Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world's longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire. Peking Man, a forebear of Homo sapiens, achieved a mastery of fire. We might call it the first Chinese invention. Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire. Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight. He thus enjoyed two revolutionary luxuries: light and heat. Technologically and sociologically, it was a phenomenal breakthrough: with fire, communities could live year 'round in one cave, in which cooking and even smelting could be pursued. And so, by 600,000 b.c., about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of present-day Beijing, the ancestors of mankind were ready to settle down. Several hundred thousand years later, when Marco Polo reached the capital of China, he was astonished by a further development in fire technology. The Chinese, he announced, used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel. Europeans did not yet have a word for "coal," nor had they discovered a use for it. The First Dynasty The confluence of mythology and history in China took place around 4,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty. This was still the Stone Age, but the people are thought to have made silk from thread produced by the worms they cultivated on the leaves of their mulberry trees. And written language (which evolved as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago) was already in use, originally by oracles and then by official scribes — China's first scholars. During the second of the quasi-legendary dynasties, the Shang (from about the 16th to 11th centuries b.c.), the Chinese developed an interest in art. Careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs adorned bowls and implements. And with the arrival of the Bronze Age, the Chinese created bronze vessels of such beauty and originality that, until modern times, archaeologists refused to believe they were cast 3,000 years ago. The Shang Dynasty gave rise to the concept of one Chinese nation under one government.

Question: What new fire technology astonished Marco Polo when he reached the capital of China?

Answer: Using coal for fuel

Answer: The Chinese used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel

Answer: Fuel

Answer: Candles

Answer: Capturing fire

Question: What type of pre historic man was credited with the first Chinese invention and what was invented?

Answer: Peking man was credited with inventing fire

Answer: A mastery of fire

Answer: Peking Man and he invented fire

Answer: Peking man developed coal

Answer: Neanderthal Man

Answer: Cave drawings

Answer: Peking Man

Question: Where did man get fire and what luxuries did it provide?

Answer: Capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and kept it alight

Answer: Light and heat

Answer: Rubbing two sticks together and it provided heat

Answer: A way to cook food

Answer: He got fire from a forest fire and it provided heat and light

Answer: Accidental discovery from lightening strike

Answer: They learned to retain flame from another source, like a forest fire, and it provided warmth and light

Question: Who designed geometric bowls and bronze vessels?

Answer: The Shang Dynasty

Answer: Homosapiens

Answer: The Shang

Answer: Xia Dynasty

Question: Where would the Peking man capture flame and heat?

Answer: Heat

Answer: From mountains

Answer: From a forest fire

Answer: Matchbox

Answer: Forest

Question: When did the Hsia Dynasty first made silk?

Answer: 4000 ac

Answer: 4000 bc

Answer: Around 2500 bc

Answer: 4,000 years ago

Answer: Stone Age

Answer: 3,000 years ago

Question: Peking Man achieved a mastery of fire in what is currently which nation?

Answer: America

Answer: Beijing

Answer: China

Question: What were the Chinese using coal for?

Answer: Fire

Answer: Food

Answer: Fuel

Question: What did the second quasi-legendary dynasty give rise to the concept of?

Answer: One Chinese nation under one government

Answer: Bowls

Answer: Dragons

Answer: Art

Answer: Fire

Question: What is the modern-day name for the fuel Marco Polo found when he reached the capital of China?

Answer: Coal

Answer: Black stones

Answer: Rocks

Question: Did written language exist during The First Dynasty in China?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: Approximately how many years passed between the Xia Dynasty and the creation of the oldest known bronze vessels in China?

Answer: 3000 years

Answer: 3000

Answer: 5 centuries

Answer: 1000

Answer: 10000

Question: Who achieved what might be called the first Chinese invention?

Answer: Peking Man

Answer: The Shang

Answer: Marco Polo

Question: Who were the second dynasty to create art?

Answer: Shang Dynasty

Answer: Quasi-legendary dynasties

Answer: The Shang

Answer: Xia Dynasty

Question: What might be called the first Chinese invention?

Answer: Peking Man

Answer: The mastery of fire

Answer: Fire

Answer: Fuel

Question: Who enjoyed the two revolutionary luxuries of light and heat?

Answer: Peking Man

Answer: Marco Polo

Answer: Christopher columbus

Question: Who could be called the first Chinese inventor?

Answer: The shang dynasty

Answer: Peking man

Answer: Marco Polo

Question: Who was the mastery of fire?

Answer: Chinese

Answer: Homo sapien

Answer: Marco Polo

Answer: Homo Sapiens

Answer: Peking Man

Question: What dynasty brought about the interest in art and the concept of one Chinese nation under one government?

Answer: Chinese

Answer: The Shang Dynasty

Answer: The Shang dynasty brought about an interest in art and the concept of one Chinese nation under one government

Answer: Xia Dynasty

Answer: Shang

Question: This famous explorer , after reaching China's capital city reported that the Chinese used what color rocks to make fire?

Answer: Marco Polo was amazed they used black rocks for fuel

Answer: Peking man said the chinese used coal to make fire

Answer: Black

Answer: Cobalt blue rocks

Answer: Marco Polo said the Chinese used coal to make fire

Question: When the Xia Dynasty came about was written language already in place?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: No. The Xia Dynasty was 4,000 years ago and written language appears 4,000 to 5,000 years ago

Question: What development in fire technology did Marco Polo discover when he reached the capital of China?

Answer: Coal

Answer: Black stones dug out of mountains

Answer: Oil

Answer: Black stones fuel

Answer: Light

Answer: Mountains

Question: Which Chinese dynasty is associated with careful geometric designs as well as dragon and bird motifs?

Answer: The Shang Dynasty

Answer: The Xia Dynasty

Answer: Shang

Answer: First

Question: The first Chinese invention involved a master of what subject?

Answer: Civilization

Answer: Art

Answer: Silk trade

Answer: Fire

Answer: Capturing fire

Question: What did a mastery of fire achieve for Peking Man?

Answer: Heat

Answer: Light and heat

Answer: Forest fires

Answer: Food

Answer: Chinese invention

Answer: Light

Question: What period was the Xia (Hsia) Dynasty during?

Answer: Around 2000 bc

Answer: 4000 years ago

Answer: 4000 ac

Answer: The Stone Age

Answer: 4000 bc

Answer: The Bronze Age

Question: What sort of fuel source allowed settlement of which major city in China?

Answer: Coal allowed for people to eventually settle in what would now be Beijing

Answer: Coal

Answer: Bejing

Answer: Coal allowed settlement of Beijing

Answer: Hong Kong

Answer: Fire

Answer: Coal allowed settlement of Shanghai

Question: Where were black stones dug from and had the Europeans found a use for this?

Answer: Mountains, no

Answer: Yes

Answer: Ground

Answer: They were dug from mountains and Europeans had not discovered a use for the product

Question: During the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese developed an interest in what type of designs?

Answer: Careful geometric designs

Answer: Bowls

Answer: Geometric

Answer: Art

Answer: Dragon and bird motifs

Answer: Fire

Question: Which European explorer discovered that the Chinese used black stones dug out of mountains as fuel?

Answer: Peking Man

Answer: Marco Polo

Answer: Christopher columbus


(CNN) -- Argentina's star-studded line-up began their World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in their Group B opener in Johannesburg on Saturday. A goal from defender Gabriel Heinze after six minutes was all that separated the two teams after an inspired display from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama. But South Korea ended the day on top of the group following a 2-0 victory over Greece in Port Elizabeth earlier on Saturday. Goals from Lee Jung-Soo and Park Ji-Sung gave the 2002 semifinalists a comfortable win over the 2008 European cvhampions. Argentina 1-0 Nigeria Enyeama could do little to stop Heinze's powerful early header from a Juan Sebastian Veron corner, but he kept his team alive with a string of acrobatic saves to deny World Player of the Year Lionel Messi. Diego Maradona was delighted to secure his first victory as a World Cup coach, but critical of his strikers for failing to make the game safe. "When you don't kill things off in front of goal you can pay a heavy price. They almost got a draw -- we missed loads of chances," Maradona told AFP. "Players such as Leo Messi and Higuain knocked in around 60 goals last season between them, yet today it was almost as if they couldn't set their sights on goal. "But the win means we can be calm -- we are in the right track."

Question: Who were the 2008 European champions?

Answer: Argentina

Answer: South Korea

Answer: Germany

Answer: Greece

Question: Who was the coach of Argentina?

Answer: Diego Maradona

Answer: Maradona

Answer: World Player of the Year

Answer: Heinze

Answer: Messi

Answer: Port Elizabeth

Question: Who did Argentina play on the opening game?

Answer: Nigeria

Answer: Johannesburg

Answer: Portugal

Question: What is the name of the Nigerian goalkeeper?

Answer: Group B

Answer: Johannesburg

Answer: Enyeama

Answer: Gabriel Heinze

Answer: Juan Sebastian Veron

Answer: Vincent Enyeama

Question: Who are the players on the Argentina's soccer team?

Answer: Diego Maradona

Answer: Gabriel Heinze

Answer: Lee Jung-Soo, Park Ji-Sung

Answer: Juan Sebastian Veron

Answer: Lionel Messi

Answer: Nigeria Enyeama

Question: Who are Argentina's strikers?

Answer: Lee Jung-Soo

Answer: Juan Sebastian Veron

Answer: Gabriel Heinze

Answer: Lionel Messi & Higuain


New York (CNN) -- Three defendants pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to conspiring to defraud a Holocaust reparations organization out of $57.3 million, according to court documents. Genrikh Kolontyrskiy, Moysey Kucher and Dora Kucher, all of Brooklyn, helped produce and process some of the thousands of fraudulent applications for the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany that are under investigation. The organization, also known as the Claims Conference, distributes more than $400 million a year from funds provided by the German government to victims of the Holocaust. "Our efforts to hold to account all of the individuals who participated in defrauding an organization that exists solely for the purpose of aiding victims of Nazi atrocities continues," said Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a statement. The defendants aided in defrauding two funds managed by the Claims Conference, the Article 2 Fund and the Hardship Fund, of $45 million and $12.3 million, respectively, according to court documents. The Article 2 Fund makes monthly payments of around $400 to survivors of Nazi persecution who make less than $16,000 per year "and either lived in hiding or under a false identity for at least 18 months," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office. The Hardship Fund pays a one-time payment of $3,500 to "victims of Nazi persecution who evacuated the cities in which they lived and were forced to become refugees." Kolontyrskiy, 80, knowingly processed fraudulent applications for payment while employed with the Article 2 Fund, according to court documents. Moysey Kucher, 66, and Dora Kucher, 58, recruited individuals to provide identification documents that were used to prepare fraudulent applications for both funds, in exchange for money paid out to the false applicants, according to court documents. Jesse Siegel, Kolontyrskiy's attorney, said his client was by no means a major instigator, but he takes responsibility for his actions.

Question: What did the material contain?

Answer: Fraudulent documents

Answer: Bank statements

Answer: A case

Answer: Claims Against Germany

Answer: Hundreds of fraudulent applications

Answer: Less than 3 people in a cour case

Answer: Holocaust reparations by Europe

Answer: A court case where 3 people plead guily for conspiring to defraud a holocaust reparations organization

Answer: Job application

Question: In what country is the Holocaust reparations organization that was defrauded by the three defendants?

Answer: United States of America

Answer: USA

Answer: United States

Answer: US

Answer: Israel

Answer: Federal Republic of Germany

Answer: Germany

Question: When Genrikh Kolontyrskiy, Moysey Kucher and Dora Kucher submitted applications fraudulently, what two organizations did their money come from?

Answer: The Article 2 Fund  and the  Hardship Fund

Answer: Claims Conference and the Holocaust reparations organization

Answer: The Hardship fund

Answer: The Article 4 Fund and the Work Fund

Answer: The article 2 fund

Answer: Claims Conference and Article 2 fund

Question: How did Genrikh Kolontyrskiy, Moysey Kucher and Dora Kucher plea in federal court?

Answer: They refused to plead

Answer: Guilty

Answer: Pleaded not guilty

Answer: They plead guilty

Answer: Pleaded innocent

Answer: Not guilty


Reducing resource use means just what it says using fewer resources. There are lots of ways to reduce our use of resources. Buy durable goods. Choose items that are well made so they will last longer. Youll buy fewer items in the long run, so youll save money as well as resources. Thats a win-win! Repair rather than replace. Fix your bike rather than buying a new one. Sew on a button instead of buying a new shirt. Youll use fewer resources and save money. Buy only what you need. Dont buy a gallon of milk if you can only drink half of it before it spoils. Instead, buy a half gallon and drink all of it. You wont be wasting resources (or money!) Buy local. For example, buy local produce at a farmers market, like the one in Figure 2.20. A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances. Products bought at farmers markets use less packaging, too! About a third of what we throw out is packaging.

Question: How does buying durable items save resources?

Answer: Youll buy fewer items in the long run, so youll save money as well as resources

Answer: You will use less kinetic energy

Answer: You will use less nuclear energy

Answer: Less water power is required

Answer: Because they last longer, fewer items will be needed and fewer resources used

Answer: Goods will not need to be shipped long distances

Answer: The products will last longer and you'll buy fewer items in the long run

Answer: You will pay less

Question: How is it a win-win to buy durable goods?

Answer: Youll buy fewer items in the long run, so youll save money as well as resources

Answer: You will have more things at a lower cost

Answer: You save money as well as resources

Answer: You'll save food as well as money

Answer: You will save minerals and cash

Answer: By buying fewer items you save resources and spend less money

Answer: Shipping costs are saved

Answer: You will save money and gas

Question: How does buying durable goods help reduce resource use?

Answer: Youll buy fewer items in the long run, so youll save money as well as resources

Answer: Uses less shipping

Answer: You will spend less money

Answer: Durable goods use fewer resources to make them

Answer: Uses less packaging

Answer: Choose items that are well made so they will last longer. You'll buy fewer items in the long run, so you'll save money as well as resources

Answer: Utilizes less fossil fuel

Answer: You will buy fewer items

Question: How does one buy durable goods to reduce resource use?

Answer: Buy something in solid packaging

Answer: Choose items that are well made so they will last longer; you'll buy fewer items in the long run, so you'll save money as well as resources

Answer: Choose items that are well made so they will last longer

Answer: Packaging is reduced

Answer: Shipping costs are eliminated

Answer: They last longer and so you won't need to repurchase the same item as soon

Answer: Buy from reputable sellers

Answer: Buy things without packing

Question: What are two examples of repair rather than replacing?

Answer: Fix bicycle, sew button on shirt

Answer: Sew a button on a shirt, buy locally

Answer: Buy new goods when possible

Answer: Order online to reduce shipping costs

Answer: Buy durable goods and from farmers

Answer: Grow a new plant once you've eaten the vegetables

Answer: Buy smaller quantity of milk, buy local

Answer: Fix your bike instead of replacing it

Answer: Fix your bike rather than buying a new one, and sew on a button instead of buying a new shirt

Answer: Sew a new button on a shirt instead of replacing the shirt

Question: How can you reduce the use of resources by buying local?

Answer: A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances and many products bought at farmers markets use less money

Answer: Local farmers use less water

Answer: Goods do not have to be shipped long distances

Answer: A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances

Answer: You use less solar power

Answer: You use less minerals

Answer: You use less nuclear energy

Answer: Money stays locally

Answer: Small local farmers recycle

Answer: Less packaging is used

Question: How does buying local reduce resource use?

Answer: keeps from utilizing factories

Answer: A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances

Answer: The food is fresher

Answer: Uses less nuclear energy

Answer: The prices are lower

Answer: You don't have to travel as far

Answer: Less packaging is used

Answer: Cuts back on energy use

Answer: A lot of resources are saved by not shipping goods long distances. Products bought at farmers markets use less packaging, too! About a third of what we throw out is packaging

Question: How does buying only what you need to avoid resource waste?

Answer: Dont buy a gallon of milk if you can only drink half of it before it spoils, buy a half gallon instead

Answer: Buy more than you need

Answer: You will save money

Answer: Buy only what you can use

Answer: Farmers will reduce packaging

Answer: There will be less thrown away because an item has spoiled

Answer: Food won't spoil

Answer: Share what you have

Answer: Try to use less of the items you buy


(CNN) -- Sevilla have sacked coach Manolo Jimenez after their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games. Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week. Jimenez had also secured a Copa del Rey final against Atletico Madrid but it wasn't enough to save the 46-year-old's job. The club's sporting director Ramon Rodriguez admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had "done what I had to." He told the club's official Web site: "It was an unavoidable situation and we had to find a solution, and the pain that it brings. "Tuesday was the end of the story but the decision comes from the image and dynamics of the team. Without doubt we are grateful to Manolo. He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible. However it is obvious that he could not get a response out of the team. "Fortunately we believe that there is time. The growth and the ambition of the club is shown in the change of the manager. We are fighting for important things." Xerez's injury-time equaliser on Tuesday meant Sevilla's last league success was against Real Mallorca back in February. Ironically, it is Mallorca who occupy the much-coveted fourth spot in the table that guarantees Champions League football next season. Jimenez took charge in October 2007 when former coach Juande Ramos left to take over at English Premier League team Tottenham.

Question: Name three factors that contributed to the removal of coach Manolo Jimenez:

Answer: A recent and disappointing match outcome; a record of losses; and an inability to inspire the team

Answer: The team was fifth in the points table, they had a home-draw to the bottom club Xerez and they were fighting for important things

Answer: Criminal activity, loss record, poor leadership

Answer: He could not get a response from his team, the growth and ambition of the club is shown when a manager is changes and due to the image and dynamics of the team

Answer: Fraud, poaching other players, and too many losses

Answer: Embarrassing press conferences, criminal activity, and poor leadership

Answer: Their disappointing home draw to bottom-club Xerez on Tuesday extended the club's winless run to seven games.Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table, Sevilla were knocked out of the lucrative European Champions League by Russian side CSKA Moscow last week

Question: What was Sevilla's last league success, and where does that team now rank in the Champions League football table?

Answer: It was against Xerez. They rank 5th now on the points table

Answer: Xerez's team- 3rd

Answer: Real Mallorca, which occupies the fourth spot in the table

Answer: It was against Real Mallorca. Real Mallorca ranks 4th now on the table

Answer: Real Mallorca-4th

Answer: Jimenez's team- 1st

Answer: Real Mallorca's Team- 6th

Question: Who told the club's official Web site: "It was an unavoidable situation"

Answer: Sevilla

Answer: Xerez

Answer: Ramon Rodriguez

Answer: Manolo

Answer: Coach Manolo Jimenez

Question: What was the unavoidable situation Ramon Rodriguez spoke of?

Answer: The firing of coach Manolo Jimenez

Answer: Sacking Manolo

Answer: Sacking coach Manolo Jimenez

Answer: Losing to Xerez

Answer: Hiring Manolo Jimenez

Answer: Hiring Juande Ramos

Answer: Firing Juande Ramos

Question: What does Ramon Rodriguez believe there is time for?

Answer: To win the conference

Answer: The growth and ambition of the club with a change in manager

Answer: To hire a new coach

Answer: To get a positive response out of the team

Answer: To find strong players

Answer: Time for getting a response out of the team

Answer: Time for getting the team up to the top of the table

Question: While being an excellent professional who could not get a response out of the team?

Answer: Xerez

Answer: Ramon Rodriguez

Answer: Juande Ramos

Answer: Manolo Jimenez

Answer: Manolo

Answer: Coach Manolo Jimenez

Question: What sentiments did sporting director Ramon Rodriguez express in his statement about the removal of coach Manolo Jimenez?

Answer: He said it was inevitable and that he deserved it

Answer: Duty and gratitude

Answer: That he wanted to improve the team

Answer: That it wasn't his decision

Answer: Admitted the decision had been difficult but said he had "done what I had to

Answer: That he was happy about the change

Question: Why is Ramon Rodriguez grateful to Monolo Jimenez?

Answer: He stepped down without complaint

Answer: Because he brought the team to the fifth position on the table

Answer: Because he made all the possible and impossible happen

Answer: He is an excellent professional, he has made all this possible and impossible

Answer: He hired strong players

Answer: He accepted the coaching job

Question: Despite lying fifth in the Spanish Primera Liga table who had their coach sacked?

Answer: Sevilla

Answer: Xerez

Answer: Real Mallorca

Answer: Atletico Madrid

Answer: CSKA Russia

Answer: Club Xerez


U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived here on Tuesday night for meetings with fellow foreign ministers aimed at solidifying a second front, in Southeast Asia, in the campaign against global terrorism. But he has had to balance that goal with longstanding concerns about human rights abuses in the region. In meetings on Tuesday in Malaysia and Singapore before touching down in this oil-producing sultanate for two days of talks with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations, Powell said he repeatedly raised the issue. "We still believe strongly in human rights, and that everything we do has to be consistent with universal standards of human rights," he said. But at a news conference in Singapore, Powell hinted that the Bush administration was ready to discuss resuming military cooperation with Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation and a sometimes reluctant partner in the efforts to crack down on militant Islamic groups. The United States cut virtually all military links with Indonesia in 1999 after its forces were implicated in the violence that swept East Timor after that territory voted for independence. On Thursday, Powell and representatives of the nations of the Asian group, including Indonesia, are expected to sign a declaration promising cooperation to prevent terrorism by sharing information, blocking funds, tightening borders and making it hard to use forged travel papers. "We recognized that terrorism is a global threat and that the disturbing acts of terrorism and transnational crimes, which continue to threaten world peace and stability, must be tackled by the international community," the ministers said in a communique on Tuesday. Powell is among the representatives from 13 nations outside Southeast Asia, including China, Japan and Russia, that are taking part in the annual meeting of the group's regional forum. Terrorism dominates the agenda, though the possibility of a meeting here between Powell and his North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam Sun, has generated the most news. It would be the highest-level contact between the United States and North Korea since President Bush took office. Powell heads to Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, late on Thursday before finishing a weeklong trip through the region in the Philippines on Saturday. He said that when he arrives in Jakarta, he will have "some ideas and some initiatives" to present to President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Indonesia is already receiving $400,000 in the current fiscal year for civilian training programs and is to receive a like amount next year; and the United States expects to provide an additional $16 million this year to train police officers in counterterrorism. At the same time, the Pentagon is reviewing how to allocate another $17 million in "counterterrorism fellowships," some of which could go to Indonesia. But a senior State Department official also acknowledged that some in the administration and Congress are pushing for more direct military cooperation, which would require congressional approval. "I think they recognize the danger that we all face and I think they have been cooperating more fully with us as time goes by, and I'm quite sure that Mrs. Megawati is committed to this cause," Powell said in Singapore. He met there with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, who endorsed the idea of renewed military ties between the United States and Indonesia as an important step in stabilizing that country.

Question: Who does Secretary Powel say is committed to counterterrorism cause?

Answer: The State Department

Answer: President Megawati

Answer: Mrs. Megawati

Answer: The United States

Answer: President Bush

Answer: Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong

Answer: Paek Nam Sun

Question: Who is the Prime Minister of Singapore?

Answer: Megawati Sukarnoputri

Answer: Sukarnoputri

Answer: Mrs. Megawati

Answer: Goh Chok Tong

Answer: Paek Nam Sun

Answer: Singapore's Prime Minister is Goh Chok Tong

Question: What is the US Secretary of State going to present to Indonesia's president in Jakarta?

Answer: Renewed military ties

Answer: Some ideas and some initiatives

Answer: A peace award

Answer: A military option for ensuring peace

Answer: Colin Powell will present some ideas and some initiatives to Indonesia president in Jakarta

Question: Who is Paek Nam Sun?

Answer: Prime Minister of Japan

Answer: The Prime Minister of Singapore

Answer: Paek Nam Sun is North Korea's Secretary of State

Answer: President of Malaysia

Answer: Powell's North Korean counterpart, essentially Secretary of State

Answer: Powell's North Korean Counterpart

Question: Who is concerned about human rights abuse in Southeast Asia?

Answer: US Secretary of state Colin Powell has concerns about human rights abuses in Southeast Asia

Answer: Sukarnoputri

Answer: Mrs. Megawati

Answer: Goh Chok Tong

Answer: Colin Powell

Answer: Singapore Prime Minister

Answer: Paek Nam Sun

Answer: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell


Roberta Adams skipped the thick how-to guide on child-custody forms and sat down at a computer at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange on Wednesday. The Garden Grove woman answered a series of questions to create and print a form to file with the court. "It's easy," said Adams, 25. "I thought I'd have all kinds of questions and have to take the forms home." A University of California, Irvine, study released Wednesday found an interactive computer system effectively helps people fill out paperwork for restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers. Not only does the system make life easier for people who can't afford a lawyer, but it also might improve efficiency in the courts because the forms, which are printed out when completed, are easy to read and are being filled out correctly, the study found. Since the program started in 2000, more than 6,000 people have used the free system, located in public buildings throughout Orange County. The system was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about $800,000 in grants. The program avoids legal jargon, offers a courthouse video tour and sticks to a fifth-grade vocabulary. Users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese. Kiosks are in courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library. The program is also available online. Bob Cohen, executive director of Legal Aid, said the study should clear the way for expansion throughout California. Locally, a program for divorce petitions will be added this summer. Cohen said the system proves the benefit of technology tailored to those who aren't computer-savvy. He said much of the technology now available requires Internet skills and access. Low-income people, however, have less access to computers and less experience using them. "Our clients have to catch up, and they have to become a part of the mainstream," Cohen said.

Question: What city does Roberta Adams live in?

Answer: California

Answer: Santa Ana

Answer: Garden Grove

Answer: Orange county

Answer: Irvine City

Question: Who thought that they would have all kinds of questions and have to take child-custody forms home?

Answer: Woman

Answer: Roberta Adams

Answer: Adams

Answer: Bob Cohen

Answer: The Garden Grove woman

Question: What forms can be filled out via the kiosk?

Answer: Income tax forms, rent forms

Answer: Eviction, restraining orders, child custody

Answer: Child-custody forms

Answer: Restraining orders,  child-custody forms, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers

Answer: Restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers

Question: What education and language needs are met?

Answer: It sticks to 5th grade vocabulary and users can choose English, Spanish or Vietnamese

Answer: It offers a courthouse video tour

Answer: Master degree, English, French, and Portugese

Answer: Computer skills, English, Spanish or Vietnamese

Answer: A fifth grade vocabulary is used, and three languages are available: English, Vietnamese, and Spanish

Question: Where can the program be accessed from?

Answer: Online using internet

Answer: The university kiosk

Answer: It can be accessed from the offices of Legal aid

Answer: The program can be accessed from the  courthouses in Fullerton and Orange, the district attorney's family-support office, the Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, Irvine City Hall and the San Juan Capistrano Library

Answer: Online, Courthouse kiosks, legal aid, City Hall, the library

Question: How did the program come about?

Answer: The program was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about $800,000 in grants

Answer: It was  was developed by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County with about $800,000 in grants

Answer: Fromt the researcher of California univerisity

Answer: Started in 2000 by the legal aid society of Orange County

Answer: It was set up by the courthouses in Fullerton and Orange

Question: What are two benefits of the system?

Answer: Legal jargon is avoided, low income people have access to the free service, better court efficiency

Answer: People can spend no money, no lawyer neede

Answer: It is supported by legal aid

Answer: Make life easier for people ,improve efficiency in the courts

Answer: It avoids legal jargon and are in a variety of languages

Question: Who said that much of the technology now available requires Internet skills and access?

Answer: Adams

Answer: Roberta Adams

Answer: Bob Cohen


Have you ever seen an egg? Some animals do not have live births. Instead, they lay eggs. The eggs contain the embryo. The embryo matures in the egg. With time, it will hatch. Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents. They are ready to live on their own. Other animals will still need the care of their parents. Sea turtles break out of their shells. They immediately walk to the ocean. They do this with no help from an adult. Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. They are cared for by their parents. They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly. Some animals give birth to live offspring. Animals like horses, cows, and whales give live birth. Their offspring are born looking like mini adults.

Question: What happens to baby birds?

Answer: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents. Sent 15: They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly

Answer: They stay in their nests for weeks, being cared for by their parents until they are strong enough to fly

Answer: They fly on their own immeadiately

Answer: They immediately walk to the ocean

Answer: They are taken care by adults till they develop ability to fly

Question: What are some examples of animals that are born looking like mini adults?

Answer: Animals like horses, cows, and whales

Answer: Horses, cows, and whales

Answer: Sea turtles and birds

Answer: Sea turtles

Question: Give an example of an animal that needs the care of its parents after birth.

Answer: Birds

Answer: Birds ,Sent 13: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents

Answer: Sea turtles

Question: How do sea turtles behave after being born?

Answer: Sea turtles break out of their shells. Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean

Answer: Sea turtles break out of their shells and immediately walk to the ocean

Answer: They are cared for by their parents

Answer: They need help from adults

Answer: To walk to the ocean without any help from the adults

Question: What are the two kinds of hatching behavior?

Answer: Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents. Other animals will still need the care of their parents

Answer: Some are born like mini adults and others are like born as adults

Answer: Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents. Sent 9: Other animals will still need the care of their parents

Answer: The embryo matures in the egg

Answer: Some animals hatch and do not need care from their parents, but others will still need the care of their parents

Question: What is an example of an animal that hatches from eggs and does not need the care of their parents?

Answer: Birds

Answer: Sea Turtles

Answer: Sea turtles

Question: What can recently hatched sea turtles do?

Answer: They depends on adults

Answer: They are cared for by their parents

Answer: They walk to the ocean without any help

Answer: They break out of their shells and walk into the ocean without any help from adults

Answer: They immediately walk to the ocean

Question: Give some examples of animals that have offspring that look like mini-adults.

Answer: Horses, cows, and whales

Answer: Sea turtles and birds

Answer: Horses, cows, and whales give live birth. Sent 18: Their offspring are born looking like mini adults

Answer: Sea Turtles , birds

Question: How do young birds behave?

Answer: They do this with no help from an adult

Answer: Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents

Answer: Young birds stay in the nest for many weeks and leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly

Answer: They do not depend on adults

Answer: They depends on adults till they develop ability to fly

Question: Why are birds cared for many weeks before they leave the nest?

Answer: They  should be strong enough to fly

Answer: They are not strong enough to fly

Answer: They are unable to fly

Answer: They should be dying

Answer: They immediately walk to the ocean

Question: After hatching, how long do birds stay in their nests before leaving to learn to fly?

Answer: They immediately walk to the ocean

Answer: For some years

Answer: They are cared for by their parents. Sent 15: They leave the nest when they are strong enough to fly

Answer: For many weeks

Question: Are birds cared for by their parents?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: Yes, Birds stay in the nest for many weeks. Sent 14: They are cared for by their parents

Answer: They do this with no help from an adult

Question: Do Sea Turtles need help from their families?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: No,  Sea turtles break out of their shells. Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean

Answer: They are cared for by their parents

Question: What is an example of an animal that gives live birth?

Answer: Horse, Cows, or Whales

Answer: Whales

Answer: Horses

Answer: Birds

Question: Name two examples of animals that lay eggs.

Answer: Birds  and Sea  turtles

Answer: Cows, and whales

Answer: Humans and monkeys

Answer: Sea turtles and birds

Question: What is a characteristic of the offspring of animals that give live births?

Answer: Their offspring are born looking like mini adults

Answer: They lay eggs

Answer: The offspring looks like mini versions of the adult animals

Question: Give an example of an animal that does not need the care of its parents after birth.

Answer: Birds

Answer: Sea Turtles,  Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean. Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adult

Answer: Sea turtles

Question: Do sea turtles need the care of their parents after hatching?

Answer: No, Sea turtles break out of their shells. Sent 11: They immediately walk to the ocean. Sent 12: They do this with no help from an adult

Answer: No. Immediately after hatching, sea turtles walk to the ocean with no help from their parents

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: They are cared for by their parents


Charlie Mershone had no difficulty in securing his release when Parker came on duty at six o'clock. He called up a cab and went at once to his rooms at the Bruxtelle; and Fogerty followed him. While he discarded his dress-coat, took a bath and donned his walking suit Mershone was in a brown study. Hours ago Louise had been safely landed at the East Orange house and placed in the care of old Madame Cerise, who would guard her like an ogre. There was no immediate need of his hastening after her, and his arrest and the discovery of half his plot had seriously disturbed him. This young man was no novice in intrigue, nor even in crime. Arguing from his own stand-point he realized that the friends of Louise were by this time using every endeavor to locate her. They would not succeed in this, he was positive. His plot had been so audacious and all clews so cleverly destroyed or covered up that the most skillful detective, knowing he had abducted the girl; would be completely baffled in an attempt to find her.

Question: Who did Charlie believe were trying and failing to find Louise?

Answer: A skillful detective

Answer: Her friends

Answer: Madame Cerise

Answer: Mershone

Answer: Louise's friends

Answer: Friends of Louise

Question: What was Charlie wearing at six o'clock?

Answer: He wore a walking suit

Answer: He wore a dress-coat

Answer: He wore a suit

Answer: Walking suit

Answer: A dress coat

Question: Were Louise and Charlie in the same place?

Answer: She is at The East Orange house

Answer: They were not

Answer: They were

Answer: They are both at a hotel

Answer: He is at the Bruxtelle


(CNN) -- The U.S. space shuttle program retired in 2011, leaving American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit. But after three long years, NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance. Orion, the agency's newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December. In future missions, it will journey into deep space -- to Mars and beyond -- farther than humans have ever gone before. Orion comes loaded with superlatives. It boasts the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles. It will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made. No astronauts will be aboard the December flight, which will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions. Final work on the spacecraft is under way at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion came one step closer to completion this month with the stacking of the crew module atop the service module. "Now that we're getting so close to launch, the spacecraft completion work is visible every day," Orion Program Manager Mark Geyer said in a statement. A 3,600-mile journey When complete, the Orion capsule will resemble a fencing foil, with a tall spire shooting up from a rounded base. At the top will sit a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction. The bottom portion, the service module, will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage. Nestled between the two will be the crew module, capable of supporting human life from launch until recovery. Attached to the service module will be a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. For the first time since the space shuttle's debut launch in 1981, the crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions.

Question: The agency's newest manned spaceship will make a journey how long?

Answer: 400 miles

Answer: Longer than any before

Answer: To Mars

Answer: 3,600-mile

Answer: 3,600 miles

Question: The U.S. space shuttle program lasted for how many years?

Answer: 11

Answer: Thirty

Answer: 2011

Answer: 30

Answer: Three

Answer: 3

Question: How much faster is Orion's computer to the space shuttle's computer?

Answer: 3,600

Answer: 400 times

Answer: 400 miles

Answer: 400 times faster

Question: In what year is Orion expected to launch?

Answer: Three  years

Answer: 2011

Answer: 2014

Answer: 2012

Answer: 2010

Answer: 2018

Question: What kind of rocket will launch Orion into space?

Answer: Service Module

Answer: United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket

Answer: NASA's least powerful rocket

Answer: Apollo

Answer: Gemini

Question: What will the Orion allow NASA to do and why?

Answer: Orion comes loaded with superlatives

Answer: Farther than anyone has gone before

Answer: Save the crew from a jarring crash

Answer: Test systems

Answer: It will allow NASA to travel into deep space, because it is loaded with superlatives

Answer: Hitchhike

Answer: Travel beyond Mars

Answer: Into deep space

Answer: Test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions because it is the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles

Question: What is significant about the Orion?

Answer: There won't be noastronauts on it

Answer: It will ride one of the most powerful rocket NASA has ever designed

Answer: The service module can perform various functions

Answer: NASA's successor is almost ready to make an entrance

Answer: Its computere is less than 400 times faster than the shuttle's

Answer: The crew compartment will ride on the tip of the rocket rather than hanging onto its side, evoking the configuration of the famous Apollo or Gemini missions

Answer: It returns the astronauts to being on top of the rocket

Answer: The Orion has the largest heat shield ever built and a computer 400 times faster than the ones on the space shuttles, and it will be launched into space on the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made

Answer: It has the largest heat shield

Answer: It can travel 3,600 miles

Question: What will the December flight test?

Answer: The advantage of riding on the tip of the rocket ranter than the side

Answer: The spacecraft's systems for future manned missions

Answer: American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit

Answer: The spacecraft's speed

Question: What does the abort system include?

Answer: Thrusters

Answer: Cargo storage

Answer: Abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction

Answer: Cushioning for the crew

Answer: Downward-facing thristers

Answer: At the top of the ship, there will be a launch abort system, with downward-facing thrusters that would save the crew from a jarring crash in the event of a rocket malfunction

Answer: Will perform various functions such as in-space propulsion and cargo storage

Question: What is NASA's new spaceship called?

Answer: Gemeni

Answer: Orion

Answer: Delta IV

Answer: Space shuttle

Answer: Apollo

Question: The crew module is nestled between which two systems or modules?

Answer: Spire and round base

Answer: LAS and SM

Answer: Propulsion and cargo storage

Answer: Fencing foil, with a tall spire

Answer: The launch abort system and the service module

Question: What is the name of NASA's successor to the retired 2011 space shuttle program?

Answer: Orion

Answer: Delta IV

Answer: Space shuttle

Answer: Apollo

Answer: Gemini

Question: How many astronauts will be aboard Orion's first mission?

Answer: Zero

Answer: Many astronauts will be aboard

Answer: 0

Answer: Three

Answer: 3,600

Question: NASA's the Space Shuttle's successor has its first mission in what month?

Answer: Not clear

Answer: 2011

Answer: December

Question: How long has it been since Orion's first launch?

Answer: 30 years in 2011

Answer: 2011

Answer: 6 years

Answer: Three long years

Answer: (assuming this test will be given in 2018) 3 years

Question: The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket will be attached to what portion of the spaceship?

Answer: Abort system

Answer: Crew module

Answer: Service module

Answer: Launch abort system

Answer: Bottom Portion

Question: The agency's newest manned spaceship comes loaded with what?

Answer: Smaller heat shield compared to the previous shuttle

Answer: Largest heat shield ever built

Answer: Fencing foil

Answer: A computer 400 x faster than the shuttle's

Answer: Superlatives

Answer: Astronauts

Question: For how many years was the previous space shuttle in use?

Answer: 11

Answer: Three  years

Answer: 2011

Answer: 35

Answer: 30 years, from 1981 to 2011

Answer: 3

Question: Will any astronauts be aboard NASA's newest manned spaceship for its December flight?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: No astronauts will be aboard

Answer: American astronauts to hitchhike into orbit

Question: When is the Orion's first mission and what will it test?

Answer: It will journey into deep space -- to Mars and beyond

Answer: 2011

Answer: 3,600 mile journey

Answer: The month before December, the spacecraft's systems

Answer: Its first mission is in December, and will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions

Answer: Deep space exploration

Answer: December flight, which will test the spacecraft's systems for future manned missions

Question: Where will Orion journey?

Answer: Farther than anyone before

Answer: Mars

Answer: Kennedy Space Center

Answer: Space

Answer: On a 3.600 mile journey

Answer: Into deep space


The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims. After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors. On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça. The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated. Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors — converted by force to Christianity — as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities. Mallorca prospered. The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón and were left in peace. The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion. The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed. In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades. Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite. At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by Sanç and Jaume III. But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Aragón. Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349. A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492. However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.

Question: What did the moors try to do to keep the peace and this this keep them from being subdued?

Answer: Pay an annual tribute

Answer: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to AragÃ³n and were left in peace

Answer: Sign a peace treaty

Answer: Allowed Aragon access to trading communities

Answer: The moors agreed to be slaves

Answer: The Moors were finally subdued but at one time paid annual tribute to be left in peace

Answer: Agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragon

Question: Who led the army that caused the fall of the city of Palma?

Answer: Jaume II

Answer: Alfonso III of AragÃ³n

Answer: Alfonso II

Answer: Catalunya

Answer: Jamue I

Answer: Jaume I

Answer: King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya

Answer: King Jaume I of AragÃ³n and Catalunya

Answer: Jaume III

Answer: Pedro IV

Answer: King Jaume I

Question: Although the Moors speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón, what happened to them?

Answer: killed

Answer: Economy was devastated

Answer: The Moors were forced to convert to Christianity

Answer: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed after an invasion

Answer: Expelled

Answer: Defeated

Answer: Islandâs tranquility lasted

Answer: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed

Answer: They were left in peace

Question: What kind of ruler was King Jaume 1?

Answer: Talented

Answer: Independent

Answer: Enlightened

Answer: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler

Answer: King Jaume 1 was a Moor

Answer: King Jaume 1 was an enlightened ruler

Answer: Incompetent

Question: What caused a tranquility on the island of Menorca that lasted until 1287?

Answer: Pay an annual tribute

Answer: The Moors converted to Christianity

Answer: The annual tribute that the Moors agreed to pay to Alfonso III

Answer: Contrast to Mallorca

Answer: Juame I was an enlightened leader

Answer: The conversion to Christianity

Answer: The Moors on Menorca agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón

Question: What was the purpose of the many battles in  Spain and how long did it take

Answer: The purpose of the battle was to rid of the muslims which took about 400 years

Answer: To subdue the Moors

Answer: To end Christain Spain

Answer: To unify spain

Answer: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims

Answer: 400 years

Answer: To retake the land

Answer: 200 years

Question: Who took the Mallorcan shore what happened to the defenders?

Answer: An army led by King Pedro

Answer: They were killed

Answer: They were taken captive

Answer: It was taken by King Jaume. They defenders retreated but were later defeated

Answer: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma,

Answer: King Jaume I of AragÃ³n

Answer: An army led by King Jaume of Aragon

Answer: They retreated

Answer: King Henry

Question: Where did the defenders go when a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça.

Answer: Resort of Santa PonÃ§a

Answer: The defenders retreated to the nearby island of Menorca

Answer: Aragon

Answer: Mallorcan shore

Answer: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma

Answer: Palma

Answer: Inside the walls of Palma

Answer: Granada

Question: Why was Menorca's economy devastated for decades?

Answer: Alfonso III of Aragón found a pretext for invasion

Answer: They converted to Christianity

Answer: Annual tribute to AragÃ³n

Answer: Because the Moors were defeated by the invasion led by Alfonso III of AragÃ³n

Answer: Alfonso III of AragÃ³n invaded

Answer: Due to a series of humiliations at the hands of the nobles

Answer: Contrast to Mallorca

Answer: The Moors had to pay tribute to Aragon

Question: What three things did we learn about the Moors?

Answer: It took 400 years to subdue them, they paid tribute to keep peace, and the last Moorish enclave was defeated in 1492

Answer: They were slaves

Answer: They had talents that could be used by  Spain, they speedily paid tribute, despite all efforts they were still defeated/killed

Answer: Only to be killed

Answer: Paid a tribute to be left alone

Answer: They tried to survive

Answer: Were eventually killed

Answer: The Moors reigned after 1492, it took 200 years to subdue them, and they ultimately conquered over Christian Spain

Answer: Then they were free

Question: Jaume was defeated by whom and died in what year?

Answer: In 1229 by Alfonso III

Answer: He was overthrown by his mother

Answer: Family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for AragÃ³n. Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349

Answer: killed in battle Llucmajor in 1349

Answer: Pedro IV

Answer: Jaume was killed by his cousin Pedro the IV in the year 1349


The second major point on which the principals had agreed on March 10 was the need to crack down on terrorist organizations and curtail their fund-raising. The embassy bombings of 1998 had focused attention on al Qaeda's finances. One result had been the creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing. On its recommendation, the President had designated  Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. This gave theTreasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any  Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system. But since OFAC had little information to go on, few funds were frozen. In July 1999, the President applied the same designation to the Taliban for harboring  Bin Laden. Here, OFAC had more success. It blocked more than $34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks. Another $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits, all belonging to the Afghan central bank and held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were also frozen. After October 1999, when the State Department formally designated al Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization," it became the duty of U.S. banks to block its transactions and seize its funds. Neither this designation nor UN sanctions had much additional practical effect; the sanctions were easily circumvented, and there were no multilateral mechanisms to ensure that other countries' financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding. Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda. Although the CIA's  Bin Laden unit had originally been inspired by the idea of studying terrorist financial links, few personnel assigned to it had any experience in financial investigations. Any terrorist-financing intelligence appeared to have been collected collaterally, as a consequence of gathering other intelligence. This attitude may have stemmed in large part from the chief of this unit, who did not believe that simply following the money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions. As a result, the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing. Nevertheless, the CIA obtained a general understanding of how al Qaeda raised money.

Question: Who recommended that the President designate  Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act?

Answer: The President

Answer: The NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing

Answer: The embassy

Answer: Terrorist organizations

Answer: The principals

Question: Why did most of the intelligence about terrorist funding come from gathering other intelligence?

Answer: Students

Answer: Because other organs of their system were not capable enough

Answer: Because transactions themselves don't simply reveal the details of their plans

Question: How much money was frozen after the President applied the same designation to the Taliban?

Answer: $34 million in Taliban assets in U.S. banks, another $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits

Answer: $215 million

Answer: Less than $34 million

Answer: $2 million

Answer: $251 million

Answer: $500 million

Answer: It blocked $34 million of Taliban assets, $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits

Question: What was the result of following terrorist money flowing from point A to point B?

Answer: Full freezing of al Qaeda funds

Answer: The CIA was able to track the countries helping to fun al Qaeda

Answer: CIA found it was hard to attack funds of Al Qaeda

Answer: Knowledge of how al Qaeda raised money

Answer: CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing

Answer: Little emphasis was placed on terrorist financing

Question: Why did the CIA place little emphasis on investigating terrorist funding?

Answer: Friend of Binalshibh

Answer: Because Taliban doesn't have much financial activities

Answer: Because Taliban doesn't use much of the world financial system

Question: Why did the OFAC have little information about the financing of al Qaeda?

Answer: Because their intelligence is not as strong as a Qaeda

Answer: Al Qaeda was a clandestine worldwide organization

Question: One of the results of March 10th meeting was?

Answer: Crack down on terrrorist organizations

Answer: The creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing

Answer: Finding the location of bin Laden

Answer: Air strikes on terrorist training camps

Question: Who blocked more than $34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks, and froze $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits belonging to the Afghan central bank?

Answer: The State Department

Answer: Afghan Central Bank

Answer: The President

Answer: US Banks

Answer: OFAC

Answer: Taliban

Question: How much of the Taliban assets held in the U.S. were frozen in 1999?

Answer: $215 million

Answer: $36 million

Answer: $2 million

Answer: $34 million

Question: Practical effects of designating al Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization," resulted in small achievement after what date?

Answer: March 10

Answer: October 1999

Answer: March 1999

Answer: July 1999

Question: Why was it easier to attack the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, than to find and seize the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda?

Answer: Because the CIA's  Bin Laden Unit had very little if any experience in financial investigations

Answer: It was too expensive to track funds

Answer: The CIA didn't want to put in time to track it

Question: The OFAC tried to freeze which terrorist organizations funding?

Answer: Hamas

Answer: ISIS

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: Taliban

Question: What are the main United States offices and committees involved in the following of terrorist funds include Qaeda and Taliban in the late 1990's?

Answer: UN

Answer: Drug

Answer: The International Emergency Economic Powers Act

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: The white house

Answer: Taliban

Question: What are two reasons the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing?

Answer: CIA already had a general understanding of their plans

Answer: The chief of the CIA's  Bin Laden unit did not believe that tracing money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions, and few personnel assigned to the unit had any experience in financial investigations

Answer: Simply following the transactions would not reveal much about their plans

Question: What gave the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any  Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system?

Answer: Sanctioning  Bin Laden

Answer: Sanctioning Taliban

Answer: Sanctioning the U.S. financial system

Question: Why was it difficult for U.S. banks to block the transactions of and seize the funds of al Qaeda despite it being designated a "foreign terrorist organization"?

Answer: There were no multilateral mechanisms to prevent other countries' financial systems from being used to circumvent the sanctions

Answer: Because al Qaeda kept its details hidden

Answer: Because their technology was not strong enough to track Taliban's financial activities

Question: In 1999 the president decided to apply the same designations of freezing assets of the Taliban held in the United States and it resulted in how much money being frozen?

Answer: $215 million

Answer: $2 million

Answer: 215 million

Answer: 34 millions

Question: What gave the OFAC the ability to search for and freeze any Al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system?

Answer: The State Department

Answer: Seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda

Answer: The NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing

Answer: International Emergency Economic Powers Act

Answer: Financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding

Answer: The Embassy bombings of 1998

Question: What was a result of the Embassy bombings of 1998?

Answer: It focused attention Al-Qaeda's finances

Answer: The President's designation of  Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions

Answer: The creation of al Qaeda

Answer: The designation of al Qaeda a "domestic terrorist organization"

Answer: Gathering other intelligence

Answer: Foreign terrorist organization


The Agencies Confer When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident. The Secret Service initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House complex. The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington. These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York. The FAA and White House Teleconferences. The FAA, the White House, and the Defense Department each initiated a multiagency teleconference before 9:30. Because none of these teleconferences-at least before 10:00- included the right officials from both the FAA and Defense Department, none succeeded in meaningfully coordinating the military and FAA response to the hijackings. At about 9:20, security personnel at FAA headquarters set up a hijacking teleconference with several agencies, including the Defense Department. The NMCC officer who participated told us that the call was monitored only periodically because the information was sporadic, it was of little value, and there were other important tasks. The FAA manager of the teleconference also remembered that the military participated only briefly before the Pentagon was hit. Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11. Acting Deputy Administrator Belger was frustrated to learn later in the morning that the military had not been on the call. At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in counterterrorism. Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter. The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40. The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies. Immediately thereafter it was reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon. We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington.

Question: When did the video teleconference in the situation room begin?

Answer: 9:40am

Answer: 9:25 AM

Answer: 9:25a

Answer: 10:00am

Question: Did the CIA participate in discussion about the US President's safety?

Answer: Yes at 9:40a

Answer: Yes

Answer: No they were not concerned

Answer: No, the secret Service was in charge

Question: Did the strike on the Pentagon come up at all during the White House conference call?

Answer: There was no information about another plane

Answer: Yes

Question: Why did the FAA and White House teleconferences fail to stop the plane from hitting the Pentagon?

Answer: Because they were discussing precautionary measures, We found no evidence that video teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington. The officials who issued these orders did not know that there were additional hijacked aircraft, or that one such aircraft was en route to Washington

Answer: Not enough correct departments were involved

Answer: They were unaware of the second plane

Answer: The FAA didn't join until 9:40

Question: What agencies were involved with the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation Room by Richard Clarke?

Answer: The Departments of State, Justice and Defense

Answer: CIA; the FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White House shelter, and the CIA

Answer: CIA, FAA, FBI

Answer: The FAA and The CIA

Question: When did the teleconference held by Richard Clarke begin in the White House Situation Room?

Answer: 9:40

Answer: 10:00

Answer: 9:25

Question: What was the Secret Service's initial reaction to the second plane hitting the WTC?

Answer: They initiated a number of security enhancements around the White House

Answer: There were more hijacked planes

Answer: Keeping the President safe

Answer: Government

Answer: That this was no accident

Question: Why had Belger been annoyed that the military was not in on the morning call?

Answer: They didn't know that another plane was headed to DC

Answer: They felt the information was not important

Answer: Both individuals agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11

Answer: They were necessary to create a response to the terriorism

Question: How many minutes had elapsed before the FAA joined the video teleconference call conducted by Richard Clarke?

Answer: 1 hour

Answer: 9:25

Answer: 15 minutes

Answer: Atta's personalities

Answer: 45 minutes

Question: Who confirmed that the teleconference was not important to the coordination of a response to the attack?

Answer: The FAA manager and a NMCC officer

Answer: The NMCC and FAA Manager

Answer: DOJ and FBI

Answer: CIA and FBI

Question: What motivated Secret Service to enhance White House security?

Answer: The strikes in New York

Answer: Strikes in New York

Answer: FAA orders

Answer: Hijacked planes

Answer: Bin Laden

Question: Why couldn't the FAA and the Defense Department officials coordinate a military response during the conference call set up at FAA headquarters at 9:20?

Answer: They felt the information was not important

Answer: The didn't know that another plane was headed to DC

Answer: They weren't the right officials

Answer: No one had the right officials on the calls before 10am

Question: Which two participants agreed that the hijacking teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11?

Answer: Officials

Answer: CIA

Answer: The NMCC officer and the FAA manager

Answer: FAA manager and fmcc manager

Answer: FBI

Question: When did the Secret Service initiate security enhancements around the White House?

Answer: After the second plane hit the world trade towers

Answer: After the second plane hit the World Trade Center

Answer: When it became apparent that it wasn't an accident

Answer: 9:40am when the teleconference began

Answer: When the FAA told them to

Question: The 9:20 teleconference set up by the FAA was not useful for what reason?

Answer: Officials

Answer: There were more important tasks to do

Answer: Information was sporadic, and of little value and the military was only briefly involved

Answer: Not enough agencies involved

Answer: The information was sporadic

Question: What caused the Secret Service to enhance security around the White House complex?

Answer: Information regarding the planes

Answer: The plane attacks on the World Trade Center

Answer: Secret Service orders

Answer: The strikes in New York City

Question: When did the FAA and the CIA join the video teleconference?

Answer: After the plane hit the pentagon

Answer: 10:00am

Answer: They joined at 9:40am

Answer: After the teleconference had already began

Answer: 9:40 AM

Question: To what did the CIA and FAA begin participating in at 9:40?

Answer: Coffee hour

Answer: The safety Plan for the presidernt

Answer: Teleconference regarding the Plane

Answer: The Situation Room video teleconference

Answer: Secret service

Question: What did the Secret Service not realize when it first set up precautions around the White House complex?

Answer: That the planes were hijacked

Answer: They did not know an additional plane was headed to Washington

Answer: That this wasn't an accident

Answer: That another plane was on its way to Washington

Question: What two people agreed that the teleconference played no role in coordinating a response to the attacks of 9/11?

Answer: The FBI and the CIA

Answer: The NMCC officer and the FAA officer

Answer: The FAA and the secret service

Answer: The NMCC and the FAA Manager

Question: The teleconference in the Situation Room, determined its first topic would be what?

Answer: Finding the planes

Answer: The presidents location and safety

Answer: The physical security of the President, the White House and the federal agencies

Answer: Planning retaliation


Hamilton argued that the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites, and he warned that the British would arm the slaves if the patriots did not. In his 21st-century biography, Chernow cites this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable. Hamilton attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks. In January 1785, Hamilton attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS). John Jay was president and Hamilton was the first secretary and later became president. Chernow notes how the membership soon included many of Hamilton's friends and associates. Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York. In the same period, Hamilton felt bound by the rule of law of the time and his law practice facilitated the return of a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina. He opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention by which the federal government could not abolish the slave trade for 20 years, and was disappointed when he lost that argument. Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves. Horton has argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and that this distinguished him from his contemporaries. In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791--both measures hurt France. Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves, as did many wealthy New Yorkers (the evidence for this is indirect; McDonald interprets it as referring to paid employees).

Question: Was the New York Manumission Society founded before or after the 1787 Constitutional Convention?

Answer: Before

Answer: After

Question: Why does Chernow suspect Hamilton saw the Revolution and abolition as inseparable?

Answer: Hamilton believed blacks had the same intellectual abilities as whites. He also warned that slaves would be armed by the British if patriots did not

Answer: He supported the underground railroad

Answer: Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable

Question: What committee of the NYMS was Hamilton apart of?

Answer: : Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade

Answer: Hamilton was a member of the committee of the society that petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade, and that succeeded in passing legislation banning the export of slaves from New York

Answer: He was part of the society that organized the underground railroad

Question: How long after the 1787 Constitutional Convention did he provide aid to slaveowners in Haiti?

Answer: 6 years

Answer: 5 years

Answer: At least 3 years

Question: Is it true that Hamilton has never aided slaveowners?

Answer: True

Answer: False

Question: How long was it when Hamilton first joined NYMS to when he opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention?

Answer: 2 years

Answer: 12 years

Question: Hamilton was the first president of what New York, abolitionist organization?

Answer: The underground railroad

Answer: John Jay

Answer: New York Manumission Society

Answer: The New York Society

Answer: New Yorkers

Question: When did Hamilton attend the second meeting of the NYMS where he later became president of?

Answer: 1983

Answer: 1780s

Answer: Before

Answer: Around 1785

Answer: 1787

Question: Who was president of the NYMS before Hamilton?

Answer: Hamilton

Answer: Chernow

Answer: John Jay

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Which organization did Hamilton join in 1785 where he later became the president?

Answer: New York Manumission Society (NYMS)

Answer: The underground railroad

Question: What did Hamilton do in support of black people?

Answer: He supported forced emigration

Answer: Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves

Answer: He attacked others for fighting for freedom of white people only and petitioned the legislature to end the slave trade

Question: Give examples that support Hamilton's pro-abolotionist views.

Answer: Believed the natural faculties of blacks were as good as those of free whites

Answer: Became the 2nd president of the New York society

Answer: Opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention; opposed the compromise at the 1787 Constitutional Convention

Answer: Member of the New York Manumission Society

Question: What has been inferred from Hamilton's policy among freed slaves?

Answer: Hamilton never supported forced emigration on freed salves and thus may have been comfortable in a multiracial society

Answer: Scant evidence has been interpreted by a few to indicate Hamilton may have owned household slaves

Answer: He had paid employees

Question: How did Hamilton feel about black people?

Answer: Hamilton believed black people had faculties equal to white people and saw the struggle of black people as inseparable from the Revolution

Answer: He felt they should not be slaves

Answer: He felt they should continue to be slaves

Question: What society petitioned the New York legislature to end the slave trade?

Answer: Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government

Answer: A multiracial society

Answer: New York Manumission Society (NYMS)

Answer: New York Manumission Society

Answer: The government

Question: Who became president of the NYMS after John Jay?

Answer: The New York Manumission Society

Answer: Hamilton

Answer: John Jay

Answer: The president

Question: While John Jay was president of the NYMS, what was Hamilton's position?

Answer: The New York Manumission Society

Answer: John Jay

Answer: First Secretary

Answer: Vice Hamilton

Answer: Vice president

Question: Hamilton was a strong proponent of free rights for black people.

Answer: True

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: Was John Jay the first secretary of the New York Manumission Society?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes


The properties of matter depend on the types of atoms that matter is made of. Matter can exist in two forms. It can be a pure substance. This means it is not mixed with anything. It can also be a combination of different substances. This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms. You may recall that atoms differ based on the numbers of protons they contain. Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen. Other atoms contain many protons. There are many types of atoms. For example, Helium has two protons. An Oxygen atom has eight. Water is composed of a two types of atoms. Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms. There are only so many types of atoms. These atoms can be mixed into an almost limitless amount of substances. So what do we call a substance that has only a single type of atom?

Question: What are the two forms of matter?

Answer: One protons and may protons

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: It can be a pure substance or It can also be a combination of different substances

Answer: A pure substance, or a mixture of substances

Answer: Atoms

Question: If matter is composed of many different types of substances, it can be made of many different types of what?

Answer: Combination of different substances

Answer: Water

Answer: Atoms

Answer: Can be a mix of different types of atoms

Question: What atoms is water composed of?

Answer: 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen atom

Answer: Helium

Answer: Hydrogen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Positive

Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen atoms

Question: How many more protons does Helium have than Hydrogen?

Answer: The Helium have one more proton than hydrogen

Answer: 1

Answer: Tow protons

Answer: 1. Hydrogen has only one proton, why Helium has 2 Protons. 2-1 =1

Answer: 3

Question: How many protons do atoms contain?

Answer: They always contain 1

Answer: Some atoms contain only one proton such as Hydrogen. Other atoms contain many protons

Answer: They can contain one or many

Answer: Some atoms contain only one proton and other atoms contain many protons

Answer: Two protons

Question: What does pure substance mean?

Answer: Mixed with other substances

Answer: Having at least 2 of the same atoms

Answer: Single type of atom

Answer: This means it can be a mix of different types of atoms

Answer: This means it is not mixed with anything

Question: What are two types of atoms according to the paragraph?

Answer: Helium

Answer: Pure

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Hydrogen

Answer: Atoms that contain only one proton and atoms that contain many protons

Answer: Mixture

Question: What is contained in water?

Answer: Helium

Answer: Hydrogen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Carbon

Answer: Two types of atoms. Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms

Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen atoms

Answer: Nitrogen

Question: What two forms of matter are there?

Answer: Helium

Answer: Hydrogen

Answer: It can be a mix of different types of atoms

Answer: It can be a pure substance or   It can also be a combination of different substances

Answer: Mixture of substances

Answer: Pure Substance

Question: If matter is a pure substance is it mixed with something?

Answer: No

Answer: Pure substance

Answer: Yes

Answer: No, This means it is not mixed with anything

Question: What are the two forms matter can exist in?

Answer: Pure

Answer: Chemicals

Answer: Combination of different substances

Answer: It can be a pure substance or   It can also be a combination of different substances

Answer: Pure Substance & A Combination of Different Substances

Answer: Atoms

Answer: Mixture

Question: What type of matter means it can be made up of a mix of different type of atoms?

Answer: Pure

Answer: A pure substance

Answer: Combination of different substances

Answer: Mixture

Question: In what two forms can matter exist?

Answer: Ions

Answer: Pure

Answer: It can be a pure substance or   It can also be a combination of different substances

Answer: Atoms

Answer: Two protons

Answer: Mixture

Question: Do some atoms have many protons, while others have very few?

Answer: No

Answer: The atoms contains one proton

Answer: Yes

Answer: Some atoms contain only one proton. Other atoms contain many protons

Question: Water is composed of which two atoms?

Answer: Helium

Answer: Hydrogen

Answer: Oxygen

Answer: Helium and hydrogen

Answer: Carbon

Answer: Hydrogen and oxygen atoms

Answer: Water is made of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen atoms

Question: What form of matter is not mixed with anything?

Answer: Pure

Answer: Combination of different substances

Answer: A pure substance

Answer: Mixture


The grant also will help victims go through court proceedings after losing a job or being evicted because of an abuser's actions, Xanthopoulos said. "It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children," he said. More than 270 domestic violence assaults in Madison County were reported last year, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation statistics. In Jackson, more than 730 domestic violence assaults were reported last year, according to records. "Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that. I see this as helping that," Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork said of the grant. Domestic violence accounted for five of 12 murders in 2001 in Jackson, police have said. And the increase in calls prompted Jackson Police Chief Rick Staples in March to form a focus group to determine if police officers need to make changes in their response to domestic calls.

Question: Domestic violence accounts for 5 of 12 deaths in which city and state, according to the paragraph?

Answer: Madison, TN

Answer: Jackson, TN

Answer: Jackson, MS

Answer: Jackson, Mississippi

Answer: In Jackson, Tennessee

Answer: Jackson, Michigan

Question: Who did Xanthnopoulos say the grant would help?

Answer: Going to help the victim but also their children

Answer: The police

Answer: Police focus groups

Answer: Response times to domestic violence

Answer: Teachers

Answer: Victims including children

Question: Who made the following statement: "It's going to help the victims, but it's also going to help their children,"

Answer: Xanthopoulos

Answer: Chief Rick Staples

Answer: Rick Staples

Answer: David Woolfork

Question: Where more domestic violence assaults were reported last year, in Madison County or in Jackson?

Answer: In Madison County

Answer: In Jackson

Answer: More domestic violence assaults occurred in Jackson last year

Question: How many more domestic violence assault cases were in Madison county and Jackson county?

Answer: 270 and 730

Answer: 5 and 12

Answer: Just under 1,500

Answer: 270 more for Madison county and 730 more for Jackson county

Answer: 1,200 and 500

Answer: More than 1000

Answer: Less than 1000

Answer: 270 and 730 cases

Question: What is the total number of domestic violence assaults reported in Madison County and in Jackson?

Answer: Just under 1000

Answer: 500

Answer: One Thousand

Answer: Just under 2000

Answer: 730

Answer: More than 1000

Question: Is domestic violence more prevalent in Jackson or Madison County?

Answer: Jackson

Answer: Madison County

Question: How can the grant help children of domestic abuse victims?

Answer: The grants help to evict abusers

Answer: The grant will provide the children government aid

Answer: The grants can help them attempt to regain their employment and home by successfully navigating the court proceedings

Answer: The grant will help victims of abuse support their children by providing work and housing

Answer: The grant helps them by helping their parents if they are evicted or lose their job due to an abuser's actions

Answer: The grants help to identify missing children from abusive homes

Answer: Abusers can cause victims to lose their homes and jobs. The grants assist these victims with rectifying those issues in court

Answer: It will place children in a foster home

Question: The increase in calls to Jackson police led to what action?

Answer: Some calls could not be responded to

Answer: The development of a focus group to study how police response to domestic abuse calls may affect the situations

Answer: More severe punishment for domestic violence

Answer: Three strikes rule enforced for abusers

Answer: The Police Chief formed a focus group

Answer: A focus group was formed to find out whether police officers should make changes in how they respond to domestic calls

Answer: The Police Chief hired additional officers

Answer: Focus groups were formed to address the issue of domestic violence

Question: What is going to help victims and children of domestic assaults?

Answer: New grant programs

Answer: Stricter sentences for abusers

Answer: Response to domestic calls

Answer: The grant

Answer: New education programs

Answer: Grants to

Answer: The focus groups in Jackson

Question: Which counties had an increase in domestic assault cases?

Answer: Madison

Answer: Madison and Jackson

Answer: None

Answer: Only Jackson

Answer: Madison and Jackson counties

Answer: Madison County and Jackson County

Question: Who made the following remark: "Domestic violence is certainly on the increase and we need to do something to curve that. I see this as helping that,"

Answer: Rick Staples

Answer: Chief Rick Staples

Answer: David Woolfork

Answer: Xanthopoulos

Answer: Sheriff David Woolfork

Answer: Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork


Even after  Bin Laden's departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up. The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity. On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and  Bin Laden. Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA. When the former  Bin Laden unit chief found out about Clarke's call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance. Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke's phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted. CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate." Mike" thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting  Bin Laden. The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorism ally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem. From 1999 through early 2001, the United States, and President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE, one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan. These efforts achieved little before 9/11. In July 1999, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over  Bin Laden. The Taliban did not take him seriously, however. Bin Zayid later told an American diplomat that the UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region, but he also noted that the UAE did not want to upset the United States.

Question: Why did Hamdan bin Zayid's threat to break relations with the Taliban achieve little results before 9/11?

Answer: The Taliban did not take Hamdan bin Zayid's threats seriously, and because Hamdan bin Zayid valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region

Answer: The Taliban did not take him seriously

Answer: UAE

Answer: April 1999

Answer: UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region

Answer: There were no sanctions against the Taliban to enforce his threat

Answer: Because they had no reasons to break the relationship

Answer: Bin Laden

Answer: July 1999

Question: When and why did the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threaten to break relations with the Taliban over  Bin Laden?

Answer: In July 1999

Answer: March 7, 1999

Answer: Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban in July 1999 after the United States and the President Clinton pressured him to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, because the UAE was one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan

Answer: July 1999 because of pressure from  USA

Answer: In 1989 because UAE political situation was changing

Answer: June 2016

Answer: Obama

Question: How did the United States' relationship with UAE change after 9/11?

Answer: All diplomatic relationships were broken

Answer: It got better

Answer: President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan. These efforts achieved little before 9/11

Answer: The UAE provided them with all the travel information for the Taliban

Question: How did the UAE both help and hinder anti-terrorism efforts?

Answer: It hindered them by being one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, it helped them by UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over  Bin Laden

Answer: UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance

Answer: But they were afraid of the Taliban and what they might do in Iran

Answer: The UAE liked the benefits that came with providing the US with information about the Taliban

Answer: By not getting involved

Question: Why were CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt angry?

Answer: Following a call by Clarke to UAE officials  expressing  his concerns about associations between Bin Laden and Emerati officials, a camp CIA officials were sure  Bin Laden might return to was dismantled

Answer: Because the camp was hurriedly dismantled

Answer: Bin Laden's former camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted, dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting  Bin Laden

Answer: Pavitt and the CIA was upset because the UAE would not break ties and enforce sanctions against the Taliban

Answer: Because Bin Laden escaped

Answer: The camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted

Answer: A phone call


Dr. Alex Cross is a psychiatrist and police lieutenant who lives in Detroit with his wife , Maria , their children , Damon and Janelle , and his grandmother , Nana Mama . Upon learning that Maria is pregnant with their third child , Cross considers accepting a job as an FBI profiler , but fears Maria's reaction , as it 'd require them to relocate to Washington , D.C. Meanwhile , a man called Picasso attends to an illegal underground Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring , where he flirts with businesswoman Fan Yau . After brutally beating his opponent , Picasso is invited to Fan Yau's house , where he sedates her while they 're having sex , tortures and kills her . Police Captain Richard Brookwell calls Cross and his partner , Tommy Kane , to the crime scene . On the way there , Cross tells Kane about Maria's pregnancy and the the FBI's offer , and Kane reveals that he is secretly dating their colleague , Monica Ashe . Cross deduces that Picasso is a professional assassin , and finds a sketch made behind by Picasso , revealing that his next target is businessman Erich Nunemarcher . Cross , Kane and Ashe go to Nunemarcher's office , but Nunemarcher ignores their claims . Picasso manages to enter the building , but is prevented from killing Nunemarcher by Cross , and escapes after being shot by Kane . Cross analyzes a drop of Picasso's blood and learns that he is a psychotic former member of the Special Forces and that his real target is billionaire CEO Leon Mercier . Cross informs Mercier that Picasso might be trying to kill him .

Question: Who were all of Picasso's real and possible targets?

Answer: Cross

Answer: Fan Yu, Erich Nunemarcher, Leon Mercier

Answer: Erich Nunemarcher

Answer: Erich Nunemarcher , Leon mercier

Answer: Mercier

Answer: Tommy Kane

Answer: Alex Cross

Answer: Leon Mercier

Answer: Fan Yau, Monica Ashe

Answer: Fan Yau

Answer: Maria Cross

Answer: Nunemarcher

Question: Where did Picasso meet the woman he sedated?

Answer: Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring

Answer: At an underground mixed martial arts fight

Answer: At a party

Answer: Washington D.C

Answer: Train station

Answer: The Big Ben

Answer: An illegal underground Mixed Martial Arts fighting ring

Answer: An illegal mixed martial arts fighting ring

Question: How many couples are linked romantically in the story?

Answer: 2 couples: Alex & Maria, Damon & Janelle

Answer: 3 couples: Alex & Maria, Fan Yue & Picasso, Tommy Kane & Monica Ashe

Answer: 2

Answer: Three

Answer: 3

Question: How did cross come by the drop of Picasso's blood?

Answer: He stabbed him

Answer: He is shot in Nunemarcher's office

Answer: When Picasso was shot by Kane

Answer: Picasso got shot

Answer: He is shot by Alex Cross's partner

Answer: Analyzing an underground MMA fighting ring

Answer: Because Kane shoots him

Answer: Because he got a scratch from a blade

Answer: Nunemarcher shoots him in his office

Question: Name two of Picasso's targets?

Answer: Cross

Answer: Erich Nunemarcher

Answer: Erich Nunemarcher , Leon mercier

Answer: Leon Mercier

Answer: Mercier and Nunemarcher

Answer: Ben

Answer: Monica Ashe, erich nunemarcher

Answer: Nunemarcher and Mercier

Answer: Mercier and Cross

Answer: Nunemarcher and Cross

Question: Who does Cross talk with during this story?

Answer: Tommy Kane, Monica Ashe, Erich Nunemarcher, Leon Mercier

Answer: Erich Nunemarcher

Answer: Mercier

Answer: Leon

Answer: Tommy Kane

Answer: Kane

Answer: Monica Ashe

Answer: Picasso

Answer: Erich

Answer: An FBI recruiter