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

barbarella
Which actress played the title role in the film Barbarella?

apennine mountains
What is the world's smallest (25 square miles / 60 square km) and oldest republic, that is in the Apennine Mountains, entirely surrounded by Italy?

augustus snodgrass

Name Charles Dickens' first novel, featuring the characters Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass and 'the fat boy' Joe?