question: The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: "Giochi della XVII Olimpiade"), was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy. Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was forced to decline and pass the honors to London. 

On June 15, 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest (being the first city of the Eastern Bloc to bid for the Olympic Games), Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to host the Games. Tokyo and Mexico City would eventually host the following 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. 

Toronto was initially interested in the bidding, but appears to have been dropped during the final bid process. This is the first of five attempts by Toronto up to 2001, which all ended in failure. 







¹ New facilities constructed in preparation for the Olympic Games. ² Existing facilities modified or refurbished in preparation for the Olympic Games. 

A total of 83 nations participated at the Rome Games. Athletes from Morocco, San Marino, Sudan, and Tunisia competed at the Olympic Games for the first time. Athletes from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago would represent the new (British) West Indies Federation, competing as "Antilles", but this nation would only exist for this single Olympiad. Athletes from Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia competed under the Rhodesia name while representing the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Athletes from East Germany and West Germany would compete as the United Team of Germany from 1956 to 1964. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that each country contributed.
1. How many nations were part of the Rome Games?
2. What country only lasted for one Olympiad?
3. What were the two halves of Germany called at the games?
4. What was that team's lifespan?
5. Can you name two places that hadn't been to the games before?
6. Can Sudan be included in that, too?
7. On what date did the event begin?
8. And ran until?
9. And was officially called?
10. And in Italian?
11. Held in what city?
12. Which is where?
13. They were given the honor of hosting in what year?
14. Why did they let London host?
15. What was the first Eastern Bloc place to try to host the games?
16. When was the 50th IOC session?
17. Where was it?
18. Did Toronto want to host the games, at first?
19. How many times did they try to land it?
20. Did they ever get it?
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answer: 1. 83
2. West Indies Federation
3. .the United Team of Germany
4. 1956 to 1964
5. Morocco and San Marino
6. yes
7. August 25,  1960
8. September 11, 1960,
9. the Games of the XVII Olympiad
10. "Giochi della XVII Olimpiade"
11. Rome
12. Italy
13. 1908
14. because of the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
15. Budapest
16. June 15, 1955
17. Paris
18. yes
19. five
20. no


question: The United States Census of 1850 was the seventh census of the United States. Conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1850, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 23,191,876—an increase of 35.9 percent over the 17,069,453 persons enumerated during the 1840 Census. The total population included 3,204,313 slaves. 

This was the first census where there was an attempt to collect information about every member of every household, including women, children, and slaves. Prior to 1850, census records had recorded only the name of the head of the household and broad statistical accounting of other household members (three children under age five, one woman between the age of 35 and 40, etc.). It was also the first census to ask about place of birth. 

Hinton Rowan Helper made extensive use of the 1850 census results in his politically notorious book "The Impending Crisis of the South" (1857). 

The 1850 census, Schedule 1, Free Inhabitants, collected the following information: 

Full documentation for the 1850 population census, including census forms and enumerator instructions, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. 

The 1850 United States Census collected a great amount of data that gave insight into the state of the U.S. economy in 1850. Some of the data revealed the growth of the economy with regards to agricultural and manufactured production, international trade, federal debt, taxation, transportation, education, and land expansion.
1. Who wrote a book about the 1850 census?
2. What was the title?
3. When was it published?
4. Was it controversial?
5. If I were looking today for the 1850 census forms, could I find them?
6. What about enumerator instructions?
7. Where would I find these things?
8. Did the census that year show anything in regards to the economy?
9. Was the economy in a recession then?
10. How many censuses were there before this one?
11. Who organizes these?
12. And what date did they perform this one?
13. Did the population increase in the ten years prior?
14. By what percentage?
15. And by approximately how many millions of people?
16. True or false: Slaves were counted in the population figures.
17. Besides population growth, what is another reason this census showed an increase in people?
18. In 1840, would they collect the names of wives?
19. What about the head of household?
20. What else was this census the first to collect information on?
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answer: 1. Hinton Rowan Helper
2. "The Impending Crisis of the South"
3. 1857
4. unknown
5. yes
6. yes
7. the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.
8. yes
9. no
10. Six
11. the Census Office
12. June 1, 1850
13. yes
14. 35.9 percent
15. 6 million
16. true
17. unknown
18. no
19. yes
20. place of birth


question: CHAPTER IV--CYCLES 



"What flowers grow in my field wherewith to dress thee." - E. BARRETT BROWNING. 

Mrs. Best departed early the next morning. It was probably a parting for life between the two old friends; and Magdalen keenly felt the severance from the one person whom she had always known, and on whose sympathy she could rely. Their conversations had been very precious to her, and she felt desolate without the entire companionship. Yet, on the other hand, she felt as if she could have begun better with her sisters if Sophy Best had not come with them, to hand them over, as it were, when she wanted to start on the same level with them, and be more like their contemporary than their authority. 

They all stood on the terrace, watching the fly go down the hill, and she turned to them and said - 

"We will all settle ourselves this morning, and you will see how the land lies, so that to-morrow we can arrange our day and see what work to do. Thekla, when you have had a run round the garden, you might bring your books to the dining-room and let me see how far you have gone." 

"Oh, sister, it is holidays!" 

"Well, my dear, you have had a week, and your holiday time cannot last for ever. Looking at your books cannot spoil it." 

"Yes, it will; they are so nasty." 

"Perhaps you will not always think so; but now you had better put on your hat and your thick boots, for the grass is still very wet, and explore the country. The same advice to you," she added, turning to the others; "it is warm here, but the dew lies long on the slopes." 
1. Did Mrs. Best expect to see her friend again?
2. How did she feel without her friendship?
3. True or False: Mrs. Best wished to be seen as her sisters' equal.
4. What does she tell Thekla to do?
5. After she has done what?
6. What does she want to see?
7. True or False: Thekla does not like reading her books.
8. What does she call them?
9. How long a break has she had from reading them?
10. Is it cold outside?
11. What lingers on the hills?
12. What does Mrs. Best tell the sisters to wear?
13. What area will they investigate outside?
14. Where were they are standing?
15. Were they all observing something?
16. What?
17. Who brought the sisters?
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answer:
1. no
2. desolate
3. true
4. bring her books to the dining-room
5. had a run round the garden
6. how far she has gone
7. true
8. nasty
9. a week
10. no
11. dew
12. a hat and thick boots
13. the country
14. unknown
15. yes
16. the fly going down the hill
17. Sophy Best