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. Your job is to determine which sentence(s) from the passage can be used to search for further information needed to answer the question.
PROBLEM: Question: How many Nobel Prizes in Physics were awarded before it was given to Leo Esaki? Passage:A tunnel diode or Esaki diode is a type of semiconductor diode that has negative resistance due to the quantum mechanical effect called tunneling. It was invented in August 1957 by Leo Esaki, Yuriko Kurose, and Takashi Suzuki when they were working at Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, now known as Sony. In 1973, Esaki received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Brian Josephson, for discovering the electron tunneling effect used in these diodes. Robert Noyce independently devised the idea of a tunnel diode while working for William Shockley, but was discouraged from pursuing it. Tunnel diodes were first manufactured by Sony in 1957, followed by General Electric and other companies from about 1960, and are still made in low volume today.


SOLUTION: In 1973, Esaki received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Brian Josephson, for discovering the electron tunneling effect used in these diodes

PROBLEM: Question: Where was the person who designed the new campus born? Passage:Consequently, in 1870, it moved to a (then greenfield) site on Gilmorehill in the West End of the city, around three miles (5 km) west of its previous location, enclosed by a large meander of the River Kelvin. The original site on the High Street was sold to the City of Glasgow Union Railway and replaced by the College goods yard. The new-build campus was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style. The largest of these buildings echoed, on a far grander scale, the original High Street campus's twin-quadrangle layout, and may have been inspired by Ypres' late medieval cloth hall; Gilmorehill in turn inspired the design of the Clocktower complex of buildings for the new University of Otago in New Zealand. In 1879, Gilbert Scott's son, Oldrid, completed this original vision by building an open undercroft forming two quadrangles, above which is his grand Bute Hall (used for examinations and graduation ceremonies), named after its donor, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. Oldrid also later added a spire to the building's signature gothic bell tower in 1887, bringing it to a total height of some . The local Bishopbriggs blond sandstone cladding and Gothic design of the building's exterior belie the modernity of its Victorian construction; Scott's building is structured upon what was then a cutting-edge riveted iron frame construction, supporting a lightweight wooden-beam roof. The building also forms the second-largest example of Gothic revival architecture in Britain, after the Palace of Westminster. An illustration of the Main Building currently features on the reverse side of the current series of £100 notes issued by the Clydesdale Bank.


SOLUTION: The new-build campus was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style

PROBLEM: Question: What is the age difference between the man De Boer replaced in February of 1972 and the man who replaced De Boer during his medical leave of absense? Passage:De Boer became a Member of the House of Representatives after resignation of Joop Bakker, taking office on 16 February 1972 serving as a frontbencher chairing the and the and spokesperson for Small business, Civil Service, Fisheries, Culture, Media and Military Personnel. De Boer also Chairman of the Anti-Revolutionary Party from 13 December 1975 until 27 September 1980. After the election of 1977 the Christian Democratic Appeal and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) formed the Cabinet Van Agt-Wiegel, De Boer and several Christian Democratic Appeal Members of the House of Representatives were critical on the coalition agreement and formed a informal caucus in there own parliamentary group called the  that supported the cabinet only with confidence and supply. After the election of 1981 De Boer was appointed as State Secretary for Culture, Recreation and Social Work the Cabinet Van Agt II, taking office on 11 September 1981. The Cabinet Van Agt II fell just seven months into its term on 12 May 1982 after months of tensions in the coalition and continued to serve in a demissionary until the first cabinet formation of 1982 when it was replaced by the caretaker Cabinet Van Agt III with De Boer appointed as Minister of Culture, Recreation and Social Work, taking office on 29 May 1982. After the election of 1982 De Boer returned as a Member of the House of Representatives, taking office on 16 September 1982. De Boer took a medical leave of absence on 11 October 1982 after which Minister of Health and Environment Til Gardeniers-Berendsen served as acting Minister of Culture, Recreation and Social Work. Following the second cabinet formation of 1982 De Boer was not giving a cabinet post in the new cabinet, the Cabinet Van Agt III was replaced by the Cabinet Lubbers I on 4 November 1982 and he continued to serve in the House of Representatives as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Welfare, Sport, Social Work and Culture.


SOLUTION:
De Boer became a Member of the House of Representatives after resignation of Joop Bakker, taking office on 16 February 1972 serving as a frontbencher chairing the and the and spokesperson for Small business, Civil Service, Fisheries, Culture, Media and Military Personnel