Given an open-ended topic (movie name, a persons name, an event, sports, etc) generate a simple trivia-type question.

americas
Nicknamed 'Tom Thumb of The Americas', which former Spanish colony is the smallest country in continental America?

1956 grand national
Which jockey, later famous in another sphere, rode Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National?

adrian lyne

James Dearden wrote which book, made into a famous film directed by Adrian Lyne, in 1987?