TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a question, a context passage, and four options which are terms from the passage. After reading a passage, you will get a brief understanding of the terms. Your job is to determine by searching and reading further information of which term you can answer the question. Indicate your choice as 'a', 'b', 'c', or 'd'. If you think more than one option is plausible, choose the more probable option to help you answer the question.
PROBLEM: Question: Was Treehouse TV an active company the year The Jim Henson Company had legal troubles with Wimzie's House? Passage:Wimzie's House is a half-hour Canadian preschool television program produced in Montreal which ran as La Maison de Ouimzie on Television de Radio-Canada in the morning and Radio-Quebec in late afternoons starting September 4, 1995, and in English on CBC Television starting October 21, 1996 and in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from September 1, 1997 to August 31, 2001. Reruns of the show aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV, in syndication as part of the Cookie Jar Kids Network block, and on Light TV from December 22, 2016 to September 30, 2019 The series was produced by Cinar (now Cookie Jar Entertainment), with the PBS telecasts presented by Maryland Public Television from 1997 to 2001. The show's puppetry is in the style of Sesame Street, which led to some legal troubles with The Jim Henson Company, in 1999. There were two FMV PC games based on the series. Treehouse TV also aired this show in reruns from 1999 to December 2005.
Links: a. Maryland Public Television b. Treehouse TV c. PBS d. The Jim Henson Company

SOLUTION: b

PROBLEM: Question: Who was the head coach of the Italian national cricket team when they played Hong Kong in Australia? Passage:After playing club cricket in England and Ireland from 2004 to 2006. Northcote qualified to play for Italy though his Italian mother, with Northcote making his debut for Italy against Hong Kong in the 2007 World Cricket League Division Three which was held in Northern Territory, Australia. He played six matches during the tournament, scoring 91 runs at an average of 18.20, with a high score of 47. With the ball, he took 7 wickets at a bowling average of 19.00, with best figures of 3/26. He played for Italy in the 2008 European Cricket Championship Division One, but has relinquished the captaincy back to Scuderi. He made five appearances during the tournament. He was then selected as part of Italy's squad for the 2008 World Cricket League Division Four in Tanzania, making six appearances. He scored 234 runs during the tournament, at an average of 58.50, with a high score of 102 not out. This score was his only century of the tournament and came against Fiji. With the ball, he took 2 wickets at a bowling average of 35.00, with best figures of 2/19.
Links: a. 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division Three b. Italy national cricket team c. Italy national cricket team d. Fiji national cricket team

SOLUTION: b

PROBLEM: Question: Which of the areas that the Pan-Slavs invaded had a larger population? Passage:Crimea: The Last Crusade is a panoramic history of the Crimean War of 185356. Drawing extensively from Russian, French and Ottoman as well as British archives, it combines military, diplomatic, political and cultural history, examining how the war left a lasting mark on the national consciousness of Britain, France, Russia and Turkey. Figes sets the war in the context of the Eastern Question, the diplomatic and political problems caused by the decay of the Ottoman Empire. In particular, he emphasises the importance of the religious struggle between Russia as the defender of the Orthodox and France as the protector of the Catholics in the Ottoman Empire. He frames the war within a longer history of religious conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Balkans, southern Russia and the Caucasus that continues to this day. Figes stresses the religious motive of the Tsar Nicholas I in his bold decision to go to war, arguing that Nicholas was swayed by the ideas of the Pan-Slavs to invade Moldavia and Wallachia and encourage Slav revolts against the Ottomans, despite his earlier adherence to the Legitimist principles of the Holy Alliance. He also shows how France and Britain were drawn into the war by popular ideas of Russophobia that swept across Europe in the wake of the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848. As one reviewer wrote, Figes shows "how the cold war of the Soviet era froze over fundamental fault lines that had opened up in the 19th century."
Links: a. Eastern Question b. Moldavia c. Catholic Church d. Ottoman Empire

SOLUTION:
b