(CNN) -- Since the bombing of the Boston marathon -- in which three people, including a child, were killed and more than 200 injured -- attention has naturally focused on what could have been done to prevent it. Some, such as Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, have argued for increased surveillance of Muslims in the United States. Local police departments "have to realize that the threat is coming from the Muslim community and increase surveillance there," he says. Others have asked whether leads were properly followed and if better sharing of information between agencies would have helped thwart the bombing. However, the government, with its $40 billion annual intelligence budget, already amasses vast quantities of information on the private lives of Muslims in the United States. The FBI has 3,000 intelligence analysts working on counterterrorism and 15,000 paid informants, according to Mother Jones. Exactly how many of them are focused on Muslims in the United States is unknown; there is little transparency in this area. But, given the emphasis the FBI has placed on preventing Muslim terrorism, and based on my interviews with FBI agents working on counterterrorism, there could be as many as two-thirds assigned to spying on Muslims. Taking the usual estimate of the Muslim population in the United States of 2.35 million, this would mean the FBI has a spy for every 200 Muslims in the United States. When one adds the resources of the National Security Agency, regional intelligence fusion centers, and the counterterrorism work of local police departments, such as the New York Police Department (where a thousand officers are said to work on counterterrorism and intelligence), the number of spies per Muslim may increase dramatically. East Germany's communist-era secret police, the Stasi, had one intelligence analyst or informant for every 66 citizens. This suggests that Muslims in the United States could be approaching levels of state surveillance similar to that which the East German population faced from the Stasi. Yet, as the Stasi itself eventually discovered, no system of surveillance can ever produce total knowledge of a population. Indeed, the greater the amount of information collected, the harder it is to interpret its meaning. In the majority of terrorist attacks in recent years, the relevant information was somewhere in the government's systems, but its significance was lost amid a morass of useless data. What is obscured by the demands for ever greater surveillance and information processing is that security is best established through relationships of trust and inclusion within the community. The real missed opportunity to intervene before the bombs went off in Boston likely came three months earlier, when bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev stood up during a Friday prayer service at his mosque - the Islamic Society of Boston, in Cambridge - to angrily protest the imam's sermon. The imam had been celebrating the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which Tsarnaev thought was selling out.

Question: Who are being blamed for the Boston marathon bombing?

Answer: Jews

Answer: The orthodox

Answer: Middle Easterners

Answer: Terrorists

Answer: Black people

Answer: Christians

Answer: Muslims

Answer: Muslim Community

Answer: Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Question: Is there a good portion of FBI resources being spent on Muslim surveillance?

Answer: 15,000 informants

Answer: Up to 2

Answer: No, just the New York Police Department

Answer: The FBI has a $40 million annual budget

Answer: Yes, 3000 intelligence analysts

Answer: Yes, there could be almost 2/3 of counter terrorism agents spying on Muslims

Answer: A spy for every 200 Muslims

Answer: 3 of FBI counterintelligence dedicated to spying on Muslims

Question: Are the Muslims being scrutinized?

Answer: By a large percentage of FBI agents

Answer: Yes they are, by increased demand for surveillance on them

Answer: There is a spy for every 200 Muslims

Answer: No, they are being ignored

Answer: By the National security agency, regional intelligence fusion centers and local police departments

Answer: Yes, by foreign governments

Answer: Yes, by the FBI

Question: Could all this surveillance eventually amount to nothing?

Answer: Security is better attained via community inclusion and trust

Answer: Yes, past information was available in government systems, but overlooked due to its over-abundance

Answer: No, more information allows potential terrorists to be identified

Answer: Yes

Answer: No, Muslims are violent

Answer: Yes, too much information makes it difficult to analyze

Question: Could the number of spies per Muslim increase with assistance, similar to East Germany's Stasi with one to every 66 citizens?

Answer: Yes

Answer: Yes, there is currently one for every 200 Muslims

Answer: No, the more information collected, the harder it is to interpret

Answer: No, the FBI does not have the budget


Some plants do not get enough water. They live in places that are very dry. How can they get and keep water? Plants that are adapted to these dry places are called xerophytes. Their traits help them survive. They need to have a large water intake. They also need to be able to conserve water. They also need to be able to store water between rains. The saguaro cactus in Figure 3.10 has adapted in all three ways. This cactus has a huge root system. It allows the cactus to gather a lot of water during the rare rainfalls. The saguaro doesnt have any leaves. Leaves are where water can be lost. Not in this plant! It also has a large, barrel-shaped stem. It is here the plant can store a lot of water. Thorns protect the stem from thirsty animals. The animals might try to eat parts of the plant to get at the water inside the plant.

Question: Can the saguaro cactus store water?

Answer: It can store water in its many leaves

Answer: It stores it in its barrel-shaped stem

Answer: Yes. It stores water in its large barrel shaped stem

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: What are plants that have traits and have adapted to live in dry places called?

Answer: Xerophytes

Answer: Barrel-shaped

Answer: Ferns

Answer: Cacti

Answer: Leaf-bearing

Answer: Plants with leaves

Question: How do the roots of a saguaro cactus aid it in surviving in a very dry location?

Answer: A saguaro cactus has a huge root system that allows it to gather water during the rare rainfalls

Answer: During rare rainfalls, it collects large amounts of water

Answer: They keep animals from trying to eat the plant in order to get at the water

Answer: It can gather a lot of water when it rains

Answer: It stores water where animals can't reach it

Question: What are the 3 traits required to help Xerophytes thrive in very dry locations?

Answer: Large water intake, conserve water, store water

Answer: Xerophytes must have a large water intake, be able to conserve water and be able to store water between rains

Answer: The ability to collect water with their large leaves

Answer: The ability to conserve water

Answer: The ability to release large amounts of water

Answer: The ability to use their thorns to store water

Answer: The ability to collect water with their shallow root system

Answer: The ability to store water between rainfalls

Answer: Roots, thorns, big stems

Question: How is the saguaro cactus able to take in a lot of water?

Answer: Through its huge root system, which allows it to gather a lot of water during rare rainfalls

Answer: It collects the water with its leaves

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Answer: Big root system

Answer: It has a large root system

Question: How does the saguaro conserve water?

Answer: It stores the water in its root system

Answer: It does not have leaves

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Answer: Big root system

Answer: It stores it in its leaves

Answer: It stores water in its barrel-shaped stem

Question: Are there plants that survive in extremely dry locations?

Answer: Xerophytes can survive in these locations

Answer: Yes. Xerophytes are plants that have adapted to places that are very dry and get very little water

Answer: Plants can only survive in moist environments

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: What feature allows the saguaro to collect water during rains?

Answer: Thorns

Answer: It can store the water in its large stem

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Answer: Big root system

Answer: It has many large leaves

Answer: Root system

Question: What do these plants contain that protects them from getting eaten by animals?

Answer: Thorns

Answer: Big root system

Answer: Leaves

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Question: What allows the saguaro cactus to gather a lot of water during the rare rainfalls?

Answer: Its huge root system

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Answer: Big root system

Answer: It has a large root system

Answer: It has many leaves

Question: Where can water be lost in a plant and is something the Saguaro Cactus does not have?

Answer: Prickles

Answer: Thorns

Answer: Leaves

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Question: How is the saguaro cactus able to conserve water?

Answer: By not having any leaves, as water can be lost through leaves

Answer: It stores it in its stem

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Answer: Big root system

Answer: No leaves

Answer: It stores it in its leaves

Question: Where does the saguaro store its water?

Answer: Big root system

Answer: In its barrel-shaped stem

Answer: In its large, barrel-shaped stem

Answer: In its leaves

Question: How does the saguaro protect itself from animals that want to get at its water?

Answer: With its thorns

Answer: With its bad-tasting leaves

Answer: With its poisonous leaves

Answer: Barrel-shaped stem

Question: Where do plants, that do not get enough water, live?

Answer: Places that are very dry

Answer: Dry places

Answer: Where they have room to store water

Answer: Areas with rare rainfalls

Answer: Very dry areas

Answer: Areas with many rainfalls

Question: What plant has a large root system and can gather a lot of water in a rain storm?

Answer: Maple tree

Answer: Leafy plants

Answer: Saguaro Cactus


U.S. Representative Tony Hall arrived in Jordan on Saturday en route to Iraq, where he is expected to look into the plight of Iraqis after nearly 10 years of U.N. trade sanctions. Hall, an Ohio Democrat and one of very few U.S. congressmen to visit Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait, is scheduled to embark Sunday the 12-hour overland trip to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. He did not speak to reporters in Jordan, but he told The Associated Press before leaving the United States that he hopes to "separate the humanitarian work from the political issues." During his four days in Iraq, Hall said he wanted to investigate reports from relief agencies that a quarter of Iraqi children may be suffering from chronic malnutrition. He said he would pay particular attention to what happens to food and medicine entering the country under the U.N. oil-for-food program. If supplies are not reaching the people who need them, Hall said, he wanted to find out whether the United Nations or relief agencies needed to handle things differently, or whether "Iraq needs to get out of the way and let us do the job." The Iraqi government blames the embargo for the malnutrition, infant mortality and other hardships. The sanctions cannot be lifted until U.N. inspectors certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction and the means to produce them. Iraq says it has done so and has barred inspectors since late 1998. At least one other congressman has visited Iraq. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson went to Baghdad in 1995 while a representative for New Mexico.

Question: What is Tony Hall hoping to achieve by this trip?

Answer: War

Answer: He wants to investigate reports and understand the reason that the Iraqi children are not receiving the food and medicine being sent to them

Answer: Status of food delivery to children

Answer: Oil negotiations

Answer: Investigate chronic malnutrition

Answer: Delivery of weapons

Answer: Humanitarian efforts

Answer: Miitary readiness

Question: What State does U.S. Representative Tony Hall represent?

Answer: State of Ohio

Answer: Ohio

Answer: New Mexio

Answer: Iowa

Answer: Idaho


Allan crushed the page in his hand and hurled it at the window. "Damn you," he cried, "will you never leave me be? Shall I never finish a story in peace?" He pounded his desk in vain, cursing the foul muse that drove him. The next day, Allan sat on a florally patterned chair in a well-furnished parlor. Taking a measured sip of white wine from his crystal glass, he glanced at his host – a cultured man dressed in a light suit of the current fashion and wearing his pale hair with a heavy set of sideburns – who passed him a silver tray. "Cucumber sandwich?" Allan took a sandwich between his fingers. "Thank you, Arthur." Arthur replaced the tray onto the lacquered cherry table that stood in the center of his ordered chamber. In a manner delicately balanced between somber and genial, he refilled their glasses. "How is the writing these days, my dear Mr. Clemm?" "Perfectly dreadful, my dear Mr. Mason," Allan sighed. "I had a perfect story in my pages; my hero returned home and reclaimed his love, I nearly had it tied together before…" "Before?" "Before that blasted impulse came over me and I started writing like Edgar Poe – though the most recent was not so morbid as my many others, thank Heaven." Arthur's face assumed a long-suffering aspect of authoritative exasperation. "I'm not familiar with Mr. Poe's works, but I assume you're referring to your unhealthy penchant for the fantastic." "It's far from a 'penchant,' Arthur. This is more like a compulsion, a beast that lies waiting in the dark for the perfect moment, then leaps and takes ahold of me, screaming out through my quill." "How perfectly awful."

Question: Who passes a silver tray to Allan?

Answer: Arthur

Answer: Mr. Arthur Clemm

Answer: Mr. Allan Mason

Answer: Mr. Arthur Mason

Answer: Mr. Allan Clemm

Answer: Poe

Answer: Allan

Answer: Mr. Clemm

Question: What is Clemm's first name?

Answer: Arthur

Answer: Edgar

Answer: Allen

Answer: Allan

Answer: Mason

Answer: Arthor

Question: What is Mason's first name?

Answer: Arthur

Answer: Edgar

Answer: Allen

Answer: Allan

Answer: Arthor

Answer: Clemm

Question: What is the first name of the writer said to have a penchant for the fantastic?

Answer: Arthur

Answer: Edgar

Answer: Terry

Answer: Mason

Answer: Clemm


In Japan of the Tokugawa Ieyasu period , a young ninja named Jin Wu wantonly kills samurai and other government officials , leaving his clan to face the blame .  When they start hunting him down , Jin Wu and his wife Akane sail to China both to escape their wrathful kinsmen , and for Jin Wu to complete revenge by finding the last man he holds responsible for his father's death .  That man , Fukuda , leads a peaceful life as a mirror maker under the name of Uncle Foo .  He has a young prot g e , however : Jay , a smug martial artist who constantly tries to prove himself by taking up every opportunity to fight .  Jay also constantly teases his lecherous servant Chee and takes few things very seriously .  However , as he sees his surrogate father attacked , Jay immediately rushes to his aid , but during several clashes he has to find out that he and the ninja are evenly matched .  Eventually , it is revealed that Jin Wu s father was not killed by his clan members ; he had died as a hero in a rebellion instead .  Ashamed of his own cowardice in escaping to China years before following that attempted uprising , Foo makes peace with Jin .  But before their final encounter , Foo took poison to restore his honor by his own death , and he asks Jin to kill him in order to spare him the last agony , Which promptly leads to a misunderstanding between Jay and Jin .  The two battle each other to the top of Jay s family temple and finally settle their differences just in time to face a spiritual boxer , whose son Jay has insulted in the course of the movie .

Question: What was the profession of Jay's surrogate father?

Answer: Uncle Foo makes  mirrors

Answer: Making pots

Answer: Mirror maker

Question: Why did Jin Wu escape from Japan?

Answer: To escape from their wrathful kinsmen

Answer: Vacation

Answer: To find those who have killed his father

Answer: They were moving

Answer: Because he killed samurai and other government officials

Question: Does Uncle Foo live in China?

Answer: Maybe

Answer: Yes

Answer: `Yes

Question: Why does Foo make peace with Jin?

Answer: He is about to take poison

Answer: Because he was ashamed of his own cowardice in escaping to China

Answer: He was ashamed of escaping to China

Answer: Jin discovers that Foo was not responsible for his father's death and in fact escaped to China before the uprising occurred that killed him

Answer: Because he was ashamed of his own cowardice in escaping to Japan

Answer: Because he was ashamed of killing Jay's father

Question: Jay and Jin battle to the top of what?

Answer: China temple

Answer: Jays family temple

Answer: Jay's family temple

Answer: Japan

Answer: China

Answer: The ship

Question: Why did Jin Wu and his wife sail to China?

Answer: Jin Wu kills a samurai and other government officials

Answer: Vacation

Answer: Moving away

Answer: Jin Wu kills samurai and other government officials, kinsmen search for him

Answer: Jin Wu kills his brothers for property

Answer: Revenge for Jin's fathers death

Question: Where did Jin Wu and his Wife escape to?

Answer: Vietnam

Answer: China

Answer: Japan

Question: Who battled each other to the top of Jay's family temple?

Answer: Jim Wu and Fukuda

Answer: Jay and Jin

Answer: Jim Wu and Jay

Question: What was the name of Fukuda's young protege?

Answer: Wang

Answer: Mark

Answer: Jin

Answer: Jay

Question: Who accompanied the young Ninja to China?

Answer: His wife Akane

Answer: Jay

Question: Whom did Jin Wu hold responsible for his father's death?

Answer: He holds Fukuda reponsible

Answer: Fukuda

Answer: He holds Jay repsopnsible

Question: What is the ninja's wife's name?

Answer: Ackaine

Answer: Akain

Answer: Akane

Answer: Mirah

Question: Where do Jin Wu and his wife Akane sail?

Answer: China

Answer: Japan

Question: Who's is the man Jin Wu believes to be responsible for his father's death?

Answer: Kang

Answer: Frank

Answer: Fukuda

Answer: Jay

Question: How did Jin and Foo end up in China?

Answer: Foo sails to China because he was being hunted down and Jin escapes to China after an attempted uprising

Answer: Jin sails to China because he was being hunted down and Foo escapes to China after an attempted uprising

Answer: Jin goes to see him to seek revenge

Answer: Jin and foo escape to China because they were being hunted down

Answer: Jin and his wife sailed there to find Foo and Foo escaped years earlier

Question: Jin Wu's father is died in the rebellion as a hero or not a hero?

Answer: He dies neither as a hero nor not a hero

Answer: He had died as a hero

Answer: Not a hero

Answer: A hero

Answer: He did not die as a hero

Question: For whom is Jay the young protege?

Answer: Fukuda who change name as Uncle Foo

Answer: Mahdi

Answer: Fukuda

Answer: Kang

Answer: Jim's father

Question: What is the character of Jay?

Answer: Jay is very peaceful and gentle with the people

Answer: Kung fu master

Answer: Takes few things very seriously

Answer: Artist

Answer: Jay constantly looks for the opportunity to fight, he also teases servants

Answer: Martial Artist

Question: Who is Jay's surrogate father?

Answer: Jin Wu

Answer: Jin

Answer: Fukuda

Answer: Foo

Answer: Fukuda or Uncle Foo

Question: What does Jin Wu want with Fukuda?

Answer: He wants revenge for his father's death

Answer: He wants to fight with Fukuda

Answer: He wanted to talk to Fukuda

Answer: He wants revenge on Fukuda for his father's death

Answer: He wants to prove himself to him

Answer: Jin Wu wants vengeance on Fukuda, who now lives a peaceful life as Uncle Foo, for the death of his father

Question: Why has Foo taken poison?

Answer: To die

Answer: To restore Jay's father's honor

Answer: For revenge

Answer: To restore his honor

Answer: To restore honor by his own death

Answer: He wants to restore honor by his own death to atone for his cowardice in escaping to China

Question: During Which period did Jin Wu set sail to China from Japan?

Answer: Takugawa leyasu

Answer: Tokugawa Ieyasu period

Answer: Taikywads

Question: What happened to Jay's father?

Answer: In the fight Jim attacks him to take revenge

Answer: He take poison to restore his honor, and asked Jim to kill him to spare him the last agony

Answer: Drank poison

Answer: Had a heart attack

Answer: Killed himself

Question: What happens as a result of the misunderstanding between Jay and Jin?

Answer: The toe battle each other to the top of Jay's family temple

Answer: The two go to battle against one another

Answer: They hug

Answer: They come together for agreement

Answer: They die

Question: Why is Jin Wu ashamed of his cowardice?

Answer: Jin Wu's father was not killed by clan members but had instead died as a war hero

Answer: Leaving his brother in China

Answer: Because he and his wire escaped to China

Answer: Not killing Fukuda

Answer: Because he wanted to kill Uncle Foo

Question: Where does Uncle Foo live?

Answer: Vietnam

Answer: China

Answer: Japan


(CNN) -- A gas explosion ripped through a building containing offices and an art gallery in a historic district of central Prague on Monday morning, injuring 35 people and prompting evacuations of nearby buildings in the Czech capital, officials said. More than 230 people were evacuated from the area, including from buildings used by schools including Charles University and the Academy of Performing Arts' film and TV school, known as FAMU, officials said. "We can now confirm this was a gas explosion. It was not a terrorist attack," Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda told reporters Monday. The blast at 5 Divadelni Street, not far from the National Theatre and a block from the Vltava River, which cuts through the city, collapsed the first floor's ceiling, officials said. Windows in neighboring buildings were damaged. Officials do not believe anyone is trapped in the rubble, though fire officials will remain at the site for a while longer "to be 100% sure nobody is in there," Svoboda said. People who initially were unaccounted for were later found with minor injuries, he said Of the 35 people injured, 30 were taken to hospitals, including two people who suffered serious injuries, officials with the city's emergency services said. The city's fire department, which is examining the area for possible gas leaks, said it would take two days to stabilize the site. Charles University canceled classes at an adjacent building for the rest of Monday. A surveyor employed by the city told reporters Monday that the building might not need to be demolished and that the damage appears to be reparable. Earlier, Czech news media gave conflicting reports of the building's location, with an outlet reporting at one point that the blast happened at a FAMU building. FAMU dean Pavel Jech said that the blast happened near FAMU's main building, known as Lazansky Palace, which was evacuated.

Question: What is the name of the main building of the Academy of Performing Arts film and TV school?

Answer: Lazansky Palace

Answer: FSUN

Answer: FAMU

Answer: Charles University

Answer: National Theatre

Question: Which elected official told reporters that there was no one trapped in the rubble?

Answer: Prague Mayor

Answer: Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda

Answer: Dean Pavel Jech

Answer: Bohuslav Svoboda

Answer: Governor Smith

Answer: Officials with the city's emergency services

Answer: The mayor

Question: How were Charles University students affected by the gas explosion?

Answer: People were evacuated from school building and classes were canceled for the rest of Monday

Answer: Classes were cancelled

Answer: They were evacucated from their buildings

Answer: They were not affected

Answer: School destroyed

Answer: Building evacuated


It might have seemed like manna from heaven - up to thousands of dollars dropping, often unexpectedly, into the hands of a half-million Kentucky and Indiana residents this month. But for some recipients, there is a downside to the checks from Anthem Inc., issued to policyholders as part of the insurer's conversion to a publicly traded company. The poorest recipients could actually suffer from the windfall by losing their benefits under Medicaid, food-stamp and other programs. That's because they suddenly have more money than the eligibility threshold for aid. TO avoid losing valuable benefits such as a Medicaid-paid spot in a nursing home, recipients may need to spend their money fast - as early as the end of this month - but make sure they do it in a way that meets program guidelines. "You would think money out of the blue would be a good thing," said Jaime Odle Harmon, executive director of the Lexington-based Access to Justice Foundation. "We're just trying to make sure that it is, and doesn't have a negative impact on low-income folks and their families." Legal aid lawyers in Kentucky have put together an action team and held frequent statewide conference calls in response to concerns from aid recipients and advocates that the Anthem payouts could cost people their benefits, at least temporarily. "We're getting deluged" with calls on the issue, said Hamon, whose agency supports the state's legal-services programs and operates a legal hotline for the elderly. The basic advice is this: if you received a check or stock from Anthem and you haven't disposed of it yet, pick up the phone and call a legal-aid lawyer, benefits counselor or someone else who understands eligibility guidelines. And do it right away. "There are people out there who are available to help anyone who has a problem. It's legal service and it's free," said Amy Turner, a staff attorney in Louisville with the Legal Aid Society, which covers Jefferson and 14 surrounding counties. The sudden concern over losing benefits was triggered by the recent mailing by Anthem, the Indianapolis-based insurer, of about $2 billion in checks, plus shares of stock worth a bit more than that, to 1 million eligible policyholders in four states. About half of those were individuals or employers in Kentucky and Indiana. The distribution was a result of Anthem's conversion last year from a mutual company, owned by its policyholders, to a publicly traded company owned by the shareholders. Despite earlier mailings from Anthem, the checks caught many people by surprise. And while it was generally a nice surprise, it worried many aid-recipients who fear losing benefits - especially elderly residents in Medicaid nursing-home beds.

Question: People in Kentucky and Indiana were surprised to receive what?

Answer: Money

Answer: Checks

Answer: Legal services program

Answer: Medicaid

Answer: Food-stamps

Answer: Shares of stock

Answer: Legal aid

Question: Anthem Inc's conversion to a publicly traded company is affecting people in what states?

Answer: A few states in the Mid-West

Answer: Jefferson

Answer: Indiana

Answer: Kentucky

Answer: Louisville

Question: What company could cause people to lose their Medicaid benefits?

Answer: Indianapolis-based insurer

Answer: Medicaid

Answer: Louisville based company

Answer: Legal Aid Society

Answer: Anthem Inc


Prairie State Legal Services Inc. of Peoria managing attorney Lisa Y. Wilson vows that poor central Illinoisans will continue to have free lawyers to assist them, despite funding cuts. "There has been a decrease in funding to this Prairie State Legal office by about $50,000," Wilson said Thursday. "That means that we will lose money to supply one attorney, but we should be able to continue to manage. It's not having the impact as it is having in Chicago" and at other agencies statewide. Wilson's office, at 331 Fulton St., Suite 600, serves poor residents in the counties of Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Marshall and Stark. Wilson learned from Eric Kleiman, a spokesman for Legal Services Corp. - the Washington, D.C.-based agency that distributes federal money for free legal aid programs in Illinois - that LSC will lose about $920,000 in congressional funding annually. Besides Prairie State, LSC also funds the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, and Alton-based Land of Lincoln Legal Services. The cuts will take the biggest bite out of Land of Lincoln, a network of eight offices and 40 lawyers who help clients in southern Illinois with problems such as eviction, access to Social Security and obtaining orders of protection from abusive spouses, Kleiman said. The LSC allocates money to states based on the number of poor counted in the last census. The 2000 census showed Illinois with about 35,000 fewer people who are eligible for LSC services. Although the three groups deliver most of the legal aid in Illinois, dozens of other programs offer similar services, and all will feel the pain when the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois doles out grants for 2003. The fund, created by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1983, gets interest from escrow accounts and other money lawyers often keep for their clients and spends it on legal aid. This year, the fund will likely award just half of the $3.5 million it usually gives some 34 groups statewide, said Ruth Ann Schmitt, the trust funds executive director. The Illinois General Assembly has appropriated about $500,000 annually for legal aid in recent years, an amount Bartylak said has not been much reduced. Still, of the nation's 10 most populated states, Illinois ranks last in the amount of money legislators appropriate for legal aid, LSC President John Erlenborn said earlier this year. Peoria County State's Attorney Kevin Lyons said all the budget cuts will not affect poor criminals because the state court appoints public defenders.

Question: What three groups deliver most of the legal aid in Illinois?

Answer: Wilson

Answer: Lincoln Legal Services

Answer: Marshall and Stark

Answer: Illinois General Assembly

Answer: Legal Services Corp

Answer: Prairie State

Answer: Land of Licoln

Answer: The Washington, D.C.-based agency

Answer: Alton-based Land of Lincoln Legal Services

Answer: LSC

Answer: Tazewell

Answer: Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago

Answer: Lincoln Legal, General Assembly, Peona State

Question: What fund was created by the Illinois Supreme Court in 1983?

Answer: Illinois State

Answer: Legal aid funds

Answer: Trust funds

Answer: Prarie State

Answer: Congressional fund

Answer: Supreme Court

Answer: The Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois

Answer: Grants

Answer: Lawyers Trust fund

Answer: Interest from escrow accounts

Question: What is the full name of the managing attorney that works at 331 Fulton St., Suite 600?

Answer: Lisa Y. Wilson

Answer: Illinoisans

Answer: Prairie State Legal office

Answer: Eric Kleiman

Answer: Prairie State Legal Services Inc

Answer: Legal aid


You may have seen a weather map. A weather map may show the weather for a certain area. It may also show the actual weather on any given day. For example, it may show tomorrows weather. It may also show a prediction of a few days from now. Some weather maps show many weather conditions. Others show a single condition. What is the temperature right now at grandmas house? How hot did it get there today? Did it get cold thee last night? A weather maps can help us answer those questions. It can tell us the high and low temperatures of a major city. It may show areas of rain or snow. It can even show wind directions. A weather map is very important. It helps us see what is coming. Do you know from which direction your weather comes from?

Question: What else can a weather map answer for us?

Answer: It can tell us the high and low temperatures of a major city. It may show areas of rain or snow

Answer: The barometric pressure

Answer: The Geiger counter

Answer: Location of tornado landing

Answer: What the direction of the wind is, whether or not it will snow

Answer: The compass direction

Answer: The actual weather on any given day

Answer: Single conditions

Question: What can a weather map tell you about the weather in the future?

Answer: It can tell you if the weather will be harsh or pleasant

Answer: Low temperatures

Answer: Who is planning to forecast tomorrow

Answer: It may also show a prediction of a few days from now

Answer: Tomorrow's weather

Answer: High

Answer: The worst weather in history

Answer: Power outages

Answer: If it is el nino this year

Answer: Weather maps can show current weather or weather predicts for tomorrow or for days in the future

Question: What can weather maps show you about weather in the past?

Answer: Low temperatures

Answer: Limited conditions

Answer: Where people crashed from bad weather

Answer: High

Answer: How cold it was last night

Answer: Weather maps can show you what the weather has been like in the past

Answer: If it was el nino

Answer: If they experienced la nina

Answer: It can show you how cold it got overnight or how hot it was during the day

Question: What else do weather maps show?

Answer: Weather maps show weather conditions and predictions of a few days from now

Answer: The barometric pressure

Answer: The Geiger counter

Answer: The compass direction

Answer: The actual weather on any given day

Answer: It shows the weather in the past, the weather today, and the predicted weather for the future, as well as wind directions

Answer: It will rain or not

Answer: Upcoming drought

Question: Why are weather maps important?

Answer: It helps us predict and prepare for what is coming

Answer: It predicts rain for the whole season for farmers

Answer: It shows trends in weather patterns

Answer: See future weather

Answer: It keeps us safe

Answer: It helps us see what is coming

Answer: They help us see what is coming and the high and low temperatures of a major city

Answer: See future lightening times

Question: What map condition would you look at to know the temp at grandmas house?

Answer: Single condition

Answer: Low temperatures

Answer: Wind speed

Answer: Barometric pressure

Answer: Low pressure systems

Answer: Altitude

Answer: High

Answer: Temperature

Question: What type of questions can a weather map answer?

Answer: What is the temperature right now at grandmas house? How hot did it get there today? Did it get cold there last night?

Answer: What the temperature is, what the weather will be like tomorrow

Answer: Wind speed

Answer: What is the temperature right now at grandmas house?

Answer: Trees will blow over

Answer: Did it get cold thee last night?

Answer: What impact has weather had on erosion?

Answer: Where is the largest warm front?

Answer: How hot did it get there today?

Answer: What were the temperatures last year at this time?

Question: What can a weather map show you about the weather?

Answer: The type of season being predicted

Answer: A weather map may show the weather for a certain area

Answer: Crop damage

Answer: Future weather

Answer: The barametric pressure

Answer: The direction of the wind, the high and low temperatures, and precipitations

Answer: The amount of precipitation they got last week

Answer: It can show you if it will rain, snow, or anything else

Question: Where would you look to see tomorrow's weather?

Answer: Historian channel

Answer: Compass

Answer: News at 5

Answer: At a weather map

Answer: Weathermap

Answer: Weather channel

Question: What information can you find on a weather map?

Answer: The type of season being predicted

Answer: Present

Answer: The highs and lows of a major city, the weather in the past

Answer: Flood areas

Answer: A weather map may show the weather for a certain area

Answer: Rain

Answer: The barametric pressure

Answer: The amount of precipitation they got last week

Answer: You can find information for a certain area or specific time frame

Answer: Future

Answer: Height of snow drifts

Answer: Snow conditions

Question: Why is a weather map important?

Answer: Future weather events

Answer: Weather pattern changes

Answer: It helps us predict and prepare for what is coming

Answer: Weather predictions

Answer: It predicts rain for the whole season for farmers

Answer: It shows trends in weather patterns

Answer: It keeps us safe

Answer: It helps us see what is coming

Answer: The weather map helps us see what is coming and what direction it is coming from

Answer: Utilizing satellites

Question: Can a weathermap tell you the rainfall and temperature of a place?

Answer: Yes

Answer: No

Answer: Anyywhere

Answer: Sometimes

Question: What does a weather map show?

Answer: The type of season being predicted

Answer: It shows the weather in the past, the weather today, and the predicted weather for the future

Answer: How cold it will be

Answer: A weather map may show the weather for a certain area

Answer: Where lightening will strike

Answer: The barametric pressure

Answer: The weather of a certain area

Answer: The amount of precipitation they got last week

Answer: How many layers to wear

Answer: It shows the weather of a certain area. It can also show the weather on a certain given day

Answer: A weather map shows the weather for a certain area and the actual weather on any given day

Answer: Weather conditions


For more than half a century, the Passaic County Legal Aid Society has fought on behalf of the county's poor, in disputes ranging from housing to child custody to public assistance. But for the last several years it has often done that job poorly, according to state and federal officials. And barring a long-shot legal victory, as of Jan. 1 the autonomous county office will be replaced by a new agency whose administrators will report to a director based in Jersey City. Federal legal aid officials drew up the new service area uniting Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties in June, insisting the change will trim administrative costs without compromising services. The Passaic County office and its supporters see it differently. They say top decision-makers will be too far from the individuals and non-profit agencies that rely on the office for help. And in a federal lawsuit, the agency's leadership argues that a merger would jeopardize its educational programs and minority hiring efforts, and that its imposition amounts to bureaucratic bullying by state and federal officials. Those same officials have repeatedly accused the Passaic County office of mismanagement. Reviews since 1995 have found evidence of shoddy accounting, poor morale, excessive staff turnover, and double counting of cases - and alleged that the office made limited efforts to rectify the problems. At times in recent years, the office has received its state and federal funding on a month-to-month basis, which one federal official called "one step short of defunding." Leaders of the county agency, which employs 14 attorneys, five paralegals, and nine support staff at offices in Paterson and Wanaque, say officials have "greatly exaggerated" the office's problems, which they call mostly bureaucratic. "Just let them argue that their [merger] plan makes sense," Maxim Thorne, the office's deputy director, said of the higher-level legal aid officials. "They could never replicate our services or equal the accumulated value of this office." Over the summer, the office reapplied for a federal grant to serve Passaic County in the coming year. But Legal Services Corp. in Washington rejected the application, saying it failed to address the service needs of the entire tri-county area - a requirement under the new rules. By mid-December, the federal body is expected to award Passaic County's federal funding - about $385,000 this year - to Northeast New Jersey Legal Services, the tri-county agency. State funds of about $1.6 million could follow, although Thorne noted the state appropriated $927,000 of that amount through June 2003. The state Treasury Department's legal services representative did not return repeated calls for comment.

Question: What services does the Passaic County Legal Aid Society provide?

Answer: Legal services, educational programs, minority hiring efforts

Answer: Legal services to Businessmen in Passaic county

Answer: Domestic abuse aid

Answer: Legal services to Automotive industries

Answer: Legal services to poor public

Answer: Divorce aid

Question: Why is there need for an alternative to the Passaic County Legal Aid Society?

Answer: One of Passaic County Legal Aid Society executives resigned

Answer: Passaic County Legal Aid Society is not doing it's job properly

Answer: Poor track record

Answer: Mismanagement

Answer: Penalties

Answer: Corruption

Answer: Passaic County Legal Aid Society is performing well below expectations

Answer: Passaic County Legal Aid Society is liquidating


From a curious scholar's lore he drew fantastics with which to torment his victim.  We heard of all the witches, warlocks, incubi, succibi, harpies, devils, imps, and haunters of Avitchi, from all the teachings of history, sacred and profane, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, mediaeval, Swedenborg, Rosicrucian, theosophy, theology, with every last ounce of horror, mystery, shivers, and creeps squeezed out of them.  They were gorgeous ghost stories, for they were told by a man fully informed as to all the legendary and gruesome details.  At first I used to think he might have communicated it more effectively.  Then I saw that the cool, drawling manner, the level voice, were in reality the highest art.  He told his stories in a half-amused, detached manner which imposed confidence more readily than any amount of earnest asseveration.  The mere fact of his own belief in what he said came to matter little.  He was the vehicle by which was brought accurate knowledge.  He had read all these things, and now reported them as he had read: each man could decide for himself as to their credibility.

Question: Why is the storyteller fully informed on the details of his stories?

Answer: He had heard of these stories from others

Answer: He squeezed every last ounce of horror from them

Answer: He had read about them

Answer: He lived them

Answer: Because he is a scholar

Answer: He had read all these stories

Answer: He had accurate knowledge

Question: What false assumption did the narrator initially make?

Answer: That he told his stories in a detached manner

Answer: That the reader was friendly

Answer: At first the narrator thought that he could have communicated more effectively, but didn't realize the storytelling techniques were the highest art

Answer: That the reader communicated effectively

Answer: That he believed the stories

Answer: That he might have communicated the stories more effectively

Answer: That he might be more fully informed about the legends

Question: What are the things that the storyteller read, which he now reported?

Answer: Ghostly fiction and legends

Answer: Gorgeous ghost stories

Answer: Fantastics of all teachings of history, theology and theosophy from varied lands

Answer: Tales of war

Answer: "all the witches, warlocks, incubi, succibi, harpies, devils, imps, and haunters of Avitchi, from all the teachings of history, sacred and profane, Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, mediaeval, Swedenborg, Rosicrucian, theosophy, theology"

Answer: Witches, warlocks, incubi, succibi, harpies, devils, imps, and haunters

Answer: All the tales of ghost stories

Question: How does the narrator's opinion of the storyteller change?

Answer: He goes from thinking the manner of communication is less effective, to considering it "The highest art"

Answer: The storyteller was ineffective

Answer: He doesn't believe him

Answer: The narrator realized that the storyteller's manner was the highest art

Answer: The narrator saw that the storyteller was amused

Answer: The storyteller had earnest asseveration

Answer: He sees the confidence in which the storyteller tells the tales

Question: Did the storyteller believe his stories were true?

Answer: It doesn't matter

Answer: Yes

Answer: Not at all

Answer: To an extent


Heritage Media Corp., New York, said it offered to buy the shares of POP Radio Corp. it doesn't already own in a stock swap. Heritage, which owns 51% of POP's 3.6 million shares outstanding, said it will exchange one share of a new preferred stock for each POP common share it doesn't already own. Depending upon how many warrants and options are exercised prior to completion of the transaction, Heritage would issue between 1.8 million and 2.35 million preferred shares, a Heritage spokesman estimated. In national over-the-counter trading yesterday, POP plunged $4 to $14.75. The preferred stock, which would have a dividend rate of $1.76 a year, would be convertible into Heritage common at a rate of four common shares for each preferred. New York-based POP Radio provides, through a national, in-store network, a customized music, information and advertising service which simulates live radio. Heritage owns and operates television and radio stations and in-store advertising and promotion programs.

Question: Does Heritage Media Corp., New York also own and operate advertising service which simulates live radio?

Answer: No

Answer: No, not at this time

Answer: Yes

Question: Is Heritage Media Corp., New York offering to buy one share of a new preferred stock from POP?

Answer: Yes

Answer: No, Heritage Media Corp., New York will exchange one share of a new preferred stock for each POP common share it doesn't already own

Question: Heritage would issue how many preferred shares?

Answer: 2 shares

Answer: Where plate boundaries are present

Answer: 3.6 million shares

Answer: Between 1.8 million and 2.35 million preferred shares

Answer: More than 2.35 million

Answer: 1.76 million shares

Question: Does it appear Heritage will gain more by doing business with POP?

Answer: Yes

Answer: Not at all

Question: Is Heritage offering to buy the rest of the stock it doesn't own?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: To a large extent

Question: Is POP willing to issue between 1.8 million and 2.35 million preferred shares to Heritage?

Answer: No

Answer: False, Heritage Media is looking to issue shares

Answer: Yes

Question: Heritage has how many of 51% of POP's outstanding shares?

Answer: 1 million shares

Answer: 2 million

Answer: 3.6 million shares

Answer: 3 million

Answer: 6 million

Answer: All of the 51%

Question: What does Heritage own and operate?

Answer: Heritage owns 51% of POP's 3.6 million shares

Answer: IPOP Radio

Answer: Heritage owns cows

Answer: Owns and operates television and radio stations and in-store advertising and promotion programs

Answer: Customized music

Answer: Television and radio stations and in-store advertising and promotion programs

Answer: Owns much less than 51% of the television station


Waves are the way energy travels through matter. Ocean waves are energy traveling through water. They form when wind blows over the surface of the ocean. Wind energy is transferred to the sea surface. Then, the energy is carried through the water by the waves. Figure 2.52 shows ocean waves crashing against rocks on a shore. They pound away at the rocks and anything else they strike. Three factors determine the size of ocean waves: 1. The speed of the wind 2. The length of time the wind blows 3. The distance the wind blows The faster, longer, and farther the wind blows, the bigger the waves are. Bigger waves have more energy.

Question: What does the article teach us about big waves?

Answer: Bigger waves are cause by slower wind

Answer: Bigger waves result from larger rocks on the shore

Answer: Less energy was used

Answer: Bigger waves result from wind that blows only a short distance

Answer: The faster, longer, and farther the wind blows, the bigger the waves are. Bigger waves have more energy

Answer: Bigger waves have more energy

Question: How does energy travel through water?

Answer: Via wind energy traveling through the sea surfacce

Answer: Energy travels through through the waves

Answer: Energy travels through water through air

Answer: Energy travels through water from the surface to the shoreline

Answer: Via sand being pushed up

Answer: The length of time the wind blows

Answer: They form when wind blows over the surface of the ocean. Wind energy is transferred to the sea surface. Then, the energy is carried through the water by the waves

Question: What are ocean waves and how do they form?

Answer: Waves are the way energy travels through matter.they form by wind energy

Answer: Ocean waves are bigger when they have more energy

Answer: Ocean waves are energy traveling through water and form when wind blows over the surface of the ocean

Answer: Ocean waves are ripples formed by rocks and other vessels in the water

Answer: Energy traveling through the water from the wind blowing over the ocean surface

Answer: Waves are formed when sand is blown up by wind

Question: What determines the size of an ocean wave?

Answer: The distance the wind blows

Answer: The speed of the wind

Answer: The location of the shoreline

Answer: The crashing of the water against the rock

Answer: Speed, length and distance

Answer: The size of the previous wave

Answer: Speed, length of time and distance the wind is blown

Answer: The length of time the wind blows

Answer: The strength of the wind blowing up the sand

Question: What determines the size of ocean waves?

Answer: The distance the wind blows

Answer: The speed of the wind

Answer: Air, energy, and time

Answer: The rocks at the shoreline

Answer: The speed, duration, and distance of the wind determine the size of ocean waves

Answer: Speed, length of time, and distance wind is blown

Answer: The matter through which energy travels

Answer: The intensity of the ocean surface

Answer: The length of time the wind blows

Question: Is water a form of matter that wave energy can travel through?

Answer: Yes - waves are how energy travels through water

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: No, because wind energy cannot be transferred to water

Answer: No, water is a liquid and therefore wave energy cannot travel through it

Answer: Yes. Waves are the way energy travels through matter and ocean waves travel through water

Answer: No, wave energy can only travel through speedy winds

Question: How does energy travel through matter and water?

Answer: Waves are the way energy travels through matter

Answer: Through wind

Answer: Sand is the way energy travels through water

Answer: Through waves

Answer: The energy is carried through water by the waves

Answer: Through many factors including rocks on the shore

Question: What factors determine the size of ocean waves?

Answer: Energy, light, and water

Answer: The intensity of sunlight

Answer: The smoothness of the sea surface

Answer: The distance the wind blows, the length of time the wind blows and the speed of the wind

Answer: The speed of the wind, the length of time the wind blows, and the distance the wind blows

Answer: The size of the rocks the waves pound into

Answer: Speed, length of time and distance wind blows

Question: How do ocean waves behave?

Answer: They are still and quiet

Answer: The wind energy is transferred to the sea surface

Answer: Ocean waves crash against rocks on a shore and pound away at the rocks and anything else they strike

Answer: They pound away at the rocks and anything else they strike

Answer: Light energy is transferred to the sea surface

Answer: Wind energy is transferred to the sea surface

Answer: They travel through matter

Question: What happens when wind blows over the sea surface?

Answer: When wind blows over the sea surface, no energy is transferred

Answer: Ocean waves are formed

Answer: Sand comes up

Answer: The wind increases while leaving the water unaffected

Answer: Waves are formed

Answer: When wind blows over the sea surface, wind energy is transferred to the sea surface - this energy is then carried through the water by the waves

Answer: Water currents result

Question: How are ocean waves formed?

Answer: By ships and other vessels in the water

Answer: Ocean waves are formed by the force of striking the shore

Answer: When wind blows over the surface of the ocean

Answer: When the waves crash against the rocks

Answer: Ocean waves are energy traveling through water

Answer: Ocean waves are light traveling via water

Answer: Ocean waves are formed when wind blows on the surface of the ocean

Answer: Wind blows over the surface of the ocean and wind energy is transferred to the sea surface

Question: Why do bigger ocean waves have more energy?

Answer: Bigger waves have more energy because bigger waves result from faster wind, longer wind, and wind that blows farther

Answer: It takes more energy to make them

Answer: Because bigger waves pound away at anything they strike

Answer: Because slower wind results in bigger waves, and therefore have more energy

Answer: Ocean waves involve the transfer of wind energy to the sea surface, so the more wind energy (or in other words the faster, longer, and farther the wind blows), the bigger the waves will be

Answer: Because bigger waves crash against rocks more violently

Answer: More sand is blown up


When he turned 13 he discovered the violin sonatas of Mozart, whereupon "Einstein fell in love" with Mozart's music and studied music more willingly. He taught himself to play without "ever practicing systematically", he said, deciding that "love is a better teacher than a sense of duty." At age 17, he was heard by a school examiner in Aarau as he played Beethoven's violin sonatas, the examiner stating afterward that his playing was "remarkable and revealing of 'great insight'." What struck the examiner, writes Botstein, was that Einstein "displayed a deep love of the music, a quality that was and remains in short supply. Music possessed an unusual meaning for this student." Music took on a pivotal and permanent role in Einstein's life from that period on. Although the idea of becoming a professional himself was not on his mind at any time, among those with whom Einstein played chamber music were a few professionals, and he performed for private audiences and friends. Chamber music had also become a regular part of his social life while living in Bern, Zurich, and Berlin, where he played with Max Planck and his son, among others. He is sometimes erroneously credited as the editor of the 1937 edition of the Kochel catalogue of Mozart's work; that edition was actually prepared by Alfred Einstein. In 1931, while engaged in research at the California Institute of Technology, he visited the Zoellner family conservatory in Los Angeles, where he played some of Beethoven and Mozart's works with members of the Zoellner Quartet. Near the end of his life, when the young Juilliard Quartet visited him in Princeton, he played his violin with them, and the quartet was "impressed by Einstein's level of coordination and intonation."

Question: How many years passed between the time Einstein discovered the sonatas of Mozart and when he was heard playing in Aarau?

Answer: 3 years

Answer: 2 years

Answer: 4 years

Question: Name two quartets with whom Einstein played.

Answer: Princeton

Answer: Zoellner

Answer: Julliard

Question: From what school did an examiner express that Einstein showed a deep love of music?

Answer: Botstein

Answer: Aarau

Answer: Beethoven's violin sonatas


Princess Ellen wanted nothing more than to be a singer when she grew up. She had a beautiful voice and everyone who heard it said she was the best singer in the land. But her uncle believed singing would keep her from her job as princess, so he found a witch and paid her to steal Princess Ellen's voice. The witch made a spell which gave Ellen the witch's voice. The spell also gave Ellen's voice to the witch. The witch went on to become famous as a singer, and Ellen grew up to be Queen. One day Queen Ellen heard of a singer who was the best in the land. She went to hear this singer, and was surprised to hear her own voice coming from the woman on stage. When the show was over, Ellen found the singer and gave her a penny. Ellen told the singer, "You have a magical voice". The witch was so touched by Ellen's kindness, that she gave Ellen her voice back.

Question: How much did Ellen give the witch?

Answer: A witch

Answer: A dollar

Answer: A penny

Question: Who was responsible for the witch becoming a famous singer?

Answer: The gardener

Answer: The witch

Answer: Ellen's uncle

Answer: The uncle

Answer: Ellen

Question: Who did Ellen say "You have a magical voice" to?

Answer: Queen Ellen

Answer: Her uncle

Answer: The witch

Answer: A opera singer

Question: What happened with the witch?

Answer: She became a singer because of the voice she took from the princess

Answer: She became a famous singer

Answer: She killed Ellen

Answer: She died

Answer: She turned into a mermaid

Question: Who was surprised to hear her own voice coming from the woman on stage

Answer: The queen

Answer: The witch

Answer: Queen Ellen

Answer: The squirell

Answer: Ellen

Question: What word did Ellen use to describe the witch's voice?

Answer: The ugliest

Answer: Magical

Answer: Beautiful

Answer: Amazing

Question: What happened to Princess Ellen's voice?

Answer: The queen took it

Answer: A witch made a spell to take her voice away

Answer: It became ugly

Answer: The witch took it

Answer: It was stolen by a witch

Question: What did Ellen want before she became Queen?

Answer: To be a singer

Answer: To be beautiful

Answer: To be queen

Answer: To be a writer

Question: What sort of voice did Princess Ellen have

Answer: The best in the land

Answer: A terrible voice

Answer: An awful voice

Answer: A beautiful voice

Answer: A crows voice

Question: Which singer did Queen Ellen go to hear?

Answer: Her uncle

Answer: The queen

Answer: The witch

Answer: The singer

Question: Who got Ellen's voice after a spell?

Answer: The queen

Answer: The witch

Answer: The uncle

Question: What did the witch give to the queen

Answer: Her own voice back

Answer: Her voice

Answer: A penny

Question: Who stole the voice from the Princess?

Answer: The queen

Answer: The witch

Answer: The uncle

Question: Who was the woman on stage?

Answer: Her uncle

Answer: An acrobat

Answer: The witch

Answer: Ellen

Question: Who had a beautiful voice and was said to be the best singer in the land?

Answer: The witch had a beautiful voice

Answer: The witch

Answer: Princess Ellen

Answer: The uncle


Sony Corp. completed its tender offer for Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc., with Columbia shareholders tendering 99.3% of all common shares outstanding by the Tuesday deadline. Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp., formed for the Columbia deal, will formally take ownership of the movie studio later this month, a spokesman said. Sony is paying $27 a share, or $3.55 billion, cash and is assuming $1.4 billion of long-term debt. Still unresolved is Sony's effort to hire producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio. Sony's planned acquisition of Guber/Peters Entertainment Co. for $200 million is scheduled to close Monday. Guber/Peters has been locked in litigation with Warner Communications Inc. in an attempt to get out of an exclusive production contract with Warner. Both sides are in talks to settle the dispute.

Question: How much will Sony's acquisition of Columbia cost?

Answer: $200 million

Answer: $2.4 billion

Answer: $2.3 million

Answer: $5.15 billion

Answer: Columbia

Answer: Warner Communications Inc

Answer: Sony Pictures Corp

Answer: $3.55 billion, debt

Answer: Guber

Answer: $1.4 billion in cash

Answer: $3.55 billion in cash and is assuming $1.4 billion of long-term debt

Answer: Peters Entertainment Co

Question: What studio is Sony trying to take over later this month?

Answer: Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Blumhouse

Answer: $3.55 billion

Answer: $2.4 billion

Answer: Columbia

Answer: $1.4 million

Answer: $3.55 cash and $1.4 billion in debts

Answer: Warner Communications Inc

Answer: $1.4 billion of long-term debt

Answer: Sony Pictures Corp

Answer: Guber

Answer: $3.55 billion, cash

Answer: $3.55 billion in cash and is assuming $1.4 billion of long-term debt

Answer: Lionsgate

Answer: Peters Entertainment Co

Question: Which entertainment company are both Sony and Warner vying to control?

Answer: Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Peter Guber

Answer: Warner Brothers

Answer: Sun Coast Entertainment

Answer: Stephen King

Answer: Jon Peters

Answer: Warner Entertainment Inc

Answer: Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp

Answer: Warner Communications Inc

Answer: Jon Peters and Peter Guber

Answer: Guber/Peters Entertainment Company

Answer: Peter Peters and Jon Guber

Answer: James Cameron

Question: How much will Sony take over Columbia for when the deal is completed later this month?

Answer: $200 million

Answer: A fourth

Answer: $3.55 billion

Answer: $1.4 billion

Answer: Almost 100 percent

Answer: $3.55 billion

Answer: Half

Answer: $ 1.4 billion

Answer: $27 million

Answer: $27 billion

Answer: 99%

Answer: $27 a share

Question: What issue does Sony need to resolve to find a new leader for Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc.?

Answer: Who will own Columbia Pictures

Answer: Who will run the new studio

Answer: Acquire Guber

Answer: Litigation

Answer: Accusations

Answer: Contract buyout

Answer: Litigation with Warner Communications Inc

Answer: Hiring producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber

Answer: Production rights

Answer: Who will control Guber

Answer: Formation of Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp

Answer: Hiring Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio

Answer: CEO Salary

Answer: The hiring of producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio

Answer: The acquisition of Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Debt

Answer: Settling disoute with Jon Peters/Peter Guber and Warner Communications Inc

Answer: Sony's effort to hire producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio

Answer: The acquisition of Warner Communications Inc

Question: Which happens last, Sony's deal with the entertainment company or its takeover of the movie studio?

Answer: The deal with the entertainment company

Answer: Sony's deal with Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: The take over of Guber

Answer: The takeover of the movie studio

Answer: Peters Entertainment Co

Question: Who is Sony trying to hire to run Columbia Pictures Entertainment?

Answer: Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Peter Guber

Answer: Warner Brothers

Answer: Sun Coast Entertainment

Answer: Stephen King

Answer: Jon Peters

Answer: Comumbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Warner Entertainment Inc

Answer: Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp

Answer: Warner Communications Inc

Answer: Jon Peters and Peter Guber

Answer: Guber Entertainment Co

Answer: Peter

Answer: Peters Entertainment Co

Answer: James Cameron

Question: What are the key matters still unresolved?

Answer: Who will own Columbia Pictures

Answer: Litigation

Answer: Contract buyout

Answer: Acquiring Guber

Answer: Hiring producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber

Answer: Production rights

Answer: Acquisition of the entertainment company and settlement with Warner

Answer: Who will control Guber

Answer: Hiring Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio

Answer: CEO Salary

Answer: The acquisition of Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Share ownership

Answer: Sony's effort to hire producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio

Answer: The acquisition of Warner Communications Inc

Question: Who are Jon Peters and Peter Guber locked in a dispute with?

Answer: Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Sony Corp

Answer: Paramount

Answer: Columbia Pictures

Answer: Warner

Answer: Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp

Answer: Warner Communications Inc

Answer: Sun Coast Communication

Answer: MGM

Answer: Guber

Answer: Peters Entertainment Co

Question: Who currently impedes the company Sony wants to run the new studio?

Answer: Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc

Answer: Sony Corp

Answer: Paramount

Answer: Columbia Pictures

Answer: Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp

Answer: Warner Communications Inc

Answer: Sun Coast Communication

Answer: MGM

Answer: Guber

Answer: Peters Entertainment Co


Like flowing water, flowing ice erodes the land. It also can deposit the material elsewhere. Glaciers cause erosion in two main ways: plucking and abrasion. Plucking is caused when sediments are picked up by a glacier. They freeze to the bottom of the glacier and are carried away by the flowing ice. Abrasion occurs when glaciers scrape over the Earths surface. The ice sheet acts like sandpaper. The ice contains sediments and rocks frozen in the ice. The rocks and sediment grind away as the glacier moves. They wear away rock. They may also leave scratches and grooves in them. Scientists use these grooves to learn about the direction the glacier has moved.

Question: How does the ice sheet act like sandpaper?

Answer: The ice contains sediments and rocks frozen in the ice. The rocks and sediment grind away as the glacier moves. They wear away rock

Answer: When glaciers scrape over the Earths surface

Answer: When glaciers flow over sediments

Answer: The ice contains sediments and rocks frozen in the ice

Answer: Because they contain heavy metals

Question: What changes can glaciers cause on the land?

Answer: Glaciers causes land movement

Answer: Glaciers cause erosion  of the land

Answer: Glaciers can erode the land and deposit the material in other places

Answer: Plucking and abrasion

Answer: Frozen rocks

Question: Which kind of erosion acts like sandpaper?

Answer: Abrasion

Answer: Pluckering

Answer: Plucking

Question: Name two affects the rocks and sediments frozen to a glacier may have on the earth's surface?

Answer: Abrasion and rocks

Answer: They leave scratches and groves and wear away rocks, that the glacier came in contact with

Answer: Deposition and movement

Answer: Only abrasion

Answer: Plucking and abrasion

Answer: Only plucking

Answer: Plucking and Deposition

Question: What leaves scratches and grooves in rock?

Answer: Deposition

Answer: Abrasion

Answer: Sediments

Answer: Movement of glacier

Answer: Frozen sediments and rocks

Answer: Rocks

Question: How is flowing ice and flowing water similar?

Answer: They both erodes the land

Answer: They both erode the land by depositing the material elsewhere

Answer: They both cause movement of land

Answer: Both erodes the glacier

Question: How does abrasion work?

Answer: It wear away rock

Answer: When glaciers scrape over the Earths surface

Answer: An ice sheet contains rocks and sediment, which grind away as the glacier moves

Answer: When sediments scrape over the Earths surface

Answer: It causes rock deposition

Question: How is material deposited by glaciers?

Answer: By abrasion

Answer: By movement of the land

Answer: Because of flowing of ice or glaciers

Answer: It freezes to the bottom and is carried away by the flowing ice

Answer: By eroding the land

Question: What term is used to describe when sediments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and are carried away by flowing ice?

Answer: Abrasion

Answer: Plucking

Question: What is carried away by the glacier causing abrasion?

Answer: Rocks and sediments

Answer: The rocks and sediment grind away

Answer: Floating ice

Answer: Sediments and rocks

Answer: Water and ice

Question: What are the marks glaciers leave?

Answer: Glaciers leave scratches and grooves, which scientists use to learn about the direction the glacier has moved

Answer: Plucking and abrasion

Answer: Scratches and grooves

Answer: Pins and needles

Question: When abrasion occurs, what part of the glacier acts like sandpaper?

Answer: The ice sheet

Answer: The water

Answer: Ice glacier

Question: Plucking is a result of sediments being picked up by a glacier and is one of two main ways glaciers cause erosion. What is the other way erosion is caused by glaciers?

Answer: Plucking only

Answer: Deposition

Answer: Abrasion

Question: Whats is plucking and abrasion?

Answer: Plucking is caused when sediments are picked up by a glacier. They freeze to the bottom of the glacier and are carried away by the flowing ice. Abrasion occurs when glaciers scrape over the Earths surface

Answer: Ways of causing erosion

Answer: Types of water movement

Answer: Plucking is caused when sediments are picked up by a glacier. Abrasion occurs when glaciers scrape over the Earths surface

Answer: Floating of glaciers

Question: How do glaciers erode land?

Answer: Movement and deposition

Answer: By plucking and abrasion

Answer: Glaciers can pluck by picking up sediments or abrade by scraping over the earth's surface

Answer: By flowing over rocks

Answer: Plucking and abrasion


Michelle was riding her scooter. She hit a hole in the street. She started to lose control of her scooter. She thought she would fall. In the blink of an eye, she shifted her weight. This quick action helped her to keep her balance. Her heart was pounding. The good news is that she did not get hurt. How was she able to react so quickly? Michelle can thank her nervous system. The nervous system does not work alone. It works with the endocrine system. Together, they control all the other organ systems. The nervous system sends one type of signal. The nervous system sends electrical pulses. The endocrine system sends another type of signal. These chemical signals are called hormones. Hormones tell other body parts that a change is needed.

Question: What saved Michelle?

Answer: Endorphin's

Answer: Luck

Answer: Her heart stopping momentarily

Answer: Her nervous system

Answer: Her quick reaction of shifting her weight on the scooter

Answer: The security of her scooter

Answer: Her nervous and endocrine system

Answer: Her mind

Answer: Her nervous system and endocrine system

Answer: Being able to keep her balance shifting her weight

Question: Why did Michelle think she was going to fall?

Answer: Because her heart was pounding

Answer: Because she started to lose control of her scooter

Answer: She had a feeling

Answer: She hit a hole in the street and started to lose control of her scooter

Answer: She had bad balance

Answer: Because she hit a hole in the street driving her scooter

Answer: She was losing control of her scooter

Answer: Because her nervous system was working alone

Question: What system works with the endocrine system?

Answer: Digestive system

Answer: Heart system

Answer: The nervous system working by sending electrical pulses

Answer: Organ system

Answer: The nervous system

Answer: Hormones

Question: What bodily system allowed Michelle to react quickly?

Answer: Nervous system and endocrine system

Answer: The nervous system working together with the digestive system

Answer: Nervous system

Answer: The nervous system working together with the endocrine system

Answer: The endocrine system alone

Answer: The nervous system

Question: Did Michele lose control of her scooter?

Answer: Yes, and she fell of the scooter

Answer: No, she managed to change her weight

Answer: No, shifted her weight and kept balance

Answer: Yes, but only for a brief time after hitting a hole and before gaining balance again with a shift of her weight

Answer: No

Answer: Yes, but her passenger helped her to keep balance

Answer: Yes she lost control of her scooter

Answer: No she did not

Question: What did Michelle hit which caused her to begin to lose control?

Answer: Bump

Answer: Rock

Answer: Curb

Answer: A motorcycle

Answer: "A hole in the street"

Answer: A traffic cone in the street

Question: What quick action allowed Michelle to keep her balance?

Answer: Slowing down the scooter

Answer: Shifting her weight in the blink of an eye

Answer: Hitting the brakes

Answer: She shifted her weight

Answer: She put her feet down

Answer: Speeding up her scooter

Question: What do the nervous and the endocrine systems control together?

Answer: Memory

Answer: Hormones; fear signals

Answer: All the other organ systems

Answer: Emotion

Answer: All body organs

Answer: Hormones

Answer: The locomotor system alone

Question: Which two systems control all other organ systems?

Answer: Nervous system and locomotor system

Answer: Heart and body

Answer: Nervous system and cardiovascular system

Answer: The nervous system and the endocrine system

Answer: Organ system

Question: What is the name of the system that sends hormones?

Answer: The digestive system

Answer: The nervous system

Answer: The endocrine system

Answer: The locomotor system

Question: Which system sends a chemical signal?

Answer: Organ system

Answer: Digestive system

Answer: Endocrine system

Answer: Nervous system

Question: Which system does not send electrical pulses?

Answer: Endocrine system

Answer: Nervous system while it works together with the endocrine system

Answer: Nervous system

Question: What was Michelle riding when she started to lose control of it?

Answer: Bike

Answer: Her mother's scooter

Answer: "Her scooter"

Answer: Her bycicle

Answer: Cycle

Question: What chemical signals does the endocrine system send?

Answer: Electric Signals

Answer: Electrical signals and pain

Answer: Electrical signals

Answer: Feelings

Answer: "Hormones"

Answer: Hormones

Question: Why was Michele's heart pounding?

Answer: She was scared

Answer: She though she would fall

Answer: Because she hit a hole in the street while riding her scooter

Answer: She hit a hole in the street while riding scooter and thought she would fall, but she kept her balance

Answer: Because she was driving her scooter too fast

Answer: She was excited

Answer: She was afraid and thought she would fall

Answer: Because was driving her scooter and she was late for her class

Answer: She almost lost control of her scooter

Question: Why was Michelle's heart pounding?

Answer: She was scared

Answer: She though she would fall

Answer: Because she hit a hole in the street while riding her scooter

Answer: Because her endocrine system sent electrical pulses to her heart

Answer: She was excited

Answer: She was afraid and thought she would fall

Answer: Because she fell from her scooter

Answer: Michelle started to lose control of her scooter and thought she was going to fall

Answer: She almost lost control of her scooter

Question: Which body systems helped Michele to keep her balance?

Answer: Her nervous system and her endocrine system

Answer: Nervous system and digestive system

Answer: Endocrine system and locomotor system

Answer: Nervous system and endocrine system working together

Answer: Her heart

Answer: Organ system

Question: What kind of signals are harmones?

Answer: Chemical

Answer: Chemical signals sent by the endocrine system

Answer: Electrical

Answer: Electrical signals

Answer: Chemical signals

Answer: Electrical pulses

Answer: Electric signals


The eviction of three Lynchburg women and four children last summer, partly as a result of a "rent-to-own" contract, has drawn the attention of the General Assembly. But a bill drafted by Del. Preston Bryant, R-Lynchburg, won't be addressed until next year after the Virginia Housing Commission, prompted by a Senate Joint Resolution, offers its recommendations based on a statewide study of rent-to-own contracts and other housing issues. Bryant said he read about the issue in a July News & Advance editorial. The editorial stemmed from a News & Advance article which highlighted three women and four children who were being evicted after their home at 1328 Bedford Ave., was cited for two dozen code violations. The women had been paying $425 a month in a rent-to-own agreement for five years, or roughly $25,500. They still had another 10 years to go to complete the contract. "I called the Virginia Legal Aid Society and also talked to (City Attorney) Walter Erwin and (Housing Authority executive director) Ed McCann about it," Bryant said Monday. "I asked them to take a look at this issue as an ad hoc committee." "I was a little concerned about it and wanted to see if there was any reasonable steps that could be taken to help protect folks that are not overly burdensome." Bryant's bill, House Bill 1122, requires all rent-to-own contracts to be recorded in the land deeds where the property is located along with any documents indicating the financial arrangement. It also requires landlords to have their property inspected prior to tenants signing a rent-to-own contract and to provide the tenant with the inspection report. "Many times, those entering into these contracts are your less sophisticated people," Bryant said. "And while I don't think we as a government can protect everybody we can take some steps to help protect people." Lawyers say the rent-to-own contracts are legal but the contracts do tend to take advantage of people with limited options. "We always tell people not to sign those," said Renae Patrick, managing attorney at Lynchburg's Virginia Legal Aid Society, in a June 27, 2001 article about rent-to-own contracts. Commissioners with the Lynchburg Redevelopment and Housing Authority approved last September a resolution that would require inspections every time a tenant moved out. That proposal also required an inspection before a new tenant signs a rent-to-own contract. The resolution must come before City Council for final action.

Question: What requires landlords to have their property inspected prior to tenants signing a rent-to-own contract and to provide the tenant with the inspection report?

Answer: The Bill 1120

Answer: Bryant's House Bill 1122

Answer: The contract

Answer: The Bill 1122

Answer: The house committee

Question: In the rent to own agreement, how many years left did the women have before it was over?

Answer: 100 years

Answer: Ten

Answer: 1122 years

Answer: 10 years

Answer: 15 years

Answer: Fifteen

Answer: A year

Question: What bill requires landlords to have their property inspected prior to tenants signing a rent-to-own contract?

Answer: 1120

Answer: The land deeds bill

Answer: Bryant's

Answer: House Bill 1122

Answer: Bill 10

Question: What contracts is Bryant referring to when he says "Many times, those entering into these contracts are your less sophisticated people?"

Answer: Rent to his family members

Answer: Rent to own

Answer: Rent to house wives

Answer: Rent-to-own contracts

Answer: Rent to senate members

Question: What are the last names of the two men which Bryant wanted to form an ad hoc committee?

Answer: McCann

Answer: House Bill

Answer: Patrick

Answer: Bryant

Answer: Erwin

Answer: Erwin and McCann

Question: How many total years would the women at 1328 Bedford Ave have been under contract if they had completed the contract?

Answer: 425

Answer: 15

Answer: 10

Answer: 1122

Answer: TEN

Answer: Fifteen

Question: What bill would require landlords to provide the tenant with the inspection report?

Answer: 1120

Answer: House Bill 1122

Answer: City Attorney

Answer: Erwin

Answer: The house committee

Question: Who made the following remark: "I asked them to take a look at this issue as an ad hoc committee."

Answer: Hoc committee

Answer: House Bill 1122

Answer: Preston Bryant

Answer: Bryant

Answer: Erwin

Question: What particular issue did Bryant read about in a July News & Advance editorial?

Answer: Contract

Answer: Rent to own

Answer: Landlords

Answer: Mortgage

Answer: The eviction of three Lynchburg women and four children last summer

Question: What resolution must come before city council before final action?

Answer: Bill 1122

Answer: A resolution that would require inspections every time a tenant moved out and before a tenant signs a rent-to-own contract

Answer: The financial arrangement bill

Answer: The house bill 1120

Answer: The bill proposed by the sophisticated people at the House

Question: Which House Bill requires landlords to have their property inspected prior to tenants signing a rent-to-own contract?

Answer: Bryant's

Answer: #1120

Answer: #1122

Answer: Contract

Question: What issue did Bryant read about in a July News & Advance editorial?

Answer: The house bill

Answer: Rent to own

Answer: Bryant's bill

Answer: Calling the Virginia Legal Aid Society

Answer: The converstion with City Attorney

Answer: The eviction of three Lynchburg women and four children last summer


LONDON, England (CNN) -- Last year's inaugural Prix Pictet photography award for environmental sustainability produced a stunning shortlist of photos. Ed Kashi has documented the impact oil has made on the Niger Delta in Africa. This year is no different with 12 photographers in the running for the first prize of 100,000 CHF ($97,500). The theme in 2009 is described simply as "Earth." The aim is to highlight how man exploits the planet's resources and how this impacts the landscapes and communities surrounding them. In an extraordinary series of photos Canadian Christopher Anderson captures how the quest for raw materials affects Venezuela. In "The Diminishing Present," Portuguese-born Edgar Martins records forest landscapes in the moments before they are engulfed by flames. In "Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta," Ed Kashi captures the impact of the oil industry on Nigeria's environment and people since it was first discovered five decades ago. Kashi, an American photojournalist, spent three years compiling his photos of the Niger Delta, making a total of five trips to the troubled region. Kashi told CNN: "It was truly one of the most graphic examples of economic inequity that I have ever seen. Especially with the backdrop of hundreds of billions of oil wealth that has been generated over the previous 50 years." As a result of his work, Kashi says that his photos are now being used by universities and NGOs to raise awareness to try and effect change. To him, this has been one of the most gratifying and exciting by-products of his work.

Question: What theme was the 2009 environmental sustainability awards focused around?

Answer: Outer planet resources

Answer: Earth

Answer: Niger Delta in Africa

Answer: Oil impact

Answer: Forests burning

Question: How are Kashi's photos of Nigeria being used by NGOs?

Answer: To raise awareness to try and effect change

Answer: Gratifying and exciting

Answer: To raise awareness and affect change of the oil industry

Answer: Backdrop of hundreds of billions of oil wealth

Answer: Spent three years compiling his photos

Answer: This year is no different with 12 photographers in the running for the first prize of 100,000 CHF ($97,500)

Question: What does "Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta" capture and what does the photographer (Kashi) have to say about the piece?

Answer: It captures the impact of the oil industry on Nigeria's environment and people and Kashi said, "It was truly one of the most graphic examples of economic inequity that I have ever seen."

Answer: Quest for raw materials affects Venezuela, diminishing resources

Answer: Portuguese-born Edgar Martins records forest landscapes in the moments before they are engulfed by flames

Answer: Exploits the planet's resources and how this impacts the landscapes, exciting and fulfilling

Answer: Impact of the oil industry on Nigeria's environment and people, "It was truly one of the most graphic examples of economic inequity that I have ever seen

Answer: Impact of oil industry in Nigeria,"It was truly one of the most graphic examples of economic inequity that I have ever seen

Question: How long did it take Kashi to compile photos of the Niger Delta and what is being done with his photos now?

Answer: 50 years, making a total of five trips

Answer: 3 years, effect change

Answer: Kashi took three years to compile his photos and they are now being used by Universities and NGOs to raise awareness and make changes

Answer: Kashi took five years to compile his photos and they are now being used by Universities and NGOs to raise awareness and make changes

Answer: 3 years raise awareness

Answer: 5 decades, oil industry on Nigeria's environment

Answer: 3 years, used by universities and NGOs

Question: The impact of the oil industry has impacted Nigeria over what period of time?

Answer: 3 years

Answer: 2009

Answer: five trips

Answer: Five decades

Answer: 50 Years

Question: How much money does Kashi tell CNN oil companies have made in Nigeria in the past 50 years?

Answer: 100,000 CHF

Answer: $97,500

Answer: Hundreds of billions of oil wealth

Answer: Hundreds of billions

Question: The impact of billions of oil wealth was documented by what photographer?

Answer: Ed Kashi

Answer: Edgar Martins

Answer: The photographer

Answer: Christopher Anderson

Question: What is the aim of this years theme "Earth"?

Answer: Quest for raw materials affects Venezuela

Answer: Diminishing Resources

Answer: To highlight how the earth exploits humans' resources and how this impacts the landscapes and communities surrounding them

Answer: To highlight how man exploits the planet's resources and how this impacts the landscapes and communities surrounding them

Answer: The aim is to highlight how man exploits the planet's resources and how this impacts the landscapes and communities surrounding them

Answer: Man's effects on community and landscape

Answer: Income inequality in Nigeria

Answer: In an extraordinary series of photos Canadian Christopher Anderson captures how the quest for raw materials affects Venezuela

Question: How many years did it take to create "Curse of the Black Gold"?

Answer: 50 years

Answer: 3 years

Answer: 2009

Answer: Five decades

Answer: Less than 3

Answer: 3

Question: Why is Kashi so happy about the by-products of his work?

Answer: Raise awareness and effect change

Answer: Because his photos were  being used by universities and NGOs to raise awareness to try and effect change

Answer: Spent three years compiling his photos of the Niger Delta, making a total of five trips to the troubled region

Answer: His photos are being used by universities and NGOs to combat climate change

Answer: Being used by universities and NGOs

Answer: Impact of the oil industry on Nigeria's environment

Answer: Spent three years compiling his photos of the Niger Delta,

Question: What is the theme and what is its aim?

Answer: Ed Kashi has documented the impact oil has made on the Niger Delta in Africa

Answer: NGOs, raise awareness to try and effect change

Answer: Earth, highlight how man exploits the planet's resources and how this impacts the landscapes and communities surrounding them

Answer: Earth, which will highlight how man exploits the planet's resources

Answer: Economic inequality, wealth that has been generated over the previous 50 years."

Answer: Earth and The aim is to highlight how man exploits the planet's resources and how this impacts the landscapes and communities surrounding them

Question: The impacts of the quest for oil from Kashi's photos focus on what region?

Answer: Nigeria

Answer: Niger Delta in Africa

Answer: Canada

Answer: Nigeria's environment

Answer: America

Answer: England

Answer: Portugal

Question: NGOs and universities are using photos included in the contest taken by a photographer from what country?

Answer: America

Answer: Canada

Answer: Nigeria

Answer: England

Question: What continent does "Curse of the Black Gold" occur on?

Answer: Portugese

Answer: Nigeria

Answer: Europe

Answer: Canada

Answer: America

Answer: Africa

Question: The environmental sustainability awards had how many photographers in the running for first prize?

Answer: 12

Answer: 50

Answer: 100,000

Answer: More than 12

Question: How many photographers are in the running for the 1st place prize of the 2009 Prix Pictet photography award for environmental sustainability?

Answer: 12

Answer: 50

Answer: 21

Answer: More than twelve

Answer: Less than 12

Question: Ed Kashi is what kind of documentarian?

Answer: Photojournalist

Answer: How the quest for raw materials affects Venezuela

Answer: The impact oil has made outside the Niger Delta in Africa

Answer: Portuguese-born

Answer: American

Answer: Photographer

Answer: Canadian

Question: Of the three photographers mentioned, what two countries are some of their work based in?

Answer: London

Answer: Venezuela

Answer: Nigeria

Answer: Canada

Answer: Venezuela and Nigeria

Answer: Portuguese, Canada

Answer: England

Question: What is the Prix Pictet photography award for environmental sustainability?

Answer: 100,000 CHF ($97,500)

Answer: Oil wealth

Answer: Stunning shortlist of photos

Answer: Graphic

Answer: Inaugural award

Answer: 12 photographers competing for a $97,500 first prize

Answer: 100, 000 CHF

Question: In 2009 how many photographers were in the running for the first prize in the inaugural Prix Pictet photography award in England?

Answer: 12

Answer: 21

Answer: More than twelve

Answer: 50

Question: What work, that took five trips, did Ed Kashi describe as "one of the most gratifying and exciting by-products of his work"?

Answer: Venezuela resources

Answer: "Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta,"

Answer: Ed Kashi has documented the impact oil has made on the Niger Delta in Africa

Answer: "The Diminishing Present,"

Answer: "Earth"

Answer: Portuguese-born Edgar Martins records forest landscapes in the moments before they are engulfed by flames


Wanderjahre and marriage (1490-94) After completing his term of apprenticeship, Durer followed the common German custom of taking Wanderjahre--in effect gap years --in which the apprentice learned skills from artists in other areas; Durer was to spend about four years away. He left in 1490, possibly to work under Martin Schongauer, the leading engraver of Northern Europe, but who died shortly before Durer's arrival at Colmar in 1492. It is unclear where Durer travelled in the intervening period, though it is likely that he went to Frankfurt and the Netherlands. In Colmar, Durer was welcomed by Schongauer's brothers, the goldsmiths Caspar and Paul and the painter Ludwig. In 1493 Durer went to Strasbourg, where he would have experienced the sculpture of Nikolaus Gerhaert. Durer's first painted self-portrait (now in the Louvre) was painted at this time, probably to be sent back to his fiancee in Nuremberg. In early 1492 Durer travelled to Basel to stay with another brother of Martin Schongauer, the goldsmith Georg. Very soon after his return to Nuremberg, on 7 July 1494, at the age of 23, Durer was married to Agnes Frey following an arrangement made during his absence. Agnes was the daughter of a prominent brass worker (and amateur harpist) in the city. However, no children resulted from the marriage.

Question: What are the names of Martin Shongauer's brothers?

Answer: Frey

Answer: Nikolaus

Answer: Caspar

Answer: Ludwig

Answer: Casper, Paul, Ludwig, and Georg

Answer: Georg

Answer: Gerhaert

Answer: Paul

Answer: Basel

Question: What did all of Martin Shongauer's brothers do?

Answer: Goldsmithing

Answer: Engraving

Answer: Brass worker

Answer: Sculpture

Answer: Painting

Answer: Amateur harpist

Answer: Apprenticeship

Answer: Harpist

Question: Where did Durer paint his first self-portrait?

Answer: Colmar

Answer: Strasbourg

Answer: Nuremberg

Answer: Basel

Question: How old was Durer after he completed his term of apprenticeship?

Answer: 19

Answer: 23

Answer: 22

Answer: 24

Answer: 21

Answer: 25

Question: Did Durer's marriage to Agnes result in any children?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: Who was Durer's father in law?

Answer: A goldsmith

Answer: Brass worker

Answer: Georg Schongauer

Answer: Amateur harpist

Answer: A prominent brass worker

Answer: Another painter

Question: How old was Durer when he painted his first self portrait?

Answer: 24

Answer: 23

Answer: 22


Three years after the events of the original film , the authorities are attempting to return law and order to ravaged District 13 .  The death of gang overlord Taha Ben Mahmoud has left a power vacuum , and total control of the area is now being fought over by five rival territorial gang lords who want to step into Taha's position .  After taking out a major drug dealer , Damien is framed for drug dealing and arrested , but manages to make a call to Le to .  Meanwhile , corrupt government agents from the Department of Internal State Security , led by Gassman are bent on destroying the five tower blocks at the heart of District 13 with tactical precision bombing , and building luxury flats after the area is cleared .  In order to spark conflict with the district's gangs , they shoot several cops , dump their car in District 13 , and prompt several gang members into gunning down the vehicle .  The footage of the incident convinces the President to carry out the strike .  However , a group of teens videotaped the agents as they shot the cops themselves .  The DISS agents soon come after the teen to arrest him and seize the recording , but the youth manages to slip his memory card to Le to .  Le to escapes the cops in District 13 and goes to rescue Damien .  After freeing Damien from his cell , they discuss the events and further plans , resolving to gather enough proof to expose the DISS agents .  While Damien distracts the guards , Le to breaks into Gassman's office to steal his hard-drive for the evidence that they need .

Question: Where has the death of gang overlord Taha Ben Mahmoud created a power vacuum?

Answer: President's Office

Answer: DISS

Answer: District 13

Question: Who takes part to rescued Damien?

Answer: DISS

Answer: Le to

Answer: The corrupt government agents

Answer: Taha Ben Mahmoud

Answer: Taha

Question: Who took power after the death of gang overlord Taha Ben Mahmoud?

Answer: Gassman

Answer: No one, there is fight over the territory by five rival territorial gang lords who want to step into Taha's position

Answer: Damien

Answer: Gangs

Answer: The five rival territorial gang lords

Answer: The major drug dealer Damien took out

Question: Which was convinced the President to carry out the strike?

Answer: Cops

Answer: Gassman

Answer: DISS

Answer: The footage of the incident in District 13

Answer: The dead agents families

Answer: The footage

Answer: Gangs

Answer: Taha Ben Mahmoud

Answer: The shooting of several cops and the incidents in District 13

Question: Who did Damien kill?

Answer: Gassman

Answer: A major drug dealer

Answer: He killed Taha Ben Mahmoud

Answer: President

Answer: Drug dealer

Question: What organization wants to spark conflict amidst district gangs?

Answer: DISS

Answer: President

Answer: Department of Internal State Security

Answer: District 13

Question: Who was Gassman, and who broke into his office to steal a hard drive?

Answer: President

Answer: Gang Leader

Answer: Gassman was the leader if DISS agents, his office was broken into by Le to

Answer: Le to

Answer: Leader of the department of Internal State Security

Question: Who stole hard-drive from Gassman's office?

Answer: Damien

Answer: Le to

Answer: The corrupt government agents

Answer: Taha Ben Mahmoud

Answer: DISS agents

Question: Who escapes to District 13 with the memory card?

Answer: Le to

Answer: Damien

Question: After rescuing Damien, what does Le do next?

Answer: Escapes the cops

Answer: Steal his hard-drive

Answer: Steal a hard drive

Answer: Discuss the events and further plans

Answer: Convinces the President to carry out the strike

Question: Who was the leader of the DISS agents who shot several cops?

Answer: Damien

Answer: Gassman

Answer: Taha

Question: Why does the President carry out a strike?

Answer: The footage of the incident

Answer: A group of teens videotaped the agents

Answer: Conflict with drug dealers

Answer: Taha Ben Mahmoud was killed

Answer: Because of the incidents occurred

Question: Who murdered several police officers and who captured the evidence of their crime on video tape?

Answer: Gassman

Answer: Teens

Answer: Agents

Answer: Corrupt agents of Department of Internal State Security, their crime was video taped by a group of teens

Answer: Taha Ben Mahmoud

Question: What was the purpose of the gangs shooting up the vehicle?

Answer: To spark gang conflict, so that Diss could destroy district 13 and build luxury flats

Answer: Frame Damien for drug dealing

Answer: Convinces the President to carry out the strike

Question: Who led the group that arrested the youth that recorded the shooting?

Answer: Le to

Answer: Damien

Answer: Gassman

Question: Besides the footage Which convinces the president to order the strike, what else was captured as it happened?

Answer: The agents shooting the cops themselves

Answer: The death of gang overlord Taha Ben Mahmoud

Question: Why was Damien arrested and who helped free him from jail?

Answer: Le to

Answer: Damien videotaped the agents

Answer: He destroyed the five tower blocks

Answer: He was framed for drug dealing, and he was freed by Le to

Question: Who escapes the cops in District 13?

Answer: Gassman

Answer: Le to after securing the memory card the youth gave him

Answer: The group of teens that videotaped the agents

Answer: Damien

Answer: The corrupt agents

Answer: Le to

Question: What were the evidences Le had against the DISS agents?

Answer: President's Office

Answer: Police Station

Answer: The teen's memory card and Gassman's hard-drive

Answer: Hard drive

Answer: Gassman's Office

Question: Who in the Department of Internal State Security convinces the President to carry out a strike?

Answer: Gassman

Answer: Le to

Answer: Gassmen

Answer: The DISS corrupt agents

Answer: Taha

Answer: Corrupt government agents led by Gassman