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"answer": "Lincoln, Nebraska",
"query": " Kathryn Bolkovac is a police officer from Lincoln, Nebraska, who accepts an offer to work with the United Nations International Police in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina for a UK company, Democra Security (a pseudonym for DynCorp International). After successfully... |
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"answer": "By strong light",
"query": " The story takes place in the far future. Human travel in outer space is threatened by strange creatures known as the Dragons. Imperceptible to ordinary people, Dragons are experienced as nothing but a sudden death or insanity. Dragons can only be destroyed by very s... |
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"answer": "She is overwhelmed and dislikes it.",
"query": " Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws' and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, expensive clothes a... |
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"answer": "Logging business.",
"query": " Buford Pusser (Joe Don Baker), at his wife Pauline's (Elizabeth Hartman) behest, retires from the professional wrestling ring and moves back to Tennessee to start a logging business with his father, Carl Pusser (Noah Beery, Jr.).\nWith a friend, he visits a gambli... |
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"answer": "They want him to join their team to travel back in time and look for a spaceship.",
"query": " While seeking water for his cattle Travis Fox enters a little known canyon in the Arizona desert and gets captured by three men, one of whom he recognizes as Dr. Gordon Ashe, an archaeologist. After d... |
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"answer": "THE GRAND HOTEL IN BERLIN",
"query": " Doctor Otternschlag (Lewis Stone), a disfigured veteran of World War I and a permanent resident of the Grand Hotel in Berlin, wryly observes, \"People coming, going. Nothing ever happens\", after which a great deal transpires. Baron Felix von Geigern (John... |
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"answer": "Ashland, Oregon.",
"query": " In the opening credits, hands made of sewing needles are seen recreating a button-eyed doll to resemble an 11-year-old girl named Coraline Jones before sending it out into a void. Coraline Jones, an adventurous 11-year old girl, and her family move from Pontiac, Mi... |
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"answer": "A teacher.",
"query": " The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a dynasty of farmers and craftsmen who live in the east Midlands of England, on the borders of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The book spans a period of roughly 65 years from the 1840s to 1905, and... |
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"answer": "Trying to reach the North Pole. ",
"query": " The story opens with Ward Bennett, an explorer of extraordinary will, and his men making an attempt to reach the North Pole, enduring brutal hardships. Many of the men die slow, painful deaths, and they all would have had a boat not stumbled across ... |
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"answer": "1991",
"query": " In 1991 in New York City, Alyssa \"Ally\" Craig is waiting with her mother for the subway when they are mugged by two young men who shoot her mother after boarding the train.\nTen years later, Ally is a student at New York University and lives with her father, Neil, a New York... |
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"answer": "Three",
"query": " Crystal, the only daughter of the old, long-exiled haughty royalist, the Comte de Cambray, is on the eve of betrothal to de Marmont, (secretly an ardent Bonapartist).\nBobby Clyffurde, the Englishman, who is in love with Crystal, confronts Victor de Marmont about why he is pr... |
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"answer": "his mother dies in a car crash",
"query": " Following the loss of his mother in a car crash, T.J. (Devin Brochu) falls into a state of depression. He becomes obsessed with the car his mother died in and follows it when it is towed away. He and his passive, depressed and pill-taking father Paul ... |
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"answer": "A seal-hunting schooner.",
"query": " Like The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist, in this novel's case an intellectual man named Humphrey van Weyden, forced to become tough and self-reliant by exposure to cruelty and brutality. The story starts w... |
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"answer": "The first test is the training course of the U.S Navy combined Recconnaissance team.",
"query": " A Senate Armed Services Committee interviews a candidate for the position of Secretary of the Navy. Senator Lillian DeHaven (Anne Bancroft) from Texas criticizes the Navy for not being gender-neutr... |
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"answer": "A professor on death row in a Texas prison.",
"query": " David Gale is a professor who is a prisoner on death row in Texas. With only a few days until his execution, his lawyer negotiates a half million-dollar fee to tell his story to Bitsey Bloom, a journalist from a major news magazine. She i... |
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"answer": "Failure",
"query": " Detail Assessment and Planning (Chinese: 始計,始计) explores the five fundamental factors (the Way, seasons, terrain, leadership and management) and seven elements that determine the outcomes of military engagements. By thinking, assessing and comparing these points, a commande... |
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"answer": "Colombia",
"query": " Nostromo is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana ha... |
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"answer": "Ellie's cat Church",
"query": " The Creed family â Louis, Rachel, and their children Ellie and Gage â move from Chicago to rural Ludlow, Maine, after Louis is offered a job as a doctor with the University of Maine. They befriend their elderly neighbor Jud Crandall, who takes them to an isol... |
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"answer": "Medias res",
"query": " The poem is separated into twelve \"books\" or sections, the lengths of which vary greatly (the longest is Book IX, with 1,189 lines, and the shortest Book VII, with 640). The Arguments at the head of each book were added in subsequent imprints of the first edition. Orig... |
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"answer": "Machiavel",
"query": " The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based on Niccolò Machiavelli, introduces \"the tragedy of a Jew.\" Machiavel expresses the cynical view that power is amoral, saying \"I count religion but a childish toy,/And hold there is no... |
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"answer": "The Morning Post",
"query": " Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard \"Hildy\" Johnson (Rosalind Russell), is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy) and settle down to a quiet li... |
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"answer": "Honesdale, Pennsylvania",
"query": " Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a schoolteacher in the small town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, with her boyfriend Hal (Tom Amandes) and her daughter Caitlin (Yvonne Zima). Eight years earlier, she was found washed ashore on a New Jersey beach, pregnant with C... |
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"answer": "He wants to be an artist.",
"query": " Nick Dormer wants to pursue a career in painting instead of his family's traditional role in British politics. This upsets his family and particularly his lady friend, Julia Dallow, a beautiful but demanding woman deeply involved in political campaigns. Bu... |
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"answer": "El Lobo",
"query": " A bomb detonates in the plaza of the Colombian Consulate building in Los Angeles, killing nine people, including a caravan of Colombian officials and American intelligence agents. Among the civilians killed are the wife and son of LAFD firefighter, Captain Gordon \"Gordy\" ... |
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"answer": "Philip was arrested because Steven got caught embezzling.",
"query": " Steven Jay Russell is on his deathbed, recalling the events of his life that led him to this point. He spent his early adult years in Virginia Beach as a police officer. He plays the organ at church, has unenthusiastic sex w... |
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"answer": "tour of Europe. ",
"query": " The second book in the Aunt Jane's series picks up where the first left off. The eccentric and down-to-earth millionaire John Merrick decides to take his three beloved nieces – Patsy Doyle, Elizabeth de Graf, and Louise Merrick – on a tour of Europe. The parents of... |
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"answer": "Troezen",
"query": " The play is set in Troezen, a coastal town in the northeastern Peloponnese. Theseus, the king of Athens, is serving a year's voluntary exile after having murdered a local king and his sons. His illegitimate son is Hippolytus, whose birth is the result of Theseus's rape of t... |
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"answer": "Through artificial insemination. ",
"query": " Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has given up on finding the man of her dreams and decides to become a single mother and undergoes artificial insemination. The same day she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) when they both try to hail the same taxi. They run into ea... |
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"answer": "He met her when she ran into him with her bike.",
"query": " The protagonist of this bildungsroman is Arthur \"Artie\" Kipps, an illegitimate orphan. In Book I (\"The Making of Kipps\") he is raised by his aged aunt and uncle who keep a little shop in New Romney, on the southern coast of Kent. ... |
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"answer": "A song used to attract a mate.",
"query": " Every emperor penguin sings a unique song called a \"heartsong\" to attract a mate. If the male penguin's heartsong matches the female's song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a female penguin, falls for Memphis, a male penguin and they become mates... |
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"answer": "A Shropshire Lad can be read as an allegory of the hero's emotional journey through life.",
"query": " A Shropshire Lad contains several repeated themes. It is not a connected narrative, though it can be read as an allegory of a heart's journey through life. The \"I\" of the poems, the authoria... |
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"answer": "A sting operation.",
"query": " October 17, 1984: It is late morning in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood where a sting operation is taking place. Sergeant Eddie Cusack (Chuck Norris) and his crack team of Chicago Police detectives take their positions, including Lieutenant Kobas (Joseph Kosala), s... |
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"answer": "John Berthier Heatherstone",
"query": " Near their residence, Branksome, is Cloomber Hall, for many years untenanted. After a little while it is settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is nervous to the point of being paranoid. As the story unfold... |
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"answer": "She does not want to be married to the old king, Conchubor.",
"query": " Act I: Lavarcham's house on Slieve Fuadh. Conchubor, the aging High King of Ulster, has charged Lavarcham to raise the child Deirdre to be his queen when she comes of age. Lavarcham finds that the now-beautiful Deirdre is ... |
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"answer": "She informs Cruz of Mac's location.",
"query": " Virginia \"Gin\" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is an investigator for \"Waverly Insurance\". Robert \"Mac\" MacDougal (Sean Connery) is a professional thief who specializes in international art. A priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from an off... |
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"answer": "24",
"query": " Alice Vavasor, a young woman of twenty-four, is engaged to the wealthy and respectable and dependable, if unambitious and bland, John Grey. She had previously been engaged to her cousin George, but she broke it off after he went through a wild period. John, trusting in his love,... |
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"answer": "The midwest",
"query": " The book is written in three parts.\n\"Book One: The Romantic Egotist\"—The novel centers on Amory Blaine, a young Midwesterner who, convinced that he has an exceptionally promising future, attends boarding school and later Princeton University. He leaves behind his ecc... |
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"answer": "Charley Brewster.",
"query": " Seventeen-year-old Charley Brewster is a fan of both traditional horror films and a horror TV series entitled Fright Night, hosted by former movie vampire hunter Peter Vincent. One evening, Charley discovers that his new next door neighbour Jerry Dandrige, is a va... |
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"answer": "Sean Archer",
"query": " FBI Special Agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) survives an assassination attempt by freelance domestic terrorist and homicidal psychopath Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), but the bullet pierces through Archer's chest and hits his son Michael, killing the boy.\nSix years later... |
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"answer": "Peter",
"query": " Peter is a seven-day-old infant who, \"like all infants\", used to be part bird. Peter has complete faith in his flying abilities, so, upon hearing a discussion of his adult life, he is able to escape out of the window of his London home and return to Kensington Gardens. Upon... |
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"answer": "In the Metropolitan Tower",
"query": " \"The Runaway Skyscraper\" concerns Arthur Chamberlain, an engineer who works in a midtown Manhattan office building called the Metropolitan Tower. When the sun suddenly begins moving backwards in the sky, setting rapidly in the east, he is the only one to... |
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"answer": "He didn't want to spoil their fun. ",
"query": " The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children: Henry, Jessie (or Jess), Violet, and Benny. In the original 1924 version of the tale, the children are orphaned in the first few pages; in the heavily revised and simplified 1942 revi... |
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"answer": "Oskar Schindler.",
"query": " In Kraków during World War II, the Germans had forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German, arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune. A member of the Nazi Party, Schindler lavishes bribes on Wehrmacht (German... |
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"answer": "Tuberculosis.",
"query": " Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), a retired peace officer with a notable reputation, reunites with his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) in Tucson, Arizona, where they venture on towards Tombstone, a small mining town, to settle down. There they encounte... |
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