question: CHAPTER V 

WOLF'S OFFER 

Jefferson sat in the shade of the bougainvillea and pondered some letters. Austin lounged in a basket-chair opposite and read the _Diario_. They had combined their business as far as possible, but Pancho Brown would not agree to a formal amalgamation. All was quiet. One heard the fountain splash and Betty's typewriter rattle. Sometimes a voice came from the room where Jefferson's Spanish clerks were occupied, but this was all. 

Presently Austin put down the newspaper. 

"The tomato crop was light and the vines are doing badly. It's ominous that the Palma import houses are cutting down their orders." 

"Martinez allowed he wanted to get out of the deal in chemical fertilisers. Trade is looking sick," Jefferson agreed. 

"When I joined Pancho Brown I used to study the accounts and congratulate myself when I saw our credits going up," Austin remarked with a smile. "To feel I could write a cheque for a good sum was something very new. Now I'm bothered because we have money at the bank. I don't see how it's going to be usefully employed." 

"You want to keep money moving. Well, I met Wolf a day or two since, and he hinted he knew about a deal. I wasn't keen, but he said he might come around and see us. I rather expect him." 

"You don't trust the fellow?" 

"Sure thing! Reckon it's instinctive. I like straightforward folks. Wolf's a mystery man." 

Austin looked up and laughed. "He's coming." 

Wolf crossed the flags, and when he stopped by the bougainvillea his face was red. He was fat and his thin, black alpaca jacket looked very tight. 
1. Was Jefferson sitting in the shade?
2. Of what?
3. What was he thinking about?
4. Who was lounging near him?
5. What was he reclined in?
6. What newspaper was he reading?
7. Is Austin Jefferson's wife?
8. What kind of partners are they?
9. Did Jefferson have any clerks around?
10. What country did they hail from?
11. Who was typing somewhat noisily?
12. Is the tomato crop doing well?
13. Who wanted to get out of fertilizers?
14. What houses are cutting down their orders?
15. What company had Austin joined?
16. What did he study then?
17. When did he tell himself he had done a good job?
18. Was it a new experience being able to write a large check?
19. Where does it bug him now to have money kept?
20. Who hinted he knows about a deal and is expected to come around?
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answer: 1. Yes
2. The bougainvillea
3. Some letters
4. Austin
5. a basket-chair
6. The Diario
7. unknown
8. Business
9. Yes
10. Spain
11. Betty
12. No
13. Martinez
14. Palma import houses
15. Pancho Brown
16. The accounts
17. When the credits went up
18. Yes
19. At the bank
20. Wolf


question: Phaininda and episkyros were Greek ball games. An image of an episkyros player depicted in low relief on a vase at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens appears on the UEFA European Championship Cup. Athenaeus, writing in 228 AD, referenced the Roman ball game harpastum. Phaininda, episkyros and harpastum were played involving hands and violence. They all appear to have resembled rugby football, wrestling and volleyball more than what is recognizable as modern football. As with pre-codified "mob football", the antecedent of all modern football codes, these three games involved more handling the ball than kicking. Non-competitive games included kemari in Japan, chuk-guk in Korea and woggabaliri in Australia. 

The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play and only in their penalty area. Outfield players mostly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use their head or torso to do so instead. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is level at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition. The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863. Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA; French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), which organises World Cups for both men and women every four years.
1. What is this article about?
2. Did they have names?
3. What are they called?
4. Is there any other name?
5. Do we know where they were played?
6. Where was that?
7. Do we have any modern sport like them?
8. What is that?
9. Are any participants permitted to handle the ball?
10. Which ones?
11. How do goalies handle the object?
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answer: 1. ancient ball games
2. Yes
3. Phaininda
4. harpastum
5. Yes
6. Rome
7. Yes
8. rugby football, wrestling and volleyball
9. Yes
10. Outfield players
11. allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms


question: Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994. Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Six" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo. These fortunate few would become the first "movie stars." In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. 

Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). 

The company's headquarters and studios are located in 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, United States. 

Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world after the French studios Gaumont Film Company (1895) and Pathé (1896), followed by the Nordisk Film company (1906), and Universal Studios (1912). It is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles. 

Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company. Hungarian-born founder, Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants. With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time (leading to the slogan "Famous Players in Famous Plays"). By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success. Its first film was "Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth", which starred Sarah Bernhardt.
1. What is a subsiiary of Viacom?
2. Is there a shoter name?
3. what is it?
4. What is Paramount?
5. where is it?
6. and they are a member of what?
7. any other memberships mentioned?
8. what?
9. Who was an investor in nickelodeons?
10. where was he from?
11. What significance does 1912 have?
12. How many actors and actresses were contracted in 1916?
13. who did this?
14. what was his occupation at the time?
15. What do the stars on the logo represent?
16. these would become the first what?
17. What did Paramount do in 2014?
18. Are many major film studios in Los Angeles?
19. how many?
20. which one?
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answer:
1. Paramount Pictures Corporation
2. yes
3. Paramount
4. American film studio
5. Hollywood, California
6. the "Big Six"
7. Yes
8. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
9. Adolph Zukor
10. Hungary
11. the founding date of the Famous Players Film Company.
12. 22
13. Adolph Zukor
14. film producer
15. the original 22 actors and actresses
16. "movie stars."
17. Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only.
18. No
19. Just one
20. Paramount