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: Kay Miniver (Greer Garson) and her family live a comfortable life at a house called 'Starlings' in Belham, a fictional village outside London. The house has a large garden, with a private landing stage on the River Thames at which is moored a motorboat belonging to her devoted husband Clem (Walter Pidgeon), a successful architect. They have three children: the youngsters Toby (Christopher Severn) and Judy (Clare Sandars) and an older son Vin (Richard Ney) a student at Oxford University. They have live-in staff: Gladys (Brenda Forbes) the housemaid and Ada (Marie De Becker) the cook.As World War II looms, Vin returns from the university and meets Carol Beldon (Teresa Wright), granddaughter of Lady Beldon (Dame May Whitty) from nearby Beldon Hall. Despite initial disagreementsâmainly contrasting Vin's idealistic attitude to class differences with Carol's practical altruismâthey fall in love. Vin proposes to Carol in front of his family at home, after his younger brother prods him to give a less romantic but more honest proposal. As the war comes closer to home, Vin feels he must "do his bit" and enlists in the Royal Air Force, qualifying as a fighter pilot. He is posted to a base near to his parents' home and is able to signal his safe return from operations to his parents by cutting his engines briefly as he flies over the house. Together with other boat owners, Clem volunteers to take his motorboat to assist in the Dunkirk evacuation.Early one morning, Kay unable to sleep as Clem is still away, wanders down to the landing stage. She is startled to discover a wounded German pilot (Helmut Dantine) hiding in her garden, and he takes her at gunpoint. Demanding food and a coat, the pilot aggressively asserts that the Third Reich will mercilessly overcome its enemies. She feeds him, calmly disarms him when he collapses, and then calls the police. Soon after, Clem returns home, exhausted, from Dunkirk.Lady Beldon visits Kay to try and convince her to talk Vin out of marrying Carol on account of her granddaughter's comparative youth. Kay reminds her that she, too, was young when she married her late husband. Lady Beldon concedes defeat and realizes that she would be foolish to try to stop the marriage. Vin and Carol are married; Carol has now also become Mrs Miniver, and they return from their honeymoon in Scotland. A key theme is that she knows he is likely to be killed in action, but the short love will fill her life. Later, Kay and her family take refuge in their Anderson shelter in the garden during an air raid, and attempt to keep their minds off the frightening bombing by reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which Clem refers to as a "lovely story" as they barely survive as a bomb destroys parts of the house. They take the damage with nonchalance.At the annual village flower show, Lady Beldon silently disregards the judges' decision that her rose is the winner, instead announcing the entry of the local stationmaster, Mr. Ballard (Henry Travers), named the "Mrs. Miniver" rose, as the winner, with her own rose taking second prize. As air raid sirens sound and the villagers take refuge in the cellars of Beldon Hall, Kay and Carol drive Vin to join his squadron. On their journey home they witness fighter planes in a 'dogfight'. For safety, Kay stops the car and they see a German plane crash. Kay realizes Carol has been wounded by shots from the plane and takes her back to 'Starlings'. She dies a few minutes after they reach home. Kay is devastated. When Vin returns from battle, he already knows the terrible news: ironically, he is the survivor and she the one who died.The villagers assemble at the badly damaged church where their vicar affirms their determination in a powerful sermon:We in this quiet corner of England have suffered the loss of friends very dear to us, some close to this church. George West, choirboy. James Ballard, stationmaster and bellringer, and the proud winner only an hour before his death of the Beldon Cup for his beautiful Miniver Rose. And our hearts go out in sympathy to the two families who share the cruel loss of a young girl who was married at this altar only two weeks ago. The homes of many of us have been destroyed, and the lives of young and old have been taken. There's scarcely a household that hasn't been struck to the heart. And why? Surely you must have asked yourselves this question? Why in all conscience should these be the ones to suffer? Children, old people, a young girl at the height of her loveliness? Why these? Are these our soldiers? Are these our fighters? Why should they be sacrificed?I shall tell you why. Because this is not only a war of soldiers in uniform. It is the war of the people, of all the people. And it must be fought not only on the battlefield but in the cities and in the villages, in the factories and on the farms, in the home and in the heart of every man, woman and child who loves freedom. Well, we have buried our dead, but we shall not forget them. Instead they will inspire us with an unbreakable determination to free ourselves, and those who come after us, from the tyranny and terror that threaten to strike us down. This is the People's War. It is our war. We are the fighters. Fight it then. Fight it with all that is in us. And may God defend the right.A solitary Lady Beldon stands in her family's church pew. Vin moves to stand alongside her, united in shared grief, as the members of the congregation rise and stoically sing "Onward, Christian Soldiers", while through a gaping hole in the bombed church roof can be seen flight after flight of RAF fighters in the V-for-Victory formation heading out to face the enemy.

SOLUTION: Where is Lady Beldon standing?

PROBLEM: The movie's protagonist, Mark Watson (Howell), is the pampered son from a rich family who is about to attend Harvard Law School along with his best friend Gordon (Gross). Unfortunately, his father's neurotic psychiatrist talks his patient into having more fun for himself instead of spending money on his son. Faced with the horrifying prospect of having to pay for law school by himself, Mark decides to take up a scholarship, but the only suitable one is for African-Americans only. He decides to cheat by using tanning pills in a larger dose than prescribed to appear as an African-American. Watson then sets out for Harvard, naÃ¯vely believing that blacks have no problems at all in American society.However, once immersed in a black student's life, Mark finds that people are less lenient than he imagined and more prone to see him as a black person instead of a fellow student. He meets a young African-American student named Sarah Walker (Chong), whom he first only flirts with; gradually, however, he genuinely falls in love with her. As it turns out, she was the original candidate for the scholarship which he had usurped, and now she has to work hard as a waitress to support herself and her son George while studying. Slowly, Mark begins to regret his deed, and after a chaotic dayâin which Sarah, his parents (who are not aware of his double life) and his classmate Whitney (Melora Hardin), who is also his landlord's daughter, make surprise visits at the same timeâhe drops the charade and openly reveals himself to be white.The film ends with Mark declaring to his professor (Jones) that he wishes to pay back the scholarship and do charity work to make amends for his fraud. When asked what he has learned, he says that he realizes that he could have changed back to being white at any time and so does not really know what it means to be black.Sarah decides to give him another chance, and the movie ends with him deciding to just work his way through college.

SOLUTION: What kind of work does Sarah Walker do?

PROBLEM: A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both. The family consists of a mother, a father (Manuel), a son (Pepe), a daughter (Tonia) and a younger son (Manolo). The sister has a daughter (Pili). In the city they encounter El Mellao, a gangster that wants to seduce Pili. He works for Don Roque (the Chamberlain) who runs everything. These two men are evil. The sister makes money by having Pili sell cigarettes illegally from a basket on the streets. The innocent and moral father tries this but is at the mercy of street kids with no money demanding sweets. He cant say no to them. The police intervene and take his basket because he has no license. Pepe goes to work for the Chamberlain, taking the job from El Mellao because he is cheaper, driving the Chamberlains Packard and then with others stealing potato sacks for the Chamberlain off of trucks laboring up a steep hill. Tonia starts out as a maid for the Chamberlains mistress, but he hears her singing, buys her clothes, including silk stockings, buys her singing lessons, arranges her stage debut where three men, paid for by the Chamberlain, interrupt her performance, giving the Chamberlain the moment he needs to comfort her and deflower her. Now he has now more use for her. The father and Pepe are very angry at the deflowering of Tonia, the father blames his wife for encouraging her, and Pepe demands that the Chamberlain marry Tonia. When the Chamberlain he ignores Pepe, Pepe attacks him only to lose. Manolo, the innocent younger son who is twenty, posing as chico, gets a job with a café carrying goods from one place to another. En route he is sidetracked by a puppet show and is robbed. He loses his job and is a disgrace. He leaves his aunts apartment. He hungry and lines up for food in a soup kitchen line run by the military behind a symbolic iron fence. However, a gang of boys steel the shirt he just washed, he chases after them, and now last in line finds there is no more food. He is ultimately befriended by the puppeteer and his attractive blond daughter. There he makes money. Meanwhile Pili wants more and more material things, wants to be a lady. So Pepe, having lost his job with the Chamberlain, sets out to rob potato sacks on a truck convoy by himself. But evil El Mellao hears of this, wants to hurt Pili, and warns the convoy. Pepe gets shot, returns to find Pili being hauled off as a conquest by El Mellao. Pepe is left for dead in the garage, the Chamberlain enters, Pepe pleads to the Chamberlain to save him, but the Chamberlain puts on gloves, hauls Pepe into the Packard, drives to a bridge, throws him onto the railroad tracks, where he is hit by a train. The film ends with the father picking up the earth from the graveyard and ordering his family back to the farm. The message of the film is that only on the land do you find the religious and male-centered values revered by Franco's Spain.

SOLUTION:
Who does Pepe go to work for?