TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be shown an extract from a movie plot. You need to read the extract and create questions that can be answered from the extract. The questions should be well-formed and grammatically correct. The questions should be completely answerable from the given passage and should not require any external knowledge. Subjective questions are not allowed. Create questions that result in factoid answers. A simple rule of thumb to decide whether a question is factoid or not is to see if two different people with average reading/comprehension skills would come up with the same answer after reading the passage.
PROBLEM: In 1927, silent film star George Valentin is posing for pictures outside the premiere of his latest hit film when a young woman, Peppy Miller, accidentally bumps into him. Valentin reacts with humor to the accident and shows off with Peppy for the cameras. The next day, Peppy finds herself on the front page of Variety with the headline "Who's That Girl?" Later, Peppy auditions as a dancer and is spotted by Valentin, who insists that she have a part in Kinograph Studios' next production, despite objections from the studio boss, Al Zimmer. While performing a scene in which they dance together, Valentin and Peppy show great chemistry, despite her being merely an extra. With a little guidance from Valentin (he draws a beauty spot on her, which will eventually be her trademark, after finding her in his dressing room), Peppy slowly rises through the industry, earning more prominent starring roles.Two years later, Zimmer announces the end of production of silent films at Kinograph Studios, but Valentin is dismissive, insisting that sound is just a fad. In a dream, Valentin begins hearing sounds from his environment (as does the audience), but cannot speak himself, then wakes up in a sweat. He decides to produce and direct his own silent film, financing it himself. The film opens on the same day as Peppy's new sound film as well as the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Now Valentin's only chance of avoiding bankruptcy is for his film to be a hit. Unfortunately audiences flock to Peppy's film instead and Valentin is ruined. His wife, Doris, kicks him out, and he moves into an apartment with his valet/chauffeur, Clifton, and his dog. Peppy goes on to become a major Hollywood star.Later, the bankrupt Valentin is forced to auction off all of his personal effects, and after realizing he has not paid loyal Clifton in over a year, gives him the car and fires him, telling him to get another job. Depressed and drunk, Valentin angrily sets a match to his private collection of his earlier films. As the nitrate film quickly blazes out of control he is overwhelmed by the smoke and passes out inside the burning house, still clutching a single film canister. However, Valentin's dog attracts the help of a nearby policeman, and after being rescued Valentin is hospitalized for injuries suffered in the fire. Peppy visits the hospital and discovers that the film he rescued is the one with them dancing together. She asks for him to be moved to her house to recuperate. Valentin awakens in a bed at her house, to find that Clifton is now working for Peppy. Valentin seems to remain dismissive of Peppy having taken him in, prompting Clifton to sternly remind Valentin of his changing luck.Peppy insists to Zimmer that Valentin co-star in her next film, threatening to quit Kinograph if Zimmer does not agree to her terms. After Valentin learns to his dismay that it had been Peppy who had purchased all his auctioned effects, he returns in despair to his burnt-out apartment. Peppy arrives, panicked, and finds that Valentin is about to attempt suicide with a handgun. Peppy tells him she only wanted to help him. They embrace and Valentin tells her it's no use; no one wants to hear him speak. Remembering Valentin's superb dancing ability, Peppy persuades Zimmer to let them make a musical together.Now the audience hears sound for the second time, as the film starts rolling for a dance scene with Peppy and Valentin and their tap-dancing can be heard. Once the choreography is complete, the two dancers are heard panting. The director of the musical calls out audibly, "Cut!" to which Zimmer adds: "Perfect. Beautiful. Could you give me one more?" Valentin, in his only audible line, replies "With pleasure!" revealing his French accent.[18] The camera then pulls back to the sounds of the film crew as they prepare to shoot another take.

SOLUTION: Who does Peppy want to costar in her next film?

PROBLEM: This cold war film begins with a beautiful and affective montage of recently divided (though not yet wall-bifurcated) Berlin. The story proper gets going as a young GI is kidnapped by the East Germans (released in 1954, it's way too early for mention of anything called the KGB or Stasi). The initial dramatic conflict is between a U.S. military officer (Gregory Peck), who realizes that getting the kid out will be a delicate operation indeed, and said kid's blunderbuss father (Broderick Crawford), who immediately flies to Germany desiring a quick extraction, arguing for either a commando raid or a cash payoff. (Some similarity here to the last few episodes of TV's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.") Anyway, Crawford's character is an industrialist of some importance. So, Crawford assumes upon his arrival in Berlin that he can take charge of the situation, and marches straight into Peck's office with nary a word to the secretary or the two American officers standing outside the door. They don't stop him; they know Peck is expecting him. One of the officers says to the other, "How does he have all this influence?" "He plays golf," says the other."Oh."Eventually Peck gets Crawford to cool his jets, largely by letting him witness a demonstration of the spy game's high tensions. When two elderly agents suspect that their cover is blown, they attempt suicide rather than be taken back to the East.Now another problem arises for Peck-- his ear in the East is a female ("Hoffy," played by one Anita Bjork) with whom he naturally has a romantic involvement, but who, it turns out, he cannot trust. Thankfully for the Yanks, Peck finds out about her treachery without revealing that he's on to her, and through a subtle double-cross gets her to effect a prisoner swap, which naturally doesn't take place the way he initially described it to her (and through her to her Comintern bosses). (This all takes place in and around a military hospital that has cool, old-style Berlin, dumb-waiter style perpetually moving elevators, that we won't see again, far as I know, until the film version of Len Deighton's "The Ipcress File," starring Michael Caine.)So, naturally the would-be swap winds up with the GI back on capitalist soil, the commies empty-handed, and the dissimulating female shattered and exposed, deprived of both Peck's love and her personal freedom (that's to say, she is taken off to jail). And Broderick Crawford finds out that a son's love is far more important than golf.

SOLUTION: What kind of swap does Peck organize to reveal that Hoffy cannot be trusted?

PROBLEM: The film starts at the local beach, where Snoopy is partaking in surfing. He soon encounters Peppermint Patty, who decides to meet him at the beach the next day for lunch. Snoopy then returns home, much to the exasperation of Charlie Brown, who ends up cutting his thumb opening a can of dog food for Snoopy.The next day, Snoopy goes to the beach, but ends up being forcibly ejected due to a new sign stating that no dogs are allowed. Snoopy then proceeds home, where Woodstock composes a letter in regards to the new ordinance. Meanwhile, at the beach, Peppermint Patty is unsure why Snoopy hasn't showed up, but thinks she has been either 'stood up,' or that he doesn't have any interest in her.Snoopy later goes to the library with Charlie Brown and Sally, but is soon kicked out due to another 'no dogs allowed' sign. Snoopy, in anger, then goes out and attempts to take Linus' blanket from him, and gets into a boxing match with Lucy, with both of these endeavors ending against him.The next day, Snoopy receives a letter in the mail, and much to Charlie Brown's surprise, Snoopy summons Woodstock, and the two immediately leave. Charlie then shows the letter to his friends, explaining that it is from a girl named Lila, who has been in the hospital for three weeks, and requests Snoopy's presence. However, none of the group have any idea who Lila is.Linus decides to do some investigating, and calls the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. What he soon finds out is a shock to Charlie Brown, as Charlie is not Snoopy's original owner. Snoopy was bought by Charlie Brown's family in the month of October, but Snoopy had previously been purchased by another family that August. The family had a daughter named Lila, but due to the family having to move shortly after Snoopy's purchase, they returned him.Meanwhile, Snoopy and Woodstock continue on their way, passing through cities, neighborhoods, and through the countryside. Along the way, they encounter all sorts of places that have signs saying 'no dogs allowed,' and even a little girl who attempts to claim the two as her new pets.Finally, the two friends make it to the hospital where Lila is, but are confronted with a sign out front that declares "no dogs or birds allowed." The two end up sneaking into the hospital, and Lila is happy to see the two of them.However, Snoopy's visit soon turns heartbreaking, when Lila expresses hope that he may be able to live with her and her family again. On the last day of his visit, Snoopy is about to leave, and then decides that he will accept Lila's proposal. Lila eagerly tells Snoopy that he can go back to his home and say goodbye to his old friends, before joining her.Snoopy and Woodstock journey home, where Charlie Brown is thrilled to see them. However, Snoopy's first act being home is to write up a paper, bequeathing certain items of his to some of the kids. Schroeder is to get Snoopy's record collection, and Linus is to get Snoopy's croquet set and chess set.The day before he leaves, the kids throw Snoopy a farewell party, in which everyone is sad to see him go. The next day, Charlie and Snoopy have a tearful goodbye, with Charlie spending the rest of the day in a depressive funk, being unable to eat or sleep.Meanwhile, Snoopy has gotten to the apartment where Lila lives, but finds two things that cause him to reconsider:1) Lila also owns a cat2) The apartment she lives in has a 'no dogs allowed' signSnoopy happily heads home, where the rest of the kids and Woodstock eagerly welcome him back. However, their welcome soon turns to scorn when Snoopy writes a new note, requesting all the items he bequeathed to the kids be returned."That does it, Charlie Brown," exclaims Lucy, "He's your dog, and you're welcome to him!"

SOLUTION:
What kind of sign does the apartment have?