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

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?

donkey
Who voices Donkey in the Shrek series of films?

chulalongkorn university
Chulalongkorn University is the oldest university in which Asian country?