In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .
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Question: West Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) Donald Trump had every reason to feel optimistic Monday. His poll numbers were up; he had secured two prominent endorsements in the space of a week; and even the weather seemed to be cooperating, with a snowstorm coming in from the west expected to hold off until after midnight. Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump And then, he lost, coming in second to Ted Cruz. Trump spent January in full-on attack mode against Cruz. Trump questioned whether Cruz qualifies as a "natural-born citizen" eligible to serve as president. He went after the evangelical vote, winning the endorsement of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr., but didn't back up the appeals with a ground game. And then he sat out the final debate, opting for a rally across town at the same time.Donald Trump finished second in the Iowa caucuses on Monday nightHe sat out the final debate in Iowa and he acknowledged Tuesday that his plan might have backfired

Answer: With _'s win and Marco Rubio's much stronger-than-expected finish Monday night, Trump now urgently confronts the danger of the Florida senator chipping away at his establishment backing in upcoming contests.


Question: Concerns are growing over Russian ships that have docked in a once-secret naval base in the Arctic. Military leaders in Norway are nervous about its powerful neighbour's presence on its 'strategically important' coastline following a spike in tensions between Russia and NATO nations. Some experts have criticised the shutting down of Olavsvern Naval Base - a huge complex buried in mountainous terrain near the town of Tromsoe - which has been closed since 2009. But fears have once again peaked after three Russian ships spent the entire winter docked deep within the mountain hideaway which was once a heavily guarded military facility.Three Russian ships that docked in Olavsvern Naval Base for the entire winterBase which was shut down in 2009 is nestled deep inside mountainous regionNorway's military fears Russian presence on 'strategically important' coastline

Answer: A former second in command for the Norwegian military said: '_ is a country where the state has a say over all commercial or semi-state business.


Question: (CNN) Donald Trump's birther days are finally over. "President Barack Obama was born in the United States," Trump said brusquely at the end of a campaign event in his new Washington hotel. "Period." About 12 hours earlier, senior adviser Jason Miller said in a statement Trump had compelled Obama to release his birth certificate in 2011 to dispel questions about the fact he was born in Hawaii in 1961. "Mr. Trump believes that President Obama was born in the United States," the campaign conceded, a gesture meant to end questions -- which have bubbled up again in the past weeks -- surrounding Republican nominee's role in advancing a fiction meant to delegitimize the first African-American commander in chief.Trump himself has not publicly said he believes Obama was born in the USBut the Republican nominee used to have a lot to say about it

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- August 6, 2012, in a tweet more than a year after _ released his longform birth certificate.