TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you need to write an incorrect answer to the given question. Along with the question, you are also given the correct answer(s) and the associated paragraph. An incorrect answer should be closely related to the content of the paragraph and/or the question but will not truthfully answer the question. Your incorrect answers should be similar to the given correct answer such that it will pose a challenge for students to distinguish the two. A good incorrect answer should prevent those who skip the paragraph from answering the question. The incorrect answer should not be trivial, in the sense that they should not be easily eliminated without reading the paragraph.
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: "There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention," said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: "In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives."Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: "It never ends," said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: "Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives."Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has "more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded," said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings.
Question: The famous "Muscle Beach" is located in which state?.

SOLUTION: Texas.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The CIA's senior management saw problems with the armed Predator as well, problems that Clarke and even Black and Allen were inclined to minimize.
Sent 2: One (which also applied to reconnaissance flights) was money.
Sent 3: A Predator cost about $3 million.
Sent 4: If the CIA flew Predators for its own reconnaissance or covert action purposes, it might be able to borrow them from the Air Force, but it was not clear that the Air Force would bear the cost if a vehicle went down.
Sent 5: Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz took the position that the CIA should have to pay for it; the CIA disagreed.
Sent 6: Second, Tenet in particular questioned whether he, as Director of Central Intelligence, should operate an armed Predator."Sent 7: This was new ground,"he told us.
Sent 8: Tenet ticked off key questions: What is the chain of command?
Sent 9: Who takes the shot?
Sent 10: Are America's leaders comfortable with the CIA doing this, going outside of normal military command and control?
Sent 11: Charlie Allen told us that when these questions were discussed at the CIA, he and the Agency's executive director, A. B." Buzzy" Krongard, had said that either one of them would be happy to pull the trigger, but Tenet was appalled, telling them that they had no authority to do it, nor did he.
Sent 12: Third, the Hellfire warhead carried by the Predator needed work.
Sent 13: It had been built to hit tanks, not people.
Sent 14: It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.
Sent 15: In the configuration planned by the Air Force through mid-2001, the Predator's missile would not be able to hit a moving vehicle.
Sent 16: White House officials had seen the Predator video of the "man in white."Sent 17: On July 11, Hadley tried to hurry along preparation of the armed system.
Sent 18: He directed McLaughlin, Wolfowitz, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Richard Myers to deploy Predators capable of being armed no later than September 1.
Question: Why did the Hellfire warhead need work?.

SOLUTION: It was malfunctioning.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: Zinni feared that Bin Laden would in the future locate himself in cities, where U.S. missiles could kill thousands of Afghans.
Sent 2: He worried also lest Pakistani authorities not get adequate warning, think the missiles came from India, RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 135 and do something that everyone would later regret.
Sent 3: Discussing potential repercussions in the region of his military responsibility, Zinni said, "It was easy to take the shot from Washington and walk away from it.
Sent 4: We had to live there."Sent 5: Zinni's distinct preference would have been to build up counterterrorism capabilities in neighboring countries such as Uzbekistan.
Sent 6: But he told us that he could not drum up much interest in or money for such a purpose from Washington, partly, he thought, because these countries had dictatorial governments.
Sent 7: After the decision-in which fear of collateral damage was an important factor- not to use cruise missiles against Kandahar in December 1998, Shelton and officers in the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship instead of cruise missile strikes.
Sent 8: Designed specifically for the special forces, the version of the AC-130 known as "Spooky"can fly in fast or from high altitude, undetected by radar; guided to its zone by extraordinarily complex electronics, it is capable of rapidly firing precision-guided 25, 40, and 105 mm projectiles.
Sent 9: Because this system could target more precisely than a salvo of cruise missiles, it had a much lower risk of causing collateral damage.
Sent 10: After giving Clarke a briefing and being encouraged to proceed, Shelton formally directed Zinni and General Peter Schoomaker, who headed the Special Operations Command, to develop plans for an AC-130 mission against Bin Laden's headquarters and infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Sent 11: The Joint Staff prepared a decision paper for deployment of the Special Operations aircraft.
Sent 12: Though Berger and Clarke continued to indicate interest in this option, the AC-130s were never deployed.
Sent 13: Clarke wrote at the time that Zinni opposed their use, and John Maher, the Joint Staff 's deputy director of operations, agreed that this was Zinni's position.
Sent 14: Zinni himself does not recall blocking the option.
Sent 15: He told us that he understood the Special Operations Command had never thought the intelligence good enough to justify actually moving AC-130s into position.
Sent 16: Schoomaker says, on the contrary, that he thought the AC-130 option feasible.
Sent 17: The most likely explanation for the two generals' differing recollections is that both of them thought serious preparation for any such operations would require a long-term redeployment of Special Operations forces to the Middle East or South Asia.
Sent 18: The AC-130s would need bases because the aircraft's unrefueled range was only a little over 2,000 miles.
Question: What did the Pentagon developed plans for using an AC-130 gunship entail?.

SOLUTION:
An attack on Bin Lan.