Question:
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The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (officially abbreviated the Super NES[b] or SNES[c], and commonly shortened to Super Nintendo[d]) is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Australasia (Oceania), and 1993 in South America. In Japan, the system is called the Super Famicom (Japanese: スーパーファミコン, Hepburn: Sūpā Famikon?, officially adopting the abbreviated name of its predecessor, the Family Computer), or SFC for short. In South Korea, it is known as the Super Comboy (슈퍼 컴보이 Syupeo Keomboi) and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics. Although each version is essentially the same, several forms of regional lockout prevent the different versions from being compatible with one another. It was released in Brazil on September 2, 1992, by Playtronic. 

To compete with the popular Family Computer in Japan, NEC Home Electronics launched the PC Engine in 1987, and Sega Enterprises followed suit with the Mega Drive in 1988. The two platforms were later launched in North America in 1989 as the TurboGrafx-16 and the Genesis respectively. Both systems were built on 16-bit architectures and offered improved graphics and sound over the 8-bit NES. However, it took several years for Sega's system to become successful. Nintendo executives were in no rush to design a new system, but they reconsidered when they began to see their dominance in the market slipping.
1. What is the Super NES[b]?
2. What is that?
3. Who manufactured it?
4. When?
5. Where was it first sold?
6. What year did it hit the US?
7. When could you buy it in Europe?
8. When did Brazil get to buy it?
9. Who distributed it to the Brazilians?
10. Did anyone compete against them?
11. Who?
12. Were they successful?
13. Did it hurt Nintendo?
14. What was the game known as in South Korea?
15. Who distributed it?
16. What was it known as in Japan?
17. What was the shortened version of that name?
18. What architecture was used?
19. When was the Mega Drive introduced?
20. Where was it released?
21. Did it come to the US?

Numbered answers:
1. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System
2. a home video game console
3. Nintendo
4. 1990
5. In Japan and South Korea
6. 1991
7. 1992
8. 1993
9. Playtronic.
10. Yes
11. NEC and Sega
12. Sega was, after several years
13. Yes
14. Super Comboy
15. Hyundai Electronics
16. Super Famicom
17. SFC
18. 16-bit
19. 1988
20. Japan
21. Yes


Question:
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(CNN) -- Egypt moved closer to a first World Cup finals appearance since 1990 after reaching the African qualification playoffs on Sunday. 

The Pharaohs, coached by American Bob Bradley, notched a fifth successive victory in Group G, beating Mozambique 1-0 in Maputo thanks to a 40th-minute goal from young striker Mohamed Salah. 

Salah, who turned 21 on Saturday and plays for Swiss club Basel, scored a hat-trick last weekend against Zimbabwe -- and also netted last year against Guinea. 

It marks a big turnaround in fortunes for the continent's seven-time champion, which failed to qualify for the last two Africa Cup of Nations and suspended its domestic league for a year after more than 70 fans died in the Port Said tragedy in February 2012. 

Guinea's hopes of a World Cup debut were ended despite winning 2-0 against Zimbabwe, with striker Mohamed Yattara scoring both goals. 

The Ivory Coast also went through to the playoffs, winning 4-2 away to Tanzania to be sure of topping Group C. 

Two-time African player of the year Yaya Toure scored two first-half goals to help his team come from behind, and substitute Wilfried Bony sealed victory in time added on. 

It meant Morocco missed out, despite winning 2-0 against Gambia on Saturday. 

South Africa, the 2010 World Cup host, also failed to make the playoffs after losing 2-1 to Group A winner Ethiopia thanks to a 70th-minute headed own-goal by Bernard Parker. 

Parker had put his side ahead in the first half but Getaneh Kebede equalized before the break to join Salah and Algeria's Islam Slimani on a leading five goals in the qualifiers. 
1. Who is this article about?
2. Who is their coach?
3. How many victories did he have?
4. Who did he beat?
5. Who do they have to thank for the victory?
6. How old is he?
7. Why did they suspend their domestic league for the last two years?
8. Who did Guinea win against?
9. Who did Ivory Coast win against?
10. Who did South Africa lose to?

Numbered answers:
1. the Pharaohs
2. Bob Bradley
3. Five
4. Mozambique
5. Mohamed Salah
6. 21
7. 70 fans died in the Port Said tragedy in February 2012
8. Zimbabwe
9. Tanzania
10. Ethiopia


Question:
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I'm sitting here in this coffee shop. You know the one there by Allen street. The town is filled with thousands of middle class college kids living off their parent's money. 

The coffee shop is where the ones come to play the part of sophisticated bohemians . The pretensions glow from their line-less faces as they sip cappuccinos and chew strawberry cookies. The boys to my right are discussing Nabokov with a serious air, a copy of Sartre's Cuba lies on the table. 

The young woman on my left is declaring that she can never allow her creativity to be killed by entering the work force. The man with her scratches his goatee in agreement, occasionally suggesting they go back to his place to hear his new Washington Squares CD. Matt has just designed a new international symbol for peace. He moves from table to table trying to sell hand painted T-shirts that bear the design. Tomorrow he's leaving for the 25th anniversary Woodstock concert where he hopes to strike it rich with his creation. 

Gopha the skinny Indian boy feels like singing me a verse of 'It Ain't Me Babe' when I ask him if he's a friend of Monica's. Jason is trying to talk Gopha into a dollar bet on a game of chess. Between times Jason will chew your ear off with his plans to conquer the music industry while studying entertainment law, but when it comes to his never ending dollar chess matches he's quiet as a church mouse. 

I sit among them. To all surface appearances one and the same. If they could only see I would rather reach into their flesh and tear out their shallow little hearts than listen to another second of their prattle . 

With no job, no gigs, and my girlfriend's so far gone she might as well be on another planet, I've been leading the writer's quiet cafe life, spending my free time outdoors drinking iced teas and cheap wines. I chat warmly with whoever decides to squander away their hours in my surrounding area. 

But behind my eyes is an unspoken challenge to any and every one of these social elites to just once say one thing that would inspire me. Just one little idea which is new and meaningful. Unfortunately original thoughts are zero here. 

In my secret mind I wish to run like a madman banging gongs and speaking in tongues. Or maybe jump on a table and sing the Star Spangled Banner in the forgotten language of the Hottentots. I know these thoughts only reveal me as a fool because the spark I search for cannot be found in acts of shocking performance art. Where it truly comes from is one of the mysteries which will always hang around me.
1. Where is he at?
2. Where is his girlfriend?
3. What is he searching for?
4. What does he do?
5. Who is the town filled with?
6. What are those doing?
7. What part are they playing?
8. Why will the woman's creativity be killed?
9. Where is Matt going?
10. Where is he going tomorrow?
11. Why?
12. What would he rather do?
13. Who sings a song?
14. What does Gopha do?
15. What is Jason studying?
16. What are the boys talking about?
17. What lies on the table?
18. What kind of thoughts are not happening there?
19. What street are they near?
20. Is he working?


Numbered answers:
1. in the coffee shop
2. so far gone
3. the spark
4. He is a writer
5. thousands of middle class college kids
6. living off their parent's money
7. sophisticated bohemians
8. by entering the work force
9. from table to table trying to sell hand painted T-shirts that bear the design
10. the 25th anniversary Woodstock concert
11. he hopes to strike it rich with his creation
12. run like a madman banging gongs and speaking in tongues
13. the Hottentots
14. he feels like singing me a verse of 'It Ain't Me Babe'
15. entertainment law,
16. a game of chess
17. a copy of Sartre's Cuba lies on the table
18. original thoughts
19. Allen street
20. No