Hannah Harvey was a ten year old that had many friends in school. She lived in New York and enjoyed doing gymnastics and playing soccer. One day, Hannah came home from school and her parents greeted her. She knew that something was different by the expressions on their faces. Even Jackson, Hannah's dog, was acting different. Hannah asked why everyone was being so strange. Hannah's father, who was known as Pop, explained to Hannah that his job was forcing him to move. Hannah did not seem to think this was too big of a deal. Then, Hannah's mother explained that they were moving to Kenya. Kenya, she explained, was a place in Africa and life would be very different there. As Hannah began to cry thinking about all of her friends at home, Hannah's mother calmed her with a gentle touch. Jackson began howling as Hannah cried, but was also calmed by Hannah's mother. Hannah spent the next two weeks visiting her friends and saying her goodbyes. She did not know the next time she would be home. She cried very hard when she said goodbye to her best friend, Susan. Susan did not quite understand where Kenya was, but promised to visit Hannah. The next day, Hannah boarded a plane with her family. At first, they thought that Jackson could not come with them. However, Hannah worked hard and helped make sure that he had all of his shots so that he could come. After he had them all, the airport said it was OK for Jackson to come! The Harvey family left and off they went across the ocean to begin their new life in Kenya.

Question: How old was Hannah when she moved to Kenya?

Answer: Ten

Answer: Twelve

Answer: Eleven

Answer: 10

Question: How was Jackson able to come with the family to Kenya

Answer: Hannah made sure he had his shots

Answer: He snuck on the plane

Answer: They demanded

Answer: By having his shots

Answer: He had all his shots

Question: Why is the family dog Jackson getting shots?

Answer: So he can go with the family to Kenya

Answer: He was sick

Answer: The police said so

Answer: So he could go to kenya

Question: How old is Hannah when she finds out that she is moving from New York to Kenya?

Answer: Ten

Answer: Thirteen

Answer: Eleven

Answer: Hannah is 10

Question: If Susan is Hannah's best friend, why would she need to visit her?

Answer: Hannah is moving away to Kenya

Answer: Hannah was moving

Answer: Susan moved

Answer: Susan was on vacation

Answer: Hannah would be in kenya

Question: Why was Hannah crying about her friends at home?

Answer: Because she was moving to Kenya

Answer: She had to say goodbye

Answer: They laughed at her

Answer: She hated them


Once upon a time there a little girl named Ana. Ana was a smart girl. Everyone in Ana's school knew and liked her very much. She had a big dream of becoming spelling bee winner. Ana studied very hard to be the best she could be at spelling. Ana's best friend would help her study every day after school. By the time the spelling bee arrived Ana and her best friend were sure she would win. There were ten students in the spelling bee. This made Ana very nervous, but when she looked out and saw her dad cheering her on she knew she could do it. The spelling bee had five rounds and Ana made it through them all. She was now in the finals. During the final round James, the boy she was in the finals with, was given a really hard word and he spelled it wrong. All Ana had to do was spell this last word and she would be the winner. Ana stepped to the microphone, thought really hard and spelled the word. She waited and finally her teacher said "That is correct". Ana had won the spelling bee. Ana was so happy. She won a trophy. Ana also won a big yellow ribbon. The whole school was also happy, and everyone clapped for her. The whole school went outside. They had a picnic to celebrate Ana winning.

Question: How many students didn't make it to the final round of the spelling bee?

Answer: Eight

Answer: 8

Answer: Ten

Answer: Everyone

Question: Who had a big dream of becoming a spelling bee winner?

Answer: Ana

Answer: Ana's best friend

Answer: The school

Answer: James

Answer: Mary

Answer: Peter


On a busy Friday morning in Manhattan, nine pedestrians suffered bullet or fragment wounds after police unleashed a hail of gunfire at a man wielding a .45 caliber pistol who had just killed a former co-worker. The officers unloaded 16 rounds in the shadow of the Empire State Building at a disgruntled former apparel designer, killing him after he engaged in a gunbattle with police, authorities said. Three passersby sustained direct gunshot wounds, while the remaining six were hit by fragments, according to New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. All injuries were caused by police, he said Saturday. One officer shot nine rounds and another shot seven. Police identified the gunman as Jeffrey Johnson, 58, who was apparently laid off from his job as a designer of women's accessories at Hazan Import Co. last year. Johnson, who served in the U.S. Coast Guard in the mid-1970s, had two rounds left in his pistol. It holds eight, Kelly said. Police identified the slain co-worker as Steven Ercolino, 41, who had apparently filed a prior complaint against his assailant, claiming that he thought Johnson would eventually try to kill him. Both men had filed harassment complaints against each other in April 2011, Kelly added. Ercolino was listed as a vice president of sales at Hazan Import Corp., according to his LinkedIn profile. "It's not something that should happen to a loving person like that," said his brother, Paul. "He's going to be so missed by everybody. He was a light of so many lives."

Question: How many people were injured?

Answer: 9

Answer: Ten

Answer: 5

Answer: Nine

Answer: Seven

Question: Who shot Jeffrey Johnson?

Answer: Steven Eroclino

Answer: Steven Ercolino,

Answer: Steven Erec

Answer: Police officer

Answer: His friend

Answer: The police

Question: What was Steven's job at Hazan Import?

Answer: Vice president of sales

Answer: Designer of women's accessories

Answer: President of sales

Answer: Architect

Answer: Slain co-worker

Answer: Worker

Question: What day did officers fire 16 rounds at a man with a gun?

Answer: Friday

Answer: Monday

Question: What type of weapon did Jeffery Johnson, the gunman, possess?

Answer: Rifle

Answer: Shotgun

Answer: .45 caliber pistol

Answer: 16 round pistol

Answer: Caliber pistol

Question: Who confirmed that all bystander's injuries were caused by the police?

Answer: Police chief

Answer: New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly

Answer: New York Police Commissioner

Answer: Melly

Answer: Jeffery Johnson

Answer: Kelly

Answer: Ray Kelly

Answer: Paul

Question: Where did the incident take place?

Answer: Brooklyn

Answer: New York

Answer: Manhattan

Answer: Mnhatarr

Question: Who was interviewed about Ercolino's death?

Answer: His brother

Answer: Steve

Answer: His brother in law

Answer: His brother, Paul

Answer: Jelly

Answer: His father

Answer: Kelly

Answer: Paul

Question: What is the name of the gunman?

Answer: Ray Kelly

Answer: Jeffrey Johnson

Answer: Steven Ercolino

Answer: Jeffrey Jonnathan

Question: In which part of New York is the Empire State Building?

Answer: Manhattar

Answer: New York

Answer: Queens

Answer: Manhattan

Question: What was the age difference between Jeffrey Johnson and Steven Ercolino at the time of Steven Ercolino's death?

Answer: Five

Answer: Seventeen

Answer: 17 years

Answer: 17

Answer: 20

Question: How many shots did Jeffrey Johnson fire?

Answer: 8

Answer: 9

Answer: 6

Answer: Eight

Answer: Six

Question: How many rounds had Jeffrey Johnson fired from his pistol?

Answer: Eight

Answer: 8

Answer: 6

Answer: Seven

Question: How many years older was Jeffrey Johnson than Steven Ercolino?

Answer: Seventeen

Answer: Twenty

Answer: 17

Answer: 20

Answer: 18


In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama  Bin Laden and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a "World Islamic Front." A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority, but neither  Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law. Claiming that America had declared war against God and his messenger, they called for the murder of any American, anywhere on earth, as the "individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it." Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV,  Bin Laden enlarged on these themes. He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels." It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities," he said. Asked whether he approved of terrorism and of attacks on civilians, he replied:"We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets." Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames. Given the variety of names we mention, we chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi, for instance, omitting the article "al" that would be part of their name in their own societies. We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of "Bin" as part of a last name, as in  Bin Laden. Further, there is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English. We have relied on a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents. When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,"al Qida" instead of al Qaeda. Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing,  Bin Laden's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack. In August 1996,  Bin Laden had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.

Question: What did  Bin Laden claim in an interview with ABC-TV?

Answer: It is better to kill a single American soldier than to waste time on other activities

Answer: Islamic teachings should be followed to the letter of the law

Answer: He claimed it was more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels

Answer: It is more important for Muslims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels

Answer: He said it was more important to kill other infidels than Americans

Answer: Women and children should be spared

Question: Why do we use " Bin Laden" to refer to Usama  Bin Laden and only "Hazmi" to refer to Nawaf al Hazmi?

Answer: Bin Laden is a leader and Hasmi is lower in the organizations

Answer: "Bin" is more familiar to English speakers, so we make an exception and use it; whereas the article "al" in an Arabic name is less familiar

Answer: It is their custom to call as it is mentioned in fatwa

Answer: We chose to refer to individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known: Nawaf al Hazmi as Hazmi and We generally make an exception for the more familiar English usage of "Bin" as part of a last name, as in  Bin Laden

Answer: Because 'al' is not a part of the name in their own societies

Answer: Hazmi is not wealthy, but Bin Laden is

Answer: They chose to refer individuals by the last word in the names by which they are known

Answer: Hazmi isn't a scholar, but  Bin Laden is

Answer: Because there is not universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English

Question: Why does the author use the spelling "Al Quida" instead of "Al Qaeda"?

Answer: Due to transliteration from a source document

Answer: They want to their names look like American to enter the counrty

Answer: According to the author, "There is no universally accepted way to transliterate Arabic words and names into English." The author has attempted to rely on "a mix of common sense, the sound of the name in Arabic, and common usage in source materials, the press, or government documents."

Answer: Because Al Quida is a separate group from Al Qaeda

Answer: Depending on the audience we are writing for

Answer: When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,"al Qida" instead of al Qaeda

Answer: Depending on the length of the document

Answer: It depends on the type of document

Answer: When it is quoted from a source document they use its translation  e.g ' al Qida'  instead of al Qaeda

Question: What reasons does  Bin Laden give for issuing a fatwa on all Americans?

Answer: To call on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia

Answer: He claimed that America had declared war against God and his messenger

Answer: To avenge the deaths of innocents

Answer: They believe that the worst thieves and terrorists  in the world today are the Americans

Answer: To give them a reason to change their evil

Answer: He claimed that American had declared war against God [Allah] and his messenger [Mohammed] and that Americans are the worst thieves and terrorists in the world

Answer: To convert them to Islam

Answer: They want to take revenge for not allowing them to migrate to America

Question: Who said "It is far better for anyone to kill a single American soldier than to squander his efforts on other activities."

Answer: Ayman al Zawahiri

Answer: Usama  Bin Laden

Answer: Zawahiri

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: Hazmi

Answer: Bin Laden

Answer: Saddam Hussein

Question: What is a fatwa that Usama  Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri arranged to have published?

Answer: "World Islamic Front"

Answer: A fatwa is normally an interpretation of Islamic law by a respected Islamic authority

Answer: Bin Laden & al Zawahiri's Fatwa

Answer: A fatwa is a struggle

Answer: Al Qaeda Fatwa

Question: The fatwa that  Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri arranged to published, what was the matter with it?

Answer: Because  Bin Laden, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law

Answer: Several pages were omitted

Answer: The English translation contained several errors

Answer: It had no credible research

Answer: Fatwas are usually issued by a respected Islamic authority, which they were not

Answer: Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri were not scholars of Islamic Law


Static electricity is like a teeter-totter. What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced? Correct! It does not move. What about when its not balanced? Yes, it will now begin to move. Charges move when they are not balanced. Charges can build up by friction. Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet. Rubber soled shoes readily gain charges. The wool carpet easily gives up charges. The two items become unbalanced. One item has a positive charge. The other has a negative charge. The difference in charge is called static electricity. Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move. Positive charges build up on the mat. Negative charges build up on you.

Question: When static electricity is balanced like a teeter-totter, what happens?

Answer: Positive charges build up

Answer: A static charge creates balance

Answer: Nothing

Answer: "It does not move."

Answer: It moves to create imbalance

Answer: It moves

Question: Does a teeter-totter move if it is balanced?

Answer: No it does not

Answer: Yes it will move

Answer: I don't know

Question: What happens if static electricity is not balanced?

Answer: There would be a positve or negative charge

Answer: There is a neutral charge

Answer: There is a bad charge

Answer: It sits still

Answer: It moves and increase its charge

Answer: Charges move, building up friction

Answer: It moves causing a charge

Answer: It does not move

Answer: There is a good charge

Answer: There is a positive charge for sure

Question: If two items build unbalanced charges, the difference is called what?

Answer: Negative or positive charge

Answer: Neutral charge

Answer: A teeter totter

Answer: Zero Charges

Answer: The difference in charge is called static electricity

Answer: Bad charge

Answer: Positive charge

Answer: "Static electricity"

Answer: Good charge

Question: What is an example of how charges build up by friction?

Answer: Stomp your feet on wool mat or carpet

Answer: Jump up and down on wool mat or carpet

Answer: Maybe you rub your feet on a wool mat or carpet

Answer: Rub rubber shoes on wool mat or carpet

Answer: Two items become unbalanced

Answer: Stomp your shoes on wool mat or carpet

Answer: You rub water on your face

Question: What kind of charge is required for static electricity?

Answer: Moving charge

Answer: Neutral charge

Answer: Negative

Answer: Both positive and negative

Answer: Imbalanced charge

Answer: Electricity on a teeter-totter

Answer: Charges can build up by friction

Answer: Unbalanced charge

Answer: Positive

Question: What two types of charges build up in unbalanced items?

Answer: Outside charges

Answer: Neutral

Answer: Negative Charge and Positive Charge

Answer: Good charges

Answer: Positive and negative

Answer: Negative

Answer: Static Charge

Answer: Negative charges

Answer: Bad Charges

Answer: Positive

Question: Charges can move when they are unbalanced by what?

Answer: "Friction"

Answer: Rubbing rubber shoes on mat or carpet

Answer: Opposite charge or build up charge

Answer: Rubber

Answer: Rubbing your feet on wool mat or carpet

Answer: Stomping on a carpet

Answer: Water

Answer: Jumping up and down

Answer: Wool

Question: What happens if a teeter-totter is balanced?

Answer: Nothing it doesnt move

Answer: It doesn't move

Answer: It will move

Answer: It means the charges are imbalanced

Question: What kind of charges are needed to produce static electricity?

Answer: Negative charge

Answer: Neutral charge

Answer: Stationary

Answer: Positive and Negative charges

Answer: Negative

Answer: Bad charge

Answer: Positive charge

Answer: Good charge

Answer: Like a teeter-totter

Answer: One positive charge and one negative charge

Question: How are electrical charges similar to a teeter-totter?

Answer: An imbalance means something is going to move

Answer: They are outside

Answer: You'll get shocked if you touch a teeter-totter

Answer: Charges does not move when it is balanced

Answer: If they are balanced they do not move

Answer: The two items become unbalanced

Answer: Teeter-totters cause large amounts of electrical charges

Answer: Charges move when they are not balanced, just like a teeter-totter moves when it is not balanced

Question: What happens to static electricity if it is balanced?

Answer: The charge is neutral

Answer: Then there is no charge

Answer: All the negative charge is on the wool

Answer: Nothing

Answer: All the positive charge is on the wool

Answer: It does not move

Answer: It moves

Question: When static electricity is not balanced, what happens to the charges?

Answer: The objects have a positive or negative charge

Answer: There is a neutral charge

Answer: Charge doesnt not move and become powerless

Answer: Just like the teeter-totter, something is going to move

Answer: Nothing

Answer: The charge is balanced like a teeter-totter

Answer: There is no charge

Answer: Charges move and increase power

Answer: The charges move


The Principals Committee had its first meeting on al Qaeda on September 4. On the day of the meeting, Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The "real question" before the principals, he wrote, was "are we serious about dealing with the al Qida threat? Is al Qida a big deal? Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping al Qida attacks and hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the US," Clarke wrote. "What would those decision makers wish that they had done earlier? That future day could happen at any time." Clarke then turned to the Cole." The fact that the USS Cole was attacked during the last Administration does not absolve us of responding for the attack," he wrote. "Many in al Qida and the Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole: that they can kill Americans without there being a US response, without there being a price."

Question: On what date did Clarke send Rice a note criticizing U.S. counter-terrorism efforts?

Answer: The day of the attack of the USS Cole

Answer: September 4

Answer: September 11

Answer: September 5

Answer: On the day of the Principals Meeting

Answer: Sometime in September

Question: The real question' is 'is al Qida a big deal'. Who did Clarke expect to answer this?

Answer: The Taliban

Answer: Rice

Answer: Decision makers

Answer: The principals

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: Bill Clinton

Answer: Interviewers

Answer: The Captain of the USS Cole

Question: Who said that the USS Cole was attacked during the Clinton administration?

Answer: Rice

Answer: President Clinton

Answer: No one

Answer: The Principals

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: Clarke

Question: What two things did Clarke urge decision makers to do because the future could happen at any time?

Answer: Have a meeting of the Principals Committee and contact the Captain of the USS Cole for advice

Answer: Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day

Answer: Imagine themselves on a future day and answer the question re we serious about dealing with the al Qida [sic] threat

Answer: Imagine themselves in a future terrorist attack and ask themselves what they could have done earlier

Answer: Disband the CSG and have a meeting of the Principals Committee

Answer: Decide

Answer: Don't retaliate for the Cole

Answer: Assess the threats of Al qida

Answer: Make decisions earlier

Question: Who did Clarke criticized when he sent Rice an impassioned personal note?

Answer: Counterterrorism

Answer: The Taliban

Answer: Rice

Answer: U.S. counterterrorism

Answer: The USS Cole

Answer: Past U.S counterterrorism efforts

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present

Answer: The Principals Committee

Question: What was the main subject of the Principal Committee's meeting?

Answer: Al Qida

Answer: US

Answer: Terrorist threats to the US

Answer: The severity of the Al qida threat

Answer: Rice

Answer: U.S. counterterrorism efforts

Answer: Attack on the USS Cole

Answer: US Committee

Answer: Clarke

Question: Who states that "The Taliban may have drawn the wrong lesson from the Cole"?

Answer: Rice

Answer: No one

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: The Clinton Administration

Answer: Clarke

Question: When Clarke sent Rice the note, who was having a meeting?

Answer: Principals

Answer: The committee

Answer: The Taliban

Answer: Al Quida

Answer: The Captain of the USS Cole

Answer: Clarke

Answer: The Principals Committee

Question: On September 4, who criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts?

Answer: Rice

Answer: President Clinton

Answer: President Bush

Answer: The Principals

Answer: Al Qaeda

Answer: Clarke

Answer: Cole


After his cousin Joe dies , Layne Vassimer and his girlfriend Macy , along with their friends Stephen , Maurice , Iris and Katrina , decide to clean up Joe's house with the intention of selling it .  When they see it for the first time , they discover the house completely covered in plates of iron armor .  The group also finds crop circles in the nearby cornfield .  When Iris , one of their friends , suddenly disappears they realize something is really wrong .  During a blackout , the house is attacked by aliens , who had previously killed Joe and abducted Iris .  The group figures out the aliens are allergic to iron , Joe had covered the house in it to keep them out .  They attempt to fight the aliens off , but the house is eventually blown up with Layne , Macy , and Katrina the only survivors .  In the end , they drive off , listening to the radio .  They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada .  They also hear that people everywhere are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''

Question: Which relative of Joe's discovers that his house is covered in plates of iron armor?

Answer: His cousin Layne

Answer: Macy

Answer: Layne

Question: Did any of Layne and Macy's friends survive the alien attack?

Answer: Yes

Answer: Yes, katrina

Answer: Yes, stephen

Question: Why did Joe cover the house with iron?

Answer: The aliens are allergic to iron

Answer: He is a weird guy

Answer: To keep out his friends

Answer: To keep aliens out

Question: Did Macy's boyfriend survive the alien attack?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: What did Joe use to cover his house and why?

Answer: Iron, to keep out aliens

Answer: Aliens are allergic to iron

Answer: Joe used plates of iron armor to cover his house to keep out the aliens because they are allergic to iron

Answer: Again he is a weirdo

Answer: Wood, to keep out his friends

Question: Whose house was eventually blown up?

Answer: Joe's

Answer: Layne's

Answer: Joe's house

Question: When did the survivors realize that their blackout experience also affects five western states and parts of Canada?

Answer: When they drove off, listening to a news report on the radio

Answer: When getting to joe's house

Answer: When heard on car radio

Question: How do the survivors hear the news report about the blackout?

Answer: The radio

Answer: Listening to the car radio

Answer: Iris

Question: What is the condition of Joe's house after his death?

Answer: Normal

Answer: The house is completely covered in plates of iron armor

Answer: Covered with iron plates

Answer: Completely covered in iron Armor plates

Answer: Blown up

Question: Who attacks the house following Iris's disappearance?

Answer: Aliens

Answer: Layne

Question: How many people from the group remained after Iris was abducted?

Answer: 5

Answer: 6

Question: What they find when they cleaned Joe's house?

Answer: Joe

Answer: Gold

Answer: They find crop circles in the nearby cornfield

Answer: Crop circles

Answer: Iron plates, crop circles, and aliens

Question: Who learned by listening to the radio that people everywhere were being attacked by strange creatures?

Answer: Maurice, stephen, iris

Answer: Layne , Macy , and Katrina

Question: Did Layne Vassimer's girlfriend survive the alien attack?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: The aliens, responsible for killing Joe and abducting Iris, are allergic to what?

Answer: Corn fields

Answer: Iron

Question: Where did Iris disappear?

Answer: Corn field

Answer: In Joe's house

Answer: Joes house

Question: What happens to the group as they go to Joe's house?

Answer: They had a pary

Answer: One of them , suddenly disappears and that is Iris who is abducted by aliens when they go to the near by corn field

Answer: Car breaks down

Answer: Iris goes missing

Answer: They got attacked by aliens

Question: What are they listening to on radio?

Answer: News about the blackout

Answer: They hear a news report stating that the blackout they experienced affects five western states and parts of Canada

Answer: Hip hop songs

Answer: Aliens

Answer: News

Question: Where they the only or the first people to experience such a problem?

Answer: No,people everywhere are being attacked by strange creatures for example in five western states and parts of Canada also experience the blackout

Answer: No they werent the only people, and no not the first

Answer: Yes they were the only people, and first to encounter the aliens

Question: Of the people who had initially entered Joe's house with an intention of cleaning it up, who didn't make it out at the end?

Answer: Stephen, Iris, Maurice

Answer: Layne, macy, katrina

Answer: Stephen, Maurice and Iris

Question: What is the another news they heard form the radio?

Answer: Affected 5 states and parts of canada

Answer: Blackout affected 5 other states a parts of canada

Answer: People are being attacked by `` strange creatures . ''

Answer: Mariah Carrey and nick Canon broke up

Question: Whose house was attacked by aliens during a blackout?

Answer: Joe's

Answer: Layne's

Question: How many people went to the house and how many survived?

Answer: Six people went and only three survived. The survivors are Layne , Macy , and Katrina. Iris was abducted by the aliens while Stephen and Maurice may have died when the house was blown

Answer: 5 went, and all survived

Answer: 6 went, and 3 survived

Question: Who killed Joe and why do Layne Vassimer, Macy and their other friends clean up his house?

Answer: The aliens killed Joe and his house was cleaned up to be sold

Answer: His girlfriend

Answer: Aliens

Answer: Iris, and the cleaned because Joe did not before he died

Answer: Aliens, and they cleaned it up with intentions of selling


The new administration had already begun exploring possible diplomatic options, retracing many of the paths traveled by its predecessors.U.S. envoys again pressed the Taliban to turn  Bin Laden "over to a country where he could face justice" and repeated, yet again, the warning that the Taliban would be held responsible for any al Qaeda attacks on U.S. interests. The Taliban's representatives repeated their old arguments. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told us that while U.S. diplomats were becoming more active on Afghanistan through the spring and summer of 2001, "it would be wrong for anyone to characterize this as a dramatic shift from the previous administration." In deputies meetings at the end of June, Tenet was tasked to assess the prospects forTaliban cooperation with the United States on al Qaeda. The NSC staff was tasked to flesh out options for dealing with the Taliban. Revisiting these issues tried the patience of some of the officials who felt they had already been down these roads and who found the NSC's procedures slow." We weren't going fast enough,"Armitage told us. Clarke kept arguing that moves against the Taliban and al Qaeda should not have to wait months for a larger review of U.S. policy in South Asia." For the government," Hadley said to us,"we moved it along as fast as we could move it along." As all hope in moving the Taliban faded, debate revived about giving covert assistance to the regime's opponents. Clarke and the CIA's Cofer Black renewed the push to aid the Northern Alliance. Clarke suggested starting with modest aid, just enough to keep the Northern Alliance in the fight and tie down al Qaeda terrorists, without aiming to overthrow the Taliban. Rice, Hadley, and the NSC staff member for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, told us they opposed giving aid to the Northern Alliance alone. They argued that the program needed to have a big part for Pashtun opponents of theTaliban. They also thought the program should be conducted on a larger scale than had been suggested. Clarke concurred with the idea of a larger program, but he warned that delay risked the Northern Alliance's final defeat at the hands of the Taliban. During the spring, the CIA, at the NSC's request, had developed draft legal authorities-a presidential finding-to undertake a large-scale program of covert assistance to the Taliban's foes.

Question: Who thought the program should be larger?

Answer: Richard

Answer: Zalmay Khalilzad

Answer: Rice

Answer: Hadley

Answer: Rice, Hadley, and Zalmay Khalilzad

Answer: Clarke

Question: Who pushed for support of the Northern Alliance?

Answer: CIA's Cofer Black

Answer: Richard Armitage

Answer: Hadley

Answer: Cofer Black

Answer: Clarke

Question: The northern Alliance was an opponent of?

Answer: Al qaeda

Answer: The Taliban


On to the Twentieth Century: The British extended their control over the peninsula by putting together the whole panoply of colonial administration — civil service, public works, judiciary force, police force, post office, education, and land regulation — with teams of British administrators, teachers, engineers, and doctors to go with it. At the same time, the tin industry, dominated by Chinese using labor-intensive methods in the 19th century, passed increasingly into Western hands, who employed the modern technology of gravel pumps and mining dredges. Petroleum had been found in northern Borneo, at Miri, and in Brunei, and the Anglo-Dutch Shell company used Singapore as its regional depot for its oil supplies and exports. But the major breakthrough for the Malay economy was the triumph of rubber, when Singapore's new garden director, Henry Ridle ("Rubber Ridley" to his friends, "Mad Ridley" to all doubting Thomases) had developed new planting and tapping methods and painstakingly spread his faith in rubber around the peninsula. World demand increased with the growth of the motor-car and electrical industries, and sky-rocketed during World War I. By 1920, Malaya was producing 53 percent of the world's rubber, which had overtaken tin as its main source of income. The Malay ruling class again took a back seat. Together with effective control of the rubber and tin industries, the British now firmly held the reins of government. The sultans were left in charge of local and religious affairs, content with their prestige, prosperity, and security. The census of 1931 served as an alarm signal for the Malay national consciousness. Bolstered by a new influx of immigrants to meet the rubber and tin booms of the 1920s, non-Malays now slightly outnumbered the indigenous population. The Great Depression of 1929 stepped up ethnic competition in the shrinking job market, and nationalism developed to safeguard Malay interests against the Chinese and Indians rather than the British imperial authority. Though hampered by the peninsula's division into the States and the Straits Settlements, relatively conservative Muslim intellectuals and community leaders came together at the Pan-Malayan Malay Congress in Kuala Lumpur in 1939. In Singapore the following year, they were joined by representatives from Sarawak and Brunei. Teachers and journalists urged the revival of the common Malay-Indonesian consciousness, split by the Anglo-Dutch dismemberment of the region in the 19th century. This spirit became a factor in the gathering clouds of war.

Question: What caused the Malay ruling class to take a back seat?

Answer: The Ottomans

Answer: Malaya's rubber production

Answer: Malaya producing 53 percent of the world's rubber, which had overtaken tin as its main source of income

Answer: Ruling class

Answer: Auto and electrical industry demand for rubber, which dramatically increased during World War I

Answer: The demand of motor vehicle companies for rubber

Answer: Increased demand for rubber

Answer: The British overthrew the government

Answer: Producing 53 Percent of world rubber

Answer: The Chinese fomented a revolution

Answer: The dismal financial aspects

Question: What was happening at the same time that the British extended their control over the peninsula by putting together the whole panoply of colonial administration?

Answer: The tin industry passed increasingly into Western hands, who employed the modern technology of gravel pumps and mining dredges

Answer: Petroleum prices rose sharply due to demand triggered by WWI

Answer: The sultans raised taxes

Answer: Panoply of colonial

Answer: The tin industry, which had been dominated by the Chinese, increasingly became dominated by Western interests

Answer: Fishery became popular

Answer: Demand for tin fell dramatically

Answer: Tin industry passed increasingly into Western hands

Answer: The tin industry passed into Western hands

Answer: Petroleum had been found in northern Borneo

Question: Who was joined by representatives from Sarawak and Brunei in Singapore?

Answer: The British

Answer: Muslim intellectuals

Answer: Americans

Answer: The Malay ruling class

Answer: Community leaders

Answer: Sarawak

Answer: The sultans

Answer: Relatively conservative Muslim intellectuals

Answer: Conservative Muslim intellectuals and community leaders


The little party in the cabin, so disastrously begun, finished, under the mellowing influence of wine and woman, in excellent feeling and with some hilarity.  Mamie, in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk, sat, an apparent queen, among her rude surroundings and companions.  The dusky litter of the cabin set off her radiant trimness: tarry Johnson was a foil to her fair beauty; she glowed in that poor place, fair as a star; until even I, who was not usually of her admirers, caught a spark of admiration; and even the captain, who was in no courtly humour, proposed that the scene should be commemorated by my pencil.  It was the last act of the evening.  Hurriedly as I went about my task, the half-hour had lengthened out to more than three before it was completed: Mamie in full value, the rest of the party figuring in outline only, and the artist himself introduced in a back view, which was pronounced a likeness.  But it was to Mamie that I devoted the best of my attention; and it was with her I made my chief success.

Question: How long did the last act of the evening take before it was completed?

Answer: Half hour

Answer: 3 hours

Answer: 30 minutes

Answer: Three hours

Question: What was the last act of the evening?

Answer: The author was to take a picture

Answer: Drawing a picture

Answer: Taking aphoto

Answer: Drawing a picture of the people at the party

Answer: The party

Answer: The speaker drawing the festivities

Answer: Singing together

Answer: Sketching a picture of the scene

Answer: The author was to draw a picture of them

Answer: Drawing the party

Answer: A drawing of the party

Answer: Singing a song

Question: What task took more than three hours to complete?

Answer: Drawing Mamie

Answer: Taking the picture

Answer: Sketching a picture of the scene

Answer: Drawing the party

Answer: Cleaning up after the party

Answer: Drawing the picture

Question: Was the author usually an admirer of the women in a plush Gainsborough hat and a gown of wine-coloured silk.

Answer: No

Answer: No one

Answer: Mamie

Question: Who glowed in that poor place, fair as a star?

Answer: The Captain

Answer: The author

Answer: Mamie

Question: Did the artist partly draw a character named Johnson in outline?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: Did the speaker do as the captain requested?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: Did the speaker devote their attention to the character in a plush Gainsborough hat?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes


Tommy and Suzy (brother and sister) went to the playground one afternoon with their mom and dad, Jan and Dean. They were playing a game of tag and having the best time ever running after each other and laughing. They liked to play tag instead of building sandcastles or swinging. They liked tag because they liked to run. They like to play hopscotch or jump rope but that day they wanted to play tag. Other games aren't as fun. They met Tony and Ally (who are best friends) and invited them to play tag too. Tony and Ally like to play other games like hopscotch or jump rope but that day they joined the game of tag. Making new friends is important. Tony and Ally would rather make friends than play their favorite games.

Question: Who invited Tony and Ally to play tag?

Answer: Suzy's parents

Answer: Jan

Answer: Tommy

Answer: Jean

Answer: Dean

Answer: Suzy

Question: Which game is the most fun?

Answer: Playing tag

Answer: Jump rope

Answer: Tag

Answer: Monopoly

Answer: Running after each other and laughing

Answer: Hopscotch

Question: Who was playing tag?

Answer: Jan

Answer: Ally

Answer: Tony

Answer: Tommy

Answer: Dean

Answer: Suzy

Question: If Tony and Ally prefer making friends to their favorite games, what games would they play otherwise?

Answer: Tennis

Answer: Tag

Answer: Hopscotch

Answer: Jump rope

Question: What game do Jan and Dean's children like to play more than building sandcastles or swinging?

Answer: Golf

Answer: Baseball

Answer: Tag

Answer: Tennis

Answer: Hopscotch

Question: What were the four names of the children that played on the playground?

Answer: Ron

Answer: Jan

Answer: Wade

Answer: Ally

Answer: Tony

Answer: James

Answer: Tommy

Answer: Mary

Answer: Dean

Answer: Jacob

Answer: Suzy

Question: Whom did Tony and Ally make friends within the playground?

Answer: Jan

Answer: Dan

Answer: Tommy

Answer: Jean

Answer: Dean

Answer: Suzy

Question: Did Tony, Ally, Tommy, and Suzy all become friends that day?

Answer: Yes, they all became friends

Answer: They played separately

Answer: No

Answer: They turned away

Question: Which other games aren't as fun as tag?

Answer: Building sandcastles

Answer: Tennis

Answer: Jump rope

Answer: Hopscotch

Question: Why did Tony and Ally join in the game of tag?

Answer: Important to make friends

Answer: They liked hopscotch

Answer: They liked to run

Answer: They preferred to make friends than play their favorite games

Answer: Because making new friends is important

Answer: Did not care about making friends

Answer: They preferred jump rope

Question: Why is playing tag better than building sandcastles?

Answer: Playing tag involves running

Answer: They liked tag because they hate sand

Answer: You get tired

Answer: It involves sitting

Answer: They liked tag because they liked to run

Answer: Because it includes running

Answer: Other games are not as fun

Question: Why do Tommy and Suzy like to play tag?

Answer: Because they like to run

Answer: They liked to have fun

Answer: They wanted to relax

Answer: They wanted to sit quietly

Answer: To sleep

Question: Who wanted to play tag instead of hopscotch or jump rope?

Answer: Jan

Answer: Ally

Answer: Tony

Answer: Tommy

Answer: Dean

Answer: Suzy

Question: Which game Tommy and Suzy liked playing?

Answer: Golf

Answer: Baseball

Answer: Tag

Answer: Tennis

Answer: Running

Answer: Hopscotch

Question: Who are mentioned as being at the playground that day?

Answer: Jan

Answer: Hannah

Answer: Their Mom and Dad

Answer: Ally

Answer: Tony

Answer: The new friends

Answer: Eric

Answer: Tommy

Answer: Suzy

Question: What two activities do all four children play but didn't play on that day on the playground?

Answer: Jump rope

Answer: Tag

Answer: Tennis

Answer: Hopscotch

Answer: Hopscotch and jump rope are two activities that all four children like to play

Question: Would Tony and Ally prefer to play hopscotch or make friends?

Answer: Make friends

Answer: Play hopscotch

Answer: Jump rope

Answer: Hopscotch


Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday. His turtle's name was Tumble. Tumble liked to walk around outside in the garden and dig small holes to sleep in. Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school. Tumble's favorite food was oatmeal. So, every day after school, Billy would make Tumble a big bowl of oatmeal and take it outside for Tumble to enjoy. Tumble would see Billy and walk up to him as fast as a turtle can go. Billy would put the bowl down and wait for Tumble to come up to the bowl to eat from it. When Tumble reached the bowl, he put his nose on it. But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat. Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat. Once the oatmeal was cool enough, Tumble could dig in and eat his big bowl of oatmeal. Billy loved to watch as Tumble ate his bowl of oatmeal, because Billy took good care of Tumble, everyday.

Question: Did Tumble eat the oatmeal after Billy blew on it?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: Who would make Tumble's favorite food everyday?

Answer: Porridge

Answer: Billy

Answer: Oatmeal

Question: Whom did Billy visit everyday in the garden when he got home from school?

Answer: Tumble

Answer: His dog

Question: What kind of pet did Billy have and what was its name?

Answer: A dog names spot

Answer: Billy had a pet turtle that he took good care of, everyday. His turtle's name was Tumble

Answer: A turtle named tumble

Question: When would Billy visit Tumble and what is Tumbles favorite food?

Answer: After school

Answer: Billy loved Tumble and would visit him outside when he got home from school.Tumble's favorite food was oatmeal

Answer: Every morning

Question: What kind of pet did Billy own?

Answer: Billy had a pet turtle named Tumble

Answer: A turtle

Answer: A dog

Question: What motivated Tumble to walk so fast towards Billy?

Answer: He saw the oatmeal

Answer: Nothing

Question: Who was Tumble?

Answer: A dog

Answer: Tumble was Billy's pet turtle

Answer: A turtle, billy's pet

Question: What would Billy do for Tumble after school?

Answer: Give him a bath

Answer: Bring him oatmeal

Answer: He would visit him and give him oatmeal

Question: How did Billy feel about his pet turtle?

Answer: Billy loved his turtle

Answer: Billy toletated him

Answer: Billy cared about his pet because he took care of Tumble everyday

Question: What were some of Tumble's favorite things?

Answer: Socks

Answer: He loved digging holes in the garden and oatmeal

Answer: Oatmeal, and holes to sleep in

Question: What is Billy's pet turtle's name?

Answer: Speedy

Answer: Tumble

Question: What would Tumble do when he saw Billy?

Answer: Run as fast as a turtle would go

Answer: Do somersaults

Answer: Tumble would walk quickly to Billy and get his food

Question: What kinds of things did Tumble like to do?

Answer: Sleep in his cage

Answer: Tumble liked to walk around in the yard and dig holes

Answer: Go outside and dig holes to sleep in

Question: What would happen if the oatmeal was too hot to eat?

Answer: Tumble would burn himself

Answer: Billy would blow on it until Tumble could eat it

Answer: Tumble would not eat it

Question: What would Billy give to Tumble outside everyday?

Answer: Porridge

Answer: Oatmeal

Question: What was Tumble doing when he put his nose in the bowl?

Answer: Eating

Answer: Smelling the oatmeal

Answer: Eating it

Question: What was Tumble walking towards so quickly?

Answer: Bowl

Answer: Billy

Answer: The dog

Question: Why did Tumble not eat his oatmeal and what did Billy do about it?

Answer: But, the oatmeal was too hot to eat. Billy reached down and blew on the hot oatmeal, to cool it down for Tumble to eat

Answer: It was too cold and billy had to warm it up

Answer: It was too hot and billy had to blow on it


Low-income domestic violence victims may find long-term legal help -- representation in divorces or child-custody disputes -- hard to come by, if two organizations now providing such help can't replace their lost funding. The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and Utah Legal Services are already facing cutbacks after they were refused a federal grant of more than $450,000 in September. The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations [CVR] has voted to deny a stopgap funding request from the two organizations. While describing the request as a worthy cause, board members agreed Tuesday that funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus -- providing direct services for crime victims. The $175,000 requested would have allowed the legal aid groups to maintain a skeleton staff to continue providing help beyond emergency protective orders for victims, completing existing cases and offering services in limited cases. The groups also plan to enlist more pro bono attorneys through coordination with the Utah State Bar. "We don't have a lot more options," said Anne Milne, executive director of Utah Legal Services, after learning of the CVR refusal Wednesday. The organization has already lost some staff through attrition and has turned away some cases, she said. Milne said she may ask the board overseeing her organization to give her until November to seek funding from additional sources. Without additional funding, the outlook for longer-term legal help is unclear. For two years, the groups had received 18-month civil legal assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Justice and had used them to provide such assistance. But last month, a third request was denied. Funding used to help victims obtain emergency protective orders remains in place, said Milne and Stewart Ralphs, executive director of the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake. Although an order's requirements that an abuser stay away from a victim may remain in effect for years, protective orders only settle issues such as child custody, child support, custody and property arrangements for 150 days. Many judges are reluctant to address those issues in emergency protective orders, since the decrees stay in effect for such a short time, Milne and Ralphs said. "The likelihood a victim will return to her abuser increases if she cannot permanently sever the relationship and establish workable support, custody and property arrangements," the funding request to CVR said. The Department of Justice said it denied the grant application, in part, because evaluators did not see enough collaboration between the organizations and victims' advocates, Ralphs and Milne told CVR board members. While the two said they believe their organizations coordinate well, the organizations cannot appeal the grant denial. Although CVR board members considered giving the money as a loan, not a grant, their vote on the funding request -- taken after Milne and Ralphs left the meeting -- was unanimous.

Question: When a judge issues an emergency protective order is it long or short term and how many days does it cover?

Answer: Emergency protective orders are short term and it lasts for a 150 days

Answer: These are shorter orders and stay for 150 days

Answer: Emergency protective orders are long term

Answer: Short term

Question: Are Utah Legal Services and the Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake well staffed?

Answer: No. They run on a skeleton crew of attrition and face cutbacks

Answer: No they are losing staff due to cutbacks

Answer: They are well staffed but face lack of funding

Answer: No they have a shortage

Question: The two organizations who made a stopgap funding request asked for how much money?

Answer: $450,000

Answer: 175,000

Answer: $175,000

Question: Board members overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations described what request as a worthy cause?

Answer: Divorce

Answer: A stopgap funding request from two organizations

Answer: The service that the two organizations provided

Answer: The request for additional funding

Question: The board overseeing the state Office of Crime Victim Reparations voted to deny a stopgap funding request for which two organizations?

Answer: Legal Aid

Answer: The Legal Aid Society and Utah Legal Services

Answer: The Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake and the Utah Legal Services

Answer: CVR Board

Question: Did the Office of Crime Victim Reparations vote to uphold the funding request and if not, why was the stopgap measure refused?

Answer: The refused to uphold the funding request . The stopgap measure was refused because funding divorces or custody disputes was outside their focus of providing direct services for crime victims

Answer: They denied the request because it did not provide direct services for crime victims

Answer: The organization had already lost some staff

Answer: Not they did not


Life for the partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund holds little of the glamour one might expect from a career in law. Instead of lunches at Lut��ce, they caucus at the Palace Diner in Queens. Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners, not securing box seats at Madison Square Garden. To make ends meet, one partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse. Another handles urine samples in a hospital lab. A sign of failure, of a feeble economy, perhaps? Hardly. They are heeding the call of a growing pool of law schools, which are for the first time pointing graduates in a new direction and teaching them how to get there. Forget the lure of large firms, the security of a government post. Here is how to grapple "in the service of justice," as many of the schools put it, instead. Convinced that corporate largess and government programs barely dent the nation's legal needs, the law schools are urging graduates to buck tradition, pass up big salaries and ignore mushrooming student debt to join tiny neighborhood practices or simply start their own, all with an eye toward charging no more than their clients can afford. This is not pro bono legal work; it is "low bono," a term the schools coined to define the atypical kind of law career they are training students for. While its practitioners do charge for their services, they are also dead set on turning no one away - or at least as few as possible. "When you go into this kind of social justice law, it's really brutal and you're almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years before there's a light at the end of the tunnel," said Fred Rooney, director of the Community Legal Resource Network at City University of New York School of Law, from which the lawyers of the newly formed Cates, Katalinic & Lund graduated last May. "But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar." The movement, primly called the consortium, started four years ago by CUNY, Northeastern University, the University of Maryland and St. Mary's Law School in Texas. (St. Mary's later dropped out.) Since then, it has drawn seven additional law schools to its ranks: the University of Michigan, Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools, New York Law School, University of New Mexico School of Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Touro Law School. It has elicited at least initial interest from 19 more.

Question: Which two places does this article state typical lawyers go?

Answer: Start own practice

Answer: Hospital lab

Answer: University of new Mexico

Answer: Large firms

Answer: Large firms, government posts

Answer: Government post

Answer: They lunch at Lut��ce and get box seats at Madison Square Garden

Question: Consdider the original schools in the consortium and those that have joined to find out how many are currently teaching this type of law.

Answer: University of Michigan

Answer: Ten schools currently teach this

Answer: Rutgers and Syracuse Law Schools

Answer: New York Law School

Answer: Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Answer: University of New Mexico School of Law

Answer: Madison University

Answer: Ohio State

Question: What kind of legal work do recent graduates of City University of New York School of Law tend to find, which pays very little?

Answer: Large firm

Answer: Pro bono

Answer: Small law firm

Answer: Open own law office

Answer: Independent

Answer: Government posts

Answer: Low bono

Question: What food establishment do Cates, Katalinic & Lund frequent?

Answer: Community legal resource network

Answer: Queens

Answer: Palace Diner in Queens

Answer: Sele Diner

Answer: Madison Square Garden

Answer: McDonalds

Answer: Palace Diner

Question: One partner stacks pipe and cleans the yard at a plumbing warehouse while the other handles what?

Answer: Teaching and tutoring law students

Answer: Hospital lab specimens

Answer: Urine samples

Answer: Pro bono legal cases

Answer: Urine samples in a hospital lab

Answer: Paperwork

Question: Who made this statement: "But if our graduates don't do it, the millions of people who cannot access justice in this country will continue to soar."

Answer: Fred Rooney

Answer: University of Maryland

Answer: Northeaster University

Answer: CUNY

Answer: Cates Katalnic & Lund

Answer: Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Answer: St. Mary's Law School

Answer: Katalinic

Answer: Thomas Cooley

Question: Is the difficult lifestyle portrayed by partners of Cates, Katalinic & Lund the result of a feeble economy?

Answer: Yes

Answer: Not Really

Answer: Absolutely

Answer: Possibly

Question: Do the lawyers practicing "low bono" work struggle and take side jobs?

Answer: Almost guaranteed to struggle for a couple of years

Answer: Sometimes

Answer: Law is their side job

Answer: They charge large fees and live comfortably

Answer: Never

Answer: One works in a lab handling samples and one works with at a plumbing warehouse but all struggle initially

Answer: It's easy

Question: Wooing clients means passing out fliers on street corners for partners of what company?

Answer: Fred Rooney

Answer: Thomas M Cooley

Answer: Cates, Katalinic & Lund

Answer: Cates Katalnic & Lund

Answer: Lund

Answer: Law School

Answer: Katalinic

Answer: Life Partners

Answer: Cates

Question: What was the first educational institution in Texas to leave "The consortium" of schools?

Answer: Texas A&M

Answer: Thomas M Cooley Law School

Answer: St Marys Law School

Answer: St. Mary's Law School

Answer: Rutgers


Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, stating that God "is not playing at dice." Einstein continued to maintain his disbelief in the theory, and attempted unsuccessfully to disprove it until he died at the age of 76. In 1917, at the height of his work on relativity, Einstein published an article in Physikalische Zeitschrift that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser. This article showed that the statistics of absorption and emission of light would only be consistent with Planck's distribution law if the emission of light into a mode with n photons would be enhanced statistically compared to the emission of light into an empty mode. This paper was enormously influential in the later development of quantum mechanics, because it was the first paper to show that the statistics of atomic transitions had simple laws. Einstein discovered Louis de Broglie's work, and supported his ideas, which were received skeptically at first. In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of mechanics. This paper would inspire Schrodinger's work of 1926.

Question: Would Einstein live to disprove the theory he had a role in developing?

Answer: No, he died at age 76 without disproving quantum theory and mechanics

Answer: Maybe

Answer: Yes

Question: What did Einstein publish in that showed the statistics of absorption and proposed the possibility of stimulated emission?

Answer: Schrodinger's work of 1926

Answer: Physikalische Zeitschrift

Answer: Article in Physikalische Zeitschrift

Question: When did Einstein publish an article that was aligned with Planck's distribution law

Answer: The height of his work on relativity, 1917

Answer: 1917

Answer: 1926

Question: After discovering Louis de Broglie's work, what did Einstein give for de Broglie waves?

Answer: Hamilton-Jacobi equation

Answer: A wave equation

Question: What was the paper that was influential in the development of quantum mechanics about?

Answer: Schrodinger's work of 1926

Answer: Statistics of absorption and emission of light

Answer: Physikalische Zeitschrift

Answer: Article in Physikalische Zeitschrift

Question: Einstein continued to maintain his disbelief in what theory?

Answer: De Broglie theory

Answer: Quantum theory

Answer: Schrodinger theory

Question: The inspiration for Schrodinger's work came from what equation?

Answer: Hamilton-Jacobi equation

Answer: De Broglie equation

Answer: Einstein equation

Answer: Hamilton-Jacob equation of mechanics

Question: Who's work did Einstein discover that would later inspire Schrodinger's work?

Answer: Schrodinger

Answer: Plank

Answer: Louis de Broglie


Crusaders, Mamelukes, and Turks: The Crusaders established a feudal Christian state with Godfrey at its head. They built many impressive churches during the term of the first Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, but in 1187 they were driven out by Muslim forces under the great warrior Saladin. During the Sixth Crusade (1228– 1229), the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II managed to secure Jerusalem for the Christians by negotiation. The Christians, however, could not hold the city. After they lost Jerusalem, a Mongol invasion swept through, and in 1244 the Mameluke dynasty of Egypt took control, ruling Jerusalem for the next 250 years. The city struggled to rebuild from Crusader wars and invasions. Much of the best Islamic architecture in the city was constructed in the Mameluke era, but the past thousand years had taken their toll: Jerusalem was unable to regain the prosperity it had enjoyed in earlier times. In the early 16th century, the Ottoman Turkish Empire was advancing through the Middle East. Jerusalem fell to the Ottomans in 1517, remaining under their control for 400 years. Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilt the walls and gates in the form they retain to this day. Fountains, inns, religious schools, and barracks were constructed. But when Suleiman died, his empire, including Jerusalem, began a long period of decline. The Holy City remained a backwater until the 19th century, when renewed interest among Christian pilgrims made it the destination of thousands of travelers each year.

Question: What happened during the Sixth Crusade with the Christians?

Answer: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II managed to secure Jerusalem for the Christians by negotiation.

Answer: They gained Jerusalem but lost it shortly after.

Answer: Christians gained control of Jerusalem

Answer: The Mameluke Dynasty took control of Jerusalem

Answer: The Ottoman Empire took control of Jerusalem

Answer: the muslims were able to overtake the territory

Answer: Saladin took over Jerusalem

Question: What happened to Jerusalem after the Christians lost it?

Answer: a Mongol invasion swept through

Answer: Jerusalem's prosperity dwindled

Answer: The Mameluke dynasty took control and struggled to rebuild it.

Answer: A lot of Islamic art was created in Jerusalem.

Answer: Rome's prosperity dwindled

Answer: Jerusalem became rich

Answer: the muslims left and went elsewhere

Question: Who ruled Jerusalem at some point?

Answer: Muslims

Answer: Christians

Answer: Ottomans

Answer: Mameluke dynasty

Answer: Gauls

Answer: Israel

Question: Who did NOT rule Jerusalem at some point?

Answer: Muslims

Answer: Christians

Answer: Ottomans

Answer: Mameluke dynasty

Answer: Americans

Question: Who built many impressive churches during the term of the first Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem?

Answer: Mameluke Dynasty

Answer: The Crusaders

Answer: Hebrews

Answer: Jews

Answer: the Muslims

Answer: Christians

Question: During the Sixth Crusade, what city could the Christians not hold?

Answer: Jerusalem

Answer: Tel Aviv

Answer: Constantinople

Answer: Islam

Answer: Rome

Question: Who had fountains, inns, religious schools, and barracks constructed in Jerusalem?

Answer: Suleiman the Magnificent

Answer: Alexander the Great

Answer: the christians

Answer: Caesar Augustus

Question: Who was driven out by Muslim forces under the great warrior Saladin in 1187?

Answer: The Crusaders

Answer: Gladiators

Answer: Templars

Answer: the muslims

Question: What city struggled to rebuild from Crusader wars and invasions?

Answer: Jerusalem

Answer: Tel Aviv

Answer: The Holy City

Answer: Constantinople

Answer: Rome

Answer: Mongolia

Answer: Turkey

Answer: Egypt


Tropical climates are found around the equator. These climates have warm temperatures year round. Tropical climates may be very wet or wet and dry. Tropical wet climates occur at or very near the equator. They have high rainfall year round. Tropical rainforests grow in this type of climate. Tropical wet and dry climates also occur near the equator. They receive less rainfall. Most of the rain falls in a single season. The rest of the year is dry. Few trees can withstand the long dry season. The main plants are grasses. Dry climates receive very little rainfall. They also have high rates of evaporation. This makes them even drier. Deserts can get less than 25 centimeters of rain per year. Thats less than 10 inches per year. How much rain do you get at your house?

Question: Which climates have warm temperatures year round?

Answer: Tropical

Answer: Climates near the equator

Answer: Deserts

Answer: Season climate

Answer: Tropical climates

Answer: Sub-tropical

Answer: Climates near north and south poles

Question: What types of plants can survive the long dry season?

Answer: Grasses

Answer: Trees

Answer: Forest trees

Answer: Few trees

Question: In a tropical wet and dry climate, in how much of the year does it rain?

Answer: Much of the year is dry

Answer: Less than a week a year

Answer: All year long

Answer: In a single season

Answer: Most of the year

Answer: Most rain falls in a single season

Answer: Year round

Answer: In a wet climate

Question: How often do tropical rainforest's experience rain?

Answer: All year long

Answer: 2 months out of the year

Answer: Year-round

Answer: Year round

Answer: During one season only

Answer: Very often

Question: Which type of climate has high rainfall year round?

Answer: Tropical wet and dry climates

Answer: Tropical wet climates

Answer: Deserts

Answer: Tropical rainforests

Answer: Dessert

Question: How much of the year do tropical rainforests receive high rainfall?

Answer: Less that 25 centimeters

Answer: In a single season

Answer: Most of the year is dry

Answer: Most of the year

Answer: Year-round

Answer: A year round

Answer: They recieve rainfall all year long

Answer: In dry climates

Question: What climates have high rates of evaporation?

Answer: Deserts

Answer: Wet climates

Answer: Wet and dry tropical climates

Answer: Tropical rainforests

Answer: Rainforests

Answer: Dry climates

Question: What are the climates around the equator like?

Answer: Wet climate

Answer: Very wet or wet and dry with warm temperatures around

Answer: Warm year round

Answer: Cold

Answer: Very dry

Answer: Tropical climate

Answer: Extremely hot

Question: How much rainfall do the deserts receive?

Answer: Less than 10 inches per year

Answer: Deserts can get less than 25 centimeters of rain per year

Answer: 2 months out of the year

Answer: Very little

Answer: Very high

Answer: All year round

Answer: Less than 10 cm

Answer: Alot

Question: Which climates have high rainfall year round?

Answer: Tropical wet and dry climates

Answer: Tropical wet climates

Answer: Deserts

Answer: Season climate

Answer: Tropical climates

Answer: Tropical rainforests

Answer: Rainforests

Question: What are the main plants in wet and dry climates?

Answer: Grasses

Answer: Trees

Answer: The main plants are grasses

Question: What was the temperature all year round, in the given paragraph?

Answer: Normal

Answer: High rainfall

Answer: Sometimes warm sometimes cool

Answer: Single season

Answer: Dry and hot

Answer: Never changed

Answer: Warm

Question: Do tropical wet and dry climates receive less or more rainfall than tropical wet climates?

Answer: Less

Answer: More

Answer: More rain

Question: Why do tropical climates have warm weather?

Answer: Found around the equator

Answer: They have high rainfall year around

Answer: They are at or very near the equator

Answer: They receive very little rainfall

Answer: They are near the north pole

Answer: Near dry climate

Question: Where are tropical climates found

Answer: Far from the equator

Answer: Near or around the equator

Answer: Dessert

Answer: Near the poles

Question: What are two factors contributing to the dryness of deserts?

Answer: Little rainfall, high evaporation

Answer: No rainfall, high temperature

Answer: There are few trees

Answer: They have high rates of evaporation

Answer: The main plants are grasses

Answer: No grasses, dryness

Answer: They receive little rainfall

Answer: Little rainfall, thirsty inhabitants

Answer: They receive very little rainfall, and the high rates of evaporation make them even drier

Question: Where do tropical rainforests grow?

Answer: Near the south pole

Answer: Tropical wet climates

Answer: In deserts

Answer: In tropical dry climates

Answer: Desserts

Answer: Areas with lots of trees

Answer: Tropical cold climate

Answer: Areas with high evaporation

Answer: Dessert

Answer: In tropical wet climates

Answer: Near the equator

Question: Which climates have high rates of evaporation?

Answer: Tropical wet

Answer: Wet climate

Answer: Deserts

Answer: Dry, hot climates

Answer: Tropical rainforests

Answer: Dry climates

Question: Where does it rain less than 10 inches a year?

Answer: Tropical wet climates

Answer: In deserts

Answer: Tropical rainforests

Answer: Desserts

Answer: Dry climates

Answer: Equator

Answer: Dry, desert climates


The explosion, while killing one of the Cossacks and seriously wounding the driver and people on the sidewalk, had only damaged the bulletproof carriage, a gift from Napoleon III of France. The emperor emerged shaken but unhurt. Rysakov was captured almost immediately. Police Chief Dvorzhitsky heard Rysakov shout out to someone else in the gathering crowd. The surrounding guards and the Cossacks urged the emperor to leave the area at once rather than being shown the site of the explosion. Nevertheless, a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, standing by the canal fence, raised both arms and threw something at the emperor's feet. He was alleged to have shouted, "It is too early to thank God". Dvorzhitsky was later to write:

Question: Did Police Chief Dvorzhitsky shout "It is too early to thank God"?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Answer: He was emerged shaken

Answer: He was alleged to have shouted

Question: Was the Emperor hurt when the explosion damaged his carriage?

Answer: He was shaken

Answer: Surrounding guards

Answer: No

Answer: Shaken but not hurt

Answer: Yes

Answer: Unhurt

Answer: He was bleeding

Question: How many times was the emperor attacked?

Answer: Twice

Answer: 2

Answer: Once

Answer: Three times

Question: What happened to Rysakov that caused him to shout out to someone else in the gathering crowd?

Answer: He was injured in the explosion

Answer: He was shaken

Answer: By the canal fence

Answer: Arrested

Answer: He was  captured

Question: Who was alleged to have shouted, "It is too early to thank God"?

Answer: Napoleon III of France

Answer: , a second young member of the Narodnaya Volya

Answer: Dvorzhitsky

Answer: Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Answer: Chief Dvorzhitsk

Question: What caused the emperor to emerge shaken but uninjured?

Answer: Cossacks

Answer: The bulletproof carriage

Answer: Luck

Answer: An explosion

Answer: Bombing

Answer: His position

Question: Who shouted "It is to early to thank god"?

Answer: Cossacks

Answer: A second young member of the Narodnaya Volya

Answer: The driver

Answer: Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Answer: Chief Dvorzhitsk

Question: How many assassins were at the scene of the bombing?

Answer: One

Answer: 2, Rysakov and Hryniewiecki

Answer: Ten

Answer: Five

Question: Who did Rysakov shout to?

Answer: Someone else in the gathering crowd

Answer: His mother

Answer: Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Answer: Someone else in the crowd

Answer: Chief Dvorzhitsky

Answer: Shout out to someone else

Question: What caused the emperor to become shaken?

Answer: An earthquake

Answer: Sidewalk

Answer: Bombing

Answer: The explosion

Question: Who is Rysakov?

Answer: The bomber

Answer: Member of the Narodnaya Volya

Answer: The driver

Answer: The person responsible for the explosion and a member of the young member of the Narodnaya Volya

Answer: The police chief

Answer: Police

Answer: Terrorist


At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears.  I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company.  Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.  They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits.  Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give.  Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake.

Question: What were the strange creatures?

Answer: Mono Indians

Answer: Tiger

Answer: Dragon

Question: What tribe were the men and women from?

Answer: Pirates

Answer: Mono inidans

Answer: Chineese

Answer: Mono

Question: Which two products were the mono Indians able to name?

Answer: Whisky and tobacco

Answer: Drugs

Answer: Gold

Answer: Food

Answer: They were able to name only whiskey and tobacco

Question: What were the two English words they knew?

Answer: Whisky and tobacco

Answer: Thanks

Question: What did the strangers want and what were they wearing?

Answer: They wanted tobacco and whiskey and they were wearing sage rabbit skins,

Answer: Jackets

Answer: Wears skin of sage rabbit

Answer: The wear masks

Answer: The want gold

Answer: Sex

Answer: They want whisky and tobacco

Question: What did the narrator consider doing when first approached by the Indians and how did he feel?

Answer: Tried to kill them

Answer: Suppressed his fear

Answer: Ran away

Answer: He considered turning back because he was afraid

Question: How was he able to find that the mono Indians did not understand English?

Answer: They told

Answer: Because he tried to convince them that he had no whiskey or tobacco

Answer: Their dress and languange

Question: Where did the pass lead to?

Answer: China

Answer: India

Answer: Shore of mono lake

Answer: The pass leads to the Yosemite valley

Answer: Himalayas

Question: Who did the narrator meet on his journey and what were they on their way to do?

Answer: He met Mono Indians who were going to the valley for trout and acorns

Answer: China

Answer: India

Answer: Mono Indian

Question: Why was he inclined to turn back?

Answer: Neck pain

Answer: Fear

Answer: He was inclined to turn back because a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward him with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears

Question: Why did everything seem grim?

Answer: The wild surroundings

Answer: Animals

Answer: Ghost

Answer: Because the rocks were surrounding him and scary creatures were moving towards him like bears

Question: Who was traveling to Yosemite Valley?

Answer: Bear

Answer: Chineese

Answer: The group of Mono Indians

Question: What color were the rabbit skins?

Answer: Yellow

Answer: Gray

Answer: Sage rabbits

Answer: Red

Answer: Brown

Answer: Green


The Legal Services Corp. (LSC), a quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor, would receive $329 million in fiscal 2004 under President Bush's proposal - the same amount requested in 2003 and approved for 2002 and 2001. If approved, the hold-the-line request for LSC means its budget would erode with inflation for another year, but it could be worse for the organization: Many conservatives fought for years to do away with the LSC altogether, saying legal services attorneys were spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government instead of representing the needy. Opposition to the organization has cooled since 1996, when Congress approved restrictions (PL 104-134) on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take. (1996 Almanac, p. 5-36) Republicans cut the organization's budget deeply in 1996, but its funding has recovered slowly. Last month, in the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2003, the Senate added a onetime increase of $19 million, which, if approved in the final version, would bring the LSC budget to $348 million. The money would go to help states, such as Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts made in 2000 of poor households. If the extra money survives a conference with the House and makes it to the president's desk, LSC supporters may try to include it in the organization's fiscal 2004 funding. The federal government began funding some programs to provide legal assistance to the poor in the late 1960s; the Legal Services Corporation was created in 1974 (PL 93-355). LSC gives nearly all its money to state and local agencies, which provide civil legal assistance to those whose income is less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level - $11,075 a year for an individual and $22,625 for a family of four. Funding for legal services goes to defend needy clients in domestic violence cases, custody cases and other such matters, according to LSC. Since 1996, lawyers who receive money from Legal Services have been prohibited from such activities as lobbying legislatures, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, pursuing abortion-related litigation, representing illegal aliens or prisoners, or defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs

Question: What year did the Republicans cut the LSC's budget?

Answer: 2004

Answer: 1996

Answer: 2000

Answer: 355

Answer: 1960s

Answer: 1994

Question: What types of cases were prohibited by PL 104-134?

Answer: Defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs

Answer: Representing illegal aliens or prisoners

Answer: Lobbying, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, abortion-related litigation, illegal alien and prisoner representation, and defense of those evicted from federal housing due to the sale of drugs

Answer: Criminal cases

Question: The Senate's onetime added contribution of $19 million to the LSC budget will go towards helping what cause?

Answer: Funding some programs to provide legal assistance to the poor

Answer: Fighting for liberal causes

Answer: The money would go to help states, such as Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts made in 2000 of poor households

Answer: Helping Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts

Answer: Opposition to the organization has cooled since 1996

Answer: To include it in the organization's fiscal 2004 funding

Question: Which political party cut the LSC's budget?

Answer: Democratic

Answer: Libertarian

Answer: Republican

Question: List the current budget of the LSC, and the budget with the addition of the onetime increase.

Answer: $348 million

Answer: 300 million

Answer: The current budget is $329 million and the increase would bring it to $348 million

Answer: 319 million

Question: What organization did Congress approve restriction on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take?

Answer: The NAACP

Answer: The Legal Services Corp. (LSC)

Answer: The Republicans

Answer: LSC

Answer: Michigan

Question: Republicans cut which organization's budget deeply in 1996?

Answer: The Legal Services Corp

Answer: The Republicans

Answer: Michigan

Answer: The NAACP

Question: What actions taken toward the LSC makes us think the view of the LSC might be a politically motivated one?

Answer: There were too many parties

Answer: Spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government

Answer: It says opposition was happening, but the opposition cooled after their budget was cut, and many types of cases were no longer allowed to be handled by LSC funded legal aid

Question: Provide the year in which the LSC was created and a summary of its services.

Answer: To help people with finances

Answer: A quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor

Answer: It was created in 1974 to provide funding to states for families who need civil legal services but are under 125% of the federal poverty line. They help in domestic abuse, custody matters, and other matters

Question: Opposition to which organization has cooled since 1996?

Answer: The Legal Services Corp

Answer: The NAACP

Question: What organization redistributed its funding based on census counts in Ohio and Michigan?

Answer: The Legal Services Corp

Answer: The Senate

Answer: LSC

Answer: LSN

Answer: A quasi-governmental agency

Question: What has happened to the LSC's funding since the 1996 budget cut?

Answer: Slow recovery

Answer: Its funding has recovered slowly

Answer: It has declined


(CNN) -- Horror-meister, Stephen King calls George Pelecanos "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." His stories are set in Pelecanos' hometown of Washington, D.C., but this is not the side of the U.S. capitol that you see portrayed on TV with white marble monuments, lawyers and lobbyists. Pelecanos is more interested in working families struggling to get by, the racial tensions in its ethnic neighborhoods and the low-lifes on the edges. His crime-writing peers call Pelecanos the "undisputed poet" of Washington's gritty side. The best-selling and award-winning author is out this week with his 17th and latest novel, "The Cut." It's the first in a new series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas. When he's not working for a Washington defense attorney, Lucas recovers stolen property for a 40% cut. Now, a high-profile crime boss hires Lucas to find out who's been stealing from him, and it could turn out to be Lucas' biggest payday or an untimely end. While Pelecanos made his bones in the noir tradition, there's a definite "Western" feel to "The Cut." The new novel takes place in a morally gray and often violent world. It's peppered with pitch-perfect dialogue and captures the sights, sounds and taste of Washington in rich detail. In short, Pelecanos reads like the real deal. Pelecanos knows a thing or two about capturing the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast. In addition to his success as a novelist, Pelecanos is a producer and writer for HBO's New Orleans-set, "Treme." He was previously a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the hit series "The Wire" and the miniseries "The Pacific." Read an excerpt from "The Cut" CNN recently spoke to Pelecanos about his new novel. The following is an edited transcript. CNN: Tell me more about your new character, Spero Lucas.

Question: George Pelecanos has been involved as a writer and producer for which television shows?

Answer: Game of thrones

Answer: Search party

Answer: Veep

Answer: Who Wants to be a Millionaire

Answer: The Pacific

Answer: Treme

Answer: "Treme", "The Wire", and "The Pacific."

Answer: Dancing with the Stars

Answer: The Wire

Answer: LockUp Abroad

Question: Who is a poet, a producer and a crime writer?

Answer: George Pelecanos

Answer: Stephen King

Answer: Maya Angelou

Answer: Pelecanos

Answer: Meyers Briggs

Question: What is one reason for why George Pelecanos might be "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer?"

Answer: He is an undisputed poet

Answer: Authenticity

Answer: Attention to detail

Answer: His age

Answer: He writes for TV

Answer: Pelecanos knows how to capture the authenticity of urban America with an ethnically and socially diverse cast

Question: Who is the best-selling and award-winning author of "The Cut?"

Answer: Pelecanos

Answer: John Grisham

Answer: George Pelecanos

Answer: Stephen King

Question: According to the article, what is specifically different about how Washington DC (and its people) is portrayed in Pelecanos's stories to the typical portrayal?

Answer: They do not focus on big people in the government, they focus on working class people, people of different races and its seedy underbelly

Answer: Upper class

Answer: western feel

Answer: Gritty

Answer: White

Answer: Politicians

Answer: Idyllic

Answer: Ivy league

Answer: Ethnic diversity

Answer: Social diversity

Question: As a private investigator, who does Spero Lucas work for in Pelecanos newest novel, "The Cut"?

Answer: Chef

Answer: Politician

Answer: Pelecanos

Answer: Lawyer

Answer: A Washington defense attorney

Answer: Attorney

Answer: Doctor

Question: Which television shows has George Pelecanos worked on?

Answer: New Girl

Answer: "Treme," "The Wire," and "The Pacific."

Answer: Bones

Answer: The cut

Answer: The Pacific

Answer: Treme

Answer: Thin Blue Line

Answer: The Wire

Question: In addition to writing novels, George Pelecanos has written for what TV shows?

Answer: Girls

Answer: Treme, The Wire, and The Pacific

Answer: The cut

Answer: The Pacific

Answer: Treme

Answer: Band of Brothers

Answer: True Blood

Answer: The Wire

Question: Who is the protagonist of the new book "The Cut" by George Pelecanos?

Answer: Tim Neidle

Answer: Spero Lucas

Answer: John Dawson

Answer: Stephen King

Question: Who is the Iraq war veteran that works for an attorney?

Answer: Spero Lucas

Answer: Pelecanos

Answer: Chris O'Dowd

Answer: Sally Kups

Answer: Speros

Question: Is George Pelecanos a crime writer?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes

Question: In what type of world does "The Cut" take place?

Answer: Morally grey

Answer: undisputed

Answer: Peaceful

Answer: Idyllic

Answer: Violent

Answer: Utopian

Answer: A morally gray and often violent world

Answer: Historical

Question: What three shows has Pelecanos been a writer for?

Answer: Game of thrones

Answer: Downton Abbey, Rugrats, Unsolved Mysteries

Answer: Veep

Answer: The Pacific

Answer: Treme

Answer: The Wire

Answer: The crown

Question: Who recently released the first novel in his series featuring Iraq war veteran and private investigator Spero Lucas?

Answer: George Pelecanos

Answer: King

Answer: Ruth Ware

Answer: Ken Follett

Answer: Pelecanos

Answer: Ving Raimes

Question: Spero Lucas is a character in what novel?

Answer: The wire

Answer: The Cut

Answer: The Long Shot

Answer: The Net

Answer: The Matrix

Question: Which novel takes place in a morally and violent world, and is said to capture the sights, sounds, and taste of Washington in great detail?

Answer: "The Cut"

Answer: The Jungle

Answer: The Wire

Question: George Pelecanos' latest novel "The Cut" features which character?

Answer: Spero Lucas

Answer: John Wayne

Answer: Lincoln Graves

Answer: Stephen King

Question: Pelecanos writes about working families struggling to get by, racial tensions in ethnic neighborhoods, and the low-lifes on the edges of what U.S. city?

Answer: Salt Lake City

Answer: Washington, D.C

Answer: Boston

Answer: Washington, DC

Answer: Philadelphia

Answer: NYC

Question: Does George Pelecanos write about Washington, DC?

Answer: No

Answer: Yes


After the August missile strikes, diplomatic options to press the Taliban seemed no more promising than military options. The United States had issued a formal warning to the Taliban, and also to Sudan, that they would be held directly responsible for any attacks on Americans, wherever they occurred, carried out by the  Bin Laden network as long as they continued to provide sanctuary to it. For a brief moment, it had seemed as if the August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up  Bin Laden. On August 22, the reclusive Mullah Omar told a working-level State Department official that the strikes were counterproductive but added that he would be open to a dialogue with the United States on  Bin Laden's presence in Afghanistan. Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to  Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia. Yet in September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel  Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no. Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government. Riyadh then suspended its diplomatic relations with the Taliban regime. (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates were the only countries that recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.) Crown Prince Abdullah told President Clinton and Vice President Gore about this when he visited Washington in late September. His account confirmed reports that the U.S. government had received independently. Other efforts with the Saudi government centered on improving intelligence sharing and permitting U.S. agents to interrogate prisoners in Saudi custody. The history of such cooperation in 1997 and 1998 had been strained. Several officials told us, in particular, that the United States could not get direct access to an important al Qaeda financial official, Madani al Tayyib, who had been detained by the Saudi government in 1997.67Though U.S. officials repeatedly raised the issue, the Saudis provided limited information. In his September 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah, Vice President Gore, while thanking the Saudi government for their responsiveness, renewed the request for direct U.S. access to Tayyib. The United States never obtained this access. An NSC staff-led working group on terrorist finances asked the CIA in November 1998 to push again for access to Tayyib and to see "if it is possible to elaborate further on the ties between Usama bin Ladin and prominent individuals in Saudi Arabia, including especially the  Bin Laden family." One result was two NSC-led interagency trips to Persian Gulf states in 1999 and 2000. During these trips the NSC, Treasury, and intelligence representatives spoke with Saudi officials, and later interviewed members of the  Bin Laden family, about Usama's inheritance.

Question: During the two trips taken to the Persian Gulf, the NSC spoke to officials from what country?

Answer: Persia

Answer: Afghanistan

Answer: Tayyib

Answer: Saudi Arabia

Answer: Saudi

Answer: Persian Gulf

Answer: Pakistan

Answer: Sudan

Answer: United Arab Emirates

Question: Who met with the US Ambassador to discuss giving up Bin Laden?

Answer: Priests

Answer: Meeting in Islamabad with William Milam, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Taliban delegates said it was against their culture to expel someone seeking sanctuary but asked what would happen to  Bin Laden should he be sent to Saudi Arabia

Answer: Taliban delegates

Answer: William Milam

Answer: Mullah Omar

Question: What event with Mullah Omar caused diplomatic relations with the Taliban to be suspended after he denounced the Saudi government?

Answer: Both sides shouted at each other when Prince Turki met with Omar

Answer: September 1998, when the Saudi emissary, Prince Turki, asked Mullah Omar whether he would keep his earlier promise to expel  Bin Laden, the Taliban leader said no. Sent 7: Both sides shouted at each other, with Mullah Omar denouncing the Saudi government

Answer: A September 1998 meeting with Prince Turki

Answer: When Taliban delegates met with William Milan

Answer: He went back on his promise and sent missles to the taliban

Question: Who told President Clinton that Riyadh had suspended relations with the Taliban regime?

Answer: Prince Turki

Answer: Madani al Tayyib

Answer: Crown Prince

Answer: Independent reports

Answer: Riyadh

Answer: Vice President Gore

Answer: Abdullah

Answer: Crown Prince Abdullah

Answer: Mullah Omar

Question: What action briefly seemed like it might convince the Taliban to give up Bin Laden?

Answer: Because the US was interrogating prisoners in Saudi custody

Answer: August strikes might have shocked the Taliban into thinking of giving up  Bin Laden

Answer: August missile strikes

Answer: Because the US said the Taliban would be responsible for any attacks on US citizens

Answer: The us would hold them responsible

Question: Who was the US trying to contact during strained Saudi Relations in 1997, when they were denied the opportunity to question detainees?

Answer: Madani al Tayyib

Answer: William Milam

Answer: Bin laden

Answer: Al Qaeda financial official, Madani al Tayyib

Question: Vice President Gore never received access to whom?

Answer: Prince Turki

Answer: Usama Bin Laden

Answer: Usama bin Ladin

Answer: Tayyib

Answer: Madani al Tayyib

Answer: Al Queda

Answer: Bin Laden

Answer: Abdullah

Answer: Mullah Omar