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[ { "answer": "Aristide Torchia.", "query": " Dean Corso (Johnny Depp), a New York City rare book dealer, makes his living conning people into selling him valuable antique books for a low price, and then re-selling them to private collectors. Corso meets with wealthy book collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langell...
[ { "answer": "Richmond, Surrey", "query": " The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, in Victorian England, and identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is...
[ { "answer": "Their country estate, Yasnaya Polyana", "query": " In 1910, the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life, his disciples, led by Vladimir Chertkov, manoeuvre against his wife, Sofya, for control over Tolstoy's works after his death. The main setting is the Tolstoy country estate of Yasnaya Polyana. Tolst...
[ { "answer": "Criminal psychology", "query": " After giving a guest lecture on criminal psychology at a local university, Dr Helen Hudson (Weaver), a respected field expert on serial killers, is cornered in a lavatory by one of her previous subjects, Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick, Jr.), who kills a police...
[ { "answer": "He is Jewish", "query": " High school student Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong) receives an assignment from his history teacher Mr. Murray (Elliott Gould) to write a paper on \"any book which relates to the struggle for human rights.\" Knowing Murray is Jewish, Danny writes his paper on Adolf Hitl...
[ { "answer": "Hetty Sorrell, Dinah Morris, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, and Adam Bede.", "query": " According to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967),\n\"the plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the ...
[ { "answer": "It magically records every event in the world.", "query": " Cap'n Bill, a sailor with a wooden peg-leg, and his friend, a little girl named Trot, set out from California on a calm day for a short ride in their row-boat. A freak whirlpool capsizes their boat and pulls them under water, where the...
[ { "answer": "In New York City.", "query": " Miguel \"Sugar\" Santos (Perez Soto) spends his weekends at home, passing from the landscaped gardens and manicured fields on one side of the guarded academy gate to the underdeveloped, more chaotic world beyond. In his small village outside San Pedro de MacorĂ­s,...
[ { "answer": "A cabin", "query": " Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda take a romantic vacation to a seemingly abandoned cabin in the woods. While in the cabin, Ash plays a tape of an archaeology Professor Knowby, the cabin's previous inhabitant, reciting passages from the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (or Book o...
[ { "answer": "Editor in chief of book publishing company", "query": " Margaret Tate is an executive editor in chief of a book publishing company. After learning she is about to be deported to Canada because she violated the terms of her work visa, she persuades her assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her. She...
[ { "answer": "Berry Hamilton.", "query": " Berry Hamilton, an emancipated black man, works as a butler for a wealthy white man Maurice Oakley. Berry lives in a small cottage a short distance away from the Oakley's place of residence. Berry lives with his wife, Fannie, and two children, Joe and Kitty. During ...
[ { "answer": "Clay", "query": " The Losers are an elite black ops team of United States Special Forces operatives, led by Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and formed by Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), Jensen (Chris Evans), and Cougar (Óscar Jaenada), who are sent to Bolivia in a search and destroy miss...
[ { "answer": "Rennie, Sean, and Toby are the only survivors.", "query": " Following the events of The New Blood, two graduating high school students are aboard on a houseboat. Jim tells his girlfriend Suzy the legend of Jason Voorhees, before playing a prank on her with a hockey mask and a fake knife. The bo...
[ { "answer": "Dr. Lucy", "query": " Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends as are their wives, Maggie (Jenna Fischer) and Grace (Christina Applegate). They are both unhappy with their married lives and missing the old days when they were single. Realizing this, their wives talk to thei...
[ { "answer": "Oakland Athletics", "query": " Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane is upset by his team's loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 postseason. With the impending departure of star players Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi, and Jason Isringhausen to free agency, Beane needs to assemble a comp...
[ { "answer": "Pokrovsky", "query": " Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments. Devushkin's, for example, is merely a portioned-off section of the kitchen, and he lives with several other tenants, such as...
[ { "answer": "FRODO", "query": " In the Second Age of Middle-earth, the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One Ring in Mount Doom to conquer all, abandoning a great part of his power to it in order to dominate, through it, at a distance, the other Rings of Power, which had been granted to lords of Elves, Dwarves an...
[ { "answer": "A homeless man", "query": " In 1987, wealthy New York investment banker Patrick Bateman's life revolves around dining at trendy restaurants while keeping up appearances for his fiancĂŠe Evelyn and for his circle of wealthy and shallow associates, most of whom he dislikes. Bateman describes the ...
[ { "answer": "Lord Loam", "query": " Act One is set in Loam Hall, the household of Lord Loam, a British peer, Crichton being his butler. Loam considers the class divisions in British society to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the ...
[ { "answer": "Miss Clara Mowbray", "query": " The novel concerns the rivalry of two men: Valentine Bulmer, the Earl of Etherington, and his half-brother Francis Tyrrel. Both wish to marry Miss Clara Mowbray, who is the sister of John, the laird of Saint Ronan’s.\nSaint Ronan’s Well is a spa at Innerleith...
[ { "answer": "Barsetshire", "query": " The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, in the fictional county of Barsetshire.\nHiram's Hospital is an almshouse supported by a medieval charitable bequest to the Diocese of Barchester...
[ { "answer": "The military aspects of the Peloponnesian War", "query": " The first book of the History, after a brief review of early Greek history and some programmatic historiographical commentary, seeks to explain why the Peloponnesian War broke out when it did and what its causes were. Except for a few s...
[ { "answer": "Zoza", "query": " The name of the Pentamerone comes from Greek πέντε [pénte], ‘five’; y ἡμέρα [hêméra], ‘day’ because is structured around a fantastic frame story, in which fifty stories are related over the course of five days, rather than the ten of the Decameron compendium of Tuscany (1353)....
[ { "answer": "After Anodos twenty first birthday.", "query": " The tale starts the day after Anodos' twenty-first birthday. He discovers an ancient fairy lady (whom he learns to be his grandmother) in the desk which he opens with a key that he inherited as a birthright from his late father. After the fairy s...
[ { "answer": "Wherever it leads us.", "query": " Greenleaf begins his book by arguing for the need to suspend prejudices and to be open to conviction, \"to follow the truth wherever it may lead us\" (p. 1). He cites Bishop Daniel Wilson's Evidences by stating that Christianity does not \"bring irresistible e...
[ { "answer": "A law giver.", "query": " Harrington's magnum opus, Oceana is an exposition on an ideal constitution, designed to allow for the existence of a utopian republic. Oceana was read contemporaneously as a metaphor for interregnum England, with its beneficent lawgiver Olphaus Megaletor representing C...
[ { "answer": "Neil Paraday", "query": " The narrator suggests writing an article on Neil Paraday; his new editor agrees. The former spends a week with Neil and writes the article whilst there, alongside reading Paraday's latest book. His editor rejects the article however; he decides to write an article for ...
[ { "answer": "Yaotl becomes immortal.", "query": " Three thousand years ago, an Aztec warlord named Yaotl and his four generals discover a portal opening into a parallel universe which is said to have great power. Yaotl becomes immortal from the power, but his four generals were turned to stone. The portal r...
[ { "answer": "A CIA agent, an old friend of Dutch's, and former commando.", "query": " Major Alan \"Dutch\" Schaefer and his six-man team, consisting of himself, operators Mac Elliot, Billy Sole, and Blaine Cooper, demolitions and explosives expert Jorge \"Poncho\" RamĂ­rez, and radioman Rick Hawkins, are t...
[ { "answer": "He is Scottish.", "query": " Set in the closing years of the 19th century, this two-part novel tells the story of Lewis Haystoun, a young Scottish laird. Part I of the novel is a story of manners and romance in upper class Scotland. Part II is quite different, and is an action tale of adventure...
[ { "answer": "Rory", "query": " The novel is set in the 1730s and 1740s and tells the life story (in the first person) of Roderick \"Rory\" Random, who was born to a Scottish gentleman and a lower-class woman and is thus shunned by his father's family. His mother dies soon after giving birth and his father i...
[ { "answer": "He asked his girlfriend to marry him.", "query": " In 1980, on the night he fails to win an Emmy Award, Matt Hobbs proposes to his longtime girlfriend Beth. He says the only thing holding him back is his dedication to his career, one which may not always work out, and Beth says that's one of th...
[ { "answer": "Dire Offense ", "query": " In the beginning of this mock-epic, Pope declares that a \"dire offence\" (Canto 1 line 1) has been committed. A lord has assaulted a \"gentle belle\" (line 8), causing her to reject him. He then proceeds to tell the story of this offence.\nWhile Belinda is still asle...
[ { "answer": "Walter Phelan", "query": " The first two lines are a complete story by themselves:\n\" The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...\"\nThe Zan have killed off all life on Earth other than pairs of specimens for their zoo of exotic Earth fauna. Walter Phelan is the...
[ { "answer": "Jack the Ripper", "query": " In a Prologue, the characters in the drama are introduced by an ‘Animal Tamer’ as if they are creatures in a travelling circus. Lulu herself is described as “the true animal, the wild, beautiful animal” and the “primal form of woman”.\nWhen the action of the play st...
[ { "answer": "Stay close to home.", "query": " Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School in the Seattle area, becomes instantly smitten with popular sophomore Bianca Stratford. Geeky Michael Eckman warns him that Bianca is vapid and conceited, and that her overprotective father does not allow Bianca ...
[ { "answer": "London", "query": " The old Michael Snowdon returns from Australia to London after inheriting a substantial sum of money from his deceased son. Despite being able to live a comfortable, if not luxurious life, he spends only on necessities and lives like a poor man, keeping his fortune secret. I...
[ { "answer": "Volsci", "query": " In a contemporary day alternate version of Rome, riots are in progress after stores of grain are withheld from citizens and civil liberties are reduced due to a war between Rome and neighbouring Volsci. The rioters are particularly angry at Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes), a b...
[ { "answer": "Hurting animals on his family farm.", "query": " The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose \"chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief\". He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm. Nils captures a tomte in a net while hi...
[ { "answer": "They are referred to as the \"Blues\".", "query": " The year is 1793. In Brittany during the Royalist insurrection of the Chouannerie, a troop of “Blues” (soldiers of the French Republic) encounter in the bocage Michelle Fléchard, a peasant woman, and her three young children, who are fleeing f...
[ { "answer": "Prince Arsaces", "query": " The Prince of Parthia is written to be a Neo-Classical tragedy. It mostly follows the unities of time (happens in a short amount of time, usually 24 hours), place (happens in one place) and plot (one or few plot lines). It also has a five-act structure, and most of t...
[ { "answer": "He believes it'll harm the privacy of Americans.", "query": " In the 1990s, U.S. National Security Agency official Thomas Bryan Reynolds (Jon Voight) meets with U.S. Congressman Phil Hammersley (R-NY) (Jason Robards) in a public park to discuss support for new counter-terrorism legislation the ...
[ { "answer": "Rechtslehre and Tugendlehre", "query": " The work is divided into two main parts, the Rechtslehre and the Tugendlehre. Mary J. Gregor's translation (1991) explains these German terms as, respectively, The \"Doctrine of Right, which deals with the rights that people have or can acquire, and the ...
[ { "answer": "TASMANIA", "query": " The main story of the novel is the narrative of the adventures of Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on a homeward voyage from Tasmania. After passing through a subterranean tunnel of volcanic origin, he finds himself in a \"lost world\" of prehistoric animals, plants...
[ { "answer": "She wants to prove that women can perform the same jobs as men.", "query": " The story takes place in the late 19th century at Jocelyn's hotel on the beach outside of Newport, Rhode Island, and is told through the voice of a third person narrator. At the hotel croquet court we meet a sickly wom...
[ { "answer": "Manhattan", "query": " Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris (Rockwell) moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark's personal assistant ...
[ { "answer": "A college professor.", "query": " Ed Saxon (Jeff Daniels), a college professor, wakes up to find his wife has not returned home. He takes some mysterious pills, then calls one of his wife's friends, Susie (Molly Price), confusedly asking whether he should be worried. Susie suggests that he call...
[ { "answer": "To gain entry to Moco's gated compound.", "query": " After breaking out of jail in a small Mexican town, a ruthless criminal, nicknamed Azul, ventures off with a guitar case full of weapons and vows revenge on the local drug lord, Moco, who had had him arrested in the first place. Meanwhile, a ...
[ { "answer": "He wants to be promoted to Detective Lieutenant.", "query": " In early 1950s Los Angeles, Patrolman Sergeant Edmund \"Ed\" Exley (Guy Pearce), the son of the legendary LAPD detective Preston Exley, is determined to live up to his father's reputation. His intelligence, insistence on following re...
[ { "answer": "Lucy's father has a developmental disability.", "query": " Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a man with a developmental disability, is the single father of Lucy (Dakota Fanning), following their abandonment by her mother, who is revealed to be a homeless woman who \"just needed a place to sleep\". Despit...
[ { "answer": "13", "query": " Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeson, is educated by a series of journeys she makes throughout her youth and early adulthood. Each new setting represents a different stage in...
[ { "answer": "Josh", "query": " In this adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, Alicia Silverstone plays Cherilyn \"Cher\" Horowitz, a late-20th-century version of Austen's protagonist Emma Woodhouse. Like Emma, Cher is a well-intentioned but somewhat superficial girl who is attractive, popular and extremely wealt...
[ { "answer": "Anna has recently become a widow.", "query": " George Darrow, an American diplomat residing in London, has remained in contact with his former love, Anna Leath, who had previously married another man. Now widowed, she resumes contact with Darrow. Darrow desires to continue the relationship he h...
[ { "answer": "First Person.", "query": " All of the stories within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told in a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson, as is the case for all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Doyle suggests ...
[ { "answer": "Gary Lewis", "query": " A security guard is running through a subway station, he eventually enters a room he cannot escape from and starts begging his reflection in a mirror for his life. Suddenly, his reflection cuts its throat with a mirror shard, killing the \"real\" security guard.\nBen Car...
[ { "answer": "He lost conciousness. ", "query": " Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is a \"mechanic\"—a top hit man (assassin). He works exclusively for a secret international organization, which has very strict rules. Bishop is very sophisticated, as he regularly listens to classical music, has an art colle...
[ { "answer": "First person, ship's captain.", "query": " The story takes place on a sailing ship in the Gulf of Siam (now the Gulf of Thailand), at the start of a voyage with cargo for Britain. The date is probably in the 1880s (when Conrad was at sea himself). In common with many of Conrad's stories, it is ...
[ { "answer": "He escapes on a plane that is owned by the very person he is trying to escape.", "query": " In 1935, Indiana Jones narrowly escapes the clutches of Lao Che, a crime boss in Shanghai in the Republic of China. With his 11-year-old Chinese sidekick Short Round and the nightclub singer Willie Scott...
[ { "answer": "Peru", "query": " The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated railroad lines. The deadline is approaching, and the contractors have hit a literal wall: excessively hard rock which defies conventional...
[ { "answer": "Sonny.", "query": " Recently widowed housewife Evelyn (Judi Dench) must sell her home to cover huge debts left by her late husband. Graham (Tom Wilkinson), a high-court judge who had spent his first eighteen years in India, abruptly decides to retire and return there. Jean (Penelope Wilton) and...
[ { "answer": "The family trust fund.", "query": " The first act of the play is set in England in the 1800s. The lead character is Capt. James Wynnegate. His older cousin, heir Henry Wynnegate, Earl of Kerhill, steals from the family trust fund and speculates heavily. Henry loses the fortune, causing them to ...
[ { "answer": "Tamanrasset", "query": " During his meeting in Dakar with the head of the Reunited Nations African Development Project, Dr. Homer Crawford resigns his post as leader of the Sahara Division team to become El Hassan, the liberator and would-be tyrant of North Africa. Threatened with arrest, Crawf...
[ { "answer": "Ohio", "query": " In Lagrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams, and visual and auditory hallucinations; of rain \"like fresh motor oil\", swarms of menacing black birds, and being harmed by people close to him. He hides all of this from his wife, Samantha (Jessica...
[ { "answer": "The downtown-bound 6 subway train in New York", "query": " In New York City, four men armed with submachine guns and using code names (Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown), wearing similar trenchcoat, glasses and mustache disguises, board the Downtown-bound 6 subway train at different ...
[ { "answer": "Because the will was deemed invalidated", "query": " The story is told in eight major parts, called Scenes.\nScene One begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the wealthy Vanstone family: Andrew Vanstone, his wife, and their two daughters. Norah, age 26, is hap...
[ { "answer": "amateur tennis player", "query": " Amateur tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) wants to marry Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a senator, and pursue a political career. First, he must divorce his vulgar and promiscuous wife Miriam (Laura Elliott). On a train, Bruno Anthony (Robert ...
[ { "answer": "Anna, the midwife", "query": " Anna Khitrova, a British-Russian midwife at a London hospital, finds a Russian-language diary on the body of Tatiana, a 14-year-old girl who dies in childbirth. She also finds a card for the Trans-Siberian Restaurant, which is owned by Semyon, an old vor in the Ru...
[ { "answer": "Because Lucie wants to know if they have seen her three pocket handkerchiefs.", "query": " A little girl named Lucie lives on a farm called Little-town. She is a good little girl, but has lost three pocket handkerchiefs and a pinafore. She questions Tabby Kitten and Sally Henny-penny about them...
[ { "answer": "It negates the force of gravity", "query": " The narrator is a London businessman who withdraws to the countryside to write a play, by which he hopes to alleviate his financial problems. Bedford rents a small countryside house in Lympne, in Kent, where he wants to work in peace. He is bothered ...
[ { "answer": "lawyer", "query": " The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his daughter Ellinor. Edward has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley. His lega...
[ { "answer": "Hawaika", "query": " In the present day, Time Agents Ross and Gordon come with settlers to the water-dominated planet, Hawaika, to search remains of the alien Baldies from the distant past. Intelligent dolphins assist them. While setting up their time gate, a storm destroys it and strands them ...
[ { "answer": "Vendhiya", "query": " This Conan story is set in mythical Hyborian versions of India–Pakistan (then united) and Afghanistan (Vendhya and Ghulistan respectively).\nThe death of Bunda Chand, King of Vendhya, via a curse channeled to his soul through a lock of his hair leads to the ascension of ...
[ { "answer": "Because she saw her husband's battle wounds", "query": " The book centers around the life of Otto, the son of German warlord Baron Conrad. Otto's mother, Baroness Matilda, has died in premature labour, brought on by the sight of the Baron's battle wounds, prompting Conrad to take his newborn so...
[ { "answer": "His sister", "query": " John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading t...
[ { "answer": "Childhood illness/hospitalizations ", "query": " In 1950s Christchurch, New Zealand, a 14-year-old girl from a working-class family, Pauline Parker (Lynskey), befriends the more affluent English 15-year-old Juliet Hulme (Winslet) when Juliet transfers to Pauline's school. They bond over a share...
[ { "answer": "Chernobly.", "query": " The film follows three friends who have been in a rut in their lives: Adam Yates (John Cusack) is dumped by his girlfriend; Nick Webber-Agnew (Craig Robinson) is a henpecked husband with a dead-end job at a dog spa; and Lou Dorchen (Rob Corddry) is a party animal in his ...
[ { "answer": "trial by ordeal", "query": " The short story takes place in a land ruled by a semi-barbaric king. Some of the king's ideas are progressive, but others cause people to suffer. One of the king’s innovations is the use of a public trial by ordeal as an agent of poetic justice, with guilt or inno...
[ { "answer": "Adele", "query": " Theater director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) finds his life unraveling. Suffering from numerous physical ailments and growing increasingly alienated from his wife, Adele, an artist, he hits bottom when Adele leaves him for a new life in Berlin, taking their four-yea...
[ { "answer": "Ellen Langton ", "query": " Dr. Melmoth, the President of fictional Harley College, takes into his care Ellen Langton, the daughter of his friend, Mr. Langton, who is at sea. Ellen is a young, beautiful girl and attracts the attentions of the college boys, especially Edward Walcott, a strapping...
[ { "answer": "Tim Curry", "query": " \"Once, long ago\", the ancient Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) laments his isolation in the shadows before sensing the presence of two unicorns who safeguard the Power of Light; where upon Darkness instructs Blix (Alice Playten) and his fellow goblins Pox (Peter O'Farrell) ...
[ { "answer": "Alice Belding", "query": " One of the wealthiest and most cultured residents of the famed Algonquin Avenue in Buffland (a city intended to be Cleveland), Captain Arthur Farnham is a Civil War veteran and widower—his wife died of illness while accompanying him at a remote frontier post. Since he...
[ { "answer": "He claims he assassinated Mozart with poison. ", "query": " Since the original run, Shaffer has extensively revised his play, including changes to plot details; the following is common to all revisions.\nAt the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame. Speaking ...
[ { "answer": "For an investment into his narcotics business and protection.", "query": " In 1945, at his daughter Connie's wedding, Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as the Godfather, the Don of a New York crime family. Vito's youngest son, Michael, who was a Marine during World War II, introduces his...
[ { "answer": "Duckburg Museum", "query": " The opening panels of the story are set in the Duckburg museum, where Scrooge McDuck is opening a museum exhibit featuring the greatest wonders he has collected during his travels around the world (most of them direct tributes to classic Barks stories).\nAs Scrooge ...
[ { "answer": "Lighthouse-keeper.", "query": " This symbolic play is centred on a lady called Ellida. She is the daughter of a lighthouse-keeper, and grew up where the fjord met the open sea; she loves the sea. She is married to Doctor Wangel, a doctor in a small town in West Norway (in the mountains). He has...
[ { "answer": "With counterfeit money", "query": " The film takes place in 1936, at the height of the Great Depression. Johnny Hooker, a grifter in Joliet, Illinois, cons $11,000 in cash ($187,600 today) in a pigeon drop from an unsuspecting victim with the aid of his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie. Buo...
[ { "answer": "He tries to make connections with the county's high scoiety.", "query": " The hero of Framley Parsonage, Mark Robarts, is a young vicar, settled in the village of Framley in Barsetshire with his wife and children. The living has come into his hands through Lady Lufton, the mother of his childho...
[ { "answer": "Portland, OR", "query": " Working with his three friends at their new software development company Skullbocks, Stanford graduate Milo Hoffman is contacted by CEO Gary Winston of NURV (Never Underestimate Radical Vision) for a very attractive programming position: a fat paycheck, an almost-unres...
[ { "answer": "His obscurity and failure as a poet.", "query": " Writing as a narrator describing events from his own past, Beerbohm presents himself as a moderately successful young English essayist and writer during the 1890s. He then purports to relate the tragic history of a friend and colleague of his na...
[ { "answer": "Rosalind", "query": " The play is set in a duchy in France, but most of the action takes place in a location called the Forest of Arden. This may be intended as the Ardennes, a forested region covering an area located in southeast Belgium, western Luxembourg and northeastern France, or Arden, W...
[ { "answer": "Sleepless in Seattle.", "query": " After a failed marriage proposal to his girlfriend Robin Harris, Steven M. Kovacs moves into his own apartment. Taking advice from his friend Rick, Steven bribes cable guy, Ernie \"Chip\" Douglas, to give him free movie channels, which he does. Chip gets Steve...
[ { "answer": "He was lured by someone pretending to be his friend Ethan and the plan was going to crash.", "query": " Ethan Hunt is alerted by the IMF that someone has used his identity to assist bio-chemical expert Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich to enter the United States, only to kill him in a subsequent plane cr...
[ { "answer": "Bernard Mauprat", "query": " The novel's plot has been called a plot of female socialization, in which the hero is taught by the heroine how to live peacefully in society. Mauprat resembles the fairy tale \"Beauty and the Beast\". As this would suggest, the novel is a romance. However, Sand res...
[ { "answer": "A door kept unlocked with tape. ", "query": " On June 17, 1972, a security guard (Frank Wills, playing himself) at the Watergate complex finds a door kept unlocked with tape. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters within the comp...
[ { "answer": "Lauren Randall", "query": " In Salt Lake City, Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) is a death row convict framed for the murder of his girlfriend Lauren Randall (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). Three years later, he is sentenced to death in the electric chair. When he is asked for his last words, he says he still lov...
[ { "answer": "He was 15 years old", "query": " God and Lucifer are engaged in a war for the souls of humanity; a standing wager for the souls of all mankind. Angels and demons are forbidden to manifest on Earth, but they are allowed to possess and influence humans, and half-breeds are used to peddle influenc...
[ { "answer": "Pennsylvania", "query": " The film begins with the disappearance of Pennsylvania executive Tom Gruneman (played by Robert Milli). The police reveal that an obscene letter was found in Gruneman's office, addressed to a prostitute in New York City named Bree Daniels (Fonda), who had received seve...
[ { "answer": "Josiah Brown ", "query": " The beautiful young Theodora Fitzgerald belongs to a family of noble lineage whose fortunes have waned and who have lived in near poverty for most of her life. The book begins with her arranged marriage to Josiah Brown, a nouveau-riche Australian in his fifties. The m...
[ { "answer": "1965.", "query": " In October 1997, 32 years into the future from the perspective of viewers in 1965, the United States is about to launch one of history's great adventures: humanity's colonization of deep space. The Jupiter 2, called Gemini 12 in the original pilot episode, a futuristic saucer...
[ { "answer": "To an insane asylum", "query": " The novel takes place in a world where online \"tribes\" form, where all members set their circadian rhythms to the same time zone even though members may be physically located throughout the world.\nThe protagonist, Art Berry, has been sent to an insane asylum ...