Problem: Washington University in St. Louis (Wash. U., or WUSTL) is a private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U.S. states and more than 120 countries. Twenty-five Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington University's undergraduate program is ranked 15th by U.S. News and World Report. The university is ranked 32nd in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. 

The university's first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri General Assembly in 1853, and Eliot was named President of the Board of Trustees. Early on, Eliot solicited support from members of the local business community, including John O'Fallon, but Eliot failed to secure a permanent endowment. Washington University is unusual among major American universities in not having had a prior financial endowment. The institution had no backing of a religious organization, single wealthy patron, or earmarked government support.
1. Who was the university's fist chancellor?
2. Is Washington University a public school?
3. What world academic ranking does it hold?
4. How many Nobel laureates are affiliated with it?
5. How many of them did their research there?
6. What does U.S. New and World Report rank their undergrad program?
7. Who secured the university charter from the Missouri General Assembly?
8. Who solicited support early on?
9. Did he get a permanent endowment?
10. Who was John O'Fallon?
11. Did the school have religious backing?
12. What does WUSTL stand for?
13. How many countries are students and faculty from?
14. And how many states?
15. Why is Washington University unusual?
16. Who was it named after?
17. Has it been singled out for government support?
18. Does it have one rich patron?
19. Is it a research university?
Answer: 1. Joseph Gibson Hoyt
2. No
3. 32nd
4. Twenty-five
5. Nine
6. 15th
7. Crow
8. Eliot
9. No
10. A member of the local business community
11. No
12. Washington University in St. Louis
13. More than 120
14. All 50
15. Not having had a prior financial endowment.
16. George Washington
17. No
18. No
19. Yes

Problem: Chapter VIII 

Anne's First Proposal 

The old year did not slip away in a green twilight, with a pinky-yellow sunset. Instead, it went out with a wild, white bluster and blow. It was one of the nights when the storm-wind hurtles over the frozen meadows and black hollows, and moans around the eaves like a lost creature, and drives the snow sharply against the shaking panes. 

"Just the sort of night people like to cuddle down between their blankets and count their mercies," said Anne to Jane Andrews, who had come up to spend the afternoon and stay all night. But when they were cuddled between their blankets, in Anne's little porch room, it was not her mercies of which Jane was thinking. 

"Anne," she said very solemnly, "I want to tell you something. May I" 

Anne was feeling rather sleepy after the party Ruby Gillis had given the night before. She would much rather have gone to sleep than listen to Jane's confidences, which she was sure would bore her. She had no prophetic inkling of what was coming. Probably Jane was engaged, too; rumor averred that Ruby Gillis was engaged to the Spencervale schoolteacher, about whom all the girls were said to be quite wild. 

"I'll soon be the only fancy-free maiden of our old quartet," thought Anne, drowsily. Aloud she said, "Of course." 

"Anne," said Jane, still more solemnly, "what do you think of my brother Billy?" 

Anne gasped over this unexpected question, and floundered helplessly in her thoughts. Goodness, what DID she think of Billy Andrews? She had never thought ANYTHING about him--round-faced, stupid, perpetually smiling, good-natured Billy Andrews. Did ANYBODY ever think about Billy Andrews? 
1. Did anybody ever thinks about Billy Andrews?
2. Is Billy related to anyone Anne knows?
3. Who?
4. Was Jane married?
5. What is Jane's last name?
6. Is that likely to change any time soon?
7. Is Jane likely to be engaged?
8. Is Anne engaged?
9. Does she think Billy is smart?
10. Is Anne wide awake?
11. Why not?
12. whose party?
13. When was it?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. yes
3. Jane
4. no
5. Andrews
6. unknown
7. Probably
8. no
9. no
10. no
11. because of the party
12. Ruby Gillis'
13. the night before

Problem: Saint Pierre and Miquelon, officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Newfoundland and Labrador province of Canada. It is the only part of New France that remains under French control, with an area of 242 km and a population of 6,080 at the January 2011 census. 

The islands are situated at the entrance of Fortune Bay, which extends into the southwestern coast of Newfoundland, near the Grand Banks. They are from Brest, the nearest point in Metropolitan France, but only from the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland. 

Saint-Pierre is French for Saint Peter, the patron saint of fishermen. 

The present name of Miquelon was first noted in the form of "Micquelle" in the Basque sailor Martin de Hoyarçabal's navigational pilot for Newfoundland. It has been claimed that the name "Miquelon" is a Basque form of Michael; Mikel and Mikels are usually named Mikelon in the Basque Country. Therefore, from Mikelon it may have been written in the French way with a "q" instead of a "k". 

Though the Basque Country is divided between Spain and France, most Basques live on the south side of the border and speak Spanish, and Miquelon may have been influenced by the Spanish name Miguelón, an augmentative form of Miguel meaning "big Michael". The adjoined island's name of "Langlade" is said to be an adaptation of "l'île à l'Anglais" (Englishman's Island).
1. What area has a population of 6,080?
2. What country is it affiliated with?
3. Does it govern itself?
4. How large is it?
5. What areas make up the collective?
6. Do they have names?
7. What are they?
8. Was one of them named after Saint Patrick?
9. Which religious figure, then?
10. Is he the religious figure of those who fish, or those who hunt?
11. What common moniker is the other part named for?
12. What is that in English?
13. What is Basque separated between?
14. Where do most reside?
15. Is there another body of land that is joined to it?
16. What's it called?
17. What does that mean in English?
18. Is the collective under German rule?
19. How many people reside there in 2018?
Answer:
1. the Overseas Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
2. France
3. yes
4. 242 km
5. islands at the entrance of Fortune Bay, which extend into the southwestern coast of Newfoundland
6. Yes
7. Saint Pierre and Miquelon
8. no
9. Saint Peter
10. fishermen.
11. Micquelle
12. "Miquelon" is a Basque form of Michael
13. Spain and France
14. the south side of the border
15. yes
16. "Langlade"
17. Englishman's Island
18. no
19. unknown