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In Aroostook County, Maine, Marine fish and Game officer Walt Lawson is attacked and bitten in half by something unseen in Black Lake. Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), Fish and Game officer Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda), and mythology prof...	Which subject is crocodile enthusiast Hector Cyr a professor of?	[ "Mythology", "Mythology" ]
9 is a sentient rag doll who appears to be the scientist last creation and the last of his kind, living in the ruins of a decaying, post-apocalyptic Earth. He is first seen making simple constructs out of refuse – a swinging armature of scrap metal, an upright book with string tied around it, and a dummy rag doll full ...	How is the Cat Beast ultimately killed?	[ "He is impaled by a board.", "Falling into 9's trap" ]
Set in the fictional European kingdom of Lutha, the protagonist is a young American named Barney Custer, of Beatrice, Nebraska, who is the son of an American farmer and a runaway Luthan princess, Victoria Rubinroth. Unaware of his royal blood, much less that he is a dead ringer for his relative Leopold, the current kin...	What country does Barney form an alliance with to defeat the Austrians?	[ "Serbia", "Serbia" ]
Two years have passed since the last book, and Princess Irene and her father go to Gwyntystorm, while Curdie (a miner boy who is the friend of the Princess) stays at home with his mother and father. As the years go by, Curdie begins to hunt for pleasure. He also slowly begins to doubt Irene's story of her great-great g...	Who helps Curdie save Irene's father and his kingdom?	[ "The old princess, who pretends to be a maid helps Curdie save the kingdom?", "Lina" ]
Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite. His principal motivation is his love for Ruth Morse. Because Eden is a rou...	How does Eden die?	[ "Eden commits suicide by drowning. ", "By committing suicide" ]
The wedding of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who has arrest warrants for the couple as well as for Commodore James Norrington, for allowing Captain Jack Sparrow to escape execution. Norrington's whereabouts are uncertain, as he resigned after hi...	What happened to the HMS Dauntless ship?	[ "It was destroyed in a typhoon.", "It was destroyed in a typhoon" ]
The setting for the story is an ant colony in Central Park in New York City. The protagonist is Z-4195 (Woody Allen), or "Z" for short, a neurotic and pessimistic worker ant living in a wholly totalitarian society who longs for the opportunity to truly express himself. His friends include fellow worker Azteca (Jennifer...	Who does Z change places with?	[ "Weaver", "Weaver" ]
Kelly Ernswiler, a young war reenactment enthusiast, works at his local store with love interest Sarah and Bart Bowland. Kelly's father, Abe, works with drug addicts, being clean himself for over five years. His mother, Eve, is a commercial artist. As Kelly is leaving, Bart sees him and is furious as he knew he was in ...	Why is Abe's job relevant to the story?	[ "Abe works with drug addicts, and he relapses.", "He works with drug addicts " ]
The novel opens with the Pontellier family—Léonce, a New Orleans businessman of Louisiana Creole heritage; his wife Edna; and their two sons, Etienne and Raoul—vacationing on Grand Isle at a resort on the Gulf of Mexico managed by Madame Lebrun and her two sons, Robert and Victor. Edna spends most of her time with her ...	Which city does the Pontellier family live in?	[ "New Orleans", "New Orleans" ]
"Harry Caine" is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit and her adult son, Diego. Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel has died; a young filmmaker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel's son, Ernesto, Jr. After Diego is...	Why does Diego have to go to the hospital?	[ "He overdosed on drugs.", "an accidental drug overdose " ]
The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer and Jo's sons Rob and Teddy, although the others make frequent appearances as well. The book takes place ten years after Little Men. Dolly and George are college students ...	Dan compares Bess to which star?	[ "the Northern Star", "the northern star" ]
In 1991 Los Angeles, slacker Jeff "the Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is assaulted in his home by two hired goons (Mark Pellegrino and Philip Moon) who demand money that the wife of a Jeffrey Lebowski owes to a man named Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara). The two soon realize they have attacked the wrong Jeffrey Lebowski an...	What does Maude say to The Dude right after they have sex?	[ "Maude tells The Dude that she hopes to be pregnant.", "she wants a child" ]
Will Rodman, a scientist at the San Francisco biotech company Gen-Sys, is testing the viral-based drug ALZ-112 on chimpanzees to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. ALZ-112 is given to a chimp named Bright Eyes, greatly increasing her intelligence. However, during Will's presentation for the drug, Bright Eyes is force...	Who is Dodge Landon?	[ "The chief guard at the primate shelter.", "The chief guard " ]
In 1988, the U.S. Ohio-class submarine USS Montana has an encounter with an unidentified submerged object and sinks near the Cayman Trough. With Soviet ships moving in to try to salvage the sub and a hurricane moving over the area, the U.S. government opts to send a SEAL team to Deep Core, a privately-owned experimenta...	What is the solution to disarm the warhead?	[ "To send Bud down in an experimental diving suit filled with liquid breathing apparatus to disarm it manually.", "CUTTING THE WIRE" ]
The story centers on Arksenty Ivanovich Poprishchin, a low-ranking civil servant (titular counsellor), constantly belittled and criticized for underachieving. He yearns to be noticed by a beautiful woman, Sophie, the daughter of his boss, with whom he has fallen in love. As he said in his first sight of her, just after...	What does Poprishchin learn from the dogs' conversations?	[ "more about Sophie's life, including her engagement to another man", "Sophie is engaged to another man" ]
Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, a Lithuanian submarine commander in the Soviet Navy, intends to defect to the United States with his officers on board the experimental nuclear submarine Red October, a Typhoon-class vessel equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system that makes audio detection by sonar extremely ...	Why does the Soviet Northern Fleet claim to be following the Red October?	[ "A search and rescue mission.", "To search for and rescue the Red October." ]
Koreeda's After Life is set in a waystation where the souls of the recently deceased are processed before entering heaven. "Heaven," for the film, is a single happy memory from one's life, re-experienced for eternity. The movie is set in a building resembling a decrepit government social services institution. Every Mon...	What do the social workers do?	[ "They explain the process to each person", "They work to recreate the happy memories." ]
Aaron Boone dreams of Midian, a city where monsters are accepted. At the request of girlfriend Lori Winston, Boone is seeing psychotherapist Dr. Phillip Decker, who convinces Boone that he committed a series of murders. Decker is actually a masked serial killer who has murdered several families. Decker drugs Boone with...	Who is Boone's girlfriend?	[ "Lori Winston", "Lori" ]
Sergeant Nicolo "Nico" Toscani (Steven Seagal), a native of Palermo, Italy, is a detective in the Chicago Police Departmentâs vice squad. At an early age he became interested in martial arts, and moved to Japan to study. In 1969, Nico was recruited into the CIA by Special Agent Nelson Fox and was involved in covert o...	Who is Jacks in relation to Nico?	[ "His partner", "They are work partners. " ]
It is 1868. Ethan Edwards (Wayne) returns after an eight-year absence to the home of his brother Aaron (Walter Coy) in the wilderness of West Texas. Ethan fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, and in the three years since that war ended he apparently fought in the Mexican revolutionary war as well. He...	What do Ethan and his crew find while looking for his nieces?	[ "A burial ground of Comanches.", "a military fort" ]
The plot revolves around the conflict between two aristocratic brothers, Karl and Franz Moor. The charismatic but rebellious student Karl is deeply loved by his father. The younger brother, Franz, who appears as a cold, calculating villain, plots to wrest away Karl's inheritance. As the play unfolds, both Franz's motiv...	Which brother's quest creates a revolution?	[ "Karl.", "Karl" ]
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They meet the trapper (Natty Bumppo), who has left his home in New Yor...	Where does the trapper eventually do?	[ "He joins the Pawnee village", "joins a Pawnee village" ]
Orgon's family is up in arms because Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, a pious fraud (and a vagrant prior to Orgon's help). Tartuffe pretends to be pious and to speak with divine authority, and Orgon and his mother no longer take any action without first consulting him. Tartuffe's antics...	Why is Orgon's family in arms?	[ "Because Orgon's family under influence of Tartuffe.", "Orgon and his mom are being conned by a pious fraud." ]
The complex structure of the books begins with a Preface signed by Lloyd, which presents the frame concept, that Lloyd has discovered a thirty-year-old manuscript by Llewellyn Drury in a library. Then comes a Prologue in which Drury introduces himself. The book's Chapter I begins the story of how Drury met the mysterio...	The manuscript recounts events that occurred how long ago?	[ "The story takes place about thirty years ago.", "30 years" ]
The Soul of a Bishop tells the story of a spiritual crisis that leads Edward Scrope, Lord Bishop of Princhester, to give up his diocese in England's industrial heartland and leave the Anglican Church. Troubled during World War I by doctrinal doubts and a sense of the irrelevance of his Anglicism as well as nervousness ...	What revelation does Bishop Scrope have the second time he takes the drug?	[ "He has another vision, and then decides to leave the church", "clergy is not seerving the world's needs" ]
On October 30, Devil's Night in Detroit, Police Sergeant Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) is at the scene of a crime where Shelly Webster (Sofia Shinas) has been beaten and raped, and her fiancĂŠ Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) then died on the street outside, having been stabbed, shot, and thrown out of the window. The couple were t...	What day were Eric and Shelley supposed to be married?	[ "Halloween", "Halloween. " ]
Cristina Moreno (Shelbie Bruce - Aimee Garcia as narrator) is applying to Princeton University. For her application essay, she tells the story of her childhood and narrates throughout the movie. Flor Moreno (Paz Vega) is a poor Mexican single mother who moved to America to have a better life for her and her daughter, C...	What condition does the grandmother, Evelyn, suffer from?	[ "Alcoholism.", "Alcoholism" ]
The action is centred on the Monastery of Kennaquhair, probably based on Melrose Abbey in south east Scotland, on the River Tweed. At this time, circa 1550, the Scottish Reformation is just beginning, and the monastery is in peril. A love story is interwoven as the Glendinning boys fall in love with Mary Avenel. Edward...	Who helped the knight escape?	[ "Mysie", "Mysie" ]
Tom Ripley is a young man struggling to make a living in New York City by whatever means necessary, including a series of small-time confidence scams. One day, he is approached by shipping magnate Herbert Greenleaf to travel to "Mongibello", in Italy, to persuade Greenleaf's errant son, Dickie, to return to the United ...	Where does Ripley dispose of Freddie Mile's body?	[ "On the outskirts of Rome.", "The outskirts of Rome." ]
Small-town New Providence, New Jersey, attorney Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) moonlights as a wrestling coach and struggles to keep his practice solvent, while shielding his wife Jackie (Amy Ryan) and their two young girls, Abby and Stella, from the extent of the problem. When his court-appointed client, Leo Poplar (Bu...	How much money does he get for Leo every month?	[ "1508.00", "$1,508" ]
Terry Benedict (Andy García) locates all eleven members of Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) gang, demanding they return the $160 million they stole from his casinos plus $38 million interest. Short by half, the group schemes to stage another heist in Europe to avoid problems with United States authorities. They are tippe...	What do Danny and his crew plan to swap with the Faberge Egg?	[ "A holographic recreation", "A holographic receation" ]
Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille is sent to investigate a criminal case at the Château du Glandier and takes along his friend the lawyer Sainclair, who narrates. Mathilde Stangerson, the 30-something daughter of the castle's owner, Professor Joseph Stangerson, was found near-critically battered in a room...	Who is Larsan's alter-ego?	[ "Ballmeyer", "Ballmeyer" ]
Peter Gibbons, a programmer at a company called Initech, is frustrated and unmotivated at his job. His co-workers include Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton, also programmers, and Milton Waddams, a meek collator who is mostly ignored by the rest of the office. The staff is constantly mistreated by management – espe...	Where does Peter put the checks that he writes out to the company to repay the stolen money?	[ "Under Lumberghs office door.", "in the bosses office" ]
This is a suspenseful novel set in Brooklyn around the time of the end of World War I. It continues the story of Roger Mifflin, the book seller in Parnassus on Wheels. It also details an adventure of Miss Titania Chapman and a young advertising man named Aubrey Gilbert.The narrative begins with a young advertising man,...	Who does Gilbert fall in love with?	[ "Tatiana", "Tatiana" ]
The work traces the death of Claudius, his ascent to heaven and judgment by the gods, and his eventual descent to Hades. At each turn, of course, Seneca mocks the late emperor's personal failings, most notably his arrogant cruelty and his inarticulateness. After Mercury persuades Clotho to kill the emperor, Claudius wa...	Who does Mercury convince to kill the emperor?	[ "Clotho.", "Clotho." ]
The screenplay of Gandhi is available as a published book. The film opens with a statement from the filmmakers explaining their approach to the problem of filming Gandhi's complex life story: No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no way to give each year its allotted weight, to include each event, e...	What country ruled India prior to its independence?	[ "Britain.", "Britain" ]
It is concerned mainly with Queen Mary's imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle in 1567, her escape, and her defeat. Parallel to this is the romance of Roland Graeme, a dim-witted but spirited youth. He is brought up at the castle of Avenel by Mary Avenel and her husband, Halbert Glendinning. Roland is sent by the Regent Mu...	Who did Roland end up marrying?	[ "Catherine", "Catherine" ]
Growing up, Evan Treborn and his friends, Lenny and siblings Kayleigh and Tommy Miller, suffered many severe psychological traumas that frequently caused him to black out. These traumas include being coerced to take part in child pornography by Kayleigh and Tommy's father, George Miller (Eric Stoltz), being nearly stra...	What is Evan's main reason for wanting to travel back in time?	[ "To redo parts of his past", "So he can redo things in his past." ]
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster), an American aircraft engineer employed in Berlin, Germany, is widowed with a six-year-old daughter Julia after her husband David falls off the roof of their building to his death. Kyle decides to bury him in their hometown back in the U.S., on Long Island, New York. They fly aboard a passenge...	Who is the third person, besides Carson and Stephanie, involved in the conspiracy?	[ "mortuary director in Berlin", "Berlin" ]
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are sisters living in The Midlands in England in the 1910s. Ursula is a teacher, Gudrun an artist. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin and coal-mine heir Gerald Crich, and the four become friends. Ursula and Birkin become involved, and Gudrun and Gerald eventuall...	Who does Gudrun begin an intense relationship with?	[ "Loerke", "Loerke" ]
In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal. They have little chance of doing well on their handmade wooden skates, but the prospect of the race and the prize of the silver skates excites the...	Why does Dr. Boekman provide the surgery for free?	[ "The doctor was touched because Hans offered to use the money he had saved to buy steel skates.", "He is touched by Hans's offer to pay for the surgery" ]
The story is told in three main arcs, with most of it occurring during a 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties hosted by Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her husband, Elliot (Michael Caine). Hannah serves as the stalwart hub of the narrative; most of the events of the film connect to her. Elliot becomes i...	What are the names of Hannah's parents?	[ "Norma and Evan", "Norma and Evan" ]
John Whitney, an anthropologist for the Museum of Natural History in Chicago, studies a tribe in South America and drinks a soup made by the tribesmen. Shortly after, Whitney accosts a merchant ship captain, asking him to remove the cargo he had intended to send to Chicago off the ship. Unwilling to delay the ship's de...	Why did Margo suggest using liquid nitrogen to kill the Kothoga?	[ "The Kothoga is part reptilian and likely cold-blooded.", "it is part reptilian and cold blooded. " ]
Kate Hannah (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an elementary school teacher, arrives at work hungover and vomits in front of her class. Asked by a student if she is pregnant, she pretends she is, then continues the lie to the school principal, Mrs. Barnes (Megan Mullally). Her co-worker Dave (Nick Offerman) reveals that he kno...	What is Kate Hannah's profession?	[ "She is an elementary school teacher.", "teacher" ]
The film opens to a young George Jung (Jesse James) and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths) of Weymouth, Massachusetts. When George is ten years old, Fred files for bankruptcy and loses everything, but tries to make George realize that money is not important. As an adult, George (Johnny Depp) mo...	What is George given so that he can leave a final message to his father?	[ "A tape recorder", "a tape recorder" ]
The year is 1991; one year since an unidentified flying object bearing 300,000 enslaved aliens, the Newcomers, landed in the Mojave Desert on planet Earth. Los Angeles later becomes their new home. Matthew Sykes (Caan), a police detective, loses his partner Bill Tuggle (Brown) in a shootout. The detectives were trying ...	What happened to Matthew Sykes partner?	[ "Bill Tuggles was killed in a shootout.", "he was killed in a shoot-out with a pair of Newcomer criminals" ]
The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and...	As the narrator helps Roderick put Madeline in the tomb, what did he notice?	[ "She had rosy cheeks.", "Her rosy cheeks" ]
In Arizona, Dignan "rescues" his friend Anthony from a voluntary psychiatric unit, where he has been staying for self-described exhaustion. Dignan has an elaborate escape plan and has developed a 75-year plan that he shows to Anthony. The plan is to pull off several heists, and then meet up with a Mr. Henry, a landscap...	What is Mr. Henry's actual job?	[ "landscaper", "landscaper" ]
Sir Nigel Anstruthers comes to New York in search of an heiress, as he no longer has enough money to keep up his estate, Stornham Court. He marries the pretty and cosseted Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American millionaire. But on their return to England, Nigel and his mother control and isolate Rosalie from h...	Who is Ughtred?	[ "Rosalie and Sir Nigel's son", "Rosalie's son" ]
In 1975, biological warfare between China and Russia kills most of the world's population. U.S. Army Col. Robert Neville, M.D. is a scientist based in Los Angeles. As he begins to succumb to the plague himself, he injects himself with an experimental vaccine, rendering himself immune. By 1977, Neville believes he is th...	What happens to Zachary right after Neville shoots him?	[ "He falls off the balcony", "Falls off the balcony and dies." ]
Dante Hicks, a 22-year-old retail clerk at the Quick Stop convenience store in Leonardo, New Jersey, is called into work on his day off by his boss to cover a few hours for another employee who is sick. Arriving at the store, he finds that the locks to the security shutters are jammed closed with chewing gum, so he han...	Who are the two drug dealers outside the Quick Stop?	[ "Jay and Silent Bob", "Jay and Silent Bob" ]
This is a book in two parts. The first, "The Enigma of Innocent Smith", concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, this man (who is tentatively identified by lodger Arthur Inglewood as an ex-schoolmate named Innocent Smith) is accompanied by a great wind, a...	Who does Innocent Smith plan on eloping with?	[ "Mary Gray", "Mary Gray" ]
In the German spa town of Wildbad, the Englishman Mr. Neal is asked to transcribe the deathbed confession of Allan Armadale; his story concerns his murder of the man he had disinherited (also called Allan Armadale), who had subsequently married the woman he was betrothed to under false pretensions. Under Allan's instru...	Why does Lydia commit suicide?	[ "She cannot kill the man she really loves.", "She feels guilt for trying to murder Allen and almost murdering her own husband instead. " ]
In Morocco, Frank Cotton buys a puzzle box from a dealer. In a bare attic, when Frank solves the puzzle, hooked chains emerge and tear him apart. Later, the room is filled with swinging chains and covered with the remnants of his body. A black-robed figure picks up the box and returns it to its original state, restorin...	Where does Kirsty choose to live?	[ "Her own place", "Her own place." ]
The play telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative, beginning with the recall of his favourite, Piers Gaveston, from exile, and ending with his son, Edward III, executing Mortimer Junior for the king's murder. Marlowe's play opens at the outset of the reign, with Edward's exiled favourite, Piers Gave...	Who becomes the lover of Isablla, the Queen of France?	[ "Mortimer", "Mortimer" ]
In A.D. 1555, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) returns to his former home in Glenfinnan, Scotland, to save his mother from his former friend and village priest Jacob Kell (Bruce Payne). Kell executes Connor's mother for witchcraft. Connor kills both Kell and Kell's adopted father, Father Rainey, and sets Glenfinnan...	How does Jacob Kell gain great power?	[ "He recruits a few lesser Immortals, ignoring the rules of the Game. ", "ignoring the rules of The Game" ]
Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a former golf prodigy who has little ambition. He owns a driving range in West Texas, where he drinks and hangs out with his pal Romeo Posar (Cheech Marin) and their friends. Dr. Molly Griswold (Rene Russo), a clinical psychologist, wants a golf lesson. She asks Roy because he kn...	What did Simms do that made Molly see his unpleasant side?	[ "Simms arrogantly refused to sign an autograph for a child.", "He refuses to autograph for a kid." ]
The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of black flags with gold suns atop tall historic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the...	What does Robur eventually do with the 3 men?	[ "return them to the ground", "rescued and return the 3 men to the ground" ]
In 1901, the family of nine-year-old Vito Andolini is killed in Corleone, Sicily, after his father insults local Mafia chieftain Don Ciccio. Vito escapes to New York City and is registered as "Vito Corleone" on Ellis Island. In 1958, during his son's First Communion party at Lake Tahoe, Michael Corleone has a series of...	Why was Roth forced to return to the USA?	[ "He is refused entry to israel.", "refused asylum in Israel" ]
The "William" of the book's title is Kaiser Wilhelm II, who came from the House of Hohenzollern, hence the subtitle. The book chronicles life in London under German occupation and the changes that come with a foreign army's invasion and triumph. Like Robert Erskine Childers's novel The Riddle of the Sands (1903), it pr...	Who does the hero inevitably end up socializing with?	[ "An invader", "one of the invaders" ]
In 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, and humans are protected from the robots by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner, a Chicago police detective, hates and distrusts robots because one of them rescued him from a car crash, leaving a young girl to die because her survival was statistically less likely than his. ...	How does the CEO of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men (USR) claim that Lanning died?	[ "The CEO claims that Lanning's death was a suicide.", "suicide" ]
Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), a Los Angeles saxophonist, receives a message on the intercom of his house from an unknown man, who says: "Dick Laurent is dead". During a break at a show one night, Fred calls his home but Renée (Patricia Arquette), his wife, does not answer any of the home's ringing telephones. Arriving h...	What does Renee find on the porch.?	[ "VHS tape of the inside of their house", "A VHS tape" ]
Lady Anna is set during the 1830s, at about the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. The title character is the daughter of the late Earl Lovel. Her mother married him out of ambition rather than love, and despite his evil reputation. Soon after their marriage, he told her that he had a living wife, which made their u...	Who is Daniel's father?	[ "Thomas Thwaite.", "Thomas Thwaite" ]
Young Ferdinand does not enjoy butting heads with other young bulls, preferring instead to lie under a tree smelling the flowers. His mother worries that he might be lonely and tries to persuade him to play with the other calves, but when she sees that Ferdinand is content as he is, she leaves him alone. When the calve...	Why does Ferdinand lie down in the ring?	[ "He wants to smell the scent of womens' flowers. ", "to enjoy flowers" ]
Under section 102 of the Act, copyright protection extends to "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device." The Act defines "works o...	When did unpublished works fall under the federal government's responsibility?	[ "with adoption of the 1976 Act", "1976" ]
The novel begins with the Madden sisters and their childhood friend in Clevedon. After various travails, the adult Alice and Virginia Madden move to London and renew their friendship with Rhoda, an unmarried bluestocking. She is living with the also unmarried Mary Barfoot, and together they run an establishment teachin...	What happens to Monica after her infidelity?	[ "She moves with her sisters to a home in Clevedon at her husband's expense?", "She leaves Widdowson." ]
Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) are a married lesbian couple living in the Los Angeles area. Nic is an obstetrician, and Jules is a housewife who is starting up a landscape design business. Each has given birth to a child using the same sperm donor. The younger child Laser (Josh Hutcherson) wants to fin...	What grade is Joni in?	[ "College", "12" ]
Rachel Ray is the younger daughter of a lawyer's widow. She lives with her mother and her widowed sister, Dorothea Prime, in a cottage near Exeter in Devon. Mrs. Ray is amiable but weak, unable to make decisions on her own and ruled by her older daughter. Mrs. Prime is a strict and gloomy Evangelical, persuaded that al...	Where is the Ray's cottage located?	[ "Near Exeter in Devon", "Devon" ]
Three beggars operate in the port of Papeete on Tahiti. They are Herrick, a failed English businessman; Davis, an American sea captain disgraced by the loss of his last ship; and Huish, a dishonest Cockney of various employments. One day an off-course schooner carrying a cargo of champagne from San Francisco to Sydney ...	What did the men start drinking on the ship?	[ "Champagne", "The cargo, champagne" ]
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract,Â˛ a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises Loki an army with which he can subjugate Earth. Nick Fury, director of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., a...	What is the name of the agency that is attempting to create weapons to protect against hostile extraterrestian attacks?	[ "S.H.I.E.L.D", "S.H.E.I.L.D." ]
It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel DollĂŠ whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with...	DURING WHAT BATTLE DID PAULETTE'S PARENTS DIE?	[ "THE BATTLE OF FRANCE", "Battle of France" ]
Early one morning, Martha flees from an abusive cult in the Catskill Mountains led by an enigmatic leader, Patrick. She phones her sister Lucy, eventually asking for her help. Lucy picks up Martha at a nearby bus station and takes her to a lake house in Connecticut which Lucy shares with her husband, Ted. Martha tells ...	What does Patrick ask Martha to do to prove that she is a "teacher and a leader"?	[ "Kill a sick cat", "Shoot another cult member. " ]
The novel begins with David moving to a new house at the base of some beautiful mountains. The next day, rather than settle into the new house, he decides to climb the mountains. Upon reaching the summit, he encounters the Phoenix. At first they are frightened of each other, as the Phoenix had been chased by a Scientis...	Who was the Phoenix hiding from?	[ "The Scientist", "a Scientist" ]
Several weeks after returning to Kansas from the Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale looks out of her bedroom window and sees a bright and beautiful rainbow on the horizon. She notices that the rainbow is approaching her and Toto as both of them run towards it. Dorothy starts to see Glinda the Good Witch who tells Dorothy that sh...	Who do Dorothy and Toto meet in Oz first who gives them directions?	[ "They meet a molasses covered owl names Wiser.", "Wiser" ]
Beverly Sutphin appears to be a typical suburban housewife living with her dentist husband, Eugene, and their teenage children, Misty and Chip, in the suburbs of Baltimore. However, she is secretly a serial killer, murdering people over the most trivial of perceived slights, including mere faux pas. During breakfast, D...	What witness did Beverly fail to discredit?	[ "Luann Hodges", "Luann Hodges" ]
Speed Racer is an 18-year-old whose life and love has always been automobile racing. His parents Pops and Mom run the independent Racer Motors, in which his brother Spritle, mechanic Sparky, and girlfriend Trixie are also involved. As a child Speed idolized his record-setting older brother, Rex Racer, who was killed wh...	What does Speed suspect about Racer X?	[ "That he is really Speed's brother Rex", "That Racer X is his brother in disguise. " ]
Henry Hill says, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster", referring to his idolization of gangsters in his 1950s blue-collar, predominantly Italian-American neighborhood in East New York, Brooklyn. Wanting to be part of something significant, Henry quits school and goes to work for them. He is...	What did Henry always want to be?	[ "A gangster", "a Gangster" ]
In the summer of 1972, Vada Sultenfuss is an 11-year-old tomboyish girl and a hypochondriac. Harry Sultenfuss, Vada's father, is an awkward widower who does not understand his daughter, so he constantly ignores her. His profession as a funeral director has led his daughter to develop an obsession with death. Vada regul...	What did Mrs. Sennett give Vada when she went to visit her?	[ "the mood ring that Thomas J. died to get back", "a mood ring" ]
At the top of Mount Munch lives a group of people known as the Hyups. One of their numbers, a Munchkin named Bini Aru, discovered a method of transforming people and objects by merely saying the word "Pyrzqxgl". After Princess Ozma decreed that no one could practice magic in Oz except for Glinda the Good Witch and the ...	What must Kiki Aru and Ruggedo drink to make them forget all they have ever known?	[ "The Water of Oblivion", "Water of Oblivion" ]
Aging gangster Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero is introduced to a jewel thief named Donnie Brasco. Donnie impresses Lefty by threatening a diamond dealer whom Donnie suspects of selling Lefty a fake ring. Lefty teaches Donnie the rules of the Mafia and introduces him to several "made men" including Dominick "Sonny Black" Nap...	What is Donnie Brasco's real name?	[ "Joseph D. Pistone.", "Joseph D. Pistone." ]
Georgie Burgess, seven and a half years old, lives in Tampa Florida. His mother and her boyfriend abuse him savagely, but he keeps their beatings a secret. He gets in trouble at school and hasn't learned to read, but he loves looking at a book with pictures of flowers. Georgie's life changes after he wins a rosebush at...	Who abused Georgie as a child?	[ "his mother and her boyfriend", "mother and boyfriend" ]
When Nicola Anders (Winona Ryder), the star of out-of-favor director Viktor Taransky's (Al Pacino) new film, refuses to finish it, Taransky is forced to find a replacement. Contractual requirements totally prevent using her image in the film, so he must re-shoot. Instead, Viktor experiments with a new computer program ...	Why did Viktor believe he was innocent?	[ "Simone wasn't real", "Because Simone is not a real person." ]
The Brothers Bloom, orphaned at a young age, begin performing confidence tricks as young children; Stephen dreams up elaborate scenarios and his younger brother, Bloom, creates trust with the marks. Stephen creates his first con as a way of encouraging his brother to talk to girls. Twenty-five years later, the brothers...	Where did Penelope go with the brothers?	[ "To Greece", "Greece" ]
Much of the action of this short novel takes place in the rickety old stage-coach — or coucou — of Pierrotin, which regularly carries passengers and goods between Paris and Val-d'Oise. On one such trip from Paris, Comte Hugret de Sérizy, a senator and wealthy aristocrat, is travelling incognito in order to investigate ...	Why is Coun Hugret de Serizy traveling incognito?	[ "To investigate if the rumors are true of shady dealings on a property he wants to purchase.", "To find out if one of his employees is being dishonest" ]
Opera singer Christine triumphs at the gala on the night of the old managers' retirement. Her old childhood friend, Raoul, hears her sing and recalls his love for Christine. At this time, there are rumors of a phantom living at the Opera and he makes himself known to the managers through letters and malevolent acts. So...	What does Christine want to do before leaving with Raoul?	[ "She wants to sing a song for Erik.", "Sing a song for Erik." ]
Life in the Iron Mills begins with an omniscient narrator who looks out a window and sees smog and iron workers. The gender of the narrator is never known, but it is evident that the narrator is a middle class observer. As the narrator looks out the windowpane, an old story comes to mind; a story of the house that the ...	Whose wallet did Deborah steal?	[ "She stole Mitchell's wallet.", "One of the men watching Hugh work. " ]
In 1961, the financially strapped author Pamela "P. L." Travers reluctantly travels from her home in London to Los Angeles to work with Walt Disney at the urging of her agent, Diarmuid Russell. Disney has pursued the film rights to her Mary Poppins stories for twenty years, having promised his daughters that he would p...	Where does Disney follow P.L. to?	[ "London", "London" ]
In 1965, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) has dropped out of college, enlisted in the U.S. Army, and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. Assigned to Bravo Company in the 25th Infantry Division, near the Cambodian border, he is quickly disillusioned by the difficult environment, and his enthusiasm for the war declines. ...	Who do the platoon watch getting killed as he emerged from the trees?	[ "Elias", "Elias" ]
In the metropolis of Champion City, the would-be superhero team of Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), the Shoveler (William H. Macy), and the Blue Raja (Hank Azaria) attempt to make a name for themselves, but their suspect skills make them ineffective, and they find themselves upstaged by the city's most successful superhero, ...	What gang is Frankenstein reunited with?	[ "Tony P and the Disco Balls", "Disco Boys" ]
Maurice is a Consul at Genes, a Mediterranean town where he has married Onorina the daughter of the only wealthy man into the town, although it seems he was originally extremely reluctant to get married. They are having a dinner party with guests from Paris, and Maurice recounts some of his history. When Maurice was yo...	What happened to Count Octave after Honorine died?	[ "He aged rapidly and died shortly after. ", "He past away shortly after." ]
The play loosely follows the life of Joan of Arc. It contains a prologue introducing the important characters, followed by five acts. Each dramatizes a significant event in Joan's life. Down into Act IV the play departs from history in only secondary details (e.g. by making Joan kill people in battle, and by shifting t...	What ideals does the play embody?	[ "Nationalism and Militarism. ", "the need to subject emotions to moral principle" ]
Edward Lewis, a successful corporate raider in Los Angeles on business, accidentally ends up on Hollywood Boulevard, in the city's red-light district after being rejected and breaking up with his girlfriend during an unpleasant phone call in which Lewis appears highly controlling; he asked his girlfriend to escort him ...	What is Vivian's rule while working?	[ "She refuses to kiss clients on the mouth to avoid intimacy.", "No kissing on the mouth" ]
Mr. Woodchuck is about the time Twinkle's father sets a trap for a woodchuck that lives near his property. Twinkle goes to see the woodchuck get caught, and has a dream in which she meets the woodchuck and his family. The woodchucks put her on trial for being a human, because humans set cruel traps for the purposes of ...	Who does Twinkle meet in Prairie Dog Town?	[ "The mayor", "Chubbins" ]
The vampire Lestat is awakened from decades of slumber by the sound of a heavy metal band which he proceeds to take over as the lead singer. Achieving international success and planning a massive live concert, Lestat is approached by Marius, and warned that the vampires of the world will not tolerate his flamboyant pub...	What is Marius' warning to Lestat?	[ "That the vampires of the world are not going to like his flamboyancy.", "that the vampires will not tolerate his flamboyant public profile" ]
Gabriel Crasweller, a successful merchant-farmer and landowner, is Britannula's oldest citizen. Born in 1913, he emigrated from New Zealand when he was a young man and was instrumental in building the new republic as one of a group of similar-minded men which included his best friend John Neverbend, ten years his junio...	Who is the President of Britannula?	[ "John Neverbend, Crasweller's best friend", "John Neverbend" ]
After spending most of her adult life nursing first her dying uncle, and then her invalid brother Walter, Margaret Mackenzie inherits a significant fortune from Walter at his death. Seeking a place in society, Miss Mackenzie moves to a town called Littlebath, (modeled after Bath, Somerset), and joins a group of Evangel...	How many brothers did Walter have?	[ "1", "none--he has a sister, Margaret" ]
The film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, cutting back and forth between McCandless' time spent in the Alaskan wilderness and his two-year travels leading up to his journey to Alaska. The plot summary here is told in a more chronological order. In May 1992, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) arrives in a remot...	After graduating Emory University what did McCandless do?	[ "Destroyed his identity and donated all his money.", "traveled crossing country" ]
The setting is the fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson's Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century. David Wilson, a young lawyer, moves to town and a clever remark of his is misunderstood, which causes locals to brand him a "pudd'nhead"Â â a nitwit. His hobby of collec...	Why does Tom agree to provide Roxie with financial help?	[ "She threatens to reveal that he is her son, Chambers.", "She blackmails him with knowledge that she is his mother" ]
The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia (賈) clan—the Rongguo House (榮國府) and the Ningguo House (寧國府)—who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital. Their ancestors were made Dukes and given imperial titles, and as the novel begins t...	Who is Jia Baoyu supposed to marry?	[ "his cousin, Xue", "Lin Daiyu" ]
Emily Jenkins (RenĂŠe Zellweger) is a social worker living in Oregon, who is assigned to investigate the family of ten-year-old Lillith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland), as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been mistreating Lillith. Emily's fears...	Why does Barron shoot himself?	[ "He hallucinates that he is being attacked by dogs.", "he hallucinated hornets coming out of his body" ]

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