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Andrea Pirlo: Andrea Pirlo is an Italian professional footballer who has played his entire career for American club New York City FC .
Claim: Andrea Pirlo plays for only one team .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | A. True |
Passage: Nick Dormer wants to pursue a career in painting instead of his family's traditional role in British politics. This upsets his family and particularly his lady friend, Julia Dallow, a beautiful but demanding woman deeply involved in political campaigns. But Nick's old Oxford friend Gabriel Nash encourages him to follow his desire to become an artist. Despite his misgivings Nick goes through an election campaign and wins a seat in Parliament. He proposes marriage to Julia but they agree to wait.
Meanwhile, Nick's cousin Peter Sherringham, a rising young man in the British diplomatic service, encounters a young actress, Miriam Rooth, in Paris. He falls in love with Miriam, who shows great energy but is a woefully raw talent. Peter introduces Miriam to French acting coach Madame Carre, and Miriam begins to improve her acting technique greatly.
Nick at last tires completely of politics and resigns from Parliament. He thus loses a large bequest from his political patron, Mr. Carteret. Nick becomes a full-time painter, and when Miriam comes to London in search of theatrical success, she sits to Nick for her portrait as "the tragic muse." Julia finds the two together in the studio. Although nothing improper is going on, Julia suddenly and bitterly realizes that Nick is dedicated to art and will never return to politics.
Miriam eventually triumphs as an actress, especially as Juliet. Peter proposes marriage to her, but she refuses and instead marries Basil Dashwood, her business manager. Peter accepts a diplomatic assignment in Central America. He returns to London on leave and becomes engaged to Biddy Dormer, Nick's sister. The novel ends with a suggestion that Nick and Julia may eventually marry, after all.
Question: Who is particularly upset by Nick's dream of becoming a painter?
Answer: | Julia Dallow |
Passage: Jim Blandings (Cary Grant), a bright account executive in the advertising business, lives with his wife Muriel (Myrna Loy) and two daughters, Betsy (Connie Marshall) and Joan (Sharyn Moffett), in a cramped New York apartment. Muriel secretly plans to remodel their apartment. After rejecting this idea, Jim Blandings comes across an ad for new homes in Connecticut and they get excited about moving. Planning to purchase and "fix up" an old home, the couple contact a real estate agent, who uses them to unload "The Old Hackett Place" in fictional Lansdale County, Connecticut. It is a dilapidated, two-hundred-year-old farmhouse. Blandings purchases the property for more than the going rate for land in the area, provoking his friend/lawyer Bill Cole (Melvyn Douglas) to chastise him for following his heart rather than his head.
The old house, dating from the Revolutionary War-era, turns out to be structurally unsound and has to be torn down. The Blandings hire architect Simms (Reginald Denny) to design and supervise the construction of the new home. From the original purchase to the new house's completion, a long litany of unforeseen troubles and setbacks beset the hapless Blandings and delay their moving-in date. On top of all this, at work Jim is assigned the task of coming up with a slogan for "WHAM" Brand Ham, an advertising account that has destroyed the careers of previous account executives assigned to it. Jim also suspects that Muriel is cheating on him with Bill Cole after Bill slept at the Blandings alone in the house with Muriel one night due to a violent thunderstorm.
With mounting pressure, skyrocketing expenses, and his new assignment, Jim starts to wonder why he wanted to live in the country. The Blandings maid Gussie provides Blandings with the perfect WHAM slogan, and he saves his job. As the film ends, Bill Cole says that he realizes that some things "you do buy with your heart."
Question: What are the names of the Blanding daughters?
Answer: | Betsy and Joan |
A future Tory government ‘will deliver’ English votes for English laws, Mr Cameron declared yesterday as he made a ‘vow’ on home rule. The Prime Minister said Scotland would get more devolved powers – as promised by the major party leaders in the late stages of last month’s referendum campaign. But he would also fix the current unfairness in the constitution for people in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, he said. The Prime Minister said Scotland would get more devolved powers – as promised in the late stages of last month’s referendum campaign - but he would also fix the constitutional problems this would cause . ‘During that referendum campaign we made a vow to the Scottish people that they will get more powers – and we will keep that vow,’ Mr Cameron said. ‘But here’s my vow to the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. I know the system is unfair. ‘I know that you are asking: if Scotland can vote separately on things like tax, spending and welfare, why can’t England, Wales and Northern Ireland do the same? I know you want this answered. So this is my vow: English votes for English laws – the Conservatives will deliver it. Cabinet minister William Hague will chair a committee to draw up proposals for English home rule. Tory backbenchers want Scottish MPs to be excluded from votes on English-only issues. But Labour has refused to support the move – which could undermine its efforts to secure a majority in the House of Commons. The party currently has some 40 MPs in Scotland, all of whom have as much influence on English legislation as MPs from English seats. By contrast, Scottish issues such as health, education and criminal justice are decided by members of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood.
Summarize this article.
| More devolved powers were pledged to Scotland in referendum campaign . But Cameron also vows similar powers for England to choose its future . William Hague will chair committee to draw up plans for English home rule . |
Question: Hard chancre is seen in?
A. Chancroid
B. Syphilis
C. Tularemia
D. All
Answer: | B. Syphilis |
(CNN) -- A Texas woman accused of killing her toddler daughter and dumping the body in Galveston Bay has been found guilty of murder by a jury in Galveston, Texas. Kimberly Dawn Trenor received a life sentence without possibility of parole in the murder of her daughter. Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 20, showed no emotion as the verdict was read late Monday. Trenor had pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence in the case, but pleaded not guilty to the capital murder charge. She received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. The body of Trenor's daughter, Riley Ann Sawyers, was found in October 2007 in a large blue plastic container on an uninhabited island in Galveston Bay. Two-year-old Riley Ann's case drew national attention after a fisherman found her body. Authorities didn't know her identity, and police dubbed her "Baby Grace." After authorities distributed composite sketches of the girl nationwide, Sheryl Sawyers, the girl's paternal grandmother, contacted police from her Ohio home to say the drawing resembled her granddaughter. DNA testing confirmed the child's identity. According to an affidavit, Trenor told police Riley had been beaten and thrown across a room and that her head was held under water before she died on July 24, 2007. Another piece of evidence shown to the jury during the trial was a page of Trenor's journal where she talked of beating the child, according to CNN affiliate KTRK. "I just kept hitting her with the belt again and again. I don't know how long, but I remember her trying to get away and me knocking her back down," the journal said. Trenor's husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 25, also faces capital murder and evidence tampering charges, but is being tried separately. A court date has not been set in that case.
Summarize this article.
| Body of Kimberly Dawn Trenor's daughter found on Galveston Bay island in 2007 . Police dubbed girl "Baby Grace" before her identity was known . Trenor wrote in journal about beating toddler . Trenor's husband to face murder charges in separate trial . |
Passage: Physicist Reed Richards is convinced evolution was triggered millions of years ago on Earth by clouds of cosmic energy in space, and has calculated that one of these clouds is soon going to pass near Earth. Together with his friend, astronaut Ben Grimm, Reed convinces Victor Von Doom, his former classmate at MIT and now CEO of Von Doom Industries, to allow him access to his privately owned space station to test the effects of a biological sample of exposure to the cloud. Doom agrees in exchange for control over the experiment and a majority of the profits from whatever benefits it brings. Reed brings aboard his ex-girlfriend and Von Doom's chief genetics researcher Sue Storm and her ex-astronaut younger brother Johnny Storm.
The quintet travels to outer space to observe the cosmic energy clouds, but Reed miscalculates and the clouds materialize ahead of schedule. Reed and the Storms leave the shielded station to rescue Ben, who had gone on a spacewalk to place the samples. Ben receives full exposure in outer space, while the others receive a more limited dose within the station. Back home they soon develop superpowers: Reed can stretch his body like rubber, Susan can become invisible and generate force shields, Johnny Storm can engulf himself in fire and fly unaided, and Ben becomes a rock-like creature with superhuman strength and durability. Meanwhile, Von Doom faces a backlash from his stockholders because of the publicity from the space mission, and has a scar on his face that came from an exploding control console on the station.
Ben's fiancee Debbie cannot handle his new appearance and leaves him. Ben goes to brood on the Brooklyn Bridge and accidentally causes a traffic pileup while preventing a man from committing suicide. Ben, Reed and the Storms use their various abilities to contain the damage and prevent harm. The media dubs them the Fantastic Four. They move into Reed's lab in the Baxter Building to study their abilities and seek a way to return Grimm to normal. Von Doom, himself mutating, offers his support but blames Reed for the failure of the spaceflight, which has lost him his company.
Reed tells the group he will construct a machine to recreate the storm and reverse its effects on them, but warns it could possibly accelerate them instead. Meanwhile, Von Doom's arm has become organic metal, giving him superhuman strength allowing him to produce bolts of electricity, and he begins plotting revenge. He drives a wedge between Ben and Reed, who has rekindled his relationship with Susan Storm. Using the machine, Von Doom restores Ben to human form, while accelerating Von Doom's condition, causing much of his body to turn to metal. Von Doom knocks the human Grimm unconscious and captures Reed.
Now calling himself Doctor Doom, he puts on a metallic mask and a cloak to hide his disfigurement, Doom then tortures Reed and fires a heatseeking missile at the Baxter Building in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Johnny. Sue confronts Doom but is outmatched. Ben arrives to assist her, transformed into the Thing again by reusing the machine (speaking his signature line, "It's clobberin' time!" which used in Johnny's action figure). The battle then gets spilled into the streets and The Storms combine their powers to wrap Doom in an inferno of intense heat, while Ben and Reed douse him with cold water, inducing thermal shock and freezing Doom in the place, defeating him and preventing the destruction of the city. In an epilogue, Grimm informs Reed that he has accepted his condition with the help of Alicia Masters, a blind artist for whom he has developed feelings, and the team embraces its role as superheroes. Reed proposes marriage to Sue, who accepts. Meanwhile, Doom's statue-like remains are being transported back to his homeland of Latveria when the dock master's electronic manifest briefly undergoes electromagnetic interference, suggesting that Doom is still alive.
Question: How does the name Fantastic Four come about?
Answer: | The media created the name to describe Ben, Reed, and Johnny and Sue Storm. |
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Missouri: Various city and county ordinances had already been enacted in several areas of the state. On April 16 , Governor Parson extended the stay-at-home order until May 3rd.
Claim: Missouri had over 5,000 COVID-19 cases by April 16 , 2020 .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | C. Neither |
Passage: At this year's career day, two students' parents had early morning slots. One, a physician, the other a truck driver. The truck driver unfortunately had to cancel at the last minute, which surprised no one given they never come to any school events, even parent-teacher meetings. The presentation by the physician was a delight, though!
Question: Who is uninvolved in their kids' education?
A. Can't be determined
B. The truck driver
C. The physician
Answer: | B. The truck driver |
Question: A man can not able to do abduction &internal rotation of the arm. Which of the following muscle is responsible for both movement?
A. Pectoralis major
B. Subscapularis
C. Deltoid
D. Supraspinatus
Answer: | C. Deltoid |
By . Thomas Durante and Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 14:25 EST, 4 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:43 EST, 4 April 2013 . Kevin Ware has admitted that he was so far gone on pain medication for his surgically repaired leg that he doesn’t remember talking to Michelle Obama hours after suffering the gut-wrenching injury. Ware sat down with the Today show on Day 2 of the star Louisville guard's media blitz after arriving with his teammates in Atlanta, where the Louisville Cardinals will take on Wichita State on Saturday. He became a national hero and inspiration late Sunday night, when he jumped up to block a shot and came down awkwardly on his right leg, and six inches of his tibia ripped through the skin. Family ties: With mother Lisa Junior, right, Kevin Ware admitted that he was so far gone on pain medication that he doesn't remember talking to Michelle Obama hours after the horrific injury . Team player: Ware, pictured on crutches, accompanied his team to Atlanta last night, where the Louisville Cardinals will face off against Wichita State on Saturday . Interview prep: Ware appeared on the Today show on his second day of a media blitz ahead of the Final Four game . His story sparked a flurry of support . from all over the world including NBA basketball stars, celebrities and . even the first lady, who called Ware not long after the surgery to fix . his leg. When asked about the substance of . that call, Ware said he could not recall - because he was too doped up . on the painkillers he was taking post-surgery. Laughing as he and his mother Lisa Junior spoke with Today's Craig Melvin: 'I was so drugged - honestly I don't know.' Still donning his 'Win it for Kevin' t-shirt, Ware went on to say that he has not yet seen the video of his injury, and doesn't plan to in the near future. Emotional: Kevin Ware broke down in tears as he described how his Louisville teammates came through for him while doctors worked to repair his broken leg . Inspiration: Cleared by doctors to accompany Louisville to Atlanta, the sophomore told The Associated Press that he plans to be a full participant in the team's preparation for the game . He said: 'I haven't seen [the video]. Don't want to. I’m gonna stay as far away from that video as possible.' He thought he had suffered only a broken ankle until he saw the look on coach Rick Pitino's face. 'Coach P's eyes gave it away. Looking at him, looking at my leg. It was automatic shock.' But for Ware, the priority is the NCAA Championship trophy, before he begins the long road to recovery. Passion: Louisville guard Kevin Ware sports a 'Win it for Kevin' t-shirt as he answers questions during an interview at the team's practice facility . Tears: Ware said that he wouldn't trade his teammates for anything in the world, weeping as he spoke . Guidance: Kevin Ware is pictured with Louisville coach Rick Pitino during a news conference on Wednesday . He told Today: 'I’m coming back. I’ll be back to start next season.' Yesterday, Ware broke down in tears . as he described how his Louisville teammates came through for him while . doctors worked to repair his horrifically broken leg. The Louisville guard thanked fans for their support and promised he would do his best to return to the court. Ware admitted to a gaggle of . reporters at the university that he did not know Louisville had gone on . to win the game until he woke up on Monday morning, with the NCAA trophy . by his side. Media frenzy: Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware answers questions from reporters during his first press conference since the injury . Watch the full video only on ESPN . His eyes watered as ESPN's Rece Davis asked him what that moment meant to him. With tears streaming down his face, Ware told Davis: 'It meant everything to me. They went out there and did that for me.' 'Words . can’t explain. I love those guys to death. I wouldn’t trade them in for . the world.Those are the brothers I never had. And I just keep telling . them the job ain’t done yet.' Speaking . of the moment of the injury, he told ESPN: 'I honestly didn't feel . pain. It was more shock. I've never felt anything like that.' Getting out: Kevin Ware left Methodist Hospital on crutches on Tuesday, just two days after suffering the gruesome injury on Sunday night . Inspiration: Despite unimaginable pain, Ware reportedly told teammates not to worry about him and to focus on winning the game . Horrific: Kevin Ware, 20, screams in pain as trainers cover his leg following a crippling injury on Sunday night during the Louisville-Duke game . Hurt: Ware, 20, is comforted by teammate Luke Hancock after the horrific injury. He credits Hancock for helping him get through the initial shock .
Summarize this article.
| Kevin Ware has numerous celebrity admirers since his horrific accident on Sunday night, including NBA stars, celebrities and the first lady . Ware, 20, flew to Atlanta with his teammates last night, where they will take on Wichita State in the Final Four game . He landed badly on his right leg during Sunday night's Louisville-Duke game . |
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. What shall I say of it now, when the words are put into my mouth, my hope of its destruction—what shall I say of its supplanting by Socialism?
What shall I say concerning its mastery of and its waste of mechanical power, its commonwealth so poor, its enemies of the commonwealth so rich, its stupendous organization—for the misery of life! Its contempt of simple pleasures which everyone could enjoy but for its folly? Its eyeless vulgarity which has destroyed art, the one certain solace of labor? All this I felt then as now, but I did not know why it was so. The hope of the past times was gone, the struggles of mankind for many ages had produced nothing but this sordid, aimless, ugly confusion; the immediate future seemed to me likely to intensify all the present evils by sweeping away the last survivals of the days before the dull squalor of civilization had settled down on the world.
This was a bad lookout indeed, and, if I may mention myself as a personality and not as a mere type, especially so to a man of my disposition, careless of metaphysics and religion, as well as of scientific analysis, but with a deep love of the earth and the life on it, and a passion for the history of the past of mankind.
William Morris, How I Became a Socialist, 1896
From the passage, one may infer that, by 1896, Morris had dedicated himself to
A. the spread of mechanical power in industry
B. the transformation of Britain into a commonwealth
C. the triumph of socialism
D. the spread of liberal democracy
Answer: | C. the triumph of socialism |
Passage: In 1995, Samantha Darko (Chase) follows her best friend Corey (Evigan) on a road trip from Virginia to California, in an attempt to become professional dancers. Their dreams are cut short when their car breaks down in a tiny Utah town. They are saved by the town bad boy, Randy (Westwick), who takes them to the local motel where they meet the conspiracy-loving owner. He tells them of Billy Moorcroft, a boy who went missing.
Samantha starts sleepwalking. A future version of her meets Justin (James Lafferty) at the windmill and tells him that the world will end; however, Justin knows this already. The next morning Samantha wakes up on a bus stop bench, where a policeman finds her and warns her about a pervert. He offers to drive her back to the motel but the two end up stopping at the site where a meteorite crashed. Samantha tells Corey that she doesn't remember what happened the night before.
While at a cafe, a science-loving geek, Jeremy (Jackson Rathbone), tries to talk about the meteorite with Samantha. Randy invites the two girls to a party, where he tells her of his brother who went missing and how hard it has been on his family. Future Samantha stands in the middle of a road and is nearly hit by a car; Justin sees her and is entranced. Her ghost takes him to the local nondenominational church and commands him to burn it down.
The next day they find Justin's dog tags in the ashes of the church. Samantha runs into Jeremy, who is beginning to show signs of radiation exposure. Subsequently, Justin has begun working on forging a bunny-skull mask out of metal, saying he needs to help "his princess." Samantha wanders the town and soon encounters Randy and Corey. Samantha tells Corey how she wants to get out of town but the two get into a fight. Samantha runs away, and Randy's car is unexpectedly run into by another car, pushing his car into Samantha and killing her.
Corey is full of anguish about her best friend's death. She finds a book about time travel as well as a story Samantha wrote as a child, entitled The Last Unicorn, about a princess and a boy named Justin. A boy appears, and commands Corey to come with him in order to save Samantha. She follows him to a cave where she goes through a portal that takes her back in time. Everything moves backwards to when Samantha is walking down the road. Corey and Randy drive up to Samantha again and when they stop, Corey is nicer to her. As Randy drives off, the other car still runs into him, and this time Corey is killed instead.
Samantha is devastated by Corey's death. After another sleepwalking incident, she sees a dress in the window of the vintage shop Jeremy's parents own. It is the same dress she wears as Future Samantha. Jeremy sees her admiring it and begins talking more about the meteorite he bought. Samantha notices tissue damage on Jeremy's arm and when told about it, he quickly covers it up and calls it a rash.
The next morning Samantha wakes up on the hill where Justin is. He takes the book about time travel from her and explains that it was written by his grandmother. He asks her to "show him how to do it" but she doesn't understand. He tells her that he made his mask from a drawing by Donnie, Samantha's deceased brother, that she showed him. She asks how he knew her brother's name and he responds by saying she told him "when she was dead". Samantha walks away and finds the bodies of two dead boys, Randy's little brother and the boy that appeared to Corey, Billy Moorcroft.
After telling the police about what she saw, everyone assumes that Justin is responsible. He soon asks Samantha to "show him how" again. The police then take him into custody. That night, Samantha returns to her motel where she finds the dress she saw at the shop, a gift from Jeremy. He asks her to wear it to see the fireworks with him. They go to a remote location and Jeremy sees what he calls tesseracts falling from the sky. He becomes manic and Samantha notes that his rash has gotten much worse. He tries to kiss Samantha but she resists and he eventually pushes her back roughly, killing her.
Future Samantha, now identical to regular Samantha, visits Justin in jail. Randy tries to find her as fiery tesseracts fall from the sky and eventually finds her where Jeremy left her. Justin approaches and sees his mask, putting it on. Justin then goes back in time. He climbs the windmill that was destroyed at the beginning. Justin believes that his death will prevent the series of events that will lead to the end of the world so he stays on the windmill this time and is killed by the meteorite.
It is now the morning after the meteorite landing again. Samantha and Corey visit the site and find the locals are saddened as they take away Justin's body. Samantha, never having experienced the events after the meteorite crash, decides to go back home while Corey stays with Randy.
Question: Who was held responsible after telling the police?
Answer: | everyone assumed justin to be responsible. |
English: a fabulous crow hits the tall birds Other: cahu hunowo hupumo dimupi fojala foreba fobazeja
English: the fabulous cats that slap the tall monkeys hit a fast dog that wanted the small birds Other: sudizuxu fojala foreba fosupuja za foja fonowo fogina sudimupi nehohe fojala fomito fobazeja za cahula huliwa huzepija
English: fabulous crows want a fast cat Other: cahu fonowo fopumo sudihohe cahula huliwa huginaja
English: a excellent child will see the tall monkeys Other: cahu hunogi hukuxi xijedo fojala foreba fosupuja
English: the excellent children slap tall birds Other: foja fonogi fokuxi sudizuxu cahula foreba fobazeja
English: a fast bird that slaps excellent birds slapped fabulous children that hit fast cats Other:
A. dizuxu cahula fonogi fobazeja za cahu huliwa hubaze nezuxu sudimupi cahula foliwa foginaja za cahula fonowo fokuxija
Answer: | A. dizuxu cahula fonogi fobazeja za cahu huliwa hubaze nezuxu sudimupi cahula foliwa foginaja za cahula fonowo fokuxija |
Question: Alfred is storing a tonne of maize each month for the next 2 years. If 5 tonnes are stolen and 8 tonnes are given to him as a donation, how many tonnes of maize does he have at the end of the 2 years.
Answer: | Before his maize is stolen, the maize he stores at the end of 1 year is 12*1= <<12*1=12>>12 tonnes of maize. Before his maize is stolen, the maize he stores at the end of 2 years is 12*2= <<12*2=24>>24 tonnes of maize. After his maize is stolen, he is left with 24-5=<<24-5=19>>19 tonnes of maize. After he receives the maize donation, he has 19+8=<<19+8=27>>27 tonnes of maize. The answer is 27. |
Question: Z score measures the bone mineral density compred to -
A. Age, Race and sex matched individuals
B. Race and sex matched individuals
C. Sex matched individuals
D. None of the above
Answer: | A. Age, Race and sex matched individuals |
By . Anthony Bond . PUBLISHED: . 13:29 EST, 29 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:25 EST, 30 November 2012 . Cleared: PC David Hair was found not guilty of using racist language after he admitted asking a black female colleague if she was 'going home to cook bananas'. He claimed it was an honest reference to cooking . Two police officers were cleared of racial harassment today after one admitted saying a black man looked like a monkey while another allegedly told a black colleague that she was 'going home to cook bananas'. Metropolitan Police constables Kevin Hughes, 36, and Pc David Hair, 42, were both found not guilty on two separate charges each at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court. PC Kevin Hughes, 42, was patrolling the East End of London in a squad . car when he made the remark about a black man looking like a monkey to colleague PC Costas Dakoutros. When challenged by PC Dakoutros, Hughes said ‘It’s true’ and added: . ‘They’re closely related to chimpanzees and more closely related to . Neanderthals.’ During the same patrol another workmate, PC Kirk Baker, heard Hughes . say: ‘Black people haven’t evolved, they live in mud huts in Africa.’ He went on to say that black people’s ‘sticking out ears and thick lips’ made them resemble primates. Prosecutors claimed the case revealed a culture of racism in the Victim . Offenders Location Time (VOLT) team which was based in Newham, one of . the most ethnically diverse areas of the country. But Hughes, along with PC David Hair, 36, a fellow member of the VOLT . team, was cleared of a public order offence and racially aggravated . harassment. Hughes wept as District Judge Howard Riddle announced the verdicts at . Westminster Magistrates’ Court, while Hair signed with relief. But today a police watchdog urged the Met to still consider taking legal action against the officers. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said Scotland Yard should 'seriously consider' its findings in relation to the case. IPCC commissioner Mike Franklin said: 'The IPCC’s investigation into alleged racist comments made by Pcs Hughes and Hair concluded in June when we passed our findings of potential gross misconduct to the Metropolitan Police Service for their consideration. 'I urge the Metropolitan Police Service to give serious consideration to the issues raised in our report. 'Any misconduct hearing will need to determine whether the comments are a breach of the professional standards expected of police officers.' Hair was alleged to have racially abused PC Julia Dacres while travelling in a police minibus last March 13. He asked her if she was going to do some overtime and then said: ‘I . didn’t know if you were going to go into a little rant and say how you . had to go home and cook bananas’. Hughes would also talk in a mock-Asian accent call other officers ‘auntie’ and ‘uncle’. He thought it was hilarious because he had dealt with Asian man who said . he was ‘visiting his aunty for a party’ in a very thick accent. Witnesses: Hair was alleged to have racially abused PC Julia Dacres, right. PC Kevin Hughes, 42, made the remark about a black man looking like a monkey to colleague PC Costas Dakoutros, left . He admitted he had referred to the men’s similarities to monkeys but . said it was during an innocent conversation about evolution and had . nothing to do with his race. ‘I just said it has nothing to do with him being black, I noticed him . because he had elongated limbs, his gait,’ Hughes told the court. Relief: PC Kevin Hughes arriving at Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday where he was cleared of threatening, abusive words or behaviour . ‘I said that was why I picked him out, because of the way he was walking - it was a fleeting glance. ‘I was just trying to reinforce my point that I believe that some human beings had characteristics that resemble monkeys.’ Hair admitted making the bananas comment, but denied that it was racially motivated. He told the court: 'I could've used any food but I'm aware that bananas are something that are cooked, sometimes as fritters. 'Unfortunately for me, I'm now aware that they are called plantain. 'As far as I'm aware a banana is a banana.' Senior District Judge Howard Riddle said: 'Whatever precisely Pc Hughes said, it was unacceptable and offensive.' He said that 'in these circumstances it did not amount to a criminal offence'. Noting that 'context is central', Mr Riddle pointed out there had been no aggression or threat. He said: 'Freedom of speech is a cherished principle. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to be offensive. 'It . is, of course, restrained in a number of ways - employers can require . employees to avoid offensive language or lose their jobs. The civil . courts can provide redress for harm caused. 'But when the state tells people . what they can or cannot say, on pain of criminal sanction, the position . is different. 'Citizens expect strong justification for curtailing . freedom of expression. Offensiveness is not enough. Context is central.' Hughes, of Ingrave, Essex, and Hair of Epping, Essex, were both found . not guilty of one count of using threatening, abusive, or insulting . words or behaviour to cause another person harassment, alarm, or . distress and alternative charge of racially aggravated harassment. The judge praised the MPS and CPS for bringing the case. In the dock: The trial took place at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court, pictured .
Summarize this article.
| Metropolitan Police constables Kevin . Hughes, 36, and Pc David Hair, 42, both found not guilty of racism charges . ‘Black people haven’t evolved, they live in mud huts in Africa,’ a colleague heard Hughes say . Hair was alleged to have racially abused PC Julia Dacres while travelling in a police minibus . Police watchdog urges Met to still consider disciplinary action against them . |
Question: A roadwork company is paving a newly constructed 16-mile road. They use a mixture of pitch and gravel to make the asphalt to pave the road. Each truckloads of asphalt uses two bags of gravel and five times as many bags of gravel as it does barrels of pitch to make. It takes three truckloads of asphalt to pave each mile of road. The company paved 4 miles of road on one day, then one mile less than double that on the second day. How many barrels of pitch will the company need to finish the remaining road on the third day?
Answer: | On the second day, the company paved 4 * 2 - 1 = <<4*2-1=7>>7 miles. The company has 16 - 7 - 4 = <<16-7-4=5>>5 miles of road remaining to pave. They will need 3 * 5 = <<3*5=15>>15 truckloads of asphalt to pave 5 miles of road. For 15 truckloads, they will need 15 * 2 = <<15*2=30>>30 bags of gravel. Thus, the company will need 30 / 5 = <<30/5=6>>6 barrels of pitch to finish the road on the third day. The answer is 6. |
At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Jackie Kennedy begged her husband not to send her to safety in the event of a nuclear attack, previously unreleased interviews have revealed. The same interviews also highlighted her criticisms of Indira Gandhi, sister-in-law Eunice Shriver and 'egomaniac' Charles de Gaulle as well as captured her calling late brother-in-law Joe Jr 'unimaginative' compared to her husband. When the First Lady discovered that the Soviets were installing missiles in Cuba targeting U.S. cities in October 1962, Mrs Kennedy pleaded with her husband to remain by his side. Dedicated: JFK and his wife Jackie hold hands as they meet with delegates in 1962. Previously unreleased interviews have revealed she begged her husband not to send her to safety during the Cuban Missile Crisis that year . In interviews recorded 47 years ago, the . newly-widowed former first lady describes how she would lie down next . to JFK when he took a nap and go for walks with him as America stared . down the barrel of a nuclear war. She said she told him: 'If anything happens, we're all going to stay right here with you. 'I just want to be with you, and I want to die with you, and the children do, too - than live without you.' The interviews, titled Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy and due to be released on Wednesday to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy-era administration, were made with historian and former White House aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr in her 18th century Washington home in 1964. In them, she makes virtually no mention of her husband's assassination on November 22, 1963. JFK's health problems and extra-marital affairs were also still years from public knowledge. On the brink of war: JFK walks with military leaders in front of missile batteries during the crisis in 1962 . Crunch time: The president meets with advisers, including his brother Robert, in the White House at the height of the missile crisis. Most other politicians had sent their families away from Washington . Mrs Kennedy reveals she enjoyed having her husband 'proud of her', saw no reason to have a policy opinion that wasn't the same as his and laughed at the thought of 'violently liberal women' who preferred the more effect Adlai Stevenson to her husband. She said: 'Jack so obviously demanded from a woman - a relationship between a man and a woman where a man would be the leader and a woman be his wife and look up to him as a man. 'With Adlai you could have another relationship where - you know, he'd sort of be sweet and you could talk, but you wouldn't ever... I always thought women who were scared of sex loved Adlai.' The interviews also touch on the legacy left by the Kennedy family in U.S. politics and the effect it had within the family itself. She dismissed the idea that the eldest Kennedy son, Joseph Jr, would have been president if he had not been killed in World War Two. 'He would have been so unimaginative, compared to Jack,' she said. 'Warm': JFK and his son John Jr in 1960. Jackie described him as lying around on the floor to play with his children, despite descriptions of him being 'unemotional' Fooling around: The President chases after his son in the Oval Office in the White House . And she commented on the ambition with the Kennedy clan, contrasting the integrity of Robert F. Kennedy - the president's brother and attorney general - with the designs of her sister-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Robert Kennedy had begged JFK not to appoint him, fearing charges of nepotism. Eunice Kennedy, however, was anxious to see her husband Sargent Shriver, named head of the department of Health, Education and Welfare. Jackie told Mr Schlesinger: 'Eunice was pestering Jack to death to make Sargent head of HEW because she wanted to be a cabinet wife. Jackie had unkind words for Indira Gandhi, calling her a 'prune - bitter, kind of pushy, horrible woman' and Charles de Gaulle, whom she called 'spiteful' and an 'egomaniac' Jackie also said her late brother-in-law Joe Kennedy Jr would not have been very imaginative as president when compared to husband Jack . 'You know, it shows you some people are ambitious for themselves and Bobby wasn't.' Mrs Kennedy also had harsh words for overseas diplomats. She referred to French president Charles de Gaulle, whom she famously charmed on a visit to Paris, as 'that egomaniac' and 'that spiteful man'. While she thought Indira Gandhi, the future prime minister of India, was a 'prune - bitter, kind of pushy, horrible woman.' The interviews also reveal Mrs Kennedy's . loathing for black civil rights leader Martin Luther King, who she . described as a 'terrible man' and a 'phoney'. Mourning: Jackie Kennedy with her children Caroline and John at her husband's funeral in 1963. Behind them is Robert Kennedy, who was himself assassinated in 1968 . Memorial: Jackie and her daughter Caroline, centre, with Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony for JFK in Runnymede, England . Cortege: The coffin of President Kennedy is led to its final resting place in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington . And they cover JFK's fears over his vice-president Lyndon Johnson succeeding him in office. Jackie said sister-in-law Eunice Shriver, Maria's mom, wanted her husband made head of HEW so she could be a cabinet wife . She said her husband would say to her: 'Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen to the country if Lyndon were president? 'And Bobby told me that he'd had some discussions with him... do something to name someone else in 1968.' Mrs Kennedy preferred others in her . husband's administration, calling Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg . 'brilliant'. But she added: 'He talks more about himself than any man . I've ever met in my life.' Meanwhile White House speechwriter Theodore Sorensen . had a 'big inferiority complex' and was 'the last person you would . invite at night.' In June, an extract of one of the interviews had Mrs Kennedy saying her husband felt his legacy would be secured if he was assassinated after his Cuban missile crisis success of 1962. 'If anyone's going to kill me, it should happen now,' he supposedly said. Professor Robert Dallek, a Kennedy era historian, has said JFK’s remark may have been inspired by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Not a fan: Mrs Kennedy with her husband meeting French President Charles De Gaulle during a visit to Paris .
Summarize this article.
| Jackie Kennedy told husband 'I want to die with you' when he tried to send her to safety during Cuban Missile Crisis . Unreleased interviews reveal she would watch him sleep and go for walks during height of confrontation with Soviet Union . Recordings were made year after his 1963 assassination . |
A 72-year-old woman comes to the physician because of a 3-day history of fever, shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing, chest pain, and cough. She is frail. Physical examination shows tachypnea and equal pulses bilaterally. Percussion of the chest shows dullness over the right lower lung field. Laboratory studies show arterial hypoxemia and decreased PCO2. A chest x-ray shows an area of opacification in the lower region of the right lung. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this patient's condition?
A. Alveolar proteinosis
B. Aspiration
C. Cigarette smoking
D. Emphysema
Answer: | B. Aspiration |
Question: The world record for longest fingernails is 26 inches. Sandy, who just turned 12 this month, has a goal for tying the record. Her fingernails are 2 inches long. Her fingernails grow at a rate of one-tenth of an inch per month. How old will she be when she achieves the world record?
Answer: | Sandy's fingernails will grow a total of ( 0.1 ) * 12 = <<(0.1)*12=1.2>>1.2 inches per year. To achieve the world record, Sandy needs to grow her fingernails a total of 26 - 2 = <<26-2=24>>24 inches. It will take her a total of 24 / 1.2 = <<24/1.2=20>>20 years. Sandy will be 12 + 20 = <<12+20=32>>32 years old when she achieves the world record. The answer is 32. |
Passage: Anna Karenina is the tragic story of a married aristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story opens when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though she would experience less tolerance by others.
A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry her if she will agree to leave her husband Karenin, a senior government official, but she is vulnerable to the pressures of Russian social norms, the moral laws of the Russian Orthodox Church, her own insecurities, and Karenin's indecision. Although Vronsky and Anna go to Italy, where they can be together, they have trouble making friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, becoming further isolated and anxious, while Vronsky pursues his social life. Despite Vronsky's reassurances, she grows increasingly possessive and paranoid about his imagined infidelity, fearing loss of control.
A parallel story within the novel is that of Konstantin Levin, a wealthy country landowner who wants to marry Princess Kitty, sister to Dolly and sister-in-law to Anna's brother Oblonsky. Konstantin has to propose twice before Kitty accepts. The novel details Konstantin's difficulties managing his estate, his eventual marriage, and his personal issues, until the birth of his first child.
The novel explores a diverse range of topics throughout its approximately thousand pages. Some of these topics include an evaluation of the feudal system that existed in Russia at the time—politics, not only in the Russian government but also at the level of the individual characters and families, religion, morality, gender and social class.The novel is divided into eight parts. Its epigraph is Vengeance is mine, I will repay, from Romans 12:19, which in turn quotes from Deuteronomy 32:35.
The novel begins with one of its most often-quoted lines:
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Question: What does Anna's brother's womanizing cause?
Answer: | A broken family |
Passage: Two friends, Latasha Dorsey and Hussein Sahraoui went clothes shopping together.
Question: Who wore larger clothing sizes?
A. Unknown
B. Hussein Sahraoui
C. Latasha Dorsey
Answer: | A. Unknown |
Question: Every day in a week, Siena bookmarks 30 website pages from the research she does on her browser. If Siena has 400 bookmarked pages on her bookmarks library now, how many pages will she have in her bookmarks library at the end of March?
Answer: | Since Siena bookmarks 30 website pages from the research she does on her browser every day, at the end of March, with 31 days, she would have bookmarked 30*31 = <<30*31=930>>930 pages. If Siena already has 400 bookmarked pages in her bookmarks library now, she will have 930+400 = <<400+930=1330>>1330 pages in her bookmarks library at the end of March. The answer is 1330. |
Passage: I overheard an older adult and a teen talking about what they do in their free time to relax, and it turns out both mentioned beer. I was very surprised, though, to hear the openness with which the older adult talked about drinking until passing out, whereas the teen seemed to have a much healthier approach to drinking.
Question: Who drinks in moderation?
A. The teen
B. The older adult
C. Can't be determined
Answer: | A. The teen |
(CNN) -- Parts of the Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama were under water Sunday, with an onslaught of torrential rains causing not just extensive flooding but also damage to roads and buildings, local officials said. More than 20 inches of rain have fallen over the past 24 hours in spots in Escambia County, the county's emergency management director John Dosh told CNN around noon Sunday. The National Weather Service, in fact, noted a wide range of rainfall totals around the region through 8 a.m. Sunday. Though some coastal spots such as Destin, Florida, received around an inch, others had much more -- including between five and 10 inches in parts of Mobile, Alabama, and 21.7 inches in West Pensacola, Florida. The precipitation contributed to a host of problems, with flooding especially substantial in the southern part of Escambia County along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, according to Dosh. Some 113 people are in shelters in Escambia County due to the storm, and residents of a low-lying apartment complex were ordered to evacuate, the spokesman added. But there have been no related fatalities or injuries. Additionally, several roads and bridges, as well as a number of homes and businesses, have suffered damage, said Dosh. One of the structures affected is the Escambia County Jail in Pensacola. The facility's central booking facility, where inmates are brought in, was under about six feet of water at midday Saturday, according to Escambia County Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Ward. The main part of the jail, which houses 697 inmates, lost power in the storm, said Ward. But temporary power has been brought in, and efforts continue to get the air conditioning back working. The spokesman said security at the jail was never compromised. Flash flooding made parts of some roadways impassable, with some reporting waters rising more than six feet in spots. Leroy Bonifay, 90, told CNN affiliate WALA that he and his grandson got stuck along Airport Boulevard in Pensacola when water "washed up over my hood and drowned my engine." It climbed even higher, up to the windows, before two bystanders came to their rescue. "I have never seen it get this high in this area before," said Bonifay. "It's tough, but we'll make it out all right." And the headaches aren't over, as the rain may not let up anytime soon. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch through Monday morning for parts of southwest Alabama, northwest Florida and southeast Mississippi, where three to six more inches of rain are expected. There is also "a high risk for rip currents" through 1 p.m. Monday off Alabama and Florida Panhandle beaches, according to the weather agency.
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| NEW: The weather service warns of a "high risk of rip tide currents" through Monday . Rainfall totals varied greatly in the region, from one inch to nearly 22 inches . Roads, bridges and structures -- including a county jail -- are affected, officials say . Flash flood watches are in effect for parts of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi . |
Question: Secondary Hyperparathyroidism is seen in all of the following, Except
A. Rickets
B. Osteomalacia
C. Osteoporosis
D. Renal failure
Answer: | C. Osteoporosis |
Passage: Two people were pretty unhappy about their service at the store, Julie Obrien, who is a scientist, and Lori Olson, who is a bartender. Julie Obrien yelled at the person at the service counter and demanded to see the manager, while Lori Olson politely described their issue and asked for a refund or exchange.
Question: Who was polite to the person at the service counter?
A. Can't answer
B. Lori Olson who is a bartender
C. Julie Obrien, who is a scientist
Answer: | B. Lori Olson who is a bartender |
Rain in Manchester appeared to come as a shock at Old Trafford on Friday when a stretch of outfield that could not cope with an hour’s downpour forced the abandonment of the second day with England starting to pull away from India. Lancashire faced anger from spectators who had seen the drainage system which enabled the bulk of the playing surface to recover from a heavy shower fail in one ugly, relaid area of the outfield that remained stubbornly unfit for play. It is an embarrassment for Lancashire, who prepared the best pitch of this series only to see the elements expose the inadequacies of the Old Trafford facilities and hold up England’s attempt to move into a winning position. VIDEO Scroll down for Stuart Broad's six-wicket blitz puts England in command . On top: Joe Root is unbeaten on 48 for England as they lead India by 85 runs with four wickets in hand . Opening out: Jos Buttler is also in the middle, on 22, as England looked to build a lead before rain interveneed . Holding the bat up high: Ian Bell acknowledges the crowd after reaching his 42nd Test fifty for England . Delay: Joe Root (right) and Jos Buttler (left) leave the field after rain stopped play not long after lunch on Friday . Rain which stopped play 35 minutes after lunch had cleared seemingly in time for two more hours of play but umpires Marais Erasmus and Rod Tucker were unhappy with a saturated area at the Statham End. It emerged that construction work earlier this year had caused turf to be relaid in front of the media centre in April and it had not bedded down in time for this Test. Cue a scarred area of sandy turf, a frustrated crowd, a black mark for Lancashire in highly competitive times for Test match grounds and red faces to match the Red Rose. It was left to Mike Watkinson, the lugubrious Lancashire director of cricket, to offer the case for the defence of an Old Trafford ground that suffered a similar controversy during a Twenty20 game against Australia five years ago. ‘We’ve had a massive downpour and this is an area used for construction purposes,’ he said. ‘It’s got high-performing drains but what it hasn’t got is turf knitted together over the years like the rest of the outfield. If we’ve got anything wrong it was to go with the waterhog instead of letting it drain naturally. It looks a bit of a mess, we accept that. ‘You hope people look at the cricket that’s been played and the quality of the pitch rather than five metres of a sandy puddle that affected an hour’s cricket.’ Waterlogged: The downpour in Manchester left the Old Trafford outfield looking like a reservoir . Dark skies: The clouds stopped above Old Trafford and unleashed a rain storm down on to the outfield . That may be so, but with terrible weather forecast for Sunday, the drainage and outfield will be tested to the full and the time already lost could prove significant in what has become an absorbing fourth Test. There seemed no way back for India from eight for four after just half an hour on Thursday but on Friday they ensured that England face a fight if they are going to emerge from Old Trafford with at least a share of this series guaranteed. Only when Joe Root and Jos Buttler began to take advantage of some curious tactics by MS Dhoni after lunch did England look likely to build the decisive first-innings lead that had looked assured when their bowlers ran riot on day one. Clearly the fall of Gary Ballance in the last over of the first day had lifted India and they stayed in contention on Friday, albeit without gaining the swing enjoyed by Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson, until that heavy rain arrived. Chris Jordan, who took just one wicket in the Indian innings, had been handed the perfect chance to prove his batting worth as nightwatchman and signalled his intent by hooking Pankaj Singh aggressively for four. Celebration: India players congratulate Varun Aaron (second left) after he dismisses Moeen Ali (second right) Out the ground: Moeen Ali was clean-bowled by Varun Aaron as India took three early wickets in Manchester . Jordan managed two more boundaries, even though one of them was inside-edged narrowly past his stumps, until he middled another pull from Bhuvneshwar Kumar and was athletically caught by a diving Varun Aaron at mid-wicket. Ian Bell then moved to his 42nd Test half-century before he was undone by the skill of Kumar. First Bell’s outside edge was defeated and Kumar then took the same edge with the next ball with Bell expecting an inswinger. Moeen Ali (right) looked to take on the short ball, pulling Kumar for successive fours that gave England the lead, but the ball after he had uncertainly steered Aaron for two he was stuck on the back foot and bowled by a prodigious inswinger. Enter Buttler in vastly different circumstances from those which marked his debut, but he again showed his vast potential by knuckling down with Root in an unbeaten partnership of 67 that was beginning to flourish before the rain. The pair were helped by some odd tactics by Dhoni which included bowling Ravindra Jadeja both just before and after lunch when conditions were crying out for a burst from his seamers. It enabled England to move into a lead of 85 that could prove decisive — if the drainage system allows play to resume on Saturday. GOLD TRAFFORD . Ian Bell’s belligerent 58 continued his love affair with Old Trafford, where he has made 608 Test runs at an average of 76. Among batsmen who have played a minimum of six Test innings here, only Allan Border (416 runs at 83) and Denis Compton (818 at 81) average more. SINGH'S LONG WAIT . India seamer Pankaj Singh has now conceded 258 runs without taking a Test wicket, sending down 384 balls in the process. But he has some way to go before he breaks the record of India’s Amritsar Kripal Singh, who waited 651 deliveries for his first Test wicket.
Summarize this article.
| Ian Bell reached 42nd Test half-century for England during morning session . India took the early wickets of Chris Jordan (13), Bell (58) and Moeen Ali (13) Bhuvneshwar Kumar took two wickets and Varun Aaron claimed the third . Rain stopped play with England 85 ahead during the afternoon session . Joe Root finished on 48 not out and Jos Buttler is alongside on 22 not out . India were bowled out for 152 in their first innings after winning the toss . England and India are tied at 1-1 in best-of-five Test series . |
Passage: The article interviewed two men who are trying to get new jobs, one of them has body art all over their hands, and the other has no tattoos. They reported that only the one with body art has had any luck finding a job, as employers only want someone with no criminal record, which excludes the guy with no tattoos from every single place he's applied to.
Question: Who has a clean record?
A. The guy with no tattoos
B. The guy with body art
C. Can't be determined
Answer: | B. The guy with body art |
Passage: In the year 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city contained beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of their life, including reproduction. The citizens live a hedonistic life but, to maintain the city, everyone must undergo the ritual of "Carrousel" [sic] when they reach the age of 30. There, they are vaporized and ostensibly "renewed". To track this, each person is implanted at birth with a "life-clock" crystal in the palm of their hand that changes color as they get older and begins blinking as they approach their "Last Day". Most residents accept this promise of rebirth, but those who do not and attempt to flee the city are known as "Runners". An elite team of policemen known as "Sandmen", outfitted in predominantly black uniforms and serving in an agency of the city called "Deep Sleep", are assigned to pursue and terminate Runners as they try to escape.
Logan 5 and Francis 7 are both Sandmen. After terminating a Runner, to whose presence they were alerted during a Carrousel ritual, Logan finds an ankh among his possessions. Later that evening, he meets Jessica 6, a young woman also wearing an ankh pendant. Logan takes the ankh to the computer, which tells him that it is a symbol for a secret group whose members help the Runners find "Sanctuary", a mythical place where they will be safe to live out the rest of their lives; it points out that the Sandmen have lost one thousand and fifty-six (1056) Runners that way. The computer instructs Logan to find Sanctuary and destroy it, a mission he has to keep secret from the other Sandmen of Deep Sleep, which it code-names "Assignment 033-03". It then (by a procedure it calls a "retrogram") changes the color of his life-clock to flashing red, making him technically and suddenly four years older. In order to escape Carrousel, Logan is now forced to become a Runner. Logan meets Jessica and explains his situation. They meet with the underground group that leads them to the periphery of the city. Logan finds that the ankh symbol is actually a key that unlocks an exit from the city. They come out into a frozen cave, with Francis following closely behind. In the cave, they meet Box, a robot designed to capture food for the city from the outside. Logan discovers to his horror that Box also captures escaped Runners and freezes them. Before he (Box) can freeze Logan and Jessica, they escape, causing the cave to collapse on Box.
Once outside, Logan and Jessica notice that their life-clocks are no longer operational. They discover that the remains of human civilization have become a wilderness. They explore an old, seemingly abandoned city, which was once Washington D.C.. In the ruins of the United States Senate chamber, they discover an elderly man. His appearance is a shock to them since neither has seen anyone over the age of 30. The old man explains what he remembers of what happened to humanity outside of the city, and Logan realizes that Sanctuary is a myth and had been all along. However, Francis has followed them and he and Logan fight. Logan fatally wounds Francis and as he dies, he sees that Logan's life-clock is now clear and assumes that Logan has renewed. Logan and Jessica convince the old man to return to the city with them as proof that life exists outside the domed city. Leaving the man outside, the two enter and try to convince everyone that Carrousel is a lie and unnecessary. The two are captured by other Sandmen and taken to the computer. The computer interrogates Logan about Assignment 033-03 and asks if he completed his mission. But Logan insists, "There is no Sanctuary." What he had found was "old ruins, exposed", "an old man", and that the missing Runners were "all frozen". These answers, however, are not accepted by the computer, even after scanning Logan's mind, and the computer inexplicably overloads, causing the city's systems to fail violently and release the exterior seals. Logan, Jessica, and the other citizens flee the ruined city. Once outside, the citizens see the old man, the first human they have met who is older than 30, proving that they can indeed live their lives much longer.
Question: What was the abandoned city once know as?
Answer: | Washington D.C. |
Question: The pathogen causing pneumonia in patients who got exposed to rabbit is:
A. Chlamydia psittaci
B. H. capsulatum
C. Francisella tularensis
D. Coxiella burnetii
Answer: | C. Francisella tularensis |
Passage: Lewis plays a washed-up German circus clown named Helmut Doork during the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Although he was once a famous performer who toured America and Europe with the Ringling Brothers, Doork is now past his prime and receives little respect. After Doork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Doork. Upon returning home, Doork confides his problems to his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself. Helmut overhears the circus owner agreeing to fire him after the head clown issues an ultimatum. Helmut is distraught. He is arrested later by the Gestapo for ranting about Germany and drunkenly mocking Adolf Hitler in a bar. Following an interrogation at the Gestapo headquarters, he is imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. For the next three to four years, he remains there while hoping for a trial and a chance to plead his case.
He tries to maintain his status among the other inmates by bragging about what a famous performer he once was. His only friend in prison is a good-hearted German named Johann Keltner, whose reason for being interned is never fully revealed but is implied to be his outspoken opposition to the Nazis. The camp receives a large group of Jewish prisoners, including several children. The other prisoners goad Doork into performing for them, but he does not realize he actually is not very good. The other prisoners beat him up and leave him in the courtyard to sulk about his predicament. He sees a group of Jewish children laughing at him from the other side of the camp, where the Jewish prisoners are being kept away from everyone else. Delighted to be appreciated again, Helmut performs for them and gains an audience for a while, until the new prison commandant orders that he stop.
Helmut learns that fraternizing with Jewish prisoners is strictly forbidden. Unable to leave the children in a state of unhappiness, he continues to perform for them. The SS guards break up one of his performances; they knock him unconscious and warn the children away from the barbed-wire fence. Horrified, Keltner fights off one of the guards, but he is quickly cornered and beaten to death. Doork is placed in solitary confinement. Seeing a use for him, the commandant assigns him to help load Jewish children on trains leading out of the internment camp, with the promise his case will be reviewed. By a twist of fate, he ends up accidentally accompanying the children on a boxcar train to Auschwitz, and he is eventually used, in Pied Piper fashion, to help lead the Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chamber.
Knowing the fear the children will feel, he begs to be allowed to spend the last few moments with them. Leading them to the "showers," he becomes increasingly dependent on a miracle, but there is none. He is so filled with remorse that he remains with them. As the children laugh at his antics, the film ends.
Question: Why was Doork imprisoned by the Nazis?
Answer: | He mocked Adolf Hitler |
Maná: Their worldwide sales stand at more than 35 million albums as of 2013.
Claim: Maná had sold more than 35 million albums by 2013 .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | A. True |
Passage: There's a Chinese woman and a Palestinian woman who work at desks right next to each other. They get along really well, but the women are pretty different from each other.
Question: Who is very assertive?
A. The Chinese woman
B. Unknown
C. The Palestinian woman
Answer: | B. Unknown |
Which of the following describes an unintended result of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974?
A. Limits were placed on the amount of money individuals could donate to a federal election campaign.
B. Federal funding became available to presidential candidates who agree to abide by spending limits.
C. Candidates drastically decreased the amount of money spent on television advertising.
D. Thousands of political action committees were created to raise funds for candidates.
Answer: | D. Thousands of political action committees were created to raise funds for candidates. |
Passage: Two people arrived at the community board meeting before everyone else. One was smartly dressed in a tailored outfit, while the other was messily dressed in a stained hoodie. The board had just removed the smartly dressed one the week before because they did such a terrible job. The board then elected the messily dressed person instead because of their long history of exceptional leadership.
Question: Who is an incompetent leader?
A. The smartly dressed one
B. Can't be determined
C. The messily dressed one
Answer: | A. The smartly dressed one |
Question: Danielle wants to make her own popsicles. She finds out she needs popsicle sticks, molds, and juice. She has $10 for supplies. She buys one set of molds for $3 and a pack of 100 popsicle sticks for $1. Each bottle of juice makes 20 popsicles and costs $2. How many popsicle sticks will she be left with if she makes as many as she can?
Answer: | She has $6 left after buying initial supplies because 10 - 3 -1 = <<10-3-1=6>>6. She can buy 3 bottles of juice because 6 / 2 = <<6/2=3>>3. She can make 60 popsicles because 20 x 3 = <<20*3=60>>60 She has 40 sticks left because 100 -6 60 = 40 The answer is 40. |
Passage: Malachi Dorsey, who's a farm worker, and Andrew Wang, who's a farm worker, were both house hunting with their families. Malachi Dorsey's family is having a much harder time than the other family because they are using Section 8 vouchers to help pay for their housing.
Question: Which family can buy a home without government assistance?
A. The family of Andrew Wang, who's a farm worker
B. The family of Malachi Dorsey, who's a farm worker
C. Can't answer
Answer: | A. The family of Andrew Wang, who's a farm worker |
(CNN) -- Amid all the talk of helicopter parents and Tiger Moms, let us now praise Stealth Dads. Not to be confused with the Absentee Father, who flamboyantly disappoints, the Stealth Dad exceeds expectations without drawing attention to himself. I am the son of a Stealth Dad, as are a number of my friends. Several have lost their Stealth Dads in recent years. For the rest of us, time is precious. The Stealth Dad is at the end of a good run. Social media has made stealth unfashionable, with every utterance now an exhibition. And private family milestones have been outsourced to consultants. When I read about the parent hiring a coach to teach a kid to ride a bike, I mourned for the Stealth Dad. In the end, the passing of a generation will finish the job. Demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe describe Americans born between 1925 and 1942 as the Silent Generation. This is the rich vein of Stealth Dad ore. Stuck between Greatest Generation heroes and look-at-us Boomers, the Silent Generation never produced a U.S. president. Instead, say Strauss and Howe, Silents became America's "facilitators and technocracts." Silents had ready access to college and jobs and avoided heavy war casualties. Silents experienced other frustrations, forever the "gap" in the Generation Gap that divided World War II leadership from 1960s revolutionaries. Strauss and Howe explain that, for Silents, "their solutions -- fairness, openness, due process, expertise -- reflect a lack of surefootedness, but also a keen sense of how and why humans fall short of grand civic plans or ideal moral standards. Silent appeals for change have seldom arisen from power or fury, but rather through a self-conscious humanity and tender social conscience." I like the notion of a tender social conscience. It fits my own Stealth Dad, who married the pretty girl at a Wake Forest College picnic, became a math teacher and then the principal who peacefully integrated the high school in the town of Garner, North Carolina. He served for years as an associate superintendent in Wake County, indispensable in the technocrat role. Once retired, he worked as the business manager for a church. Now, at 76, Wayne Bare keeps marshmallows in his pocket, for his granddaughter Leah. My close friends and I are also generational misfits, too young to be authentic Boomers and too old to line up neatly with Gen X. Stealth Dad attended some, not all, of our sporting events. When Stealth Dad was there, he never threw a tantrum. When he wasn't there, we behaved as if he was. In crisis, Stealth Dad lowers the volume. Stealth Dad doesn't speak up unless he can improve upon the silence. Stealth Dad is parsimonious with counsel. Having been spared a thousand aphorisms, we had no choice but to direct our attention to the specific Stealth Dad behaviors plainly predictive of a successful life. Stealth Dad puts fairness above nearly everything else. I walked to my elementary school. On the few rainy days when my Stealth Dad would drive me, he used our family car. Then he drove back home and set out for the office in a county-owned car provided by the school system. This vehicle was only to be used for work. While he follows rules, Stealth Dad challenges authority. Back in 1968, when many country clubs where still accessible only to whites, my Stealth Dad appointed an African-American man, James Farris, to be golf coach for our town's newly integrated high school. My Stealth Dad was in the audience last month when Farris was inducted into the Garner Athletics Hall of Fame. In the Baptist church we attended through my childhood, there came a time when one half of the congregation grew furious at the other half. If you have spent time in Baptist churches, this is not as consequential as it sounds. Yet in this case, the dispute could not be settled without a public airing of grievances. The hearing would take place during a business meeting that would follow the Sunday service. The only thing the feuding groups could agree on was that my Stealth Dad would facilitate, from the pulpit. There I sat in the church balcony, like Scout Finch looking down at the trial below, learning to turn off the fury and manifest self-conscious humanity. On good days, I can pull it off myself. Happy Father's Day to Stealth Dads everywhere.
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| John Bare: My father was part of a generation of Stealth Dads . He says today's fathers are more likely to draw attention to themselves, in social media era . He says his father was always there for him when he needed to be . Bare: Stealth Dad doesn't speak up unless he can improve on the silence . |
By . Janine Yaqoob . PUBLISHED: . 12:06 EST, 29 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 14:31 EST, 29 November 2012 . A pair of binoculars that once belonged to the captain of the Titanic’s rescue ship are being sold on eBay by cash-strapped museum bosses. They have been forced to make the heartbreaking decision to sell off one of their ‘crown jewels’ to pay the bills. Financial pressures have forced the Titanic In Lancashire museum, in Colne, to consider parting with binoculars, which were presented to Captain Arthur Rostron. Capt Rostron was at the helm of The Carpathia, the ship which rescued a number of the White Star liner’s passengers a century ago. The eyeglasses have been placed up for sale on the auction website eBay, with a starting bid of $600. Binoculars which belonged to the captain of the Titanic's rescue ship are being sold on eBay . The binoculars (pictured) were once owned by Captain Arthur Rostron, who sailed The Carpathia . Originally they were presented to the veteran seaman, of Astley Bridge, near Bolton, by his friend Charles Allum, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Titanic’s demise. Museum curator Nigel Hampson said the venture would ‘absolutely, categorically prefer not to sell the binoculars’ but they needed to pay bills year-round. He added: 'We do not want them to go. But we are between a rock and a hard place. 'Keeping the museum open costs money. 'All the staff - myself included - are unpaid volunteers, all monies made are put back into the museum. Bosses at the cash-strapped Titanic In Lancashire museum, in Colne, where the binoculars are displayed (pictured) have decided to put the item up for sale . The Carpathia lies at anchor after bringing in survivors from the Titanic disaster in April 1912 . 'But the fact remains that gas, electricity, phone and day-to-day expenses all have to be covered. 'Museums like other attractions are seasonal and all suffer a quiet period at this time of year. 'We fundraise as best as we can, but keeping the museum open and running fundraising events as well, is hard work which requires a lot of time and also help and support from the community. The ill-fated Titanic hit an Iceberg off Newfoundland in 1912. Over 1,500 people died in the tragedy . 'Some people might say this is like selling off the family silver - and I totally agree with them. It is a horrible situation for us and one that is causing me many sleepless nights. 'But when the bills need to be paid what are you supposed to do?' The museum, which opened at the Old Grammar School last year, is also setting up its own friends group, to help with fundraising, and can be contacted on 01282 861833.
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| Captain Arthur Rostron's binoculars are up for sale on auction website eBay . He sailed The Carpathia, which rescued Titanic passengers . Titanic of Lancashire Museum in Colne has been forced to sell because of financial pressures . |
Which of the following statements describes the structural level of a protein that is least affected by hydrogen bonding?
A. Primary structure depends on the sequence of amino acids.
B. Tertiary structure has a shape dependent on the interactions of side chains of amino acids.
C. Quaternary structure results from the aggregation of more than one polypeptide unit.
D. An α-helix is an example of a secondary structure of a polypeptide.
Answer: | A. Primary structure depends on the sequence of amino acids. |
By . Amanda Williams . PUBLISHED: . 05:04 EST, 23 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:24 EST, 23 July 2013 . A father-of-two faces losing his leg after breaking it in six places during an horrendous holiday accident on a Turkish waterslide. Des Jarvis has a bone infection in his right leg and could have to have sections of his lower limb removed after he plummeted through a slide with such force that with sent him crashing into a pool wall opposite. The impact broke his leg in six places during the accident last August and he is still on crutches. Father-of-two Des Jarvis faces (left) losing his leg after breaking it in six places during an horrendous holiday accident on a Turkish waterslide . The water slide in Turkey where the father of two slid down and hit the opposite wall . He is now threatening to sue tour operators First Choice after he was told that had he sustained such horrific injuries in Britain, it was likely his leg would have been amputated. The accident left him with horrific open wounds held together by metal plates and screws . The window fitter, 45, was on a £5,500 holiday with his girlfriend Nikki and their children, the Sun reports. They were staying at the Didim Beach Resort in Altinkum. He told the paper that he felt like the travel company did not care about the incident, and did not visit him until his third day in hospital. He said: 'It’s ruined my life. 'I used to be in the gym every day and play golf twice a week. Now I struggle to get upstairs.' The accident - which left Mr Jarvis with an open wound, held together by a metal plate- was caught on film. He has since had two more operations and is seeking compensation from the holiday firm. A First Choice spokeswoman said it operates the strictest quality standards across all of its hotels. A spokesman added: 'First Choice is sorry to hear about the injuries sustained by Mr Jarvis, whilst he was holidaying at the Wasd Didim Beach Hotel in Turkey in 2012. 'As the matter in question is currently subject to a legal process, it would be inappropriate of us to comment any further at this time. Our legal team is in direct contact with Mr Jarvis solicitors. 'We would like to reassure customers that incidents of this type are very rare, the health and safety of our customers is of paramount importance to First Choice and we operate the strictest quality standards across all of our hotels.'
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| Des Jarvis has bone infection and may have sections of his limb removed . Plummeted through slide and hit wall with such force leg broke in 6 places . Left him with horrific open wounds held together by metal plates and screws . He is now planning to sue travel operators after the accident last August . |
Question: Barry wants to make a huge salad using only cucumbers and tomatoes. He will use a total of 280 pieces of vegetables. If there are thrice as many tomatoes as cucumbers, how many cucumbers will be used in the salad?
Answer: | Let c be the number of cucumbers and t the number of tomatoes. The total is the sum of the number of cucumbers and that of tomatoes, which is c + t = 280 piece of vegetables Since there are thrice as many tomatoes as cucumbers, this means c =t/3 Therefore 3*c = t. The sum will therefore be c + 3*c = 280 pieces of vegetables This means that 4*c = 280 vegetables Therefore c = 280/4 = <<280/4=70>>70 cucumbers. The answer is 70. |
Question: Evan owns 40 fewer books than the number he had 2 years ago. Evan will have 60 more than five times as many books as he owns now in five years. If Evan had 200 books two years ago, calculate the total number of books he will have in five years.
Answer: | If Evan had 200 books two years ago, he currently has 200-40 = <<200-40=160>>160 books. In five years, Evan will have 60 more than 160*5 = 800 books which is the number he has now. This means Evan will have 800+60 = <<800+60=860>>860 books in five years. The answer is 860. |
Passage: Elizabeth and Brian left the office together to get some lunch nearby.
Question: Who works as a secretary?
A. Not enough info
B. Brian
C. Elizabeth
Answer: | A. Not enough info |
By . Paul Harris . PUBLISHED: . 17:39 EST, 8 August 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:33 EST, 9 August 2012 . Her nickname is Babyface, and from the family album snapshots of a cute little girl in pigtails, it’s not hard to see why. But Nicola Adams grew up to fight her way to the top in one of the toughest of sports for a woman – boxing. Last night the determined 29-year-old was on the brink of fulfilling her 17-year dream to win an Olympic gold medal. Scroll down to hear about Nicola's preparations . Moment to savour: Adams (left) is declared the winner over Kom at the ExCel Arena . The original Babyface: With pigtails at the age of seven . The Leeds flyweight, who almost gave up the sport four years ago due to a lack of funding, beat India’s Mary Kom to earn a place in today’s final. She punched her way to an 11-6 victory at the ExCel arena, in front of a cheering crowd which included David Cameron and boxing icon Amir Khan. Today she faces China’s world number one Ren Cancan, and is clearly in the mood to win. ‘I massively want that gold,’ she said. ‘Words can’t express how much. It will mean everything to me. All I want to do is make my mum and my family and friends proud.’ Packs a punch: Great Britain's Nicola Adams (right) competes against India's Mary Kom . Close call: Indian superstar Kom (right) gets to grips with British fighter Adams . It would be the culmination of . Nicola’s remarkable journey from a housing estate in Leeds, smashing . through glass ceilings in a sport that was previously regarded as . suitable only for men. For years her mother Dee, 52, tirelessly chased potential sponsors – but not a single person or company ever put up a penny. Nicola . discovered boxing by chance when she was 12, and her mother took her . and younger brother Kurtis along to a keep fit class at a gym in . Burmantofts, Leeds. In the crowd: Prime Minister David Cameron (left) watched the fight alongside former world champion Amir Khan . The gym had a boxing ring and the . children would ‘mess about and do some boxing’, Mrs Adams said. ‘I . didn’t really notice what she was up to, when I looked over she would be . boxing or running around.’ When she was 13, Nicola won an exhibition match against another girl. She wasn’t able to fight again until she was 17, this time in a proper Amateur Boxing Association bout. Meeting an icon: Nicola accepts an award from boxer Amir Kahn in 2007 . At that stage, female boxing opponents were in short supply. There was only one other girl boxer in the country and Nicola was forced to go abroad to fight. In . 2001 she became the first female boxer to represent England; in 2007 . the first to win a European boxing medal and the following year the . first to win a World Championship medal. But in 2009 her dreams were almost shattered when she tripped over a bandage on the stairs at home and cracked a vertebra. She spent most of the next three months in a body brace, lying on her back in bed. Ironically, boxing had just been accepted as an Olympic sport and Nicola was not fit enough to try for the new Team GB squad. But despite being barely able to train or punch, she did enough to be selected and has never looked back. In Burmantofts, she is regarded as a celebrity and role model. ‘Everyone is very inspired by her,’ said Mrs Adams. ‘Me – I couldn’t be prouder. ‘To hear 10,000 people cheering for your daughter is just something else. This isn’t like when somebody wins the X Factor or Big Brother.’
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| Nicola Adams, 29, beat India’s Mary Kom to earn a place in today’s final . She punched her way to an 11-6 victory at the ExCel arena, in front of a cheering crowd which included David Cameron and boxing icon Amir Khan . |
With the Eiffel Tower standing proudly above decorative European buildings, this looks like a magnificent view of the famous French capital. However, not all is at it seems. Incredibly, this Parisian scene is actually in the middle of China. The Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is filled with grand European buildings and wide walkways. Ornate fountains and statues also line the streets of the town. This is a view of the Tianducheng development in Hangzhou, China. Despite being built as a replica of Paris, the town has not proved popular and is virtually empty . Empty: The Tianducheng development in Hangzhou is designed to accommodate at least 10,000 people but it has instead been labelled as a ghost town . Fierce: A huge thunder storm streaks across the Eiffel Tower replica . Replica: With China's love of all things French, the developers must have thought they were onto a winner when they built Tianducheng . Copy-cat: The town is filled with Parisian houses and, despite being in the middle of China, has a distinct European feel . During its construction in 2007, a replica of the Eiffel Tower standing at 108 metres was even built. There is also a replica of a fountain from the Luxemburg Gardens in a main square called Champs Elysées. With China's love of all things French, the developers no doubt expected the town to be a huge success. But things haven't quite worked out as they would have hoped. Different: Despite attempting to look like the famous French city, the town is is surrounded by farmland and dirt roads . Quirky: Almost everything about the town has a European edge, such as this fountain . Odd: This image perhaps best demonstrates the confusion at the heart of the town. A farmer tills the surrounding farmland in front of the Eiffel Tower . Looking good: Despite not exactly proving popular, the town does look impressive . Quaint: The Tianducheng development is located in the Zhejiang Province of China . This picture shows a farmer's house . Plush: This resident stands on the balcony of his apartment at the development, admiring the empty streets below . Shop: Despite being nowhere near as busy as the developers hoped for, it still contains a number of businesses, including this supermarket . Despite being designed to accommodate at least ten thousand people, the town remains sparsely populated. Local media have now started labelling it as a 'ghost town', with pictures showing the large streets remaining virtually empty. Images from the town show how China's aspirations and its traditional culture collide. Surrounded by farmland and wide roads, farmers can be seen working in fields with the mock Eiffel Tower looming over them. Video: caspar stracke .
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| Tianducheng development designed to look just like the French capital . But it has been labelled a 'ghost town' because fewer people than expected have moved in . |
Question: 59-year-old man has difficulty in breathing through his nose. On examination, his physician finds that he has swelling of mucous membranes of the superior nasal meatus. Which opening of the paranasal sinuses is most likely plugged?
A. Middle ethmoidal sinus
B. Maxillary sinus
C. Anterior ethmoidal sinus
D. Posterior ethmoidal sinus
Answer: | D. Posterior ethmoidal sinus |
2020 coronavirus pandemic in New York -LRB-state-RRB-: Only businesses declared as essential by the program are allowed to remain open .
Claim: The program allows for essential businesses to remain open in the state of New York during the coronavirus pandemic .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | A. True |
By . Matt Barlow . Follow @@Matt_Barlow_DM . John Terry placed the ball on the spot, smacked it past Mark Schwarzer into the top corner and his whoop of delight cut through the leafy tranquility of the Surrey stockbroker belt where Chelsea train. This time last week, Terry feared his season might be over, cut short by a twisted ankle during the goalless first leg of the Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid. On Tuesday, he was declared fit by Jose Mourinho, but the manager did not stop there. He also told how his captain had unfinished business in this competition and declared his form to be as good as ever. VIDEO Scroll down for Chelsea captain John Terry: I feel as though I owe football . Captain. Leader. Legend: John Terry has been declared fit for the Champions League semi-final . Unbreakable: Terry returned to training ahead of schedule as Chelsea prepare to face Atletico Madrid . Leader of the pack: Terry has stated that he would like to finish his playing career at Stamford Bridge . In return, Terry ruled out the notion of an England return and pledged his future to Chelsea beyond the end of a contract which is about to run out. ‘It’s the club I’ve been at since 14, and I’ve been nowhere else,’ said the 33-year-old centre half. ‘I want to stay here for the rest of my footballing days. We’re in talks. ‘We’ve had big games, so we haven’t spoken for a few weeks, but I hope it gets done. It’s down to the club but I want to stay and I hope something gets sorted out.’ He credits Mourinho with reviving a career which was drifting last season, when injuries, suspensions and the tactical preferences of Rafa Benitez combined to leave him a peripheral figure at the club he joined from school. ‘A lot of people in football ruled me out a bit last year, thinking I wouldn’t be here for too much longer,’ said Terry. ‘That spurs you on to do well and battle for the club you love. Whether that’s a year, two years, three years, I feel I have something to give next year. Beyond that, we don’t know. I hope so. Raf justice! The Chelsea captain was written off after being dropped by Rafael Benitez in the last campaign . Fountain of youth? Terry has credited Jose Mourinho (R) with reviving his career this season . 'The manager has played a massive part for me. We spoke in the summer once his deal was done. He’s very honest. He lets you know straight. If you’re not good enough, you won’t play. If you’re playing well, you keep your place.’ The feeling is mutual. It was Mourinho who brought up Terry’s horrible histories in European finals — a missed penalty in 2008 in Moscow, suspension four years later in Munich and an injury last year which ruled him out of the Europa League final in Amsterdam — and suggested it was time for the Champions League to repay him. ‘My captain is playing at the same level he was playing when I left Chelsea in 2007, as simple as that,’ said Mourinho. ‘Seven years later, he’s playing again at his best. ‘It’s also fair to say that the people who surround him, the people playing on his left and right, in front of him, are also playing fantastically. His partnership with Gary Cahill is fantastic. ‘I’m really happy to see a player like him, six or seven years later, to be back to the same level. He deserves more than the Champions League has given him up to now. Potential banana skin! terry famously slipped as he missed a decisive penalty in the 2008 Champions League final . Gatecrasher: Injury kept Terry out of the 2012 final, although he donned his kit for the celebrations . ‘He lost a few semi-finals in special circumstances. He lost a final also in special circumstances. He won a final in special circumstances because he couldn’t play. I think the Champions League owes him something.’ Terry, sitting beside his manager, welled up slightly. He said for many years he kept the shirt from the Moscow final on the wall in his home and used it as motivation but it has been in storage since he sold his mansion. ‘When we won it I took it down,’ he said. ‘It went into the loft and another one replaced it. Disappointing memories, but when you go on to win it, happy memories tend to outweigh those.’ As for the Munich final, in 2012, when he was ridiculed for pulling on his kit to join in the post-match celebrations, he was also able to laugh. ‘It did mean a lot to me that night, playing or not playing,’ said Terry. ‘I felt I contributed. So did other players who didn’t get as much stick as me. That’s a different story. Man of steel: The 33-year-old squares up to Chelsea target Diego Costa during the first leg in Madrid . In good hands: There were fears Terry would not play again this season after limping out of the first game . ‘Throughout that campaign, I had surgery on my knee before the Napoli game and came back really quickly, scored a goal and played a part. I did have a big part to play in the dressing room and on the field of play as well. ‘Those winning moments live with you, those moments when you get your hands on the trophy, particularly when you’re in a difficult period personally and professionally. Those memories tend to spur you on.’ He underwent intensive treatment through the week to get himself in shape to lead the team out against Atletico in tonight’s second leg and is ready to take a penalty if the game goes that way. It very well might. Neither of these sides concedes often. It will be tense and nervous; a clash of teams who prefer to be without the ball, anxious not to make the first slip. Who has the biggest bus? Atletico, with Chelsea’s on-loan goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois set to make his debut at Stamford Bridge, have not conceded in six games. Neymar was the last man to beat Courtois when he equalised for Barcelona in the first leg of the quarter-final on April 1. Chelsea have kept five clean sheets out of the last six. Blues brothers: Eden Hazard and Samuel Eto'o could both return from injury to play a part in the big game . In safe hands? Petr Cech returned to training but reserve Mark Schwarzer (L) is expected to play on Wednesday . Take a bow: Thibaut Courtois is set for an unusual debut at Stamford Bridge... in goal for the opposition . ‘I hope I can guarantee the home fans a win,’ said Terry. ‘I can’t promise an attractive one. The most important thing is to win. As a footballer, there’s no better feeling.’ It was no surprise to see the Chelsea players practising from 12 yards but they will be without No 1 goalkeeper Petr Cech, despite a game of bluff yesterday. Cech, who dislocated a shoulder in the first leg last week, trotted out for training, smiling and claiming he was fit, but as he limbered up it soon became clear he was not and he went off to work alone. Mark Schwarzer will continue in goal, but Mourinho has Samuel Eto’o, Eden Hazard and Terry fit after injury.
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| John Terry is fit to play in Chelsea's Champions League semi-final . Blues captain has stated he wants to stay at the club until end of his career . He credits Mourinho for saving his career after being snubbed by Benitez . Eto'o and Hazard have also returned from injury but Cech is ruled out . Chelsea loanee Courtois will make his Stamford Bridge debut... for Atletico . |
Question: Pat is having a picnic with her family. She has 42 cookies. She also has 63 pieces of candy and 21 brownies. There are 7 people in her family. If each person gets the same number of each dessert, how much will each person get?
Answer: | Each person gets 42 cookies / 7 people = <<42/7=6>>6 cookies. Each person gets 63 pieces of candy / 7 people = <<63/7=9>>9 pieces of candy. Each person gets 21 brownies / 7 people = <<21/7=3>>3 brownies. Each person will get 6 + 9 + 3 = <<6+9+3=18>>18 desserts. The answer is 18. |
Pakistan: Pakistan , officially the Islamic Monarchy of Pakistan , is a federal parliamentary monarchy in South Asia on the crossroads of Central and Western Asia .
Claim: Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | B. False |
(CNN) -- A Renoir painting finished in the 1800s, loaned to a museum, reported stolen in 1951, then bought at a flea market in 2010 has to be returned to the museum, a judge ruled Friday. The story -- and the painting -- date back to 1879, when impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted "Paysage Bords De Seine," or "Landscape on the Banks of the Seine," which was believed to be for his mistress. It was later purchased by the Paris art gallery Bernheim-Jeune. Then, in 1926, Herbert L. May, a Renoir collector, bought it from the Paris gallery. In 1937, May's ex-wife, Saidie May, loaned the painting to the Baltimore Museum of Art, which reported it stolen in 1951. Fast-forward nearly 60 years to a flea market in West Virginia, where a Virginia woman was attracted to a nondescript box holding the painting, along with items like a Paul Bunyan doll and a plastic cow. She paid $7 for the box. The woman took the painting to the Potomack Company, an Auction House in Alexandria, Virginia, to ask about its value. A Potomack Company specialist thought it might be an original, and further investigation by the National Gallery of Art in Washington and confirmation by a Renoir expert confirmed the hunch. The painting is valued between $75,000 and $100,000. The whereabouts of the painting during the six decades it was missing remain unknown. "Life has so many twists and turns. It has friendships and deaths and divorces and all kinds of chaos, moving, you know changing of occupation," Doreen Bolger, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, told CNN in 2012. "It's very hard to speculate what of those circumstances would cause the painting to change hands." The Virginia woman, who had requested to be anonymous, felt the painting was rightfully hers. However, the Baltimore Museum of Art wanted the 5½-by-9-inch Renoir returned. So the FBI took possession of the painting until the rightful owner could be determined. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria decided that the painting must be returned to the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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| Renoir painted "Paysage Bords De Seine" in 1879 . A Paris gallery bought the painting, and a collector later purchased it . The painting was loaned to the Baltimore Museum of Art, which reported it stolen in 1951 . In 2010, a woman bought it at a flea market for $7; it's valued between $75,000 and $100,000 . |
Question: The most significant change in maternal lung volume that occurs in the third trimester of pregnancy includes.
A. Decrease in vital capacity
B. Increase in residual volume
C. Decrease in functional residual capacity
D. Decrease in closing capacity
Answer: | C. Decrease in functional residual capacity |
Question: False statement about dermatophytes is
A. Trichophyton - macroconidia are pencil shaped
B. Epidermophyton - macroconidia are club shaped
C. Trichophyton - microconidia are absent
D. Epidermophyton - microconidia are absent
Answer: | C. Trichophyton - microconidia are absent |
Question: All of the following are complications of supracondylar fracture of humerus in children,except -
A. Compartment syndrome
B. Myositis ossificans
C. Malunion
D. Non-Union
Answer: | D. Non-Union |
By . Inderdeep Bains . A pensioner who ran down her violent husband in a Nissan Micra after suffering years of domestic abuse has avoided jail after a judge heard that the troubled couple still love each other. Sally Stickland, 72, could have killed her husband of 50 years when she ploughed into him as he walked along a country lane. She then drove home, leaving 73-year-old John, the father of her three children, lying motionless and seriously injured on a grass verge where he was discovered by passers-by. Sally Strickland, 72, right, was spared an immediate prison sentence despite deliberately running over her husband John, left, after a court heard they still 'loved each other deeply' Judge Gary Burrell said ‘battered wife . syndrome’ caused by years of violence may have led Stickland to commit . the ‘dreadful incident’. Despite their troubled relationship, . however, the couple showed a united front in court where they claimed . they planned to stay together. The judge described how Stickland had . used her car as ‘a weapon’ when she crossed to the other side of the . road and hit her husband from behind. He was ‘lucky’ to have survived. She returned to the scene only after the emergency services called to . say her husband had been hurt in a hit and run. She was heard saying; ‘Do I have to go with him?’ as paramedics put her husband into an ambulance. Lucky: Judge Gary Burrell, sitting at Southampton Crown Court, said Mr Stickland was lucky not to have been killed after his wife crossed from the other side of the road in her silver Nissan Micra and hit him . Neighbours . of the couple spotted the silver car, its windscreen damaged, parked at . a strange angle outside their £450,000 detached home in Langley, . Hampshire, and grew suspicious. Police seized the vehicle and arrested Stickland later that day, May 18. She was charged with attempted murder, but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of grievous bodily harm at a previous hearing. At . her sentencing on Monday her husband, who suffered fractures to his . cheekbone, back and neck and a cut to his forehead, declared his love . for her. Speaking at Southampton Crown Court, in front of a public . gallery packed with family and friends, he said he has made a full . recovery. Mr Stickland added: ‘I love my wife and care for her very . much.’ He said he did not want her to be kept away from him any longer – . she has been ordered to stay away from the marital home since the . incident. Simon Edwards, prosecuting, told how Stickland was driving on . the eastbound side of the road before crossing to the other side. ‘It appears that his (Mr Stickland’s) head was in contact with the windscreen, resulting in damage to the windscreen,’ he said. 'The family remain united. Mr and Mrs Stickland still love each other deeply' Statement from Stickland family . ‘Mr . Stickland would have been unaware of the approach of the car behind . him. At no stage did Mrs Stickland alert police to say she had been . involved in any sort of accident.’ Judge Burrell sentenced Stickland to . 18 months in prison, suspended for two years. He told her: ‘There is . a very unusual background to this dreadful incident. You suffer from . post-traumatic stress syndrome and battered person’s syndrome. ‘Although . you and Mr Stickland have been married for 50 years and have three . children, what seems clear is that for a period of the relationship it . was marred by violence, mainly on his part. ‘You previously sought . help from domestic abuse services. As a result of that your emotional . wellbeing suffered and so did your mental health.’ Judge Burrell . made reference to an assault in 2004, when Mrs Stickland was kicked in . the head by her husband, and a 2011 attack, when he held her by the . throat until she began to lose consciousness. The court heard that she . occasionally retaliated. The emotional couple embraced after hearing Stickland had avoided an immediate jail term, and left the building together. Solicitor . Janet Brownlow, reading a family statement outside court, said: ‘The . entire family have found the last few months very difficult and are . still coming to terms with the traumatic circumstances surrounding the . incident and everything that has followed. ‘The family remain united. Mr and Mrs Stickland still love each other deeply and they understand . the reasoning behind the judge’s sentencing. ‘The family wish to start to put all of this behind them and look forward to the future.’ Stickland also received a two-year residence order saying that she must live with her son and a 24-month supervision order.
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| Sally Stickland, 72, drove into the back of husband John, 73 . Passers-by found him motionless at the side of the road and called 999 . Stickland asked paramedics 'do I have to go with him?' Court hears Stickland had post-traumatic stress disorder following abuse . Mr Stickland kicked wife in the head in 2004, and grabbed her throat in 2011 . Wife given 18 month sentence, suspended for two years . |
The All Blacks remembered New Zealanders who lost their lives in the First World War during a wreath-laying ceremony on Monday. All Blacks quartet Dane Coles, Charlie Faumuina, Luke Romano and Ben Smith attended the ceremony along with New Zealand rugby chairman Brent Impey and ambassador Lockwood Smith at the New Zealand War Memorial in Hyde Park. All Blacks winger Ben Smith (left) and ambassador Lockwood Smith (centre) place a wreath on Monday . Thirteen All Blacks died during the First World War and Smith said: 'What was going through my mind actually was what if it was me that had to come over and go to war. 'Obviously, there was a lot of All Blacks involved that got stuck in that situation, and they came over and fought for what was right. 'I put myself in their shoes and it would have been tough on them and their families.' All Blacks stars Dane Coles, Charlie Faumuina and Luke Romanos at Monday's ceremony . Rugby was played at various points during the War. During a respite from Gallipoli, the Anzac soldiers organised a game on the island of Lemnos. They played with a football because no rugby ball could be found with the New Zealanders running in 13 tries to one. Another game was played in Paris in April 1917 against France for the Somme Cup. A crowd of 60,000 watched the game, won by New Zealand 40-0. The All Blacks take on England at Twickenham on Saturday. Winger Ben Smith places a wreath at the New Zealand War Memorial at Hyde Park in London . New Zealand High Commissioner Sir Lockwood Smith speaks during Monday's ceremony . The Last Post is played at the New Zealand War Memorial in Hyde Park, London . VIDEO Carter and Williams return as New Zealand thrash USA .
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| All Blacks remembered New Zealanders who lost their lives in the First World War on Monday . Players Dane Coles, Charlie Faumuina, Luke Romano and Ben Smith attended the ceremony . New Zealand take on England at Twickenham on Saturday . |
Passage: A couple of my neighbors, Lori Schmidt, who's a psychologist, and Graciela Hernandez, who's a bartender, both looked out their windows at the teenagers hanging out in the park. Both of the neighbors thought the kids were being a little loud. Lori Schmidt called the police on the teenagers, while Graciela Hernandez went for a walk.
Question: Who called the police on the teenagers?
A. Not enough information
B. Graciela Hernandez who is a bartender
C. Lori Schmidt, who is a psychologist
Answer: | C. Lori Schmidt, who is a psychologist |
Question: A mastoid CT SCan Axial cross section given below depicts which type of pathological mastoid among given options ?
A. Pneumatized mastoid
B. Diploeic mastoid
C. Sclerotic mastoid
D. Atrophic mastoid
Answer: | C. Sclerotic mastoid |
Veep: The film was directed by Armando Iannucci as an adaptation of the British sitcom The Thick of It .
Claim: Veep is a movie .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | A. True |
Newton, Massachusetts: It is approximately west of downtown Boston and is bordered by Boston to the east .
Claim: Newton 's east border is Boston .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | A. True |
Military deception: Military deception is usually achieved by creating or amplifying an artificial fog of war via psychological operations , visual deception , and censorship of the media .
Claim: There is a form of strategically spreading false or misleading information called military deception .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | B. False |
Gary Gamer purchased a computer from Electronic Warehouse Inc. Which of the below facts would be most favorable to Gary if he sought to rescind the purchase?
A. Gary and the store clerk orally agreed to the sale of the computer for a price of $750.
B. Gary purchased the computer one month before his 18th birthday and 14 months later wants to disaffirm the contract.
C. The computer Gary picked out was defective; Electronic Warehouse offered to repair the computer but Gary refused to specify the particular defect and demands rescission.
D. Gary paid for the computer and was given a box that when he unpacked it at home contained a printer unit made by the same manufacturer.
Answer: | D. Gary paid for the computer and was given a box that when he unpacked it at home contained a printer unit made by the same manufacturer. |
Battle of the Bastards: `` Battle of the Bastards `` is the ninth episode of the sixth season of HBO 's fantasy television series Game of Thrones , and its 59th episode overall .
Claim: `` Battle of the Bastards '' is an episode of the Game of Thrones television series .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | A. True |
I think you know him; Master Doctor Caius, the renowned French physician. Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge. Why? He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen, --and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you would desires to be acquainted withal. I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him. O sweet Anne Page! It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder: here comes Doctor Caius. Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.
In the preceding dialogue, were the lines "I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him." and "He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen, --and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you would desires to be acquainted withal." spoken by the same person or different people?
A. same
B. different
Answer: | B. different |
Passage: Annie Lin and Donna Keller were shopping together. Annie Lin bought things they really didn't need and bought a lot. Donna Keller bought only the things they really needed.
Question: Which person only shops for the things she needs?
A. Annie Lin
B. Donna Keller
C. Can't be determined
Answer: | B. Donna Keller |
Passage: My Romanian and Palestinian friends were already at the concert when the pipe bomb exploded.
Question: Who was injured in the bombing?
A. The Romanian friend
B. Not enough information
C. The Palestinian friend
Answer: | B. Not enough information |
It's a royal tradition that began in 1912 but while the Queen, Prince Charles and Camilla have all attended, the younger generation of royals are yet to appear at a Royal Variety Performance. Now all that is set to change after Kensington Palace announced that the guestlist for next week's show includes the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Performing on the night are Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Dame Shirley Bassey and Bette Midler, with comedy coming from Russell Kane and Jack Whitehall. Attending: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend this year's Royal Variety Performance . On the bill: Award-winning signer Ed Sheeran and comedian Jack Whitehall are both in the line-up . Also on the programme are Demi Lovato, Britain’s Got Talent winners Collabro, the cast of multi-award winning musical Miss Saigon, critically acclaimed tenor Alfie Boe and Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s Inala. The event, which will take place at the London Palladium, will be hosted by comedian Michael McIntyre. Traditionally, the Queen has taken it in turns with the Prince of Wales to attend the show and it had been expected to be the Queen’s turn this year. But instead, William and Kate will take their seats in what royal watchers say is a further sign of the monarch's esteem for her grandson and his wife. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: 'The Duke and Duchess are delighted to attend the forthcoming Royal Variety Performance. Form: Ellie Goulding last performed for royalty when she sang at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games . Comic: The enormously popular comedian Michael McIntyre will be acting as compère on the night . Last visit: The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh last attended the Royal Variety Performance in 2012 . 'Members of the Royal Family will continue to support the gala evenings. As with any other invitation, attendance by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.' The Queen, who has a busy November schedule that includes regular audiences and investitures, will continue to take part in other big public events, including this weekend's Remembrance Sunday commemorations. Last year saw the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall take their seats in the royal box with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh doing the honours in 2012, although the Princess Royal did the job in 2011. The Royal Variety Performance is held in aid of the Entertainment Artistes’ Benevolent Fund, of which the Queen is patron. Hello possums! Charles and Camilla found themselves sitting with Dame Edna Everage at last year's show . Tradition: The Royal Variety Performance began in 1912. The Queen is seen here at the show in 1985 . Spectacular: The finale of last year's Royal Variety Performance, as enjoyed by Prince Charles and Camilla . Begun in 1912, the first show was held in front of King George V and Queen Mary at the Palace Theatre in London. In July 1919, a second royal show was performed, again in front of the royal couple, and was billed as a post-war celebration of peace. It became an annual event at the suggestion of George V in 1921, when the King decreed that 'the monarch, or a representative of the monarch, would attend an annual performance in aid of Brinsworth House and the Variety Artistes’ Benevolent Fund, once a year thereafter'. The show will be screened on ITV in December.
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| William and Kate are attending in place of the Queen and Prince Philip . Usually either the monarch or the Prince of Wales and Camilla attend . Palace said the Queen's schedule is planned on a 'case-by-case' basis . Acts performing include Jack Whitehall, Ed Sheeran and Ellie Goulding . |
Passage: On my lunch break, I overheard an African lady and an Arab guy talking about their spouses. The African lady was talking about how they cook together every Saturday, but the Arab guy seemed appalled by the idea of helping to cook, and reported not even liking their spouse leaving the house when there was still housework to be done.
Question: Who is respectful of their spouse?
A. The Arab guy
B. Can't answer
C. The African lady
Answer: | C. The African lady |
Question: True for tetanus are all, except:
A. Due to exotoxin
B. Due to endotoxin
C. Both of the above
D. None of the above
Answer: | A. Due to exotoxin |
Passage: Williams and Patricia often go to the gym together.
Question: Who is weak?
A. Cannot answer
B. Patricia
C. Williams
Answer: | A. Cannot answer |
Passage: My longest relationships have been with a Burmese woman and a Chilean woman a few years later. While I loved my Burmese girlfriend, she was never able to stand up for herself about anything, and I never got used to that. My Chilean girlfriend was never that submissive and we were always equals.
Question: Which girlfriend was an equal partner in the relationship?
A. Not known
B. The Chilean girlfriend
C. The Burmese girlfriend
Answer: | B. The Chilean girlfriend |
Passage: When discussing politics, Andrea Juarez and Francisco Guzman got into a heated debate.
Question: Which person supports access to birth control?
A. Francisco Guzman
B. Andrea Juarez
C. Cannot answer
Answer: | C. Cannot answer |
Passage: In Berlin at the end of World War II, Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård) is conducting Beethoven's 5th Symphony when yet another Allied bomb raid stops the performance. A minister in Hitler's government comes to Furtwängler's dressing room to advise him that he should go abroad, and escape the war. The film then jumps to some time after the Allied victory, and we see U.S. Army General Wallace (R. Lee Ermey) task Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) with "getting" Furtwängler at his denazification hearing: "Find Wilhelm Furtwängler guilty. He represents everything that was rotten in Germany".
Arnold gets an office with Lt. David Wills (Moritz Bleibtreu), a German-American Jew, and Emmaline Straube (Birgit Minichmayr), daughter of an executed member of the German resistance. Arnold questions several musicians, many of whom know Emmaline's father and say that Furtwängler refused to give Hitler the Nazi salute.
Arnold begins interrogating Furtwängler, asking why he didn't leave Germany in 1933 like so many other musicians? Why he played for Hitler's birthday? Why he played at a Nazi rally? And why his recording of Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony was used on the radio after Hitler's death? Arnold gets a second violinist to tell him about Furtwängler's womanizing and the conductor's professional jealousy of Herbert von Karajan.
In a sub plot, Arnold is assisted by a young Jewish lieutenant from the Big Red One. The young officer begins to have sympathy for the conductor as well as for the young German girl who works as a clerk in their office. This causes friction between Arnold and his job investigating former suspected Nazis.
In a voice-over, Arnold explains that Furtwängler was exonerated at the later hearings but boasts that his questioning "winged" him. Actual footage of the real Furtwängler shows him shaking hands with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels after a concert. The conductor surreptitiously wipes his hands with a cloth after touching the Nazi.
Question: Which character was charged with the task of building a case for Furtwangler's guilt during the hearing?
Answer: | Major Steve Arnold |
A pro-democracy demonstrator has threatened to throw himself from a bridge in the latest dramatic protest scenes to hit Hong Kong. Police armed with pepper spray and batons clashed with demonstrators in the Mog Kok district, in Kowloon, overnight. Tens of thousands of people, many of them students, have poured into the city's streets in the past week to peacefully protest China's restrictions on the election for the city's top leader. But the area has been witness to violent clashes between pro-democracy student protesters and their antagonists over the weekend. The demonstrator shouted and waved to crowds below, threatening to throw himself off the bridge as he protested against the blocking of the roads near the Government Complex. Protesters are calling for open elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who last night agreed to hold talks with the protest leaders in a bid to calm the growing unrest. Scroll down for video . A man threatens to throw himself off the bridge as he protests against the blocking of the roads near the Government Complex in Hong Kong. Thousands of pro democracy supporters continue to occupy the streets surrounding Hong Kong's Financial district . The demonstrator shouted and waved to crowds below, threatening to throw himself off the bridge as he protested against the blocking of the roads near the Government Complex . Protesters are calling for open elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who last night agreed to hold talks with the protest leaders in a bid to diffuse the growing unrest . As the standoff between the protesters and the government entered its eighth day, tempers flared and patience was waning among residents who oppose the occupation of the streets and the disruption it brings. Police said they had to disperse the crowds with force early this morning because they provoked officers with verbal abuse, while the students accuse police of failing to protect them from attacks by mobs intent on driving them away. The students claim that police had allied with criminal gangs - including triads - to clear them, but the government has vehemently denied it. The city's top leader, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, appeared on television last night to once again urge everyone to go home, saying key roads paralyzed by protesters need to return to normal by Monday. People clean the face of a protester after he was sprayed with pepper spray during a pro-democracy protest in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong last night . Policemen surround a man who unsuccessfully attempted to damage a tent set up by pro-democracy protestors and then fell after claiming to have been hit by the activists . Anger: Members of a crowd gathered around a tent set up by pro-democracy protestors shout and gesture. The area has been witness to violent clashes between pro-democracy student protesters and their antagonists over the weekend . Fierce clashes broke out in the Mog Kok district, in Kowloon, between officers armed with batons and pro-democracy protesters . Fresh clashes broke out in Mongkok overnight as police deployed pepper spray and batons against angry crowds of pro-democracy protesters who accused officers of failing to protect them . A pro-democracy protester recovers after he was pepper sprayed by police in Mongkok, Hong Kong. Tens of thousands of people, many of them students, have poured into the city's streets in the past week to peacefully protest China's restrictions on the election for the city's top leader . Two police officers shout at pro-democracy demonstrators. The protests are the strongest challenge to authorities in Hong Kong - and in Beijing -since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997 . 'The government and the police have the duty and determination to take all necessary actions to restore social order so the government and the 7 million people of Hong Kong can return to their normal work and life,' Leung said. On Sunday, the atmosphere on the streets was tense amid fears police may use pepper spray and tear gas to disperse the protesters, as they did last weekend. The University of Hong Kong, among others, warned students to leave the streets. 'I am making this appeal from my heart because I genuinely believe that if you stay, there is a risk to your safety,' said Peter Mathieson, the university's president. 'Please leave now: You owe it to your loved ones to put your safety above all other considerations.' Fashion statement: A woman displays the word democracy on her leg at a pro-democracy rally near the central government offices in Hong Kong today . People attend a democracy classroom next to a barricade of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong. Beijing has promised that the city can have universal suffrage by 2017, but it says a committee of mostly pro-Beijing figures must screen candidates for the top job . Pro-democracy protesters take a rest on the occupied road during the ongoing protests of mass civil disobedience campaign Occupy Hong Kong . Student leaders called off planned talks with the government until officials respond to claims that police tolerated attacks by alleged mobsters . The protests are the strongest challenge to authorities in Hong Kong - and in Beijing - since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Beijing has promised that the city can have universal suffrage by 2017, but it says a committee of mostly pro-Beijing figures must screen candidates for the top job. The protesters are also demanding Leung's resignation, but he has refused. The next steps are uncertain, after student leaders called off planned talks with the government until officials respond to claims that police tolerated attacks by alleged mobsters. Police had earlier arrested 19 people in the brawls in Mong Kok, including eight men believed to have backgrounds linked to triads, or organized crime. 'In the last week we have seen the police have cooperated with gangs and triads. They are no longer law enforcers. I don't think they deserve our respect anymore,' said accountant Tony Chan, 26. Pro-democracy protesters rest against a roadside barrier on a street outside the Hong Kong Government Complex. Thousands of pro-democracy supporters continue to occupy the streets . On Sunday, the atmosphere on the streets was tense amid fears police may use pepper spray and tear gas to disperse the protesters, as they did last weekend. The University of Hong Kong, among others, warned students to leave the streets . The government said today it was happy to talk to the students, and that it hoped protest leaders would cooperate and allow the reopening of the roads outside the government's headquarters. Thin streams of protesters were gathering Sunday in Admiralty, a key ground for the movement, following a massive rally lasting hours Saturday. The arrival of three police vans at the protest ground outside Leung's office sparked tensions, as protesters worried the vans carried arms that could be used against them. Police negotiators tried to persuade protesters to let the vans through and said they carried only food and water for officers. 'I believe there will be lots of people who want to stop the police clearing this place. But if the police use rubber bullets, or real bullets, there will be many people who will leave the place because it will be too dangerous,' said Jack Fung, 19, a student. Fung said he supported allowing civil servants to go back to work Monday, but he believed protesters should block Leung from entering his office. In Mong Kok, the violence calmed later Sunday but rowdy crowds kept up loud and heated street arguments. Many residents and business people are fed up with the disruption, saying they want to return to normal life as soon as possible. Police officers carrying guns patrolled the area, and at least one officer was seen carrying tear gas canisters. Johnson Cheung, 26, was among about 60 of the movement's opponents. He said he supported the freedom of expression, but complained that the protesters are driving away tourists and income for businesses. 'This is a public place, people need to use this road, people need to live here,' said Cheung, who works in a duty free shop. 'The students don't need to make a living, their parents pay for them. But we have jobs, we have to live.' In Admiralty, an unidentified man who opposed the protests drew media attention when he stood on a footbridge as if to jump. Firefighters opened an air cushion beneath him as he demanded the students leave. 'You've been out here a whole week. I have three kids who need to go to school and I need to go to work,' he shouted at the crowd.
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| Man threatened to throw himself from bridge as he protested against the blocking of roads near Government Complex . Police armed with pepper spray and batons clashed with demonstrators in Mog Kok district, in Kowloon, overnight . Protesters are calling for open elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying . Chun-ying last night agreed to hold talks with the protest leaders in a bid to head off the growing unrest . |
Question: A 25 year old male repos episodic "spells" characterized by palpitations, sweating, nervousness, and feelings of anxiety. On examination, the man's blood pressure is 165/95 mm Hg. Plasma norepinephrine is 450 pg/mL (normal, 150-400 pg/mL), plasma epinephrine is 115 pg/mL (normal, 25-100 pg/mL), and 24-hour urinary VMA is 11 mg (normal, < 8 mg). Which of the following is the most likely cause of the patient's hypeension?
A. 11-beta-hydroxylase deficiency
B. Conn's syndrome
C. Pheochromocytoma
D. Renin-secreting tumor
Answer: | C. Pheochromocytoma |
There are 5 houses in a row, numbered 1 on the left to 5 on the right. There is one person living in each house. The people in these houses have different characteristics:
- Each person has a different device: one has a radio, one has a television, one has a gameboy, one has a computer, and one has a phone
- Each person has different pets: one is a cat lover, one is a bird keeper, one is a dog owner, one is a fish enthusiast, and one owns horses
Clue(s):
1. The person who has a television lives somewhere to the left of the person who owns horses.
2. There is one house between where the person who has a phone lives and where the dog owner lives.
3. There are two houses between where the person who owns horses lives and where the person who has a computer lives.
4. The person who has a computer lives somewhere to the right of the bird keeper.
5. The dog owner lives in the fourth house.
6. The fish enthusiast lives directly left of the person who has a radio.
What is the number of the house where the bird keeper lives?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
Answer: | A. 1 |
Question: True about Intercalated Disc is :-
A. Appear as straight bands
B. Shows Gap Junctions
C. Stain dark to Hematoxilin
D. All of above
Answer: | D. All of above |
Passage: Reminiscing about their high school times, a parking attendant and a physics teacher were comparing their experiences. The parking attendant graduated at the top of their class, while the physics teacher had failed a lot of classes and nearly dropped out.
Question: Who was a good student?
A. The parking attendant
B. Cannot answer
C. The physics teacher
Answer: | A. The parking attendant |
(CNN) -- The financial crisis has driven a wedge through Europe, with two economies emerging and -- more dangerously -- a psychological split between the north and the south, European leaders have told CNN. Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank, Mario Monti, former prime minister of Italy, and Joaquin Almunia, EU competition commissioner, joined CNN's Richard Quest to debate if the crisis had fractured the region, both economically and socially. Trichet, who headed France's Banque de France before joining the ECB, said a two-speed economy was emerging, but that could be seen as a "major rebalancing." When he began at the ECB in 2003, Germany was the sick man of Europe due to its lack of competitiveness, Trichet said. The country has since emerged as the eurozone's power player, and a lead negotiator in the four-year old financial crisis. According to Trichet, Europe has been adjusting after "countries that went too far too rapidly, had bubbles and so forth...now those countries that were growing extremely fast, abnormally fast, [and] a lot of them are correcting." However, member countries are not always going at the "same time, at the same speed," Trichet said. Monti who stepped up as Italy's "technocrat" prime minister after the country's economic instability forced the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi, told Quest his greater concern was the prospect of a two class Europe. READ MORE: Could euroskeptics spoil Angela Merkel's party? "The crisis has been managed very, very poorly in my view as regards the psychology, and the eurozone crisis has generated a backlash against integration," Monti said. This "psychological conflict of north versus south and vice versa, this needs to be tackled." Trichet echoed the concerns, telling Quest such a split was "absolutely unacceptable." "If we had, in the past, fully implemented the rules including the stability and growth pact, and what was badly needed -- control and monitoring of competitiveness -- we wouldn't have two class Europe," he said. Almunia, meanwhile, said his fear was that "after the crisis those who were, at the beginning of this crisis, at the bottom, would continue to be at the bottom." However, he added, that would not happen if the countries in recession "do what they have started to do and ....continue to do [it]." Germany's emergence as power player . Germany emerged as an economic force after labor reforms were implemented under its then-chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Now, its export-led economy drives the 17-nation eurozone, with Chancellor Angela Merkel -- battling for third term in this weekend's federal elections -- a central figure during Europe's crisis. Merkel's popularity remains high in Germany, and her party, the Christian Democratic Union, is expected to gain the most votes. Merkel's leadership during the crisis saw her named as the world's most powerful woman by Forbes three years in a row. Efforts to combat the crisis included the implementation of bailout funds, closer fiscal cooperation and austerity measures. READ MORE: It's the economy, Dummkopf . When asked if Germany is taking over Europe, Monti replied that the continent's largest economy would have more dominance if it had retained the deutsche mark "because they would then become the only relevant monetary policy power in Europe." As it is, Germany remains shackled to the weaker countries in the euro, many of which continue to struggle with spiralling unemployment, high national debts and growing political instability. Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Ireland have received over 400 billion euros ($534 billion) in bailout packages from the euro-area's rescue funds. Last year European finance ministers approved a 39.5 billion euro ($51.6 billion) lifeline for Spain's banks, struggling after the property bubble went bust. Yet Spain and Greece still have unemployment above 27%. Portugal and Ireland are also struggling with chronic unemployment. Anti-austerity protesters in the worst-hit nations have held demonstrations against government cuts and the lack of jobs, with many turning violent. And Eurostat's 2013 growth forecasts for eurozone nations show a growing chasm between the region's prosperous north and its struggling south. READ MORE: German Finance Minister, on the campaign trail . Germany is expected to post 0.4% growth this year while all the Mediterranean countries' economies are likely to contract. The imbalance had created a system "where the creditor nations rule and impose their conditions and the others are subservient to that," Paul de Grauwe, a professor at the London School of Economics, told CNN. "At some point, these countries will not continue to accept this recipe." The common currency's future . Public opinion continues to support the political push to integrate the eurozone, Almunia said. Discontent shown by the region's constituents is "with the way the European institutions tried to solve the problems," he said. Indeed, despite efforts to tie the bloc closer, debate continues around the potential for worst affected countries to exit the common currency. Such an outcome has been decried in the past but could, according to European School of Management and Technology faculty member Jan Hagen, be of benefit. Hagen said the bloc needed to "go for strong political integration, to basically create a single market or a strong fiscal policy, or get rid of the euro. " Otherwise, Hagen said, "my fear is .... people in these countries that have problems will turn violently against Europe." Meanwhile, according to Monti, the region's leaders must work more closely together. Leaders who applaud decisions made in Brussels only to criticize them from home turf are playing a dangerous game, he said. "This Europe bashing is, of course, very dangerous... because it's simply a dishonest game of shifting the responsibility where it does not belong," Monti told Quest. And, as Trichet noted during the debate: "This is no time for complacency for Europe... it's absolutely clear we have very hard work to do, very, very hard work, and things will remain difficult for a while." Richard Quest, Oliver Joy and Irene Chapple contributed to this report .
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| The crisis has driven a wedge through Europe, with two economies emerging and a psychological split, leaders say . Jean-Claude Trichet, Mario Monti and Joaquin Almunia joined Richard Quest to debate the region's future . They feared a two class Europe more than a two economy Europe . They say there is still long hard road ahead of Europe before it recovers . |
Question: A town council began the decade by planting cherry trees around the neighborhood to make the neighborhood look more welcoming. By the end of the decade, they have planted twice as many cherry trees as they originally planned and have now realized that falling cherry blossom leaves are causing a problem. Each tree drops 100 leaves each during the fall. If the town council originally intended to plant 7 cherry trees, how many leaves now fall from the trees?
Answer: | The council planted twice their goal so there is a total of 7 planned cherry trees * 2 = <<7*2=14>>14 cherry trees. So there must be 14 cherry trees * 100 leaves falling from each tree = <<14*100=1400>>1400 leaves. The answer is 1400. |
Question: What happens if an earthworm is cut in half?
A. It is not true that only the front half will survive if you cut an earthworm in half. Instead, both halves will regrow into new worms.
B. If an earthworm is cut in half, the front half may survive.
C. If an earthworm is cut in half, two earthworms are created.
D. If an earthworm is cut in half, both halves regenerate into new earthworms.
E. If an earthworm is cut in half, you get two earthworms.
Answer: | B. If an earthworm is cut in half, the front half may survive. |
Passage: After the first day of middle school math, Donna and Paul stayed after class to talk the teacher. Paul thought the class was too easy and asked to be moved up to advanced math, while Donna was scared of failing because math is too hard.
Question: Who is bad at math?
A. Paul
B. Can't be determined
C. Donna
Answer: | C. Donna |
Question: The P.T.O. decided to provide shirts for the elementary students for track and field day. Each grade was given a different color. 101 Kindergartners wore orange shirts that cost $5.80 each. 113 first graders wore yellow shirts that cost $5 each. 107 second graders wore blue shirts that cost $5.60 each. 108 third graders wore green shirts that cost $5.25 each. How much did the P.T.O. spend on shirts for field day?
Answer: | The cost for 101 Kindergarten shirts x $5.80 = $<<101*5.80=585.80>>585.80. The cost for 113 first grade shirts x $5 = $<<113*5=565>>565. The cost for 107 second grade shirts x $5.60 = $<<107*5.60=599.20>>599.20. The cost for 108 third grade shirts x $5.25 = $<<108*5.25=567>>567. The total cost of the shirts was $585.80 + $565 + $599.20 + $567 = $<<585.8+565+599.2+567=2317>>2,317 The answer is 2,317. |
Passage: In the Second Age of Middle-earth, the Dark Lord Sauron forges the One Ring in Mount Doom to conquer all, abandoning a great part of his power to it in order to dominate, through it, at a distance, the other Rings of Power, which had been granted to lords of Elves, Dwarves and Men. An army of men and elves battle Sauron’s forces in Mordor, where Prince Isildur of Gondor cuts the One Ring off of Sauron's finger, thereby temporarily destroying his physical shape, and decides to take care of the Ring himself, but the evil influence of the Ring corrupts Isildur, preventing him from destroying it in Mount Doom. Isildur is later killed by Orcs, and the Ring is lost, found and owned by Gollum for five centuries. The Ring is then found by a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins.
Sixty years on, Bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday in the Shire, reuniting with his old friend Gandalf the Grey. Bilbo reveals he intends on leaving the Shire for one last adventure and leaves his inheritance to his nephew Frodo, including the Ring. Gandalf investigates the Ring, discovering its true identity and warns Frodo. Learning Gollum was tortured by Orcs and told them that Bilbo took the Ring, Gandalf instructs Frodo to leave the Shire, accompanied by his gardener Samwise Gamgee. Gandalf rides to Isengard, meeting fellow wizard Saruman the White, but learns he is in league with Sauron, who has unleashed the Ringwraiths to find Frodo. After a brief battle, Saruman imprisons Gandalf. Frodo and Sam are joined by fellow Hobbits, Merry and Pippin, and they evade the Ringwraiths, arriving in Bree where they are meant to meet Gandalf, but are instead aided by a ranger named Strider, a friend of Gandalf's who escorts them to Rivendell.
The Hobbits are ambushed by the Ringwraiths, one stabbing Frodo with a morgul blade. Arwen, an elf and Strider’s lover, comes to Frodo’s aid and successfully takes him to Rivendell where he is healed, meeting Gandalf who escaped Saruman on the back of a giant eagle. Arwen’s father, Lord Elrond, holds a council, deciding that the Ring must be destroyed in Mount Doom. While the members argue, Frodo volunteers to take the Ring, accompanied by Gandalf, Sam, Merry, Pippin, elf Legolas, dwarf Gimli, Boromir of Gondor, and Strider, who is revealed to be Aragorn, Isildur’s heir and rightful King of Gondor. Bilbo gives Frodo his sword, Sting. The Fellowship of the Ring sets off but Saruman’s magic forces them to travel through the Mines of Moria.
The Fellowship find the dwarves within Moria have been slain, and they are attacked by Orcs and a cave troll. They defeat them, but are confronted by an ancient demon called the Balrog. Gandalf casts the Balrog into a vast chasm, but its fiery whip drags Gandalf down into the darkness with it. The rest of the Fellowship, now led by Aragorn, reach Lothlórien, home to elves Galadriel and Celeborn. Galadriel privately informs Frodo that only he can complete the quest and one of his friends will try to take the Ring. Meanwhile, Saruman creates an army of Uruk-hai to track and kill the Fellowship save Frodo.
The Fellowship leave Lothlórien by river to Parth Galen. Frodo wanders off, confronted by Boromir who tries to take the Ring in desperation. Afraid of the Ring corrupting his friends, Frodo decides to travel to Mordor alone. The other members fight off the Uruk-hai, but Merry and Pippin are taken captive, and Boromir is mortally wounded by the Uruk chieftain. Aragorn helps Boromir die peacefully. Sam follows Frodo, accompanying him to keep his promise to Gandalf to protect Frodo, while Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli go to rescue Merry and Pippin.
Question: WHO FORGES THE ONE RING IN MT. DOOM?
Answer: | DARK LORD SAURON |
Chris Mullin -LRB-basketball-RRB-: He played with the Warriors from the 1985 -- 86 until the 1996 -- 97 season .
Claim: Chris Mullin played with a team who play basketball professionally .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | A. True |
Question: My age is five times that of my son. Next year, my son will be eight years old. How old am I now?
Answer: | If the son is going to be eight years old after a year from now, then currently, he is 8-1 = <<8-1=7>>7 Since the father's age is five times that of the son, currently he is 5*7 = <<5*7=35>>35 years old. The answer is 35. |
Passage: Zuleika Dobson, 'though not strictly beautiful', is a devastatingly attractive young woman of the Edwardian era, a true femme fatale, who is a prestidigitator by profession, formerly a governess. Zuleika's current occupation (though, more importantly, perhaps, her enrapturing beauty) has made her something of a small-time celebrity and she manages to gain entrance to the privileged, all-male domain of Oxford University because her grandfather is the Warden of Judas College (based on Merton College, Beerbohm's alma mater). There, she falls in love for the first time in her life with the Duke of Dorset, a snobbish, emotionally detached student who—frustrated with the lack of control over his feelings when he sees her—is forced to admit that she too is his first love, impulsively proposing to her. As she feels that she cannot love anyone unless he is impervious to her charms, however, she rejects all her suitors, doing the same with the astonished Duke. The Duke quickly discovers that Noaks, another Oxford student, also claims to have fallen in love with her, without ever having even interacted with her. Apparently, men immediately fall in love with her upon seeing her. As the first to have his love reciprocated by her (for however brief a time) the Duke decides that he will commit suicide to symbolise his passion for Zuleika and in hopes that he will raise awareness in her of the terrible power of her bewitching allure, as she innocently goes on crushing men's affections.
Zuleika is able to interrupt the Duke's first suicide attempt from a river boat, but seems to have a romanticised view of men dying for her, and does not oppose the notion of his suicide altogether. The Duke, instead pledging to kill himself the next day—which Zuleika more or less permits—has dinner that night with his social club where the other members also affirm their love for Zuleika. Upon telling them of his plan to die, the others unexpectedly agree to also commit suicide for Zuleika. This idea soon reaches the minds of all Oxford undergraduates, who inevitably fall in love with Zuleika upon first sight.
The Duke eventually decides that the only way he can stop all the undergraduates from killing themselves is by not committing suicide himself, hoping they will follow his example. By an ancient tradition, on the eve of the death of a Duke of Dorset, two black owls come and perch on the battlements of Tankerton Hall, the family seat; the owls remain there hooting through the night and at dawn they fly away to an unknown place. After debating whether to follow through with his suicide, while seeming to decide at last to embrace his life as just as valuable as Zuleika's, the Duke receives a telegram from his butler at Tankerton, reporting the portentous return of the owls. The Duke promptly interprets the omen as a sign that the gods have decreed his doom. He proudly tells Zuleika that he will still die, but no longer for her; she agrees as long as he makes it appear that he is dying for her by shouting her name as he jumps into the river. Later the same day, a thunderstorm overwhelms the Eights Week boat races while the Duke drowns himself in the River Isis, wearing the robes of a Knight of the Garter. Every fellow undergraduate, except one, promptly follows suit.
All of the Oxford undergraduates now dead, including, with some delay, the cowardly Noaks, Zuleika discusses the ordeal with her grandfather, who reveals that he too was enamoured by all when he was her age. While Oxford's academic staff barely notice that nearly all of their undergraduates have vanished, Zuleika decides to order a special train for the next morning ... bound for Cambridge.
Question: What is the name of Zuleika's current profession?
Answer: | She is a prestidigitator. |
Question: Bragg peak effect is most noticable in ?
A. X ray
B. Proton
C. Neutron
D. Electron
Answer: | B. Proton |
Passage: Two men, one a Latino sales clerk and the other a Latino chemist, were both house hunting with their families.
Question: Which family can buy a home without government assistance?
A. The Latino chemist's family
B. Cannot be determined
C. The Latino sales clerk's family
Answer: | B. Cannot be determined |
Passage: Elizabeth and David were consoling a friend who had recently experienced a difficult break-up. Elizabeth did most of the talking, while David stood uncomfortably by.
Question: Who was responding compassionately?
A. Elizabeth
B. Cannot be determined
C. David
Answer: | A. Elizabeth |
2020 coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts: Martha 's Vineyard in Dukes County had its first case , a 50-year-old man in Tisbury. This brought coronavirus to the 13th of 14 counties in Massachusetts .
Claim: Dukes County is the 13th of the 14 counties in Massachusetts to report a COVID-19 case .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | C. Neither |
West Indies cricket team: A number of cricketers who were considered among the best in the world have hailed from the West Indies : Sir Garfield Sobers , Lance Gibbs , Gordon Greenidge , George Headley , Brian Lara , Clive Lloyd , Malcolm Marshall , Sir Andy Roberts , Alvin Kallicharran , Rohan Kanhai , Sir Frank Worrell , Sir Clyde Walcott , Sir Everton Weekes , Sir Curtly Ambrose , Michael Holding , Courtney Walsh , Joel Garner and Sir Viv Richards have all been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame .
Claim: One of the best cricketers in the world , Shivnarine Chanderpaul , comes from the West Indies cricket team and has been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | C. Neither |
Passage: Two weeks before the Ares is scheduled to leave Mars, Captain Harrison sends American chemist Dick Jarvis and French biologist "Frenchy" Leroy to retrieve the film Jarvis took before his auxiliary rocket crashed into the Thyle highlands the week before. Along the way, the Earthmen stop at the city of the cart creatures and the site of the pyramid building creature for Leroy to take some samples. After picking up the film canisters from the crashed rocket at Thyle II, the two men fly east to Thyle I to look for signs of the birdlike Martian, Tweel.
Near a canal, the men find a strange, deserted city thousands of years old. The buildings are inhabited by birdlike Martians of Tweel's species, including Tweel himself, and Jarvis and the Martian enjoy a happy reunion. Jarvis persuades Tweel to guide them through the city.
In one building, they come across a ratlike being hunched over a Martian book. Tweel angrily chases the rat-thing away and replaces the book on a shelf, though the Earthmen are not sure whether the rat-thing was reading the book or eating it. Elsewhere in the building, which seems to be a library, Tweel shows the Earthmen a huge mural of a human kneeling before a seated Martian. When Leroy remarks that the Martian in the mural looks like the Egyptian god Thoth, Tweel excitedly repeats the name, pointing to itself and all around them at the city. The Earthmen realize that Tweel's people, the Thoth, had visited ancient Egypt and served as inspiration for the Ibis-headed god. (This is actually anachronistic, since Thoth was the classical Greek version of the god's name.)
Over the next three days, Tweel shows the Earthmen around the city, including a solar-powered pumping station designed to move water down the canal. Finally, a mile south of the ancient Martian city, the Earthmen find a valley filled with dream-beasts. As the dream-beasts mesmerize them, the two Earthmen see everything they have ever desired spread out before them, and rush forward helplessly. Tweel attacks one of the dream-beasts, momentarily freeing Jarvis. The Earthman kills the dream-beast with a pistol shot, then kills another that is attacking Leroy, and the three of them flee the valley. Jarvis and Leroy return to their rocket to recover from their encounter with the dream-beasts.
Before returning to the Ares, as a parting gift, the Earthmen take Tweel to the wreck of the other rocket, and give it the rocket's atomic power plant. In time, the Thoth will be able to master atomic power, and will no longer be dependent on solar power to run their civilization.
Question: Who does Leroy say the Martian looks like in the mural?
Answer: | Thoth |
Call of Duty 2: The game is set during World War III and the campaign mode is experienced through the perspectives of fifteen soldiers : one in the Red Army , one in the United States Army , two in the British Army , and the rest in hell .
Claim: Call of Duty 2 is set during World War II .
A. True
B. False
C. Neither
Answer: | B. False |
Passage: The three-character play is set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London. Shaw describes Henry Apjohn as "a very beautiful youth, moving as in a dream, walking as on air," while Aurora Bompas has "an air of being a young and beautiful woman but as a matter of hard fact, she is, dress and pretensions apart, a very ordinary South Kensington female of about 37, hopelessly inferior in physical and spiritual distinction to the beautiful youth." The third character is Aurora's husband Teddy, "a robust, thicknecked, well groomed city man, with a strong chin but a blithering eye and credulous mouth."
Aurora is distressed because she has misplaced some poems, in which she is identified by name, written for her with declarations of love by the impetuous Henry. She suspects her sister-in-law Georgina stole them from her workbox and is concerned she will read them to Aurora's husband Teddy.
Henry suggests they confront Teddy with the truth, "quietly, hand in hand" and depart - "without concealment and subterfuge, freely and honestly, in full honor and self-respect" - for their planned evening at the theatre. (Henry has purchased tickets for Candida - the popular Shaw comedy which Henry and Aurora's situation closely resembles - because Lohengrin was sold out.) The two engage in a discussion about the merits of revealing their affair until Teddy arrives and confronts Henry with his poetry.
The young man tries to convince him they were inspired by Aurora, the goddess of dawn, rather than his wife, and assures him he has no interest in the woman Teddy married . . . which the cuckolded man finds so insulting he demands Henry admit how desirable Aurora is. Henry finally confesses his love for Aurora, which pleases Teddy so much he proposes he have the poems published on "the finest paper, sumptuous binding, everything first class" as a tribute to his wife. "What shall we call the volume?," Teddy asks. "To Aurora, or something like that, eh?," to which Henry replies, "I should call it How He Lied to Her Husband."
Question: Who is Aurora's husband?
Answer: | Teddy |
Passage: Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of fabled Atlantis is located, in order to make good on some financial reverses he has recently suffered. While Atlantis itself sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar continued to mine all of the gold, which means there is a rather huge stockpile but which is now lost to the memory of the Oparians and only Tarzan knows its secret location.
A greedy, outlawed Belgian army officer, Albert Werper, in the employ of a criminal Arab, secretly follows Tarzan to Opar. There, Tarzan loses his memory after being struck on the head by a falling rock in the treasure room during an earthquake. On encountering La, the high priestess who is the servant of the Flaming God of Opar, and who is also very beautiful, Tarzan once again rejects her love which enrages her and she tries to have him killed; she had fallen in love with the apeman during their first encounter and La and her high priests are not going to allow Tarzan to escape their sacrificial knives this time.
In the meanwhile, Jane has been kidnapped by the Arab and wonders what is keeping her husband from once again coming to her rescue. A now amnesiac Tarzan and the Werper escape from Opar, bearing away the sacrificial knife of Opar which La and some retainers set out to recover. There is intrigue and counter intrigue the rest of the way.
Question: Who is La?
Answer: | La is the high priestess that serves the Flaming God of Opar. |
Passage: Tyrone Branch (who works as a cashier) and DeShawn Mack (who works as a physician) are old friends and were questioned about the recent armed robbery. Tyrone Branch was eventually convicted as an accessory to the robbery, while DeShawn Mack was pretty shocked that his old friend was involved.
Question: Which person was involved in the armed robbery?
A. Tyrone Branch, the cashier
B. Not enough information
C. DeShawn Mack, the physician
Answer: | A. Tyrone Branch, the cashier |