query": " Maurya has lost her husband, and five of her sons to the sea. As the play begins Nora and Cathleen receive word from the priest that a body, that may be their brother Michael, has washed up on shore in Donegal, the island farthest north of their home island of Inishmaan. Ba...
[ { "answer": "Her boss refused to pay her", "query": " Ali Rose (Aguilera) moves to Los Angeles after she quits her bar job when her boss refuses to pay her. Once in L.A., she tries and fails at every audition she does until one night, she finds herself unknowingly in a burlesque club when she hears the musi...
[ { "answer": "A bakery", "query": " Jane (Meryl Streep), who owns a successful bakery in Santa Barbara, California, and Jake Adler (Alec Baldwin), a successful attorney, divorced ten years earlier. They had three children together, two girls and a boy, who are grown. Jake, who was cheating on Jane, married t...
[ { "answer": "Govenor", "query": " The story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the governor's mansion is depicted in the film. He goes into politics, railing against the corruptly run county government, but loses his race for county treasurer, in the face of unfair obstacles ...
[ { "answer": "Mahbub Ali", "query": " Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets ...
[ { "answer": "HIS SON", "query": " Chārudatta is a generous young man who, through his charitable contributions to unlucky friends and the general public welfare, has severely impoverished himself and his family. Though deserted by most of his friends and embarrassed by deteriorating living conditions, he ha...
[ { "answer": "Molly", "query": " In a world where toys are living things who pretend to be lifeless when their owners are present, a group of toys owned by a six-year-old boy, Andy Davis (John Morris), are caught off-guard when Andy's birthday party is moved up a week, as Andy, his single mother (Laurie Metc...
[ { "answer": "She died in childbirth.", "query": " His beloved wife having died in childbirth, Phineas Finn finds Irish society and his job as a Poorhouse Inspector dull and unsatisfying after the excitement of his former career as a Member of Parliament. Back in England, the Whigs are determined to overturn...
[ { "answer": "poor", "query": " Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is a self-confessed music loving everyman with a poor understanding of women. After getting dumped by his latest girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle), he decides to look up some of his old partners in an attempt to figure out where he keeps going wrong in h...
[ { "answer": "The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad", "query": " A woman in a wedding dress, the Bride, lies wounded in a chapel in El Paso, having been attacked by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. She tells their leader, Bill, that she is carrying his baby. He shoots her.\nFour years later, having survi...
[ { "answer": "Medieval castle", "query": " Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel....
[ { "answer": "The Touraine region in France.", "query": " César is a man of peasant origins from the Touraine region. At the start of the novel, in 1819, he owns a successful perfume shop, La Reine des Roses, he has been elected deputy mayor of his arrondissement in Paris, and he has been awarded the Legion ...
[ { "answer": "Seventeen", "query": " The protagonist of The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is Lady Harman, nĂŠe Ellen Sawbridge. The moral, emotional, and intellectual conflicts that this tall, sensitive, graceful woman confronts arise in the context of a loveless marriage with Sir Isaac Harman, a self-made man wh...
[ { "answer": "The statement \"Don't buy from Jews.\"", "query": " After centuries of various restrictions, hostilities and frequent pogroms, the Jews of Europe have been reduced to living in Ghettos. The higher class is forced to deal with angry mobs and so experiences a great deal of discomfort; the lower c...
[ { "answer": "The glow of residual volcanism.", "query": " The beginning of the book establishes the framework in which a 17th-century gentleman, mourning the death of his beloved, Lady Mirdath, is given a vision of a far-distant future where their souls will be re-united, and sees the world of that time thr...
[ { "answer": "Canada", "query": " The film opens in early 1980s Canada where teenager Martin Asher (Paul Dano) is seen ambling about a bus station, seemingly uncertain of his destination. He befriends another teen on the bus, Matt Soulsby (Justin Chatwin) and the two talk about their plans for the future. Wh...
[ { "answer": "Haley, Illinois", "query": " The lives of two closely linked families dangerously intersect in a small Illinois town in the 1950s. Two brothers, Jacey and Doug Holt are growing up in Haley, Illinois, sons of a working single mother. Their father, a reckless risk-taker, has lost his life via a b...
[ { "answer": "Skin lesions", "query": " Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a Senior Associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia. Beckett hides his homosexuality and his status as an AIDS patient from the other members of the law firm. On the day Beckett is assigned the firm's newest and most impor...
[ { "answer": "She is an orphan who is heir to fifteen thousand pounds.", "query": " As with his previous novels, Richardson prefaced the novel by claiming to be merely the editor, saying, \"How such remarkable collections of private letters fell into the editor's hand he hopes the reader will not think it ve...
[ { "answer": "Mary Swanson", "query": " Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels), two unintelligent men, are best friends and roommates living in Providence, Rhode Island who struggle at every aspect of life. Lloyd, a limousine driver, falls in love with Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly), a woma...
[ { "answer": "The Land That Time Forgot.", "query": " The People That Time Forgot is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and continues the lost world saga begun in the earlier story. Burroughs continues the revelation of his lost world's unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous insta...
[ { "answer": "To take her to a mountaintop. ", "query": " The first act takes place outside a spa overlooking a fjord. Sculptor Arnold Rubek and his wife Maia have just enjoyed breakfast and are reading newspapers and drinking champagne. They marvel at how quiet the spa is. Their conversation is lighthearted...