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

the carpet people
Who wrote 'The Carpet People', 'Hogfather', 'The Last Continent', 'Men At Arms', and 'Mote'?

christmas island
Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is a territory of which country?

albert campion
The detective Albert Campion was created by which author?