question: The "Billboard" Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by "Billboard" magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming. 

The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is readily available on a real-time basis, and is tracked on a Monday to Sunday cycle (previously Wednesday to Tuesday). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by "Billboard" on Tuesdays. Example: 

The first number one song of the Hot 100 was "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson, on August 4, 1958. As of the issue for the week ending on October 7, 2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,067 different number one hits. The current number one song is "Bodak Yellow" by Cardi B. 

Prior to 1955, "Billboard" did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the rock era in 1955, three such charts existed: 

Although officially all three charts had equal "weight" in terms of their importance, many chart historians refer to the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart when referencing a song's performance prior to the creation of the Hot 100; until the start of the rock era in 1955, radio was still in its Golden Age, characterized more by spoken-word programs than music radio, and physical record sales were still the dominant indicator of a recording's popularity. On the week ending November 12, 1955, "Billboard" published The Top 100 for the first time. "The Top 100" combined all aspects of a single's performance (sales, airplay and jukebox activity), based on a point system that typically gave sales (purchases) more weight than radio airplay. The "Best Sellers In Stores", "Most Played by Jockeys" and "Most Played in Jukeboxes" charts continued to be published concurrently with the new "Top 100" chart.
1. What is the Billboard Hot 100?
2. Who publishes it?
3. What is one thing the ranking is based on?
4. And another?
5. And the last?
6. What changed in 1991?
7. What day is the list released?
8. Before 1955 what did not exist?
9. What did radio mainly consist of before 1955?
10. What date was the first top 100 list published?
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answer: 1. is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles
2. "Billboard" magazine
3. sales
4. online streaming
5. radio play
6. Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991
7. Tuesdays
8. "Billboard" did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart
9. more spoken-word programs than music radio
10. November 12, 1955


question: CHAPTER III. 

THE NIGHT-WATCHERS. 

What first struck Margaret in Thrums was the smell of the caddis. The town smells of caddis no longer, but whiffs of it may be got even now as one passes the houses of the old, where the lay still swings at little windows like a great ghost pendulum. To me it is a homely smell, which I draw in with a great breath, but it was as strange to Margaret as the weavers themselves, who, in their colored nightcaps and corduroys streaked with threads, gazed at her and Gavin. The little minister was trying to look severe and old, but twenty-one was in his eye. 

"Look, mother, at that white house with the green roof. That is the manse." 

The manse stands high, with a sharp eye on all the town. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it, and so the back of the Tenements is always better behaved than the front. It was in the front that Jamie Don, a pitiful bachelor all his life because he thought the women proposed, kept his ferrets, and here, too, Beattie hanged himself, going straight to the clothes-posts for another rope when the first one broke, such was his determination. In the front Sanders Gilruth openly boasted (on Don's potato-pit) that by having a seat in two churches he could lie in bed on Sabbath and get the credit of being at one or other. (Gavin made short work of him.) To the right-minded the Auld Licht manse was as a family Bible, ever lying open before them, but Beattie spoke for more than him-self when he said, "Dagone that manse! I never gie a swear but there it is glowering at me." 
1. What color is the top of the church?
2. Is it short?
3. Who behaves better?
4. Why?
5. Who killed himself?
6. How many attempts did it take?
7. Who never had a wife?
8. What pets did he keep?
9. Who felt the church was always staring at him?
10. Was he the only one?
11. Did someone else think differently about it?
12. Who?
13. Who did they see it?
14. Did the area have an odor?
15. Of what?
16. Who felt this way?
17. Did she think it was normal?
18. Does the narrator like the odor or dislike it?
19. What are the people who weave things wearing?
20. Who tried to look tough and elderly?
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answer: 1. green
2. No
3. the back of the Tenements
4. Every back window in the Tenements has a glint of it
5. Beattie
6. Two
7. Jamie Don
8. Ferrets
9. Beattie
10. No
11. Yes
12. The right-minded
13. as a family Bible, ever lying open before them,
14. Yes
15. The caddis
16. Margaret
17. No
18. He likes it
19. colored nightcaps and corduroys
20. The little minister


question: (CNN) -- Look out Liverpool, Mario Balotelli has arrived. 

As famous for his larger than life demeanor as he is for his goalscoring exploits, the mercurial striker has completed his move from AC Milan to the English Premier League club. 

He joined on a long-term deal, Liverpool said on its website Monday wit the fee reportedly around $26.5 million. 

"I'm very happy," Balotelli told the club's official website. "We've been talking about coming here and now I'm happy to be here. 

"Liverpool are one of the best teams here in England and the football is very good here. 

"It's a great team with young players, and that's why I came here." 

The Italian is well known to English football fans after a turbulent two-and-a-half-year stint with Manchester City, where he helped the team to a first league title in 44 years while also gaining a cult following for his off-field antics. 

But Balotelli could be just the man Liverpool needs to help spearhead its Premier League and Champions League challenge following the departure of last season's top scorer Luis Suarez to Barcelona. 

"Suarez's exit left a hole in the side in terms of his goals but more than that, it also left a hole in terms of Liverpool losing a player idolized by the Kop," Jim Boardman, writer for Anfield Road and The Anfield Wrap websites, told CNN. 

"Few players are idolized at Anfield to the same kind of level that Suarez enjoyed but Balottelli is in prime position to take that crown. 
1. Who resigned with a new soccer team?
2. For what team?
3. Where was he before?
4. Is he upset about the change?
5. What player left the team after last season?
6. What record did he hold for his team last season?
7. Where will he be playing next?
8. How long was Balotelli with his last team?
9. What did he accomplish while there?
10. How did he attract a following?
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answer:
1. Mario Balotelli
2. Liverpool
3. Manchester City
4. No
5. Luis Suarez
6. top scorer
7. Barcelona
8. 2 1/2 years
9. Helped the team to a title
10. off-field antics