Question: (CNN) -- A Michigan man and woman convicted of trying to extort $680,000 from "Glee" actor John Stamos by threatening to sell compromising photos were each sentenced to four years in prison Friday. 

U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar in Marquette said the photos never existed, according to a federal prosecutor. 

Scott Edward Sippola, 31, and Allison Lenore Coss, 24, could have faced up to nine years in prison for convictions of conspiracy and interstate communications to extort money. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Lochner said a statement from Stamos was read in court. In it, Stamos said he had been slandered and his reputation impugned. Lochner said the judge ascertained that the conspiracy wasn't just a "foolish lark." 

In a presentence filing, Sippola admitted his conduct "was awful." 

"I sought to exploit my knowledge of the personal weaknesses of a perfect stranger for my own undeserved financial gain," Sippola wrote. 

"The case was made by the fact that these defendants made threats to damage his [Stamos'] reputation in order to have him pay them," Assistant U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat said after the July verdict in Marquette, Michigan. 

According to CNN affiliate WLUC, prosecutors said that Coss and Sippola told Stamos that if he didn't give them the money, they would sell embarrassing pictures of him allegedly using drugs to tabloid publications. 

Vermaat said the defendants sent about 40 e-mails to Stamos threatening to sell the photos. FBI agents got involved and started monitoring Stamos' e-mail account and "eventually communicated by cellular telephone with the defendants pretending to be Mr. Stamos' business manager." Sippola and Coss were arrested in December 2009 at an airport, a pre-arranged dropoff spot for the money.  1. Who was extorted?
2. Is he an actor?
3. What shows has he been in?
4. How many people were in the plot?
5. What did they have?
6. What was in the pictures?
7. How many messages did they send to the star?
8. When were they arrested?
9. Did the star face them at trial?
10. What state was the trial held?
11. What agency investigated the crime?
12. Where were the extorters captured?
13. What were they going to do with the pictures?
14. How were they caught?
15. Was the star's image damaged?
16. How many years in jail will they serve? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. John Stamos
2. yes
3. Glee
4. Two
5. compromising photos
6. him allegedly using drugs
7. about 40
8. December 2009
9. no
10. Michigan
11. FBI
12. airport
13. sell
14. FBI agents got involved and started monitoring Stamos' e-mail account and "eventually communicated by cellular telephone with the defendants pretending to be Mr. Stamos' business manager."
15. yes
16. four

Q: Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents. Antarctica is considered a desert, with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 in) along the coast and far less inland. The temperature in Antarctica has reached −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F), though the average for the third quarter (the coldest part of the year) is −63 °C (−81 °F). There are no permanent human residents, but anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside throughout the year at the research stations scattered across the continent. Organisms native to Antarctica include many types of algae, bacteria, fungi, plants, protista, and certain animals, such as mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades. Vegetation, where it occurs, is tundra. 

Geologically, West Antarctica closely resembles the Andes mountain range of South America. The Antarctic Peninsula was formed by uplift and metamorphism of sea bed sediments during the late Paleozoic and the early Mesozoic eras. This sediment uplift was accompanied by igneous intrusions and volcanism. The most common rocks in West Antarctica are andesite and rhyolite volcanics formed during the Jurassic period. There is also evidence of volcanic activity, even after the ice sheet had formed, in Marie Byrd Land and Alexander Island. The only anomalous area of West Antarctica is the Ellsworth Mountains region, where the stratigraphy is more similar to East Antarctica.

1. Antarctica
2. Antarctica
3. unknown
4. No
5. The coast
6. No
7. Mites
8. Yes
9. nematodes, penguins, and seals
10. Anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people
11. At the research stations

Numbered questions:
1. Which continent is the coldest?
2. The driest and windiest?
3. Which continent is generally more above sea level than Antarctica?
4. Does Antarctica get lots of snow?
5. Which is wetter, the coast or inland?
6. Are polar bears native to Antarctica?
7. What animals are?
8. Any others?
9. Can you name three others?
10. How many people live there?
11. Where do they live?

input: The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War and in Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province and a part of its territory after its "de facto" secession in the 1836 Texas Revolution a decade earlier. 

After its Treaty of Córdoba with obtaining independence in 1821, from the Kingdom of Spain and its Spanish Empire as New Spain for the past 300 years, and a brief experiment with a monarchy government, Mexico became a republic in 1824. It was characterized by considerable instability, leaving it ill-prepared for international conflict only two decades later when war broke out in 1846. Native American raids in Mexico's sparsely settled north in the decades preceding the war prompted the Mexican government to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border (since 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase from the French Empire (France) of Emperor Napoleon I) to the Mexican province of Texas to create a buffer. However, the newly-named "Texians" revolted against the Mexican government of President / dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, who had usurped the Mexican constitution of 1824, in the subsequent 1836 Texas Revolution, creating a republic not recognized by Mexico, which still claimed it as part of its national territory. In 1845, the Texan Republic agreed to an offer of annexation by the U.S. Congress, and became the 28th state in the Union on December 29 that year. 1. When did Mexico become a republic?
2. So, how long after that was the Mexican-American War?
3. Who were the parties to the Mexican-American War?
4. What was the time period of that war?
5. Did the United States annex anything?
6. What?
7. Did Mexico think it was part of Mexico?
8. What part?
9. When was the Texas Revolution?
10. Was Mexico ever a monarchy?
11. How long was it?
12. Before when?
13. Who was raiding Mexico in the north?
14. What was Mexico's attempted solution to those raids?
15. When did Texas become a US state?
16. What was it just before that?
17. What was the offer it took up from the US then?
18. Which French person was party to the Louisiana Purchase?
19. When was that?
20. What was a new name for Texans? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. 1824
2. 22 yearrs
3. United States of America and the United Mexican States
4. 1846 to 1848
5. Yes
6. the independent Republic of Texas
7. Yes
8. northeastern province
9. 1836
10. Yes
11. brief
12. 1824
13. Native Americans
14. to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border
15. 1845
16. Texan Republic
17. offer of annexation
18. Emperor Napoleon I
19. 1803
20. Texians