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: Artist and graphics designer Patience Phillips is a meek people-pleaser whose main support is her best friend Sally. She works for a cosmetics company called Hedare Beauty, which is ready to ship a new skin cream, called Beau-line, that is able to reverse the effects of ageing. However, when Patience visits the factory, she overhears a discussion between the scientist, Dr. Ivan Slavicky, and Laurel Hedare, the wife of company-owner George Hedare, about the dangerous side effects from continued use of the product. Laurel's guards discover Patience and are ordered to dispose of her. Patience tries to escape using a conduit pipe, but the minions have it sealed and flush her out of it, drowning her. Washed up on shore after drowning, Patience is mysteriously brought back to life by an Egyptian Mau cat, which had appeared at her apartment earlier; from that moment on, she develops cat-like abilities.From Mau's owner, eccentric researcher Ophelia Powers, Patience learns that Egyptian Mau cats serve as messengers of the goddess Bast. Patience realizes that she is now a "catwoman," reborn with abilities that are both a blessing and a curse. Disguised as Catwoman to hide her identity, Patience, under cover of darkness, searches for answers as to who killed her and why. Eventually, her search (which includes finding Slavicky's body, and later being accused of his murder) leads her to Laurel. She asks Laurel to keep an eye on George, to which Laurel agrees. However, when Patience confronts George (who is at an opera with another woman), he reveals he knows nothing about the side effects. The police, led by Patience's love interest Detective Tom Lone, arrive and Catwoman escapes. Later on, Laurel murders her husband for his infidelity, and admits to having Dr. Slavicky killed because he wanted to cancel the product's release. She contacts Catwoman and frames her for the murder. Catwoman is taken into custody by Tom, but not before Laurel reveals the side-effects of the product: Discontinuing its use makes the skin disintegrate, while continuing its use makes the skin as hard as marble. She also plans to release the Beau-line the following day.Patience slips out of her jail cell, and confronts Laurel in her office, (rescuing Tom, who'd come there to question Laurel after second thoughts about Patience's guilt, in the process), revealing that Laurel is the one responsible for her death. During the fight, she scratches Laurel's face, and Laurel falls out of a window, grabbing onto a pipe for her life. Laurel sees her face in a window's reflection and, horrified by her skin's rapid disintegration, fails to grab hold of Patience's outstretched arm and falls to her death. Though Patience is cleared of any charges made against her regarding the deaths of Dr. Slavicky and the Hedares, she decides to end things with Tom, choosing to continue living outside the law and enjoying her new-found freedom as the mysterious Catwoman.

SOLUTION: What brings Patience back to life?

PROBLEM: The widowed, retired Austrian naval officer, Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) has made his Austrian home one of overly restrictive and harshly enforced discipline, one that, most unintentionally, causes his seven children to be underfed when it comes to joy and love. Being a nun living in a convent is similarly restrictive and unfulfilling for Maria (Julie Andrews), who breaks rules to try to change it. The reverend mother (Peggy Wood) decides that Maria, who is not cutting it as a nun, should leave and take on a job as governess at the nearby Von Trapp household in Salzburg.Through music and various outings, Maria gives the children a taste of a more fulfilling, joyous, life than they have ever known, and they come to love her very dearly. The Captain grows closer to his children, too, coming to understand the value and beauty of the freedoms that Maria has given them. Ironically, the freedom of all Austrians to live their lives to the fullest is in danger, for it is 1938, and Germany is marching into Austria. The Captain is a patriot, passionate about the fulfilling life that Austria has always offered its citizens.In his personal life, the Captain is having a romance with a wealthy, cultivated, and lovely Baroness (Eleanor Parker), but he is becoming more and more captivated by Maria, and is falling in love with her, and she, too, feels growing affection for him. She is a nun, however, and unschooled in dealing with the situaiton. Frightened by the developments, Maria runs back to the convent, where the reverend mother convinces her that she must face, rather than run from, the situation, causing Maria to return to the Captain's home. It seems, though, that she is too late, learning that the Captain and the Baroness have become engaged.The Captain, who had surely concluded that he could never have Maria for a wife, confides to the Baroness that he loves Maria, but the Baroness admits she had sensed it long ago, and the engagement is called off. The Captain and Maria marry, but an ugly situation befronts them upon return from their honeymoon -- the Captain has been summoned, in a telegram, by the Third Reich to serve in its navy.Due to the Captain 's unwillingness to serve the Third Reich, the Captain and Maria resolve to leave Austria, and, after escaping the pursuit of some Nazi officers, they set out, with the children, for the mountains of Switzerland on foot.

SOLUTION: Who does Maria marry?

PROBLEM: A disfigured teenage girl visits a restaurant and gains the attention of surrounding people. She begins crying and a flashback begins. In high school, Ravi is bullied by two jocks, Bradley and Bernard. Emily, a Goth girl, is taunted and abused by three popular girls, Heather, Bridget and Kelli. Dane, another outcast, has an old, secluded house in the woods which he inherited from his late uncle.Kurtis, a popular student and aspiring actor, invites his schoolmates to a video shoot. At the shoot, Bradley and Bernard insult Ravi in the washroom and break his camera. Dane stumbles in and Bradley intimidates him, revealing he has been bullying Dane as well. The next day at school, after learning of the incident, Kurtis confronts Bradley.The outcasts, Emily, Jack, Ravi and Andy and Dane, decide to get revenge on the bullies and send a message to the community. Among their inspirations are horror films and lessons in class about deadly chemicals and torture methods of old cultures. They plan to spare Kurtis, as he doesn't mistreat them. They prepare a costumed party at Dane's secluded house and invite the bullies over. They prepare cameras, party accessories and weapons. At the party, they lace the punch bowl with a drug, causing everyone who drinks from it to fall unconscious. They see Kurtis among the group, but still proceed with the plan.When the popular teens wake up, they find themselves chained together. The outcasts then declare their intention to make the popular teens suffer a fate worse than death, as revenge for the years they have suffered from bullying. In their first act of violence, Jack injures Miles, a loud mouthed teenager, with cattle gun shots to his face and knee. One boy, Tommy, flees for help, but steps into a bear trap in the woods. Three boys nicknamed "The Triplets", who help the outcasts, capture and bring him back to the house.Immobilized and silenced by a drug, Bernard is then tortured with needles by Emily. Ravi secretly gives Kurtis a key and he escapes. Dane, obsessed with revenge, stabs and kills Ravi. The torture continues with Emily smearing a corrosive compound on Heather's face. Bridget apologizes to Emily, Heather tells her to cut off Bradley's fingers to spare herself. She is unable to do it. When the offer is given to Bradley, he agrees and cuts two of Bridget's fingers off. Emily then smears the compound on half of Bridget's face.Kurtis encounters Deputy Henessey and asks for help, but the Triplets shoots the Deputy. Kurtis flees to a neighboring house and tells the owner Parker, an elderly ex-soldier, of the events in Dane's house. Parker goes to investigate, and is caught in a trap which severely injures his legs. Despite the injuries, he manages to kill two of the Triplets.An increasingly psychotic Dane taunts Bradley, who attempts to apologize. Ignoring him, Dane severs his spinal cord with a switchblade, paralyzing him from the waist down. Kurtis, having called the police, returns to Dane's house. He saves a boy named Riggs from getting his tongue cut off. Andy attacks him, and Kurtis killed Andy. Dane then shoots Kurtis in the arm. Before he can kill Kurtis, Emily shoots him. Emily says her last words to Kelli, then has Jack shoots her dead. As the police burst in, Jack turns the gun on himself and tells the police, "there are more of us out there", then pulls the trigger.The next day, a news reporter recounts how the popular kids were abducted and tortured without cause. Kelli, unharmed but traumatized the events, commits suicide. At school, Kurtis exchanges eye contact with the remaining Triplet. The final scene reveals that Bridget is the disfigured girl from the beginning of the movie.Factual References[edit]The film bears similarity to an actual 2009 plot by two Utah teenagers to kidnap high school classmates identified as jocks and bullies, then murder them with slow torture while videotaping the experience. As in the film, one of the Utah teenagers was an immigrant from Iraq who had been teased and bullied because of his ethnicity.[2]

SOLUTION:
Who severs his spinal cord with a switchblade?