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In 1858 Texas, the Speck brothers, Ace and Dicky, drive a group of black slaves on foot. Among the shackled slaves is Django (Jamie Foxx), sold off and separated from his wife, Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington). The Speck brothers are stopped by Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German dentist-turned-bounty h... | What happens to the Django-Schultz dynamic? | [
"Goes from Master and Slave to Master and Apprentice.",
"Schultz dies"
] |
After dropping off his two sons at Catholic school, the Lieutenant takes a few bumps of cocaine and drives to the scene of a double murder in The Bronx. Wandering away, the Lieutenant finds a drug dealer and gives him a bag of drugs from a crime scene, smoking crack during the exchange; the dealer promises to give him ... | When the Lieutenant encounters the nun who was raped and vows to kill her attackers what is her response? | [
"the nun insists that she has forgiven her attackers and just wants to move forward. ",
"she says that she has forgiven them and leaves"
] |
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 (Vincent Cassel), is looking for a new principal dancer after ... | Which dancer is Nina encouraged to study? | [
"Lily",
"lily"
] |
After crossing the sea guided by the Bellman's map of the Oceanâa blank sheet of paperâthe 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 rising late and taking breakfast during five o'clock tea; "its slowness i... | What was the pig's sentence when he was found guilty? | [
"Transportation and a fine of forty pounds.",
"transportation recieve fine of forty pounds"
] |
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 essentially a thought experiment about the active intellect, personified by an elderly sage, ins... | What incident prompted Hayy to engage in ongoing scientific inquiry and self-discovery? | [
"Discovering a cause of death by performing an autopsy.",
"The discovery his mother's death was due to a lass of innate heat"
] |
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 surround his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an a... | Why did Wilbur and his grandfather keep remodeling the farm house? | [
"To make enough room for the growing monster.",
"The unseen entity kept outgrowing it."
] |
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 sought by the gallant Gahan, Jed (prince) of Gathol. Both Helium and Gathol ... | What does Gahan say his name is when Tara doesn't recognize him? | [
"Turan",
"Turan."
] |
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 discover another resident, Edgar Deems, dead on top of an e... | Who has the idea to lure the creatures? | [
"Earl",
"Earl"
] |
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 needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Bill... | How does Billy injure himself? | [
"Falls off the jungle gym",
"falling at the playground"
] |
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 truckâs overheating radiator. Ganz and Billy exchange insults and proceed to stage a fight with each other, wrestling in a river, ... | Who shoots billy? | [
"Reggie",
"Reggie"
] |
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 afterward was in the service of the Prince of Sen... | What does Boris do when he hears of the success of Demetrius? | [
"commits suicide",
"He commits suicide by poison."
] |
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.
When they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota (a town modeled on Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the auth... | What does Carol believe to not be satisfying for all women? | [
"Washing dishes",
"Dish washing"
] |
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 the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the mariner s... | From what did the crew suffer while the ship was stationary? | [
"Thirst",
"thirst"
] |
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 Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy), the daughter of the local sheriff, is with her... | Where was the character Sisler found killed? | [
"In his office",
"principal office"
] |
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 was attributed to a heart attack, but Mortimer is suspicio... | What where the initials on the burnt letter? | [
"L.L.",
"L.L."
] |
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. Dale is a dental assistant being sexually harassed by his boss, Dr. Juli... | What causes the car to stop and Harken to catch up to them? | [
"The car's navigation system",
"The navigation system's operator "
] |
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 confiscated, and is taken to a castle. Ash is thrown in... | Where does Ash Williams work present day? | [
"S-Mart.",
"S-Mart"
] |
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. Casy was the preacher who baptized Tom, but now Casy has "lost the spiri... | What did Tom do when he was released from prison? | [
"He hitchhiked to his family farm.",
"Hitchhiked his way back to his parents farm in Oklahoma . "
] |
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 escapes with Peter, saving the life of a Moor named Azeem in t... | After Robin takes command of the band of outlaws in Sherwood Forest, what do they do? | [
"Rob convoys and soldiers who are travel through the forest and give the stolen goods to the poor people in the land. ",
"They start training to defend themselves, planning to fight against Nottingham, and they also rob soldiers and convoys passing through the forest."
] |
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 argues, would be to send someone to spy on t... | Who guides Diomeses into Rhesus' quarters? | [
"Athena",
"Athena"
] |
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 ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very ... | Who owns the house where the two priests live? | [
"Sophie Gamard",
"The spinster Sophie Gamard."
] |
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 by his faithful dwarf Flapdragon. Lamb, on th... | Who attempts to help them find Ebba? | [
"Flapdragon. ",
"flapdragon"
] |
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 out by guards. Decades later, U.S. Senator Robert Kelly... | Who is separated from his parents upon arrival to the German Concentration Camps? | [
"Erik Lehnsherr.",
"Erik Lehnsherr"
] |
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 opportunity arises, Thérèse enters into a turbulent and sordidly passio... | Which organization did Madame Raquin's son work for in the story? | [
"Orleans Railway Company",
"The Orleans Railway Company"
] |
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, as Mrs Macready, the strict housekeeper, ex... | What kind of gift did Father Christmas give to Susan? | [
"Susan received a bow and arrows and a horn that summons help when it is blown.",
"A bow and arrow and a magical horn"
] |
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. Dale's mother having died, he has allocated the Small House, r... | Who is the Squire of Allington? | [
"Christopher Dale.",
"christopher dale"
] |
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 term; some favor "massacre" while a North Carolina state ... | Who is William Miller's wife? | [
"Olivia Carteret's illigitimate half sister Janet",
"janet"
] |
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 described by the narrator) named Pluto. This ca... | How is the new cat different from Pluto? | [
"The new cat has a white splotch on it's chest.",
"There was a large white patch on the cat's chest."
] |
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 slave. At the age of six, she is sent to live in ... | Where was Linda born into slavery? | [
"Edenton, NC",
"edenton, nc"
] |
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 named Abe Mitchell, loopers kill and dispose of face-conce... | What do Loopers do? | [
"Kill and dispose of victims with their face concealed",
"They time travel, kill and dispose face-concealed victims."
] |
After stealing an 86-carat (17.2Â 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 "The Blade". Unbeknownst to Franky, Boris and the rob... | Why does Mickey agree to the boxing match? | [
"Turkish agrees to buy a caravan for Mickey's mother",
"To avoid trouble after Brick Top burns down his mother's caravan while she is asleep inside"
] |
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), and they talk about his sexual experience very crudely. Telly h... | Why was it odd that Jennie tested positive for HIV but Ruby was free of STDs? | [
"Jennie had only had sex once, while Ruby had multiple times",
"Jennie has only had sex with one person, while Ruby has had sex with many"
] |
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 mate Adam, including meeting and getting to know Adam, and exp... | What does Adam say at Eve's grave? | [
"Wherever she was, there was Eden.",
"Wherever she was, there was Eden"
] |
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 suicide - in short, in order for someone to be born... | What does the painter do at the end of the story? | [
"He picks up Edward's revolver, intending to kill himself, but can't do it",
"He reflects and decides killing himself is not the answer."
] |
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 encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain; the next day, Lola shows up at hi... | When the train goes over the lake, who does Lana shoot? | [
"Max",
"Max."
] |
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 suitable match. Modeste Mignon, a young provinc... | Who was the dwarf Butscha in love with? | [
"Modeste ",
"Modeste"
] |
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."
The Man arrives at Whitehall where he meets a Beefeater guard. He persuades the Beefeater to allow him to stay to meet his girlfriend,... | What does William request the Queen establish? | [
"That she establish a National Theater.",
"A THEATRE"
] |
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 CanadaâUS border. In the summer of 1973 the land east of the fault s... | What happened to the governor of Kansas? | [
"He died with the rest of his state.",
"He gets wiped out."
] |
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 committed by Dent, who was turned into a murderer by the Joker. He writ... | Selina sold Wayne's fingerprints in exchange for what? | [
"A clean slate",
"For a clean slate, having all trace of her removed from the internet"
] |
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 repulsive creature to make them take him seriously. He is soon pulled through a win... | Who speeds off by herself after getting to a truck? | [
"Honey Pie",
"Honey Pie"
] |
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" Redding, an inmate serving a life sentence. Red procures a rock hammer and later ... | What is Andy assigned to do in prison? | [
"Work as an assistant in the library",
"Laundry"
] |
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 leading a posse of bounty hunters hired and de... | What state did Pike Bishop live in when he was the leader of the outlaws? | [
"Texas",
"Texas"
] |
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. Farquhar thinks of his wife and children and is... | During what war is Peyton schduled to be hanged? | [
"The Civil War",
"American Civil War"
] |
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 out onto a courtyard and several other apartments. During a powerful heat wa... | To whose rear window does the title refer? | [
"Jeff Jeffries's rear window in his Greenwich Village apartment.",
"L.B. \"Jeff\" Jefferies"
] |
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, represented by lawyer Donald Gennaro, insist th... | Where was Tim's grandfather while he toured the park with Lex? | [
"in the park's control room",
"The control room."
] |
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, successful playwright Erica Barry, who is there with her sister... | What does Harry do in the six months between the play and Paris? | [
"he makes amends with all his previous affairs",
"reach to women he had affairs with"
] |
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 drunken father and mother, Mary Johnson. The parents terrify the children unt... | What did Jimmie told his mother Mary about Maggie? | [
"Jimmie told her Maggie is dead.",
"She was dead"
] |
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 to his younger brother Ben. Valentine, to escape from his... | What must Valentine do to receive the ÂŁ4000? | [
"Sign over his inheritance to his younger brother",
"Sign the rights to his inheritance over to his brother."
] |
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 enabling rapidly moving parts to cold weld themselves int... | What is Ken's solution to the comet's tail dust to fall out of the atmosphere? | [
"Ken proposes sing an ultrasound to coagulate the comet dust to fall out of the atmosphere.",
"an ultrasound"
] |
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 dinner, but the order is refused. To get her what she wants Racksole buys the entire hotel, for ÂŁ400,000 "and a guinea"... | How much does Racksole spend to buy the hotel? | [
"400,000 pounds and a guinea",
"E400,000"
] |
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 ear. Jeffrey takes the ear to police detective John Williams (Ge... | Where is Jeffrey's home town located? | [
"Lumberton, North Carolina",
"In North Carolina"
] |
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 (Carey Mulligan), runs a small, non-profit new... | Why is Gekko estranged from his daughter Winnie? | [
"Winnie blames him for the suicide death of her brother, Rudy.",
"Because her brother committed suicide."
] |
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 Scatcherd. When Scatcherd finds out that Mary has become pregnant, he seeks ... | Who does Thorne try to get to stop drinking? | [
"Sir Roger",
"Sir Roger"
] |
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 marriage between Van Rough’s Daughter, Maria, and Dimple was se... | What war did Manly fight in? | [
"The Revolutionary War",
"The Revolutionary War."
] |
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 ingénue, the best marriage prospects withdraw. The young woman fol... | What is found in the dressing room of one of the estates that causes strife between the characters? | [
"a letter from a spurned mistress to her paramour",
"A letter."
] |
Foreword
The 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 realistic for their imperfections.
Volume One
The first volume concerns Richard Car... | Where is Richard tricked into a duel? | [
"Vauxhall Gardens",
"Vauxhall Gardens."
] |
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 Hudsucker Industries. Meanwhile, the company's founder and president, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), ... | What did Barnes do when Buzz pitched his new invention? | [
"Barnes fired Buzz",
"Fired him."
] |
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 & Malcolm's home on Long Island. Margot disapproves of Pauline's c... | What does Margot do for a living? | [
"She is a writer",
"Writer"
] |
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 decides to take up with him and become his partner in crime. They pull off some holdups, bu... | What is the name of the Texas Ranger who goes on the hunt after Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker's crime ring? | [
"Frank Hamer. ",
"Frank Hamer"
] |
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 music on the street. She finds Tess (Cher) and the dancers performing ... | When she was rejected for being a dancer, what did Ali do at the club? | [
"waitress",
"waitress"
] |
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 of Lahore. He occasionally works for Mahbub Ali, ... | Who is Mahbub Ali? | [
"A member of the British SS and a horse trader.",
"A native operative of the British Secret service."
] |
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 has maintained his reputation in Ujjayini as an ... | What is Samsthanaka to King Palaka? | [
"Brother-in-law",
"his brother-in-law"
] |
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 the Tory majority in Parliament. As Finn had been considered ... | Why does Finn lose the election? | [
"On appeal, it was found his opponent bribed some of the voters.",
"His opponent had bribed some of the voters."
] |
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 his relationships.
He spends his days at his... | Who did Rob offer a record deal? | [
"Vince and Justin.",
"Vince and Justin"
] |
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.
Four years later, having survived the attack, the Bride goes to the home of Vernita Green, planning to kil... | Who does the Bride vow to kill? | [
"Bill and the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.",
"Bill and 4 memebers of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad"
] |
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 who has grown rich as the proprietor of Internatio... | How many children did they have together? | [
"Four children",
"None"
] |
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 through the eyes of a future incarnation. The language and style used are... | What is the gentalman morning? | [
"The death of lady Mirdath.",
"the death of Lady Mirdath, his beloved"
] |
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. When their bus breaks down, the two acquire a c... | How does Scott trick Martin into coming to her home? | [
"By pretending that she is pregnant with his twins. ",
"She moved into a farmhouse to live by herself"
] |
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 bet with Lloyd Abbott (Will Patton), his business partn... | Which Abbott daughter did Doug fall in love with? | [
"Pamela.",
"Pamela"
] |
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 important case, a partner in the firm notices a lesion o... | Why does Beckett think the paperwork was lost? | [
"He thinks the firm hid the paperwork so they could fire him. ",
"Beckett believes the paperwork was lost deliberately to give the Firm an excuse to fire him because he had AIDS."
] |
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 very necessary to enquire". However, Richardson did not keep his authorship secret and, on the pro... | Where is Harriet Byron when leaving for London? | [
"George Selby's house",
"uncles house"
] |
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 woman he is driving to the airport. She intentionally l... | Why was Harry fired from his job as a dog groomer? | [
"He delivered the dogs late to the dog show and got them dirty.",
"Delivering dogs late and dirty to the dog show."
] |
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 installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outs... | Which sort of creatures live in Caspak? | [
"Prehistoric animals.",
"Prehistoric creatures"
] |
God creates the world in six days and consecrates the seventh as a day of rest. God creates the first humans Adam and Eve and all the animals in the Garden of Eden but instructs them not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. A talking serpent, portrayed as a deceptive creature or trickster, entice... | Which man is tested by God when he is told to sacrifice his son? | [
"Abraham",
"Abraham"
] |
In 1976, Jackie Moon is a singer who used the profits from his one-hit wonder, "Love Me Sexy," to buy a basketball team in the American Basketball Association, the Flint Tropics, becoming the owner, head Coach, and starting power forward. The ABA Commissioner announces a plan to merge the league with the National Baske... | What team was Ed Monix with prior to the Flint Tropics? | [
"The Boston Celtics.",
"kentucky Colonels"
] |
At the beginning of this book, the journalist father of Robert, Anthea, Cyril, and Jane has gone overseas to cover the war in Manchuria. Their mother has gone to Madeira to recuperate from an illness, taking with her their younger brother, the Lamb. The children are living with an old Nurse who has set up a boardinghou... | What wish do the children want the amulet to grant them? | [
"Safe return for their parents and brother.",
"The safe return of their parents, and brother."
] |
Quiet teenager Marc Hall (Israel Broussard) arrives as a new student at Indian Hills High School in Agoura Hills, California. He is befriended by fame-obsessed Rebecca Ahn (Katie Chang). While at a party at Rebecca's house, the pair check unlocked vehicles on the street, taking valuables such as cash and credit cards.
... | Where did Marc Hall meet Rebecca Ahn? | [
"Indian Hills High School",
"At high school."
] |
The novel is set in the early years of the 19th century. Silas Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in an unnamed city in Northern England. He is falsely accused of stealing the congregation's funds while watching over the very ill deacon. Two clues are given ag... | Silas was accused of what crime? | [
"Stealing the funds from the church while attending a sick deacon.",
"theft"
] |
In 1954 New England, six strangers are invited to a party at a secluded New England mansion known as Hill House. After being met at the door by the butler Wadsworth, the guests are reminded that they have been given a pseudonym to protect their true identity and asks that they only use that name with the other guests. ... | Where were the six strangers invited to? | [
"Hill House ",
"Hill House"
] |
Book I is centered on the virtue of Holiness as embodied in the Redcrosse Knight. He and his lady Una travel together as he fights the dragon Errour, then separate as the wizard Archimago tricks the Redcrosse Knight in a dream to think that Una is unchaste. After he leaves, the Redcrosse Knight meets Duessa, who preten... | What does Britomart destine to found by Merlin's explanation? | [
"English Monarchy",
"To found the British Monarchy."
] |
Former US Army Captain Nathan Algren, a bitter alcoholic traumatized by the atrocities he committed during the American Indian Wars, is approached by his former commanding officer Colonel Bagley to train the newly formed Imperial Japanese Army for Japanese businessman Omura, who intends to use the army to suppress a sa... | What is the name of the Emperor? | [
"Meiji",
"Meiji"
] |
The play involves a battle of brains between two men, âMr. X and Mr. Yââ in a Darwinian struggle for survival. The men are in a room in a farmhouse during a storm. A box of gold sits on the table, for which Mr. X is responsible. Both have committed crimes in their personal history. Mr. X, in his youth, murdered a... | What kind of story is this? | [
"A play",
"A Darwinian struggle for survival."
] |
Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michael Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but ... | How many people involved in the trip to the moon? | [
"There are three passengers involved.",
"Three. "
] |
Miss Jane Hathaway is an astute pillar of a quaint coastal community, where her house sets atop a hill. She has long overcome the scandal created by her elder sister’s elopement, though the sister died without her forgiveness. She’s also aware of a child, although she’s never met her niece. When she receives a letter f... | Who does Joseph propose to? | [
"Hepsey",
"Hepsey"
] |
Two firefighters of Engine 17 of the Chicago Fire Department are brothers. Lt. Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey, the elder, is experienced, while Brian has labored under his brother's shadow all his life. Brian returns to firefighting after a number of other careers falter, though Stephen has doubts that Brian is fit to be a f... | What was the reason why Helen separated from Stephen? | [
"She was fearful of his dedication to firefighting and the risks.",
"To protect herself and their son."
] |
The story takes place primarily in the utopian community of Blithedale, presumably in the mid-1800s. The main character, Miles Coverdale, embarks on a quest for the betterment of the world through the agrarian lifestyle and community of the Blithedale Farm. The story begins with a conversation between Coverdale and Old... | Which character is Zenobias' half sister? | [
"Priscilla",
"Pricilla"
] |
Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, a feud has been boiling for over thirty years between two influential mountain families: the Tollivers and the Falins. The character Devil Judd Tolliver, in the novel was based on the real life of "Devil John" Wesley Wright, a United States Marshal ... | Devlin Judd Tolliver's character was built around what real person? | [
"Wesley Wright also known as Devil John",
"\"Devil John\" Wesley Wright"
] |
The story is set in the 1830s in rural Oxfordshire. The main thread of the narrative follows the fortunes or misfortunes of Grace Oglander, the daughter of an Oxfordshire Squire. She is borne off from the residence of her aunt by the machinations of a villainous attorney, who entraps her into his power by the expedient... | Who entraps Grace? | [
"a lawyer",
"An unscrupulous attorney kidnapped Grace."
] |
Graves, often citing Anacalypsis and other works by Godfrey Higgins (1772–1833) as his source, asserts in the book that many messiah-like "saviors" were crucified on a cross or tree before ascending into heaven.
"One thing is clear — the mythos of the Hindus, the mythos of the Jews and the mythos of the Greeks are all ... | Who is the son of Odin? | [
"Thor",
"Thor"
] |
A King and a Queen, who have several children, decide to journey across their Kingdom. One day, the stop in a castle at the frontier and the Queen gives birth to a beautiful princess. Because of this, the courtiers name her Fairer-than-a-Fairy. But no sooner has the Queen recovered that she must join the King, who has ... | How does Nabote capture Fairer-than-a-Fairy? | [
"Nabote pretends to faint outside the castle walls and Fairer-than-a-fairy runs to her.",
"Tricks her."
] |
The book was intended as an exposĂŠ of the situation in the so-called Congo Free State (labelled a "rubber regime" by Conan Doyle), an area occupied and designated as the personal property of Leopold II of Belgium and where the serious human rights abuses were occurring. Indigenous people in the region were being bruta... | Whose work was lauded by Conan Doyle? | [
"The Congo Reform Association",
"Congo Reform Association"
] |
Easy is the son of foolish parents, who spoiled him. His father, in particular, regards himself as a philosopher, with a firm belief in the "rights of man, equality, and all that; how every person was born to inherit his share of the earth, a right at present only admitted to a certain length that is, about six feet, f... | How does Easy come to wealth? | [
"After his father's death, he demanded past rent from the tenants and kicked out those that would not pay.",
"tenants from his parents estate"
] |
Physicist Reed Richards is convinced evolution was triggered millions of years ago on Earth by clouds of cosmic energy in space, and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Reed convinces Victor Von Doom, his former classmate at MIT and no... | How does the name Fantastic Four come about? | [
"The media created the name to describe Ben, Reed, and Johnny and Sue Storm.",
"the press labels them that at the bridge"
] |
Shampoo is set during a 24-hour period in 1968, on the eve of a presidential election that would result in Richard Nixon's election to the American presidency. George Roundy is a successful Beverly Hills hairdresser, whose occupation and charisma have provided him the perfect platform from which to meet and have sex wi... | Who is the creative star at George's salon? | [
"George",
"George"
] |
Posing as low-caste itinerant smiths selling wares, the all-black fieldworkers of the Reunited Nations team led by sociologist Dr. Homer Crawford travel the Sahara subtly subverting the culture of its nomad tribes by disseminating "progressive" Western propaganda such as the right to equality, liberty, and the pursuit ... | How does Home kill Abe Baker? | [
"By hitting him with a karate blow to his throat",
"He used a karate blow to the windpipe."
] |
Joe Bronson, instead of studying for a school exam, goes out kite-flying with his school friends; on their way back he gets involved in fights with gang members in a poor part of the city. After he fails the exam the next day, he walks out of school and takes a ferry across the bay to Oakland. Looking at the boats on t... | What happens to the Reindeer? | [
"It disappears under the waves. ",
"it sinks in a storm"
] |
In 1912, 13-year-old Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop at Arches National Park in Utah. While scouting caves, Indy discovers a group of grave robbers who have found a golden crucifix belonging to Coronado and steals it from them, hoping to donate it to a museum. The men give chase through a pas... | Which group is also searching for the grail? | [
"Nazis",
"the nazis"
] |
Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence), the protagonist from the previous film, has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, still haunted by visions of the unspeakable horror that destroyed her family. Interviewed by Doctor Channard (Kenneth Cranham), and his assistant, Kyle MacRae (William Hope), she tells her account of th... | Why does Kirsty enter the Cenobite's domain? | [
"To try to rescue her father, who she believes is trapped in hell.",
"to save who she believes to be her father"
] |
Following the accidental death of his mother Renee during production of her latest film, thirteen-year-old Jeff Matthews and his veterinarian-father Chase move to the Maine town of Ludlow. Jeff learns about the Creed family, and about the cursed Indian burial ground. His friend Drew's dog, Zowie, is fatally shot by Gus... | Why does Drew get grounded by Gus? | [
"For skipping school to bury Zowie. ",
"For skipping School"
] |
John Gower introduces each act with a prologue. The play opens in the court of Antiochus, king of Antioch, who has offered the hand of his beautiful daughter to any man who answers his riddle; but those who fail shall die.
I am no viper, yet I feed
On mother's flesh which did me breed.
I sought a husband, in which la... | Which city does Pericles flee to after he leave Tyre? | [
"Tarsus. ",
"Tarsus"
] |
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