Question: Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and some other Asian languages. In Standard Chinese they are called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字). They have been adapted to write a number of other languages including: Japanese, where they are known as kanji, Korean, where they are known as hanja, and Vietnamese in a system known as chữ Nôm. Collectively, they are known as CJKV characters. In English, they are sometimes called Han characters. Chinese characters constitute the oldest continuously used system of writing in the world. By virtue of their widespread current use in East Asia, and historic use throughout the Sinosphere, Chinese characters are among the most widely adopted writing systems in the world. 

Chinese characters number in the tens of thousands, though most of them are minor graphic variants encountered only in historical texts. Studies in China have shown that functional literacy in written Chinese requires a knowledge of between three and four thousand characters. In Japan, 2,136 are taught through secondary school (the Jōyō kanji); hundreds more are in everyday use. There are various national standard lists of characters, forms, and pronunciations. Simplified forms of certain characters are used in China, Singapore, and Malaysia; the corresponding traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and to a limited extent in South Korea. In Japan, common characters are written in post-WWII Japan-specific simplified forms (shinjitai), which are closer to traditional forms than Chinese simplifications, while uncommon characters are written in Japanese traditional forms (kyūjitai), which are virtually identical to Chinese traditional forms. In South Korea, when Chinese characters are used they are of the traditional variant and are almost identical to those used in places like Taiwan and Hong Kong. Teaching of Chinese characters in South Korea starts in the 7th grade and continues until the 12th grade where 1,800 total characters are taught albeit these characters are only used in certain cases (on signs, academic papers, historical writings, etc.) and are slowly declining in use. 1. What is used to write Asian languages?
2. What kind?
3. Do they use them in Japanese?
4. What do they call them?
5. What are they in standard Chinese?
6. In Korean?
7. What do they use in Vietnam?
8. What are they referred to as in English?
9. How many Chinese characters are there?
10. How many should you know to be literate in Chinese?
11. How many forms are there?
12. Where do they use traditional characters?
13. What kind do they use in Malaysia?
14. What about in Hong Kong?
15. How many characters would you learn in a secondary school in Japan?
16. What is that group called?
17. Do they use more than that on a daily basis?
18. When do they start learning them in South Korea?
19. When do they stop?
20. How many do they learn? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. characters
2. CJKV characters
3. yes
4. kanji
5. Hanzi
6. hanja
7. a system known as chữ Nôm
8. Han characters
9. the tens of thousands
10. between three and four thousand characters
11. There are various national standard lists of characters, forms, and pronunciations
12. In South Korea
13. Simplified forms of certain characters
14. A traditional variant
15. 2,136
16. the Jōyō kanji
17. yes
18. the 7th grade
19. the 12th grade
20. 1,800


Question: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, (; ; born 2 March 1931) is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991 (titled as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, as Chairman of the from 1989 to 1990, and as Soviet Union]] from 1990 to 1991). 

Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai in 1931 into a peasant Ukrainian–Russian family, and in his teens, operated combine harvesters on collective farms. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was at the university, he joined the Communist Party, and soon became very active within it. In 1970, he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Regional Committee, First Secretary to the Supreme Soviet in 1974, and appointed a candidate member of the Politburo in 1979. Within three years of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, following the brief "interregna" of Andropov and Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected general secretary by the Politburo in 1985. Before he reached the post, he had occasionally been mentioned in Western newspapers as a likely next leader and a man of the younger generation at the top level. 1. Who was head of state in the Soviet Union in 1990?
2. What year was he born?
3. Where?
4. Was his family wealthy?
5. What kind of work did they do?
6. Where did he join the Communist Party?
7. Which university?
8. What did he study there?
9. When did he graduate?
10. When was he elected general secretary by Politburo? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
2. 1931
3. Stavropol Krai
4. No
5. Peasants
6. university
7. Moscow State University
8. law
9. 1955
10. 1985


Question: Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock and psychedelic/acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo. 

In 1968, the first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often derided by critics. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence; Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility and an increasing emphasis on speed. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden and Saxon followed in a similar vein. Before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as "metalheads" or "headbangers". 

During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with groups such as Mötley Crüe and Poison. Underground scenes produced an array of more aggressive styles: thrash metal broke into the mainstream with bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax, while other extreme subgenres of metal such as death metal and black metal remain subcultural phenomena. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre. These include groove metal (with bands such as Pantera, Sepultura, and Lamb of God) and nu metal (with bands such as Korn, Slipknot, and Linkin Park), the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. 1. When did heavy metal develop?
2. Is it sometimes just called metal?
3. Where did it originate?
4. What are the lyrics associated with?
5. anything else?
6. In 1968, what was a popular band?
7. Who else?
8. And who else?
9. Did they perform for small groups?
10. What did Judas Priest move away from, which genre?
11. What did Motorhead add?
12. Did it change the tempo, too?
13. At the end of the 70's what were the fans called?
14. or?
15. Which group became popular in  the 80s?
16. and?
17. Who is a thrash metal band? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
2. yes
3. in the United Kingdom.
4. aggression
5. and machismo
6. Led Zeppelin
7. Black Sabbath
8. Deep Purple
9. No
10. its blues influence;
11. punk rock sensibility
12. yes
13. metalheads
14. headbangers
15. Mötley Crüe
16. Poison
17. Metallica,