This task involves creating questions from a given passage that involve some kind of complex reasoning (including numerical reasoning). 
The generated questions must require looking at more than one part of the passage to answer. Try to use a variety of reasoning types in your questions (some of the sample reasoning types are illustrated in the 'positive examples' field) and also have a variety of answer types (spans, numbers, dates). A span is a continuous phrase taken directly from the passage or question. In such questions, the answer spans are recommended to be five words. Questions with answer type "number", are expected to start with "How many". For instance, "How long did an event last?" can be phrased as "How many years did an event last?". To increase diversity, try to create more questions for which the answer will be multiple spans. Please create questions that require AT LEAST 2 arithmetic operations as illustrated in the 'positive examples' field. You are encouraged to try DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS of operations and not just limit to the combinations shown in those examples. The more challenging questions you create, the better it is.

Q: Passage: During the first game of the 2014-15 Los Angeles Lakers season season, the 7th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft, Julius Randle went down with a broken leg, which ended his rookie season. The Lakers began their season losing 10 of their first 16 games. After playing only 35 games, Kobe Bryant tore a rotator cuff in his shoulder ending his season. Nick Young (basketball) was also forced to end his season with a fractured kneecap, leaving the team with a record of 14-41. With 27 games left in the regular season, Byron Scott gave rookie Jordan Clarkson more playing time. Clarkson, the 46th overall pick in the 2014 draft, finished his rookie season with game stats of 11.9 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 3.5 apg, and shooting 44.8% from the field. The Lakers season ended with a record of 21-61, the 4th worst record in the league and at the time the worst record in franchise history.

A: How many games did the Lakers win?
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Q: Passage: After their huge win over the Texans, the Jaguars stayed home for a game against  the Colts.  The Colts scored first with Kenton Keith scoring a touchdown on a 3-yard run making it 7-0.  In the 2nd quarter, the Colts increased their lead with Peyton Manning rushing for a 1-yard touchdown to make it 14-0 and then Adam Vinatieri scored a 36-yard field goal to make the score 17-0 at halftime.  Coming back into the game, the Jags finally managed to get on the board with Maurice Jones-Drew running for a 1-yard touchdown to dip the lead to 17-7.  However, the Colts then went ahead 19-7 when Jaguars backup QB Quinn Gray was sacked in the end zone.  In the last quarter, Vinatieri scored a 20-yard field goal to make the score 22-7 then wrapped the game up with Peyton Manning's 35-yard touchdown pass to Dallas Clark, dropping the Jags to 4-2 on the season.

A: How many times did Manning throw to Clark?
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Q: Passage: In 1665, Bremen refused to pledge allegiance to Charles X Gustav's successor, Charles XI of Sweden. In March, the Swedish riksråd decided to wage war. Thereupon, 12,000 Swedish troops were transferred to the Duchy of Bremen by the end of the year. In January 1666, Carl Gustaf Wrangel departed from Swedish Pomerania to command the Swedish army, which in early 1666 numbered 14,000 troops. By summer, all of the city of Bremen's territory was occupied, except the city itself. The Swedish chancellor of Bremen-Verden, Esaias von Pufendorf, went to the court in Paris to build an alliance with France. The Swedish position was that France had to intervene on the Swedish side, since Bremen was Swedish according to the Peace of Westphalia, of which France was a guarantor. Pufendorf was however told by Hugues de Lionne that France would not hesitate to declare openly that she read the treaty as Bremen being an Imperial city, rather than provoke a new great war with the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic with an assault Sweden and France could hardly win. Lionne said Sweden would be better off waiting for a situation when the Dutch and the neighboring German principalities were weak, and then take the city of Bremen by surprise.

A:
How many countries did the Swedish chancellor of Bremen-Verden try to build an alliance with?
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