Question: CHAPTER XXXVI 

"Come on,--I'll show you the real dirt," Brissenden said to him, one evening in January. 

They had dined together in San Francisco, and were at the Ferry Building, returning to Oakland, when the whim came to him to show Martin the "real dirt." He turned and fled across the water-front, a meagre shadow in a flapping overcoat, with Martin straining to keep up with him. At a wholesale liquor store he bought two gallon-demijohns of old port, and with one in each hand boarded a Mission Street car, Martin at his heels burdened with several quart-bottles of whiskey. 

If Ruth could see me now, was his thought, while he wondered as to what constituted the real dirt. 

"Maybe nobody will be there," Brissenden said, when they dismounted and plunged off to the right into the heart of the working-class ghetto, south of Market Street. "In which case you'll miss what you've been looking for so long." 

"And what the deuce is that?" Martin asked. 

"Men, intelligent men, and not the gibbering nonentities I found you consorting with in that trader's den. You read the books and you found yourself all alone. Well, I'm going to show you to-night some other men who've read the books, so that you won't be lonely any more." 

"Not that I bother my head about their everlasting discussions," he said at the end of a block. "I'm not interested in book philosophy. But you'll find these fellows intelligences and not bourgeois swine. But watch out, they'll talk an arm off of you on any subject under the sun."  1. Where had the people eaten together?
2. What building were they at?
3. To where were they to return?
4. What had been bought at the liquor store?
5. What kind of liquor store was it?
6. Which car did he get on?
7. Who was at his heels?
8. And what did he have?
9. Where was the working class ghetto?
10. What month did all this occur?
11. Day or evening?
12. What was Brissenden going to show Martin?
13. Was this done on a whim?
14. What kind of coat was Brissenden wearing?
15. Did Martin have difficulty keeping up with him?
16. Where had Martin been consorting?
17. With what kind of entities had he been consorting? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. San Francisco
2. the Ferry Building
3. Oakland
4. two gallon-demijohns of old port
5. a wholesale liquor store
6. a Mission Street car
7. Martin
8. several quart-bottles of whiskey
9. south of Market Street
10. January
11. evening
12. the real dirt
13. yes
14. an overcoat
15. yes
16. a trader's den
17. gibbering nonentities


Question: (CNN) -- In the end, it was Scotty who got beamed up. 

The ashes of late actor James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the original "Star Trek" television series and a series of subsequent films, were on the SpaceX rocket that launched a private spacecraft into orbit this week. 

Doohan's character was referenced in the "Beam me up, Scotty" catchphrase associated with "Star Trek." 

In various versions of the command, Capt. James T. Kirk, played by William Shatner, would ask his Scottish-descended colleague to activate a matter teleportation device that would transport Kirk or others to the starship Enterprise. 

While it is unclear if the exact phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" ever was uttered in a "Star Trek" episode, it became a popular bumper sticker and Doohan chose it for the title of his autobiography published in 1996. He died in 2005. 

Celestis, a company that provides memorial spaceflights, confirmed that some of Doohan's cremated remains were among 320 sets on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Tuesday. 

Stellar week for SpaceX founder Elon Musk 

In addition, a portion of the cremated remains of Mercury 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper also were on board, the company confirmed. 

The Falcon 9 rocket, which carried up the SpaceX Dragon craft for a possible rendezvous this week with the International Space Station, is expected to remain in orbit for months until burning up when it falls back into the Earth's atmosphere. 

"He would rather have flown when he was alive, of course," said Doohan's widow, Wende Doohan, who watched the SpaceX launch Tuesday with the couple's 12-year-old daugher, one of three children from a 31-year marriage.  1. What was launched recently?
2. What did it bring into orbit?
3. How many sets of remains were put in orbit?
4. Who did James Doohan play?
5. On what show?
6. What country was Doohan's character from?
7. What other well-known person's remains were there?
8. What was his occupation?
9. Was Doohan married before he died?
10. To whom?
11. For how long?
12. How many kids did they have?
13. What is Star Trek's catchphrase?
14. Who supposedly said it?
15. Played by whom?
16. Did he actually say it in an episode?
17. Where was the phrase published?
18. Where else?
19. When was that printed?
20. When did he die? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. SpaceX rocket
2. The ashes of James Doohan
3. 320
4. Montgomery Scott
5. "Star Trek"
6. Scotland
7. Gordon Cooper
8. astronaut
9. Yes
10. Wende Doohan
11. 31 years
12. Three
13. "Beam me up, Scotty"
14. Capt. James T. Kirk
15. William Shatner
16. It is unclear
17. On a bumper sticker
18. Doohan's autobiography
19. 1996.
20. 2005.


Question: (CNN) -- Tragically, another celebrity has died after years of struggling with addiction, personal demons and multiple stints at rehab. Country singer Mindy McCready's death is in the headlines, but similar tragedies happen every day and you never hear about them. 

Take the case of Wyatt D., who went to rehab at least 12 times for treatment of heroin addiction and whose family notified me last summer of his death from drug-related causes. Caroline R. went to rehab five times before medical complications related to severe alcoholism took her life. And Marnie M. died from a cocaine overdose after attending more than one famous rehab where she never received any professional psychological counseling for her troubled past. These aren't their real names, but sadly, they were real people. 

All these people desperately wanted to overcome their drug and alcohol problems and, like McCready, they sought help. They attended some of the most recognized facilities in the country, only to be offered the same type of treatment over and over and to have it suggested that something was wrong with them when treatment failed. 

Just this week, Drew Pinsky, who treated McCready on the third season of his show "Celebrity Rehab," said in reaction to her death, "Unfortunately, it seems that Mindy did not sustain her treatment." TV show hosts offered the typical platitudes: "Stay in treatment; treatment is effective; please get help." 

I'll speculate that something else might have been going on with McCready, as it was for many of the more than 100 people I interviewed who had recently experienced the American addiction treatment system.  1. what was Wyatt D.'s cause of death?
2. which country singer's death is in the headlines?
3. which season of Celebrity Rehab was she on?
4. who treated her?
5. who went to rehab five times?
6. and what killed her?
7. did McCready try to get help?
8. did the treatments work?
9. how many times did Wyatt D. get treatment?
10. and Caroline R.?
11. did Marnie die of heroin or cocaine? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. drug-related causes
2. Mindy McCready
3. third
4. Drew Pinsky
5. Caroline R.
6. complications related to severe alcoholism
7. yes
8. no
9. at least 12 times
10. five times
11. cocaine