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

dick francis
What was author Dick Francis` profession before he took up writing?

annunciation
Lady Day (The Feast of the Annunciation) is on what date?

the death of socrates

Which French painter painted 'The Death of Socrates' in 1787 and 'Leonidas at Thermopylae in 1814?