TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be shown an extract from a movie plot and a question. You need to provide the correct answer for it. Short answers containing words that are present in the passage are preferred.
PROBLEM: New York is rife with gangsters coercing the weaker classes for money and business, a situation Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin) is fighting as penance for his own evil past deeds as a murderous opium dealer with astounding mental powers who has been reformed and trained to harness his mental powers by a Tibetan mystic. Cranston uses his mental powers to manipulate the thoughts of others with suggestion and the ability to appear to others only as a shadow. Cranston masquerades as a rich lay-about playboy while working with a network of agents he has helped all of whom wear a green ring and respond when Cranston taps them for service. After stopping some evil doers Cranston goes to have dinner at the Cobalt Club with his inept uncle Police Captain Wainwright Barth (Jonathan Winters) from whom he obtains crime information about open cases. Cranston spies from across the room Margo Lane (Penelope Ann Miller) and upon talking to her realizes that she posses the same psychic abilities that he does, one of which is the power to read his mind and communicate with him across large spaces. As it happens Margos father Dr. Reinhardt Lane (Ian McKellen) is producing atomic weaponry under the guidance and funding of the United States Government. When Shiwan Khan (John Lone), the final descendant of Genghis Khan appears on the scene to make contact with Cranston and partner with him to take over New York and then the world, a challenge that Cranston has never encountered has appeared. Khan takes over Dr. Lane with mind control manipulating him into bringing his atomic bomb to a location where Khan can detonate it to destroy New York. Trained by the same Tibetan monk who trained Cranston, Khan battles with the crime fighter for his loyalty but Cranston is too reformed and plans to stop the evil murderous Khan. By tapping his undercover agents and with the positive loving power of Margo Cranston goes to battle against the evil Khan for the benefit of all mankind., Question: What was Lamont Cranston's job in his evil past?

SOLUTION: Answer: Opium dealer

PROBLEM: A smuggler of exotic animals receives a cargo. As hes traveling to his destination, a strange smells makes him stop and throw the offending eggs onto the side of the road.19 years later, a family arrives by ferry to the Emerald Island for summer vacation. The island is invaded by the an oil company drilling and pumping oil. The son Patrick(Kevin Zegers) takes his bike instead of riding with his parents in the car. The captain of the ferryboat (Michael Edward-Stevens) has befriended Patrick after many years of coming to the island.While the parents settle into the house, Patrick goes out exploring. He finds that something has changed. Something grabs him and scared out of his wits runs home. Meanwhile, his parents are looking for him everywhere. When they arrive home, something very frightening kills them and his dog.A psychiatrist named Victoria (Jill Hennessy) convinces Patricks Aunt and grandmother to let Patrick go back to the island and face his fears. Its the only way the boy can return to normal. They leave for the island and convince the captain of the ferryboat to bring them to the island even after the oil company closed the place down. They arrive at the home safe and sound.Oates (Billy Burke) is cajoled by an oil company exec to go on the island and perform a task. He meets a friend Denby (Paul Gleeson) and they travel about the island checking samples and pumps, within a very heavily screened jeep. They discover that someone else is on the island. The exec wants no witnesses or else Oates goes to jail.As Victoria, Patrick and the aunt are settling in, the aunt hears something. She goes about searching for what caused the noise and is hurt real bad. Victoria finds her like this and soon discovers what caused it. A large reptile drooling at the mouth attacks the aunt and takes her away under the house.Victoria and Patrick barely escape and leave towards the boat in their car. They meet the captain and hes hurt bad, the wounds infected and pussing everywhere. They take him in the car and leave the area. They come face to face with Oates and they crash their vehicles off the road. One of the lizard is killed and Patrick takes the heart of the animal and escapes in the weeds. The large lizards smell the wounds of the captain and they follow them as they walk towards a compound.Inside the compound, the captain dies and Denby is also killed by an attack. Oates tells Victoria that they are Komodo Dragons; a species of lizard on the verge of extinction. He being a biologist and his wife a geologist came to island a few months ago to take samples for the oil company, his wife disappeared around the same time Patricks parents were killed, and he was blamed for her death.Oates figures out where the boy went and they leave the compound for that destination.They arrive and search for Patrick. Victoria finds him and just in time for him to kill a Komodo before it would kill her. A few more are killed and they manage to escape.The oil exec lands on the island and Oates steals his helicopter. He meets Victoria and Patrick and they leave the island., Question: Why did the smuggler throw the eggs on the side of the road?

SOLUTION: Answer: strange smell

PROBLEM: In 2002, six-year-old Mason Evans, Jr., and his older sister Samantha live with their single mother Olivia in Texas. Mason overhears Olivia arguing with her boyfriend, saying she has no free time due to parenting. One year later, Olivia moves the family to Houston, so she can attend the University of Houston, complete her degree, and get a better job. Mason's father, Mason Sr., visits Houston and takes the children bowling. He promises to spend more time with them. When he drops the kids off at home, he argues with Olivia while Mason and Samantha watch from a window. Olivia takes Mason to one of her classes, introducing him to her professor, Bill Welbrock; Mason sees them flirt.In 2005, Olivia and Bill have married and blended their two families, including Bill's children from a previous marriage. They share experiences such as playing video games and attending a midnight release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Mason and Samantha are enrolled in the same school as their step-siblings, where Mason meets and befriends a girl named Nicole, who also has a crush on him. Mason and Samantha also bond with their father Mason Sr. as he takes them out for a day in Houston, culminating in a Houston Astros game and a sleepover at his house with his roommate Jimmy. Olivia continues her education and is initially supportive of Bill's strict parenting style, which includes many chores for the kids and a forced cutting of Mason's long hair. Bill becomes abusive as alcoholism takes over his life. When he assaults Olivia and endangers the kids, Olivia moves the family to a friend's house and files for divorce.In 2008, Mason Sr. learns that Samantha has a boyfriend and talks to her and Mason about contraception. He and Mason go camping at Pedernales Falls State Park and bond over the music of Wilco, Star Wars, and Mason's blossoming interest in girls. Mason and Samantha have grown into their new lives in San Marcos, a town close to Austin. Mason is bullied by other students at school and teased on a camping trip but starts receiving attention from girls. Olivia teaches psychology at college and moves in with Jim, a student and Bosnian/Iraq War veteran.By his 15th birthday, Mason has experimented with marijuana and alcohol. Mason Sr., who has remarried and now has a baby, takes Mason and Samantha to visit his wife's parents. He gives Mason a suit and a mix CD of Beatles solo songs; Mason's step-grandparents give him a personalized Bible and a vintage shotgun. Mason is lectured by his photography teacher, who sees his potential but is disappointed in his lack of ambition and hard work. Mason attends a party and meets Sheena, who becomes his girlfriend. After Mason arrives home late one night from a party, a drunk Jim confronts Mason about his late hours. Olivia and Jim eventually split.In 2012, Mason and Sheena visit Samantha at the University of Texas at Austin, where they share their hopes and fears about college, staying up late to watch the sun rise. Samantha's roommate discovers them asleep together in her dorm room. During Mason's senior year in high school, he has a painful breakup with Sheena, wins the silver medal in a state photography contest, and is awarded college scholarship money. Mason's family throws him a graduation party and toasts his success. Mason Sr. gives him advice about his breakup. Planning to sell the house and downsize, Olivia meets Samantha and Mason for lunch and asks them to sort through their possessions. As Mason prepares to leave his mother's new apartment for college, Olivia breaks down, disillusioned by how fast life's milestones seem to have passed by.At Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Mason moves into his dorm room and meets his new roommate Dalton, Dalton's girlfriend Barb, and Barb's roommate Nicole. Mason eats a marijuana brownie given to him by Barb and the group goes hiking at Big Bend Ranch State Park. Nicole shares with Mason her belief that, rather than people seizing moments, moments seize us, to which Mason agrees., Question: Who did Mason and Sheena visit at the University of Texas at Austin?

SOLUTION:
Answer: Samantha