Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal's parliament on Sunday elected a leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister with a simple majority. 

Baburam Bhattarai, 57, vice-chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will become the fourth prime minister since Nepal became a republic in 2008. 

After his election Bhattarai said he would attempt to complete the peace process and the long-delayed new constitution. 

Bhattarai received 340 votes in parliament, beating his rival Ram Chandra Poudel, 66, of the Nepali Congress, who received 235 votes. 

Bhattarai, who has a degree in architecture and a doctorate in regional planning, was able to get the crucial support of the regional Madhesi parties from southern Nepal. 

The 65 votes of the five parties of the Madhesi front were crucial for Bhattrai, whose party is the biggest in the 601-member parliament but lacks a majority. 

Media reports say the Madhesi parties have been promised 12 ministerial posts in exchange for their support. 

Bhattari is the second leader of the former rebels to become prime minister. 

The Maoists became the biggest party in the 2008 elections and their chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal was prime minister for nine months. He resigned in a dispute with the president, who reinstated an army chief Dahal had fired. 

Earlier this month Jhalanath Khanal resigned as prime minister after he was unable to persuade the former Maoist rebels to demobilize and reintegrate their fighters in a deal that was agreeable to the other political parties. 

The Maoists fought a ten-year insurgency from 1996 to 2006 in which about 16,000 people were killed.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who will be the next prime minister of Nepal?
2. Does he have a doctorate?
3. In what?
4. Whose votes were important?
5. Are they the smallest party?
6. What group is Bhattarai a part of?
7. How many votes did he receive?
8. Who did he defeat?
9. How many votes did he receive?
10. Is he the first of his group to rule?
11. Who else?
12. For how long?
13. Who just quit the role?
14. Did Bhattarai's political group fight a war?
15. How long?
16. From when to when?
17. How many died?
18. What will the group who supported him receive?
19. When was the republic founded?
20. How many prime ministers will it have?
Answer: 1. Baburam Bhattarai
2. yes
3. regional planning
4. he five parties of the Madhesi front
5. no
6. the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
7. 340 votes
8. Ram Chandra Poude
9. 235
10. no
11. Pushpa Kamal Dahal
12. nine months
13. Jhalanath Khanal
14. yes
15. ten-year
16. 1996 to 2006
17. about 16,000
18. 12 ministerial posts
19. 2008
20. Four

CHAPTER XVII. 

_A TERRIBLE NIGHT._ 

At just about the same moment when Teddy and Dan were running with Hazelton's money at full speed toward the museum tent, with the chance of escape very much against them, Sam was in a decidedly painful frame of mind. 

After he had been securely tied the two men conversed in low tones for several minutes, and then, as if having arrived at some definite conclusion, began to make preparations for leaving the place. 

At the same spot where Sam had been interrupted while scraping away the dirt they proceeded to dig with a shovel which Phil procured from somewhere outside the building, and during this labor the prisoner could hear fragments of the conversation. 

Once Long Jim ceased his work long enough to say: 

"When you come to look at the matter quietly it doesn't seem as if we'd got into sich a very bad scrape. You can manage to bring the rest of the stuff down the creek between now an' Friday mornin' and I've got a plan for givin' anybody who may come after us a good clue to the boy's disappearance." 

Phil made some remark which Sam could not hear, and his companion replied in a louder tone: 

"It can all be done so's to make folks think we've gone up the creek, an' we've got to lay low for a while, which won't be a hard job while the weather is warm." 

"But I don't like the idea of totin' that cub with us so long."  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. what was teddy and dan doing
2. where did they get the shovel
3. what did They have
4. what did they want people to think
5. was the weather to go warm
6. where were they running to
Answer: 1. running
2. somewhere outside the building,
3. Hazelton's money
4. to think they had gone up the creek,
5. yes
6. the museum ten

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The country covers just over , with a population of just under 450,000, making it one of the world's smallest and most densely populated countries. The capital of Malta is Valletta, which at 0.8 km, is the smallest national capital in the European Union by area. Malta has one national language, which is Maltese, and English as an official language. 

Malta's location in the middle of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, and a succession of powers, including the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, Knights of St. John, French, and British have ruled the islands. 

King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded the George Cross to Malta in 1942 for the then British colony's bravery in the Second World War. The George Cross continues to appear on Malta's national flag. Under the Malta Independence Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1964, Malta gained independence from the United Kingdom as an independent sovereign Commonwealth realm, officially known from 1964 to 1974 as the State of Malta, with Elizabeth II as its head of state. The country became a republic in 1974, and although no longer a Commonwealth realm, remains a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations. Malta was admitted to the United Nations in 1964 and to the European Union in 2004; in 2008, it became part of the Eurozone. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Where is Malta?
2. What is north of it?
3. Why was Malta's location important?
4. Who were the succession of powers?
5. What is the offical language?
6. What is their native language?
7. What happened in 1942?
8. for what?
9. when did malta became offical?
10. what happened in 2008?
11. When was it admitted to UN?
Answer:
1. in the Mediterranean Sea
2. Italy
3. it is a strategic Naval location
4. they  included the Phoenicians and Carthaginians,
5. English
6. Maltese
7. they were awarded the George Cross
8. bravery
9. unknown
10. Malta became part of the Eurozone.
11. 1964