TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a question, along with a context passage which has extra information available on certain terms mentioned in it, i.e., the proper nouns in the passage. Your job is to determine whether information from more than one term is needed to answer the question. Indicate your choice as `a` for Yes or `b` for No.
PROBLEM: Question: Of the first two post-doc positions John Ellis held, which company did he work for the longest? Passage:After completing his secondary education at Highgate School, he attended King's College, Cambridge, earning his PhD in theoretical (high-energy) particle physics in 1971. After brief post-doc positions at SLAC and Caltech, he went to CERN and has held an indefinite contract there since 1978. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize by the Institute of Physics in 1982 and 2005 respectively, and is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London since 1985 and of the Institute of Physics since 1991. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southampton, and twice won the First Award in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition (in 1999 and 2005). He is also Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University.


SOLUTION: a

PROBLEM: Question: How many features did Brecht and Dudow work on together? Passage:Dudow was born in Zaribrod, Bulgaria (today Dimitrovgrad, Serbia). In 1922, he emigrated to Berlin with the intention of becoming an architect. He gave up this plan and began studying theatre in 1923, first under Emmanuel Reicher, and then, from 1925 to 1926, as a theatre studies student under Max Herrmann at the university. He worked with Leopold Jessner and Jürgen Fehling, served as a chorus member under Erwin Piscator, and was a director's assistant to Fritz Lang on the production of Metropolis. During this time, Dudow also ran a bookstore with his wife and worked as a foreign correspondent for a Bulgarian newspaper. In 1929, he visited the Soviet Union, where he met Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Eisenstein in Moscow and eventually, Bertolt Brecht. After his return from the USSR, Dudow directed Brecht's theatrical piece, The Decision (Die Massnahme), and began his film directing career. He was commissioned by the left-wing, Soviet-German production company Prometheus-Film to direct a short film, Wie der Berliner Arbeiter wohnt (1929), as part of the documentary series Wie lebt der Berliner Arbeiter? Dudow's first feature, Kuhle Wampe (To Whom Does the World Belong?, 1932) was a collaboration with Brecht (who provided the script and helped finance the project), Hanns Eisler, and Ernst Ottwalt. It was banned because it was perceived as being politically subversive. 


SOLUTION: a

PROBLEM: Question: What year was the competition Preston won in August 2012 first played? Passage:King experienced full-time professional football for the first time when he signed for League One side Preston North End on a one-year deal in July 2012. Preston manager Graham Westley had previously scouted King several times whilst he managed Stevenage, but felt he was too similar a player to Michael Bostwick, and therefore no move materialised at the time. King made his debut for Preston in a 2–0 victory over Huddersfield Town in the League Cup on 13 August 2012, a game in which he scored the opening goal of the match courtesy of a header. King adjusted well to playing in the Football League for the first time in his career, scoring three times in four games in the opening months of the season; two coming in league victories over Hartlepool United and Doncaster Rovers respectively, and the other in a 3–1 League Cup loss to Middlesbrough at Deepdale. He added his fifth goal of the season when his deflected shot found in the net in Preston's 4–1 win against Stevenage on 10 November 2012. King was on the scoresheet once again a month later, scoring with a powerful shot in a 3–3 Football League Trophy penalties win over Bury on 18 December 2012. King remained a regular feature under new manager Simon Grayson, and scored his first goal under Grayson's management in Preston's comfortable 3–0 victory against Scunthorpe United on 6 April 2013 when he headed in Jeffrey Monakana's cross to seal the win. He played 47 times during the 2012–13 campaign, scoring seven times, as Preston finished the season in 14th place.


SOLUTION:
b