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In 1989, seventeen-year-old Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) learns during the start of his high school championship basketball game that his girlfriend Scarlet Porter (Allison Miller) is pregnant. Moments after the game begins, he leaves the game and goes after Scarlet, abandoning his hopes of going to college and becoming ... | What gift does Ned give Mike? | [
"A whistle",
"A whistle. "
] |
Bank loan officer Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) has become withdrawn since his divorce from ex-wife Stephanie. He has an increasingly negative outlook on his life and routinely ignores his friends Pete (Bradley Cooper) and Rooney (Danny Masterson). An old colleague (John Michael Higgins) suggests that he go to a motivational... | What does Terrence tell Carl? | [
"There was never a covenant.",
"There was no covenant."
] |
Donovan Donaly (Geoffrey Rush) a TV soap opera producer, surprises his wife Bonnie (Stacey Travis) being intimate with an ex-boyfriend. He files for divorce, and Bonnie hires Miles Massey (George Clooney), a top divorce attorney and the inventor of the "Massey pre-nup", a completely foolproof prenuptial agreement. Mile... | Who was Gus Petch? | [
"An opportunistic private investigator",
"Private investigator "
] |
Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) works in a California oil field (shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley) with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush), who has a wife and baby son. Most of Bobby's time is spent with his waitress girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black), who has dreams of singing country music... | Where was Bobby's father located? | [
"Puget Sound.",
"He is on Puget Sound."
] |
Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammea... | What do the children ask for their first wish? | [
"To be as beautiful as the day.",
"To be beautiful as the day "
] |
Prince Amerigo, an impoverished but charismatic Italian nobleman, is in London for his marriage to Maggie Verver, only child of the widower Adam Verver, the fabulously wealthy American financier and art collector. While there, he re-encounters Charlotte Stant, another young American and a former mistress from his days ... | Where is Prince and Maggie to be married? | [
"London",
"London"
] |
Former Los Angeles policeman John Berlin is teetering toward burnout after the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural northern California, for a job with the Eureka police force. Instead, Berlin prickles his new colleagues, especially John Taylor, ... | Who invites John Berlin to come to california? | [
"Freddy Ross",
"Freddy"
] |
Long-time friends and small-time criminals Eddy, Tom, Soap and Bacon put together ÂŁ100,000 so that Eddy, a genius card sharp, can buy into one of "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale's weekly high-stakes three card brag games. The game is rigged however, and the friends end up massively indebted to Harry, who fully expects them n... | Who holds a knife to Little Chris's throat after hiding in Little Chris's car? | [
"Dog",
"Dog"
] |
This work describes the author's views on the afterlife against the prevailing view of the "Greeks" (i.e., the Greco-Romans) of his day. He asserts that
"...Hades is a place in the world not regularly finished; a subterraneous region, wherein the light of this world does not shine; from which circumstance, that in this... | What are the last words from Jesus we get? | [
"The way you stand before me will be the way I judge you. ",
"In whatsoever ways I shall find you, in them I shall judge you entirely "
] |
Amelia is a domestic novel taking place largely in London during 1733. It describes the hardships suffered by a young couple newly married. Against her mother's wishes, Amelia marries Captain William Booth, a dashing young army officer. The couple run away to London. In Book II, William is unjustly imprisoned in Newgat... | How does Amelia react to William's cheating? | [
"Amelia forgives her husband.",
"she forgives him"
] |
Years after a zombie apocalypse, survivors have set up outposts across the United States. One outpost in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contains a feudal-like government. Bordered on two sides by rivers and on the third by an electric fence, the city has become a sanctuary. The rich and powerful live in a luxury... | What was slack's occupation, before her near execution? | [
"A hooker",
"hooker"
] |
Hal Warner, a rich young fellow determined to find the truth for himself about conditions in the mines, runs away from home and adopts the alias "Joe Smith." After being turned away by one coal mine for fear of Hal being a union organizer, he gets a job in another coal mine operated by the General Fuel Company, or GFC.... | After Hal is arrested, who does he accuse of being corrupt and unfair to workers? | [
"The Marshall. ",
"the marshal"
] |
The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. Sh... | Where does Sylvia Robson live? | [
"On a farm near Monkshaven.",
"on a farm in Monkshaven"
] |
Lambert Strether, a middle-aged, yet not broadly experienced, man from Woollett, Massachusetts, agrees to assume a mission for his wealthy fiancĂŠe: go to Paris and rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the clutches of a presumably wicked woman. On his journey, Strether stops in England, and there meets Maria Gostrey, an ... | Why does Strether tell Chad not to return to America? | [
"He realized that Chad was in a relationship with Marie and wanted them to be happy.",
"Strether does not want Chad to leave Marie."
] |
Eugénie Grandet is set in the town of Saumur. Eugénie's father Felix is a former cooper who has become wealthy through both business ventures and inheritance (inheriting the estates of his mother-in-law, grandfather-in-law and grandmother all in one year). However, he is very miserly, and he, his wife, daughter and the... | How old is Eugenie at the end of the story? | [
"Thirty Three",
"33"
] |
Dominick "Dom" Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) are "extractors", who perform corporate espionage using an experimental military technology to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract valuable information through a shared dream world. Their latest target, Japanese businessman S... | What is the term used for planting an idea in a person's subconscious? | [
"Inception",
"Inception"
] |
While attending a preview of the film Stab, a film within a film based on the Woodsboro murders depicted in the first film, two Ohio Windsor College seniors, Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens are murdered by Ghostface. Phil is stabbed through the ear in a bathroom stall while trying to eavesdrop on strange whimpering nois... | Who gets hurt at the party at the sorority house? | [
"Derek",
"Derek gets hurt at the sorority house."
] |
The story starts in 1784, before the French revolution. Wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things -- "no doubt a part of the inhe... | What was the instigation of the duel between the Vicomte Marny and Deroulede? | [
"Deroulede insulted Adele, the Vicomte's love interest.",
"Vicomte Marny had spoke disrespectfully about Deroulede's latest infatuation"
] |
On his deathbed, Mr. Dashwood (Tom Wilkinson) tells his son from his first marriage, John (James Fleet), to take care of his second wife (Gemma Jones) and three daughters, Elinor (Emma Thompson), Marianne (Kate Winslet) and Margaret (Emilie Franรงois), since they will inherit nothing. John's greedy and snobbish wife Fa... | Who does Edward marry? | [
"Elinor.",
"Elinor"
] |
When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly ... | Who falls in love and proposes to Lady Mason? | [
"Sir Peregrine.",
"Sir Peregrine"
] |
Under the watchful eyes of Father Silvano Bentivoglio (Carmen Argenziano) and Dr. Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) initiates the Large Hadron Collider and creates three vials of antimatter particles larger than any ever been produced before. Almost immediately, Father... | What is Father Patrick McKenna's position when first introduced in the story? | [
"Camerlengo",
"He worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research "
] |
Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage directed by kindly, avuncular Dr. Wilbur Larch. Homer is returned twice by foster parents; his first foster parents thought he was too quiet and the second parents beat him. Dr. Larch is addicted to ether and is also secretly an abortion provider. Conditions at the ... | Why did Homer return to the orphanage from his second family? | [
"They beat him.",
"They beat him."
] |
The first half of Futility introduces the hero John Rowland. Rowland is a disgraced former US Navy officer. Now an alcoholic fallen to the lowest levels of society, he's been dismissed from the Navy and works as a deckhand on the Titan. One April night the ship hits an iceberg, sinking somewhat before the halfway point... | How does Rowland make a living before working for the government? | [
"As a fisherman.",
"He was a Navy Officer and, later, a deckhand."
] |
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple's post-war partying life in New York, and his later alco... | Briefly describe Gloria and Anthony's relationship? | [
"Their relationship is based on love but has hardships like real relationships, not fairy tales.",
"rocky"
] |
Car thief Dick Kanipsia gets a parole from a penitentiary. He intends to go straight, but first he goes directly to see an old friend, Harry Moss, only to be shocked to see Harry get shot. Harry's dying words tell Dick to go find Barry Fenaka, a guy who supposedly knows where to find a stash of stolen cash that Harry h... | What happens when Dick Kanipsia goes to visit his friend Harry? | [
"He finds that Harry is dying from a gun shot wound.",
"he is shocked to see Harry get shot"
] |
Doctor Parnassus' (Plummer) theatre troupe, which includes sleight of hand expert Anton (Garfield), confidant Percy (Troyer), and Parnassus' daughter Valentina (Cole), performs outside a London pub. A drunk (Richard Riddell) barges onstage and crashes through a stage mirror, where his face changes (Bruce Crawford), and... | What did Mr. Nick offer Parnassus as a way to allow Valentina to stay with Parnassus? | [
"Valentina can stay with whoever wins five souls first",
"soul"
] |
Jerry was born in Santa Isabel Island, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago. Jerry's owner was Mr. Haggin, who worked as a plantation guard and used Jerry to chase black slaves. Higgin gave Jerry to Mr. Van Horn, Captain of ship Arangi, under condition to return the dog if something bad happens. The ship was engag... | What was the name of the yacht that saved Jerry? | [
"Ariel",
"Ariel. "
] |
Both the UK and the US are hinting at a military intervention in the Middle East. During a radio interview on BBC Radio 4's PM programme, Minister for International Development Simon Foster (Tom Hollander) unintentionally states that a war in the Middle East is "unforeseeable". The Prime Minister's Director of Communic... | Who leaked the PiPPW? | [
"Toby.",
"Toby Wright"
] |
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), a biomedical engineer from Lake Zurich, Illinois, is aboard the NASA space shuttle Explorer for her first space mission, STS-157. Veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) is commanding his final mission. During a spacewalk to service the Hubble Space Telescope, Mission Control i... | After Dr. Stone gives up and turns off the oxygen to commit suicide, Matt enters the capsule, scolds Dr. Stone for giving up, and then instructs her to do what? | [
"Matt instructs Dr. Stone to rig the landing jets to propel them towards the Shenzhou.",
"Use the Soyuz capsule's landing jets to move it to the Tiangong space station."
] |
Sir Thomas Waldron, the squire of Perlycross, is suffering from a terminal disease. The news is kept from him and his family so long as possible, and his death comes as a great shock. Sir Thomas was aware that Dr. Jemmy Fox has fallen in love with his daughter Inez, and expresses to his friend Rev. Philip Penniloe his ... | What is Waldrom suffering from? | [
"A terminal disease",
"A terminal disease."
] |
Fifth Avenue socialite Ouisa Kittredge (Stockard Channing) and her art dealer husband Flan (Donald Sutherland), are parents of "two at Harvard and one at Groton". But the narrow world inhabited by the Kittredges and their public status as people interested in the arts make them easy prey for Paul (Will Smith). Paul is ... | Where do Ouisa and Flan's kids go to school? | [
"Harvard and Groton",
"Ivy League college"
] |
On her 18th birthday, Bella Swan wakes up from a dream in which she sees herself as an old woman. She expresses her distaste about growing older than her boyfriend Edward Cullen, a vampire who stopped aging physically at 17. Despite her lack of enthusiasm, Edward's adoptive family throw Bella a birthday party. While un... | Why does Edward end his relationship with Bella? | [
"He believes that his family puts Bella in danger.",
"To keep her away from danger"
] |
The novel is based on the (fictional) "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. In addition, this novel has an introduction and series of (often lengthy) footnotes written from the perspective of scholar Anthony Meredith. Meredith writes from around 2... | Who conquered Asian and gained their own empire? | [
"Japan",
"Japan"
] |
First Lensman picks up more or less where Triplanetary left off. The story follows the doings of the "First Lensman" Virgil Samms. The Arisians know that he is incorruptible, a paragon of bravery and virtue, so they have chosen him to be the first entity to wear the "Lens of Civilization".
Samms has a dream. He wants t... | Who are the only people who can make The Lens? | [
"Only the Arisians can make the Lens. ",
"the Arisians"
] |
The film begins with Emil Slovak (Karel Roden) and Oleg Razgul (Oleg Taktarov) arriving in America. They were former criminals and, after getting out of prison, have come to the U.S. to claim their part of a bank heist in Russia (or somewhere in Czech Republic). Within minutes of arriving, Oleg steals a video camera fr... | What does Oleg do throughout the story? | [
"He films everything with the camera he stole",
"Records videotapes"
] |
Working the night shift as a toll collector on a lonely stretch of highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry is a man seemingly without ambition, dreams or purpose; a man sleepwalking his way through life. His wife Debbie is not happy with the situation.
One morning Eddie, a friend, drops by to ask Henry to play in a basebal... | What do Henry's friend's do on a ride to a baseball game? | [
"rob a bank",
"Rob a bank"
] |
The novel has a complex plot, common in Collins’ work. In a Prologue, a selfish and ambitious man casts off his wife in order to marry a wealthier and better-connected woman, by taking advantage of a loophole in the marriage laws of Ireland.
The initial action takes place in the widowed Lady Lundie's house in Scotland.... | In the final scene, who does Lady Lundie discover as taking precedence over her in the family? | [
"Anne, her enemy",
"Anne, her enemy."
] |
Slate and Co. Senior Executive Cliff Vandercave and secretary Miss Sharon Stone discuss their plan to swindle the company of its vast fortune and flee, and that they need one of their employees to be responsible for it. Fred Flintstone loans his best friend and neighbor Barney Rubble money so that he and his wife Betty... | Who does Cliff kidnap and offer to exchange for the Dictabird? | [
"Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm",
"Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm"
] |
The story portrays a crew of three male astronauts launched in the near future on a circumsolar mission in the spaceship Sunbird. A large solar flare damages their craft and leaves them drifting and lost in space. They make repeated attempts to contact NASA in Houston, to no avail. Soon, however, they begin to pick up ... | What is very peculiar about Andy on board the ship? | [
"He seems strangely feminine",
"he is the only male, and is very effeminate"
] |
Married to Margaret Brandt, Gerard sets off to Rome from Holland in order to escape the persecution of a vicious burgomaster as well as to earn money for the support of his family. Margaret awaits his return in Holland and in the meantime gives birth to his son. As Gerard is the favourite with his parents, his two lazy... | Where does Margaret go to at the beginning of the story? | [
"She stays in Holland.",
"To visit her son with the plague"
] |
The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the shorter of the two, Holmes is approached by a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova (Tamara Toumanova), who proposes that they conceive a child together, one who she hopes will inherit her physique and his intellect. Holmes manages to extricate himself b... | What desgusied as a sea monster? | [
"a World War 1 submarine",
"the submarine"
] |
Allan Quatermain, an adventurer and white hunter based in Durban, in what is now South Africa, is approached by aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good, seeking his help finding Sir Henry's brother, who was last seen travelling north into the unexplored interior on a quest for the fabled King Solomon's ... | What did Ignosi promise the Englishmen? | [
"That they will be venerated and honored forever.",
"They will be venerated and honoured amond his people forever."
] |
Challenger sends telegrams asking his three companions from The Lost World — Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee – to join him at his home outside London, and instructs each of them to 'bring oxygen'. On arrival they are ushered into a sealed room, along with Challenger and his wife. In the course ... | How does Challenger communicate to his friends about coming to his home? | [
"Through a telegram",
"telegrams"
] |
In 1944, with the help of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, the Nazis build a dimensional portal off the coast of Scotland and intend to free the Ogdru Jahad—monstrous entities imprisoned in deep space—to aid them in defeating the Allies. Rasputin opens the portal with the aid of his disciples, Ilsa von Haupstein and Ob... | What does Hellboy do when he is swallowed by the beast? | [
"He detonates hand grenades and destroys the monster from inside.",
"He detonates a belt of explosive and destroys the beast from the inside. "
] |
Jackie and Luke Harrison are a divorced New York City couple struggling to help their children Anna and Ben be happy. Luke, an attorney, is living with his new girlfriend, Isabel Kelly, a successful fashion photographer several years his junior. Isabel tries hard to make Anna and Ben feel comfortable and happy with her... | What does Isabel do for a living? | [
"She's a photographer.",
"She is a fashion photographer."
] |
During the Great Depression, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), the co-owner of a tallow works, part-time greeting card poet, and tuba-playing inhabitant of the (fictional) hamlet of Mandrake Falls, Vermont, inherits 20 million dollars from his late uncle, Martin Semple. Semple's scheming attorney, John Cedar (Douglass Du... | What does Deeds want to do with his fortune? | [
"Create 10 acre, fully equipped farms for the poor",
"He buys 10 acres of fully equipped farmlands for the homeless families."
] |
Mr. Vane, the protagonist of Lilith, owns a library that seems to be haunted by the former librarian, who looks much like a raven from the brief glimpses he catches of the wraith. After finally encountering the supposed ghost, the mysterious Mr. Raven, Vane learns that Raven had known his father; indeed, Vane's father ... | Where did Mr. Vane's grandfather refuse to sleep? | [
"The House of Beds",
"a house of beds"
] |
In the distant future, the known universe is ruled by Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. The most important substance in the empire is the drug known as melange or "the spice". It has many special properties, such as extending life and expanding consciousness. The most profitable and important of its properties is its abilit... | How were the Fremen warriors able to defeat Shaddam's troops? | [
"with sonic weapons",
"With sonic weapons and sandworms"
] |
Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) and his father Daniel (Matt Craven) are enjoying a fishing trip. On their return home, their vehicle evades another and ends up in a multi-car accident. Kale is injured in the crash but Daniel is killed. One year later, near the end of the school year, Kale is still traumatized by his father'... | WHAT TYPE OF CAR DID ROBERT TURNER OWN? | [
"A 1967 FORD MUSTANG",
"A 1967 Ford Mustang."
] |
Harry Sandwith, a sixteen-year-old English boy, is sent to live in France with the Marquis de St. Caux, a friend of a French nobleman Harry’s father once served. The marquis is impressed with the English system of schooling and believes that his two sons, Ernest and Jules, will benefit from the influence and friendship... | Who captures Marie in the marketplace? | [
"Lebat, the son of the Mayor of Dijon",
"Lebat."
] |
Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a w... | What happens to the civilization at the end of the story? | [
"The civilization was destryoyed.",
"it gets bombed."
] |
The story follows the exploits of Chichikov, a middle-aged gentleman of middling social class and means. Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners. He reveals little about his past, or his purpose, as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to ... | Why was Chichikov fired from his job with the government? | [
"He was guilty of corruption.",
"corruption"
] |
Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmer family. At the outset of the play, the father, Alfred, has just returned from a trip to the mountains. While there, he resolved to focus foremost on raising his son Eyolf, rather than continue work on his book, Human Responsibility. Eyolf, though described as having "beautiful... | Who did Rita blame for Eyolf's leg injury? | [
"Alfred",
"Alfred"
] |
Marcus Yallow is a 17-year-old hacker/techno whiz from San Francisco. One day at his high school named after Cesar Chavez, Marcus is accused of hacking into the school by vice principal Frederick Benson. Marcus and Benson do not get along and Marcus believes that Benson is perpetually trying to get rid of him. Marcus i... | What group raided the DHS compound? | [
"Highway patrol troopers",
"Highway patrol troopers. "
] |
Investigative reporter Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) is sent to Bucharest at the behest of Charles (Simon Kunz), her boss, to investigate the origins of a video tape depicting the ritualistic murderâand subsequent resurrectionâof a member of a cult calling themselves "The Deaders". In Bucharest, Amy tracks down the retur... | Who is Winter? | [
"The descendant of the toymaker who designed the box.",
"leader of the cult"
] |
In 1967, British spy Austin Powers (Mike Myers) thwarts an assassination attempt by his nemesis Dr. Evil (also played by Mike Myers) in a London nightclub. Dr. Evil escapes in a space rocket disguised as a Big Boy statue, and cryogenically freezes himself. Powers volunteers to be placed into cryostasis in case Dr. Evil... | Who does Austin Powers marry? | [
"Vanessa Kensington",
"Vanessa Kensington. "
] |
The Vicar - Dr Charles Primrose - lives an idyllic life in a country parish with his wife Deborah, son George, daughters Olivia and Sophia, and three other children. He is wealthy due to investing an inheritance he received from a deceased relative, and he donates the ÂŁ34 that his job pays annually to local orphans an... | Whose house burns down? | [
"The Vicar's.",
"the Primrose family's home"
] |
Act One
Serapion describes foreboding omens (of storms, whirlwinds, and the flooding of the Nile) of Egypt's impending doom. Alexas, Cleopatra's eunuch, dismisses Serapion's claims and is more concerned with Cleopatra's relationship with Antony. He sees that Cleopatra dotes on Antony and worries that Antony will not co... | What does Cleopatra send with Alexas to win Anthony back? | [
"jewels and a bracelet",
"Jewels."
] |
Skylark Three (1948) is the second book in the Skylark series and is set a year after the events of The Skylark of Space, during which year antagonist Marc "Blackie" DuQuesne has used the wealth obtained in the previous book to buy a controlling interest in the story's 'World Steel Corporation', a large company known f... | What happens when the Fenachrone refuse to stop their conquest? | [
"Seaton destroys their recon ships",
"Seaton destroys their ships and home planet"
] |
On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison after having spent 27 years in jail. Four years later, Mandela is elected the first black President of South Africa. His presidency faces enormous challenges in the post-Apartheid era, including rampant poverty and crime, and Mandela is particul... | When did Mandela and Pienaar realize that their plan was working? | [
"By the Springbroks second match, the whole country seemed to be cheering them on. ",
"The second game"
] |
The film begins with Cassius Clay, Jr. before his championship debut against then heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. In the pre-fight weigh-in Clay heavily taunts Liston (such as calling Liston a "big ugly bear"). In the fight Clay is able to dominate the early rounds of the match, but halfway through he complains of a... | Who is Sonji Roi to Ali? | [
"His first wife",
"His ex-wife."
] |
While Dorothy Gale is at home in Kansas one day, she and her pet dog Toto, meet the Shaggy Man who comes walking past the Gale farm. He is a friendly, yet slightly senile hobo with an optimistic, care free mentality. He politely asks Dorothy for directions to Butterfield, which is the nearest town on the prairie. The g... | Who took Button Bright with them to the North pole? | [
"Santa Claus.",
"Santa Claus"
] |
In 1973, sports handicapper and mafia associate Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is sent to Las Vegas to run the Teamsters Union-funded Tangiers Casino on behalf of the Chicago Outfit, which secretly controls the Teamsters, while Philip Green (Kevin Pollak) serves as the mob's frontman. Taking advantage of gaming l... | How does Nicky die? | [
"beaten and burried alive ",
"Frankie"
] |
The Man of Feeling details the fragmentary episodes of the life of Harley which exist within the remains of a manuscript traded to the initial narrator of the novel by a priest. The novel itself begins with these two latter figures hunting, whereas the manuscript is missing the first ten chapters and approximately thir... | What do Harley and Edwards find, in addition to the destroyed schoolhouse? | [
"Two orphans",
"two orphans"
] |
Struggling actor Andrew Largeman (Braff) wakes up from a dreamâin which he apathetically sits on a crashing planeâto a telephone message from his father (Holm), telling Andrew that he needs to return home because his mother has died.
Andrew leaves Los Angeles and returns home to New Jersey to attend the funeral. He... | Who was stealing jewelry from the corpses? | [
"Mark was stealing jewelry from the corpses.",
"Mark."
] |
Elle Woods, a student of fashion merchandising and president of her sorority, is taken to an expensive restaurant by her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III, who is the governor's son. Expecting Warner to propose, to her dismay, he breaks up with her, thinking that she is not serious enough for his political aspirations. ... | Whose advice prompted Elle to keep pursuing Warner after he first broke up with her? | [
"Her sorority disters",
"her sorority sisters"
] |
Pascal, a physician in Plassans for 30 years, has spent his life cataloging and chronicling the lives of his family based on his theories of heredity. Pascal believes that everyone's physical and mental health and development can be classified based on the interplay between innateness (reproduction of characteristics b... | How many decendents on his grandmother's side does Pascal classify? | [
"30",
"30-plus"
] |
In 1969, child prodigy William Miller struggles to fit in with the world. His widowed mother Elaine â who has led him to believe he is 12 years old, until Williams older sister, Anita, tells their mother to tell the truth, his age is actually 11, from being placed into First Grade at the age of 5, and skipped 5th gra... | Who is william contacted by? | [
"Ben Fong-Torres.",
"Ben Fong-Torres."
] |
Ojo the very unlucky, is a young Munchkin boy who, devoted to life with his uncle Unc Nunkie in the wilderness but on the verge of starvation, goes to see a neighboring "magician" and old friend of Unc, Dr. Pipt. While there they see a demonstration of the Pipt-made Powder of Life, which animates any object it touches ... | What is Ojo? | [
"A munchkin boy",
"A munchkin"
] |
Thirty years after a nuclear apocalypse, Eli (Denzel Washington) travels on foot toward the west coast of the former United States. Along the way he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of desert bandits who try to ambush him. Searching for water, he arrives ... | What is Carnegie searching for? | [
"A book.",
"a Bible"
] |
The play tells the story of Nikolai Ivanov, a man struggling to regain his former glory. For the past five years, he has been married to Anna Petrovna, a disinherited 'jewess', who has become very ill. Ivanov's estate is run by a distant relative, Mikhail Borkin, who is frequently advising people on how he can help the... | How many roubles does Ivanov owe to Zenaida Lebedev? | [
"9000",
"9000"
] |
Nick Conklin is a New York City police officer facing possible criminal charges; Internal Affairs believes Nick was involved with his partner who was caught taking criminal money in a corruption scandal. Nick is divorced from his wife, who has custody of their two children. Nick also has financial difficulties.
At a re... | What was in the package Sato stole from the mobsters in New York City? | [
"An American $100 printing plate.",
"A printing plate for $100 bills. "
] |
Trinity, an infamous hacker, is cornered by police in an abandoned hotel. She overpowers them with superhuman abilities and escapes, but a group of sinister and superhuman black-suited Agents lead the police in a rooftop pursuit. She answers a ringing public telephone and vanishes.
Thomas Anderson is a computer program... | Who decides to return to the Matrix in an attempt to save Morpheus? | [
"Neo",
"Neo"
] |
Dr. Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist in Philadelphia, returns home one night with his wife, Anna, after having been honored for his work. Anna tells Crowe that everything is second to his work, and that she believes he is truly gifted.
Just then, a young man appears in their bathroom, and accuses Crowe of failing hi... | Who does Crow believe he failed? | [
"Vincent",
"Because his former patient Vincent kills himself"
] |
Best friends Enid and Rebecca face the summer after their high school graduation. The girls are social outcasts, but Rebecca is more popular with boys than Enid. Enid's diploma is withheld on the condition that she attend a remedial art class. Even though she is a talented artist, her art teacher, Roberta (Illeana Doug... | Why does Enid have to attend a remedial art class to get her diploma? | [
"Enid's art teacher thinks Enid is just playing around with her work and not taking it seriously.",
"because her art teacher thinks her art is \"light entertainment\" rather than being socially meaningful"
] |
Lincoln opened his speech by first indicating that he would not touch on "those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement." The remainder of the speech would address the concerns of Southerners, who were apprehensive that "by the accession of a Republican Administration their prope... | What kind of worries did Lincoln hold about the Fugitive Slave Act? | [
"Free blacks being kidnapped and sold back into slavery.",
"that it might make free blacks vulnerable to kidnapping and illegally being sold as slaves"
] |
Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) is seen sitting on a beach smoking as the film opens. A flashback initiates, showing a roaring crowd at a concert given by fictional popular heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black (Vince Neil) makes an eccentric entrance down a zip-line onto the stage and begins perf... | Who aided and abetted Fairline? | [
"Jazz",
"Fairlane's loyal assistant Jazz"
] |
In 1998, Los Angeles has become immensely crime-ridden and decadent, ultimately being directly governed and patrolled by the recently created United States Police Force. Two years later, on August 23, 2000, a massive earthquake strikes Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley floods, and the Los Angeles area turns into an ... | What does the Plutoxin 7 virus turn out to be? | [
"A fast, hard hitting version of the flu.",
"The flu."
] |
A nameless narrator goes to Venice to find Juliana Bordereau, an old lover of Jeffrey Aspern, a famous and now dead American poet. The narrator presents himself to the old woman as a prospective lodger and is prepared to court her niece Miss Tita (renamed Miss Tina in later editions), a plain, somewhat naive spinster, ... | What does that character do in the effort of getting a look at the dead poets papers? | [
"He presents himself as a lodger and agrees to woo a spinster in the home where the poet has left papers.",
"Tries to court Miss Tita"
] |
Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges undergoing a mid-life crisis. Although married to Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover, Hilda Burgoyne, in London. The affair gnaws at Bartley's sense of propriety and honor.Professor Wilson arrives at the Alexa... | Who walks Hilda back to her house in the fog? | [
"Hugh MacConnell",
"Hugh MacConnell"
] |
In 1974, 11-year-olds Wendy Richards, Jude Cunningham, Kelly Lynch, and Nick McBride play hide and seek in an abandoned convent. 10-year-old Robin Hammond tries to join them, but they start teasing her by repeating "Kill! Kill! Kill!". Robin is then backed up towards a window from which she falls to her death. Instead ... | Why was Alex murdering the other kids? | [
"Because they were responsible for Robin's death and he wanted revenge",
"Because they caused his sister Robin's death years earlier."
] |
Sir Oliver Tressilian lives at the estate of Penarrow with his brother, Lionel. Oliver is betrothed to Rosamund Godolphin, whose hot-headed brother, Peter, detests the Tressilians due to an old feud between their fathers. Peter and Rosamund's guardian, Sir John Killigrew, also has little love for the Tressilians.
Peter... | What do Oliver and Yusuf offer to do when they are freed? | [
"To fight for the Muslims.",
"Become corsairs"
] |
Hook-handed Vietnam veteran Staff Sergeant John "Four Leaf" Tayback's (Nick Nolte) memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film. With the exception of newcomer supporting actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), the castâfading action hero Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), five-time Academy Award-winning Australian metho... | Why does Tugg think Damien faked his death? | [
"So the other actors will perform better.",
"To get the cast to perform better."
] |
Supreme Chancellor Valorum, leader of the Galactic Republic, dispatches Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi, to negotiate with the Trade Federation leadership to end a blockade of battleships around the planet Naboo. Darth Sidious, a Sith Lord and the Trade Federation's secret adviser, orders Fe... | What is the capital city on the surface of Naboo? | [
"Theed",
"Theed"
] |
At a fairground in rural Northern Ireland, Provisional IRA volunteer Fergus (Stephen Rea) and a unit of other IRA members, including a woman named Jude (Miranda Richardson) and led by Maguire (Adrian Dunbar), kidnap Jody (Forest Whitaker), a black British soldier, after Jude lures him to a secluded area with the promis... | What does Jody originally think he is going to get from Jude when he is kidnapped instead? | [
"sex",
"Sex "
] |
Set in late 1975, Rocky Balboa is a hard-living but failing prize fighter from an Italian neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between fights, he works as an enforcer for loan shark Tony Gazzo. The World Heavyweight Champion, Apollo Creed, announces plans to hold a match in Philadelphia during the upcoming Unite... | Who is the World Heavy weight champion? | [
"Apollo Creed",
"Apollo Creed"
] |
Joe Moore runs a ring of professional thieves, which includes Bobby Blane, Don "Pinky" Pincus and Joe's wife Fran. During a robbery of a New York City jewelry store, Joe's face is captured by a security camera after he takes off his mask in an attempt to distract the store's last remaining employee. As both the picture... | During the plane robbery, what was Bobby's role? | [
"He pretended to be airport security.",
"he poses as airport security personnel"
] |
David (Maguire) and his twin sister Jennifer (Witherspoon) lead different high-school social lives. Jennifer is shallow and extroverted; David is introverted and spends most of his time watching television. One evening while their mother, Sherry (Jane Kaczmarek), is away, they fight over the TV. Jennifer wants to watch... | What is David's sisters name? | [
"Jennifer",
"Jennifer"
] |
Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her. Jennie, grateful for his benevolence, agrees to sleep with him. He dies before they marry,... | When does Jennie tell Kane about Vesta? | [
"3 years into their relationship",
"After living together for 3 years"
] |
Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, siblings in their fifties and sixties, had decided to adopt a boy from th... | Why did Gilbert go to work at White Sands School? | [
"To be closer to Anne in Avonlea",
"So Anne can teach at the Avonlea School."
] |
Investment banker Harold Lee is persuaded by his colleagues Billy and JD to do their work while they leave for the weekend. Kumar Patel attends a medical school interview, but intentionally botches it to prevent getting accepted. Harold meets his neighbor Maria, but is unable to admit his feelings. After smoking mariju... | What is Harold Lee's job title? | [
"Investment banker.",
"Harold Lee is an investment banker."
] |
The play begins with an extended bit of metadrama; the company's stage-keeper enters, criticising the play about to be performed because it lacks romantic and fabulous elements. He is then pushed from the stage by the book-keeper, who (serving as prologue) announces a contract between author and audience. The contract ... | Who is Cokes' servant? | [
"Wasp",
"Wasp"
] |
Badlands is set in 1959 and is narrated by the impressionable 15-year-old Holly Sargis (Spacek), a teenage girl living in a dead-end South Dakota town called Fort Dupree. Holly lives with her sign painter father, although their relationship has been strained since her mother died of pneumonia some years earlier. One da... | How many bounty hunters did Kit kill? | [
"Three",
"Three."
] |
The film has a straightforward chronology with events spanning from 1937 to 1959; the setting is Tibet, except for brief sequences in China and India. It begins with the search for the 14th mindstream emanation of the Dalai Lama. After a vision by Reting Rinpoche (the regent of Tibet) several lamas disguised as servant... | What country is oppressing the Tibetians? | [
"China",
"China"
] |
Zed (Jack Black) is a hunter and Oh (Michael Cera) is a gatherer. After being informed that Zed ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the shaman (Bill Hader) and Marlak (Matthew Willig) banish him from the tribe. After Zed burns down the village by accident, Oh decides to go with Zed on his journey to discov... | Who becomes a Sodomite soldier? | [
"Cain.",
"Cain."
] |
Fifteen-year-old Sarah Williams rehearses a play in the park with her dog Merlin but becomes distracted by a line she is unable to remember while being watched by a barn owl. Realizing she is late to babysit her baby brother Toby, she rushes home and is confronted by her stepmother Irene before she and her father Rober... | How long does Sarah have to find Toby? | [
"13 hours",
"Thirteen hours."
] |
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), a successful insurance salesman, returns to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night. Visibly in pain, he begins dictating a confession into a Dictaphone for his friend and colleague, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson), a brilliant claims adjuster. The story, told primaril... | Why does Keyes suspect Dietrichson did not know about the policy? | [
"Dietrichson did not file a claim for his broken leg.",
"Because he did not claim a broken leg."
] |
Clinical psychologist Dr. Chris Kelvin is approached by emissaries for DBA, a corporation operating a space station orbiting the planet Solaris, who relay a message sent from his scientist friend Dr. Gibarian. Gibarian requests that Kelvin come to the station to help understand an unusual phenomenon but is unwilling to... | Who is the scientist approached by emmisaries of the corporation? | [
"Dr, Chris Kelvin is approached.",
"Dr. Chris Kelvin"
] |
The story focuses on a family of anthropomorphic rabbits. The widowed mother rabbit cautions her young against entering the vegetable garden of a man named Mr McGregor, telling them: "your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs McGregor". Her three daughters obediently refrain from entering the garden... | What happened to Peter's father? | [
"He was made into a pie.",
"Mrs. McGregor put him in a pie."
] |
In writing style The Confessions of a Young Man is presented as a novel, with a hero named Dayne, but the reader assumes in essence it is an autobiography, a true "confession". Dayne (i.e. Moore) went to Paris as a teenager, and almost becomes a full Parisian nearly forgetting the English language after 15 years. He sk... | What is the name of the protagonist? | [
"Dayne",
"Dayne"
] |
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