TASK DEFINITION: Given the Question and Answer pair, detect whether the answer is acceptable or not. Denote acceptable answer as "yes", otherwise denote as "no". An acceptable answer is consistent with the context in question, detailed, long, and uses general knowledge of English. Answers that are not definite and suggest a variety of options are not acceptable answers.
PROBLEM: Question: Could you tell me some suitable idioms to express this situation: A guy told you a joke, but it's not funny at all. In Japanese, we say "He slipped" or "His joke was so cold that the air got frozen," for that situation. Are there any similar phrases in English? 
Answer: A common expression for this is to fall flat (from the "idioms" section of thefreedictionary.com): fall flat if an entertainment or a joke falls flat, people do not enjoy it and do not think it is funny Several attempts at humour during his speech fell flat. if an attempt to influence people's behaviour or opinions falls flat, it fails The advertising campaign which had worked so well in the US fell flat in China. The statement that pregnancy is not an illness falls flat with many morning sickness sufferers. The first meaning is the one you're after, so you could say: I told a joke but it fell flat.

SOLUTION: yes

PROBLEM: Question: I want to describe: a job-position that is given to someone as a way to appease the person, but the position holds no real function. Context: He was, due to his importance to the secret project, offered an honorary ____ with disproportionally lucrative payment. The job is given by the authority to the person as a way to basically bribe him with undeserved salary, because he won't be given any real task. The emphasis here is payment, and not power, so "figurehead" would be inappropriate. 
Answer: You could maybe use pencil pusher (informal, often derogatory) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.

SOLUTION: no

PROBLEM: Question: The past tense of run is ran. However, you couldn't say something was being "ran" poorly i.e. the business was ran poorly. However, saying "runned" would be wrong as well. What would be the word to use in this instance: The government will be prevented from being ____ properly. 
Answer: You want to use the present tense for the word ran in the following sentence without using runned. The government will be prevented from being runned properly. I would say that you could use managed or maintained. So it will look like this The government will be prevented from being managed properly. or this The government will be prevented from being maintained properly.

SOLUTION:
no