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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 competitive team for 2002, but must overcome Oakland's limit...	Who is Oakland playing when they attempt their 20th consecutive win?	[ "Kansas City Royals", "Kansas City Royals" ]
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 the Gorshkovs, whose son who groans in agonizin...	What is Devushkin's occupation?	[ "Copyist", "Copyist" ]
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 embarrassment of all. Crichton particularly disa...	At the end of the story, how does the Loam household feel about having Crichton around?	[ "Embarrassed", "embarrassed" ]
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 Ronanâs. Saint Ronanâs Well is a spa at Innerleithen, a town near Peebles in southern Scotland.Valentine Bul...	How does Bulmer first attempt to gain John Mowbray's approval for his marriage to Clara?	[ "He allows her brother, John, to win a considerable sum of money while gambling.", "Letting him win while gambling" ]
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. Hiram's Hospital is an almshouse supported by a medieval charitable bequest to the Diocese of Barchester. The income maintains the almshouse itself, suppor...	Who is the editor of the Jupiter?	[ "Tom Towers", "Tom Towers" ]
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 shows him Fairy Land in a vision, Anodos awakes the next day to find that h...	Who does Anodos see first when he wakes up?	[ "His sisters", "his sisters" ]
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 evidence" but offers sufficient evidences for "the serious inqui...	How is the veracity of the Four Evangelists tested?	[ "By using the same rules employed in human tribunals..", "The same way as in a court of justice." ]
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 Cromwell. The details of this ideal governing docume...	If the regulating power in a state is property, what is the most important property?	[ "Land.", "land" ]
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 another newspaper, but it goes unnoticed. Neil Para...	Who is Paraday often busy with?	[ "Mrs. Wimbush", "women" ]
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 releases 13 immortal monsters (such as the Bigfoot, the Centaur...	After capturing all the 13 monsters, what does General Aguila do?	[ "He questions Yaotl's actions. ", "Questions Yaotl's actions." ]
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 tasked by the CIA with spearheading the rescue of an official held hostage by insurgents in Val Verde. C...	How does the creature finally die?	[ "He activates a self-destruct button and blows himself up.", "He activates the self-destruct device." ]
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 and duty in northern India. When his local Member of ...	Where does the second part of the story take place?	[ "Northern India", "India " ]
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 is driven mad with grief. Random's paternal gr...	Who is Random's maternal uncle?	[ "Tom Bowling", "Tom Bowling." ]
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 the things she loves most about him. Little more than a year later, with a bab...	Who does Nan have a relationship with?	[ "With Adler, the film producer.", "Burke Adler" ]
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. While Belinda is still asleep, her guardian Sylph Ariel forewarns her that "some dre...	How does pope describe Belinda's locks o hair?	[ "gracefully hung behind", "\"which graceful hung behind.\"" ]
The first two lines are a complete story by themselves: " The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..." The Zan have killed off all life on Earth other than pairs of specimens for their zoo of exotic Earth fauna. Walter Phelan is the last man on Earth, but Grace Evans, the last woman, is ...	What does Walter plan to do with the Zan technology that was left behind?	[ "Create a \"master race\".", "create a master race" ]
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 or her older sister, the shrewish Kat, to date. Kat, a sen...	What is the main reason that Kat and Bianca's father, Walter, does not allow them to date?	[ "He is worried that they might get pregnant.", "teenage pregnacy" ]
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. In London he finds his granddaughter, Jane, a ...	What kind of marriage do Sidney and Clara have?	[ "an unhappy one", "unhappy" ]
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 brilliant Roman general whom they blame for th...	Who is Volumnia?	[ "Coriolanus' mother.", "Coriolanus' mother" ]
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 his family is at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the B...	Nils thinks changing what, will get the tomte to change him back?	[ "the way he acts. ", "For the better." ]
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 from the conflict. She explains that her husband and parents have been killed ...	When Lantenac is being hunted by the Blues, who protects him?	[ "A local beggar to who he had once been generous to.", "a local beggar" ]
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 the characters follow decorum. However, with verisimil...	Where is Cleone watching the battle from?	[ "A window", "a window" ]
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 U.S. Congress is pushing that dramatically expands the surveillance powers of intellige...	Who covers up the NSA's involvement?	[ "US Congress", "The U.S. Congress" ]
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 Doctrine of Virtue, which deals with the virtues they ought to acqu...	How does Kant view humanity?	[ "As an end unto itself", "As an end in itself." ]
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 and people sustained by volcanic heat despite th...	What does Adam do for work?	[ "Sailor", "Sailor" ]
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 woman named Louise Maynard and her physician, Dr. Grace Breen. Breen is a graduate of the New York homeop...	What city is Jocelyn's hotel located?	[ "Newport", "Newport" ]
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 on American Bandstand in 1961. He writes the suc...	Where does Barris meet Patricia Watson?	[ "Helsinki, Finland", "Helsinki, Finland" ]
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 the local hospital, but they have no record of his wife be...	What does Saxon do with his wife's diary?	[ "Burns it.", "Burned it" ]
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 young musician arrives in town carrying his own guitar case which contains his...	Who does Azul take hostage?	[ "Azul takes Domino hostage in order to trick Moco.", "Domino" ]
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". Despite his limitations, Sam is well-adjusted and has a supportive group of friends with dev...	What is Sam's disability?	[ "He has a developmental disability.", "developmental" ]
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 her intellectual development. Cassandra ...	Who does Cassandra fall in love with in Rosville?	[ "Her cousin Charles", "Charles" ]
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. Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland), a suspended police detectiv...	What covers the floor when Miky goes missing?	[ "A thin layer of water", "a layer of reflective water" ]
Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is a "mechanic"âa 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 collection, and is a connoisseur of fine wines. However, he is force...	What does Bishop find amongst Steve's belongings prior to their trip to Italy?	[ "A file containing information about Bishop. ", "Information about himself, like he would have regarding a target. " ]
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 narrated in the first person. The narrator is the ship's young capta...	What body of water does Leggatt jump into?	[ "The Gulf of Siam", "the gulf of Siam" ]
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 blasting techniques. The company is under ...	What does Professor Bumper do upon meeting Tom?	[ "Professor Bumper decides to join Tom's company en route to Rimac. ", "joins the company" ]
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 Chastain), and their deaf daughter Hannah (T...	What is Dewart helping Curtis build?	[ "A shelter", "a shelter" ]
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 station stops (Green at 59th Street, Grey at 51st Street, Brown at Grand Central, an...	How many passengers were taken hostage in the train?	[ "17", "Seventeen. " ]
The story is told in eight major parts, called Scenes. Scene 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 happy and quiet; Magdalen, 18, is beautiful but volatile and willful. They live in...	How does the family inheritance get returned to the Van Stone family?	[ "Norah marries George Bartram", "Norah marries George Bartram" ]
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, but they know nothing (especially since Tabby Kitten licks her paw, and Sally Henny-penny flaps back into the barn...	Who does Lucie question about what she has lost?	[ "Tabby and Sally", "Sally-Henny Penny and Tabby kitten" ]
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 every afternoon, however, at precisely the same time, by a passer-by m...	Why doesn't Mr. Cavor return to earth?	[ "He is captured by Selenites.", "It's not known" ]
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 legal representation of the local gentry and nobi...	What was the final outcome for Dixon after Ellinor tells Ralph the truth about the murder?	[ "He was pardoned", "Dixon is pardoned for the murder of Mr. Dunster after Elinor tells the truth." ]
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 widely in the unknown past. The dolphins and h...	What happened to the Baldies?	[ "They are driven off the planet.", "a storm destroyed their time gate" ]
This Conan story is set in mythical Hyborian versions of IndiaâPakistan (then united) and Afghanistan (Vendhya and Ghulistan respectively). The 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 his sister, Devi Yasmina, who vows to get reveng...	Where do the Black Seers who kidnapped Queen Devi Yasmina live?	[ "The mountain of Yimsha", "The mountain of Yimsha" ]
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 to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret o...	Why did Dr. Dolittle travel to Africa?	[ "To cure a monkey epidemic", "To cure an monkey epidemic" ]
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 shared history of severe childhood disease and isolating hospitalizations, and ...	When Juliet and Pauline find out that they will be permanently separated what is their original plan?	[ "To run away together.", "They wanted to run away together." ]
"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) and Blunder (Kiran Shah) to kill the unicorns and ...	How does Lily challenge Jack?	[ "She throws her ring into the pond and offers a prize for finding it.", "by throwing her ring in a pond" ]
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 left the army, he has sought to involve himself in ...	What are Offitt's visible means of support?	[ "The Dues", "Union dues. " ]
Since the original run, Shaffer has extensively revised his play, including changes to plot details; the following is common to all revisions. At the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame. Speaking directly to the audience, he claims to have used poison to assassinate Mozart, and pro...	What type of poison does Salieri use?	[ "arsenic", "arsenic" ]
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). As Scrooge is bragging to his nephews, Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey...	What are both Scrooge and Glomgold in search of finding?	[ "The greater Incan treasure", "Incan gold" ]
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 two daughters (Bolette and Hilde) by his previous wife (...	How many daughters does Doctor Wangel have?	[ "Two.", "Two" ]
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. Buoyed by the windfall, Luther announces his retirement and advi...	How big is the bet Lonnegan places at Shaw's betting parlor?	[ "Five hundred thousand dollars.", "The bet is $500,00." ]
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 childhood friend Ludovic, Lord Lufton. Mark has ambitions to further his career and begins to seek connect...	How is Mark publically humiliated?	[ "Bailiffs arrive at his home and take inventory of his furninishing. ", "Bailiffs arrive and begin to take inventory of the Robarts' furniture" ]
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-unrestrained working environment, and extensive creative...	Who moves to Portland with Hoffman?	[ "Alice Poulson, his girlfriend", "His girlfriend Alice" ]
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, Warwickshire, near Shakespeare's home town, whic...	Who does Oliver marry in the end?	[ "Celia", "Celia" ]
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 Steven to hang out with him the next day and makes him one of his "...	What reasoning does Chip give for his actions as police are arriving at the satellite?	[ "Being raised by television.", "He was raised by television" ]
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 crash. Nekhorvich, an old friend of Ethan, had forewarned the IMF of his arrival, planning to deliver to them a new bioweapon, Chim...	What was Dr. Vladimir Nechorvich bringing with him to give to the IMF?	[ "He was going to deliver a new biochemical weapon Chimera and a cure for it, Bellerophon.", "A new bioweapon and its cure." ]
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 resists the immediate happy ending of marriage between the ...	Does Edmee willing want to marry Bernard?	[ "Edmee does not want to marry Bernard, but she is forced to because he helped her escape.", "No" ]
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 complex. The next morning, The Washington Post assigns new reporter Bob Woo...	What does the security gaurd find at Watergate complex?	[ "A door kept unlocked with tape. ", "A door kept unlocked with tape" ]
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 loves Lauren and that he is innocent. However, the guard...	What animal resurrects Alex Corvis?	[ "Crow", "a crow" ]
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 influence. Exorcist John Constantine (Keanu Reeves) was born with ...	What is Papa Midnite's occupation?	[ "A witch doctor", "Witch doctor" ]
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-shaped spaceship, stands on its launch pad ...	What did Penny's dad do for a living?	[ "Professor", "Professor." ]
Dorothy has risen from bed for the day and is seeing to her friends in the Emerald City and notices that Ozma has not awakened yet. Dorothy goes into Ozma's chambers only to find she is not there. Glinda awakens in her palace in the Quadling Country and finds her Great Book of Records is missing. She goes to prepare a ...	Why makes Cayke's dishpan so special?	[ "Its magic lets cookies come out perfect every time.", "It makes her cookies perfect every time she cooks them." ]
In suburban Chicago, high school senior Ferris Bueller fakes sickness to stay home. Ferris frequently breaks the fourth wall, giving the audience advice on how to skip school, and to narrate about his friends. His younger sister Jeannie is less-convinced, but goes to school anyway. Dean of Discipline Edward Rooney note...	How many miles had been added to the car when Ferris and Cameron picked up from the parking attendants?	[ "100 miles", "One hundred." ]
The film explores several flashbacks and present timelines to show how Dean and Cindy became involved. Dean is a young high school dropout, working for a moving company in Brooklyn. Cindy is a pre-med student living with her constantly fighting parents and also caring for her grandmother in Pennsylvania. Cindy and Dean...	Who beats up Dean before the wedding?	[ "Bobby", "Bobby" ]
In a mansion in Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed. Holding a snow globe, he utters a word, "Rosebud", and dies; the globe slips from his hand and smashes on the floor. A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher....	What is the meaning of the word "rosebud" revealed to be?	[ "The trade name of Kane's childhood sled.", "the trade name of a sled" ]
On August 12, 2011, large masses thought to be meteors land in the oceans near several major coastal cities. The objects are discovered to be spacecraft containing hostile extraterrestrial life. Marines from Camp Pendleton arrive in Los Angeles, including SSgt. Michael Nantz (Eckhart), an Iraq War veteran. Nantz was to...	What do alien aircraft use to track down humans?	[ "radio transmission", "radio transmissions" ]
When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where mo...	Who convinces Israel Potter to become a spy?	[ "Benjamin Franklin", "Benjamin Franklin" ]
On February 10, 1676, the settlement of Lancaster, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was attacked by Native Americans. The Native Americans burned down houses and opened fire on the British settlers, killing several of them and wounding more. They took many of the survivors captive, including Mary Rowlandson and her thr...	Which child was not returned home to Mary?	[ "Sarah", "Sarah" ]
The story begins with a song which serves as prologue; and then prose takes up the narrative, telling how Aucassin, son of Count Garin of Beaucaire, so loved Nicolette, a Saracen maiden, who had been sold to the Viscount of Beaucaire, baptized and adopted by him, that he had forsaken knighthood and chivalry and even re...	Who tells Aucassin where to find Nicolette when he is released from prison?	[ "Shelpard lads", "Shepherd lads tell Aucassin where to find Nicolette." ]
The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. The flurry of activity to cover up their considerable misdeeds is interrupted by the report that a suspicious person has ar...	What is Khlestakov's job?	[ "a civil servant", "A civil servant" ]
The "Minutemen," a team of costumed crime fighters, was formed in 1939 in response to a rise in costumed gangs and criminals; the "Watchmen" was similarly formed decades later. Their existence has dramatically affected world events: Doctor Manhattan's powers have helped the United States win the Vietnam War, and given ...	Why does Dr. Manhattan kill Rorschach?	[ "Rorschach asks him to", "To keep Rorschach from telling America about Veidt's plan to unify America and the Soviet Union." ]
Lord Coombe is considered to be the best-dressed man in London. He is also a man whose public reputation, despite his formidable intellect and observant eye, is one of unmitigated wickedness. During one of his social forays, he meets a selfish young woman named 'Feather' with the face of an angel. Fascinated by her, he...	As the audience is first introduced to Coombe, what is understood of his personality?	[ "Coombe is intelligent, observant, and wicked.", "intelligent and wicked" ]
A centuries long war between humans and vampires has devastated the planet's surface and led to a theocracy under an organization called The Church. They constructed giant walled cities to protect mankind and developed a group of elite warriors, the Priests, to turn the tide against the vampires. The majority of the va...	Who are the designated "warriors" for the church?	[ "The Priests", "the Priests" ]
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb (Kyle Chandler) of Lillian, Ohio, and his 14-year-old son Joe (Joel Courtney), mourn the death of his mother Elizabeth (Caitriona Balfe) in a steel mill accident. Jack blames her co-worker, Louis Dainard (Ron Eldard), as she was covering his shift while he recovered from a hangover, an...	How was the Air Force able to get people to leave their homes?	[ "by starting wildfires with flamethrowers", "The Air Force starts firs outside of town to force an evacuation." ]
Willis imagines a near future (first introduced in her story "Fire Watch" (1982)) in which historians conduct field work by traveling into the past as observers. The research is conducted at the University of Oxford, in the late-21st century England. In the book's fictional universe, history resists time travel that w...	How do the people of the past explain Kivrins ability to read and write?	[ "they think she is a nun", "That she has fled from a convent" ]
Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's College and the youngest of his five children, to attend a fancy dress ball in London, causing a crisis. Ann Veronica is planning to attend the dance with friends of a down-at-the-heels artistic family living nearby and has been chafing at ot...	Who does Ann love?	[ "Capes", "Capes." ]
Matthew Bramble, his family and servants are traveling through England and Scotland. Although the primary motivation for the expedition is to restore the health of the gouty Matthew Bramble, each member of the family uses the excursion to achieve their ends. Leaving from Bramble's estate, Brambleton Hall, in the south-...	Where does Bramble go to try to get treatment to feel better?	[ "Bramble goes to different spas to help him get well.", "Various natural spas" ]
A criminologist narrates the tale of the newly engaged couple Brad Majors and Janet Weiss who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy late November evening, somewhere near Denton, Ohio. Seeking a telephone, the couple walk to a nearby castle where they discover a group of strange and outlandish pe...	What is the name of Frank's creature?	[ "Rocky", "Rocky" ]
A Frenchman named Marcelo Desonyers travels to Argentina in 1870, and he marries the elder daughter of Julio Madariaga, the owner of a ranch. Eventually Marcelo, his wife, and his children Julio and Chichi move back to France and live in a mansion in Paris. Julio turns out to be a spoiled, lazy young man who avoids com...	Why does Marcelo choose to defend a German soldier?	[ "Because the German soldier had earlier spared his life.", "Because he spared Marcelo's life." ]
The film is presented in flashbacks by a Briton named Wilson (Stamp). Wilson travels to Los Angeles to investigate the death of his daughter, Jenny. She reportedly had died in a car accident, but Wilson suspects she was murdered. Recently released from a British prison, he is a hardened man. Arriving in Los Angeles, he...	What did time period did Wilson reminisce about?	[ "His earlier life with his daughter.", "fatherhood" ]
The fictional planet Lagash (Kalgash in the novel adaptation) is located in a stellar system containing six suns (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta are the only ones named in the short story; Onos, Dovim, Trey, Patru, Tano, and Sitha are named in the novel), which keep the whole planet continuously illuminated; total darkn...	Who believe the world would be destroy in darkness?	[ "The cult.", "The cult called the Apostles of Flame." ]
Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon. In Paris, the young lovers ...	Why did the main character become estranged from his family?	[ "Because he ran off with a woman that his father disapproved of.", "He ran away with Manon. " ]
A sixth-century post-Roman kingdom called Urland is being terrorized by a 400-year-old dragon named Vermithrax Pejorative. To appease the dragon, King Casiodorus (Peter Eyre) offers it virgin girls selected by lottery twice a year. An expedition led by a young man called Valerian (Clarke) seeks the last sorcerer, Ulric...	Where does Hodge put the ashes of Ulrich's body after he is killed?	[ "Hodge puts the ashes in a leather pouch. ", "in a pouch" ]
Ten years after tracking and taking down serial killer Jame Gumb, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is unjustly blamed for a botched drug raid. She is later contacted by Mason Verger, the only surviving victim of the serial killer Hannibal Lecter. A wealthy child molester, Verger was paralyzed and horribly disfigured ...	What happens to Krendler at the lake house?	[ "He is drugged by Lector", "drugged and has brain eaten" ]
The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, including both accounts of the narrator's day-to-day activities in contemporary London and fanciful tales set in Kensington Gardens and elsewhere.The story is set in several locations; the earlier chapters are set in the town of London, contemporaneous to the time of...	Where was the ship in Pentagonia returned to?	[ "England", "England" ]
In 1981, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) sits at a bus stop in Savannah, Georgia. As a feather floats down toward him, he picks it up and recalls his childhood in Greenbow, Alabama during the 1950s, being raised by a single mother (Sally Field), and having to wear leg braces. Despite being intellectually challenged, Forrest i...	Which Hurricane wipes out Forrest's shrimping competition?	[ "Hurricane Carmen", "Hurricane carmen" ]
The narrative of Clotel plays with history by relating the "perilous antebellum adventures" of a young mixed-race slave Currer and her two light-skinned daughters fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Because the mother is a slave, according to partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662, her daughters are...	What are the names of Henry and Althesa's daughters?	[ "Jane and Ellen", "Jane and Ellen" ]
The novel spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the village of St. Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. Both the river and the village are fictional. The novel is most pr...	Maggie ends up conversing and playing music with Lucy Deane's suitor, who is this suitor?	[ "Stephen Guest", "Stephan Guest." ]
The dramatists chose to portray only the beginning of the story of Caesar and Cleopatra in their play; they concentrate on the events of 48 BC. The play is set in Egypt; at its start, the Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII has sequestered his sister/wife/queen Cleopatra and has assumed sole rule of the kingdom, and the Battle of Pha...	In what time are the events of the story focused?	[ "48 BC", "48 BC" ]
Dave, Mike, Cyril, and Moocher are working-class friends living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. Now turning 19, they all graduated from high school the year before and are not sure what to do with their lives. They spend much of their time together swimming in an old abandoned water-filled quarry, but also...	How was Dave able to continue the Little 500 race after being injured?	[ "his feet were taped to the bike pedals", "Moocher, Cyril and Mike take turns pedaling for Dave." ]
The protagonist is a boy named Rob Joslyn. His age is not specified. Baum dedicated the book "To My Son, Robert Stanton Baum," who was born in 1886 and would thus have been about fifteen at the time it was published. Rob is an electrical experimenter whose father encourages him and sees that he "never lacked batteries,...	Why does Rob decide not to keep the gifts?	[ "Humankind isn't ready for them yet. ", "He does not think the world is ready for them." ]
Heroin addict Mark Renton and his circle of friends are introduced: amoral con artist Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson (also an addict), simple-minded, friendly Daniel "Spud" Murphy (another addict), clean-cut athlete Tommy MacKenzie, and psychopath Francis "Franco" Begbie, who picks fights with people who get in his way. R...	How does Renton avoid prison?	[ "Entering a Drug Interventions programme", "By entering a Drug Interventions Programme." ]
The tale opens in Boston and New England in the middle of the 19th century, and describes the experiences of two European siblings shifting from the old to the new world. The two protagonists are Eugenia Münster and Felix Young, who since their early childhood have lived in Europe, moving from France to Italy and from ...	Who does Felix decide to paint?	[ "Gertrude", "Gertrude" ]
As a storm approaches a southern Louisiana bayou community called the "Bathtub" (a community cut off from the rest of the world by a levee), six-year-old Hushpuppy and her ailing, hot-tempered father Wink are optimistic about their life and their future. The children in school are being taught by Miss Bathsheba about n...	What does Hushpuppy do to the house?	[ "Sets it on fire. ", "She burned her house" ]
The film begins with Jeff Patterson, a patient at a mental hospital in Maryland, receiving drugs through a feeding tube. Moments later, he is in a padded room with a straight jacket on, throwing his body against the padded walls. The film cuts to November 1999, when a group of young tourists—Stephen and his pregnant wi...	Which of the group goes missing first?	[ "Erica", "The tour group. " ]
Pierre Delacroix (whose real name is Peerless Dothan), is an uptight, Harvard University-educated black man, working for the television network CNS. At work, he has to endure torment from his boss Thomas Dunwitty, a tactless, boorish white man. Not only does Dunwitty use AAVE, and use the word "nigger" repeatedly in co...	What does Manray wish to become famous for?	[ "His tap-dancing skills. ", "His tap dancing talent." ]
The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total of thirty-six people of French, English, S...	Who had rigged the spring scales?	[ "Isaac Hakkabut", "Isaac Hakkabut, the owner of the instrument" ]
In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is facing imprisonment for going against traditional methods. Ichabod submits to deployment to the Westchester County hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, which has been plagued by a series of brutal slayings in which the victims are found decapitated: P...	When did the city police constable believe that something supernatural was happening in Sleepy Hallow?	[ "when he encountered the Headless Horseman", "When he encounters the mercenary." ]
In His Steps takes place in the railroad town of Raymond, probably located in the eastern U.S.A. (Chicago, IL and the coast of Maine are mentioned as being accessible by train), and Chicago Illinois. The main character is the Rev. Henry Maxwell, pastor of the First Church of Raymond, who challenges his congregation to ...	Who appears in Rev. Maxwell's vision, first to a crowd in Raymond, then New York, then Washington DC?	[ "Jesus", "Jack Manning" ]
Tom Swift's father has been working diligently on a secret project, which he reveals at the beginning of the book as a submarine. With the submarine, named the Advance, he plans to enter a contest for a government prize of $50,000. While in New Jersey to launch the submarine, Tom reads in a newspaper that a ship named ...	What weather phenomenon helps the crew of the Advance escape the Sao Paulo?	[ "An hurricane", "A hurricane." ]

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