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[ { "answer": "Salt Lake to Ft. Collins,", "query": "\n \"Mom, you should put some of your things away. The house should be safe for the baby,\" said my son Mark as he walked upstairs with his wife and fifteen-month-old Hannah. \n\nThey visited us for the Thanksgiving holiday. After driving all day from Sa...
[ { "answer": "Yes", "query": "\n Consult the page adapted from an English dictionary and do Questions 53-56. Important words to learn: E Essential I Improver A Advanced shoot [Su:t] ^verb (shot, shot) WEAPON-1 E to fire a bullet or an arrow, or to hit, injure or kill a person or animal by firing a bullet ...
[ { "answer": "\\ a capacity of at least 10,000", "query": "\n A stadium (plural stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand...
[ { "answer": "Saturday", "query": "\n It was Saturday and it was nice outside. I did not have school and my mom did not have work. When I woke up we ate breakfast and got ready for the day. My mom started to clean up the house so I went up to my room to play with my toys. My mom came upstairs and told me,...
[ { "answer": "to go house-hunting", "query": "\n CHAPTER XIV. THE PARTNER \n\n\n\nThe expected telegram arrived two days later, requesting Miss Mohun to find a lodging at Rockstone sufficient to contain Sir Jasper and Lady Merrifield, and a certain amount of sons and daughters, while they considered what ...
[ { "answer": "Melvil Dewey", "query": "\n The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876. It has been revised and expanded through 23 major editions, the latest issued in 2011, and...
[ { "answer": "New York", "query": "\n Three New York courts have rejected one group's legal effort to grant captive chimpanzees in that state the same rights as a \"legal person.\" \n\nThe Nonhuman Rights Project filed three separate suits on behalf of four chimpanzees in New York state last week in a bid...
[ { "answer": "no", "query": "\n CHAPTER XIII \n\nTHE EMERALD RING \n\nGrahame went in to dinner feeling anxious. Sarmiento had not returned, but he would probably come in before the meal was over, and Gomez was sitting by Cliffe near the head of the table. Blanca sat opposite Walthew, and Grahame found a ...
[ { "answer": "An international audience.", "query": "\n Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international news source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting. As the largest U.S. international broadcaster, VOA produc...
[ { "answer": "an antique gun and some bullets", "query": "\n Los Angeles (CNN) -- Authorities confiscated an antique gun and some bullets from the home of Charlie Sheen after a search, the actor's divorce attorney said Friday. \n\nMark Gross told reporters he did not believe that by having the items his c...
[ { "answer": "Vince was.", "query": "\n Do you know the story about Vince? It was a true story. Vince was an English boy and he was eight years old. He didn't like soap or water. Three or four times a day his mother said to him, \"Vince, your hands are very dirty again.\" Go and wash them. \" But Vince ne...
[ { "answer": "j2 Global.", "query": "\n IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis and wholly owned by j2 Global. The company is located in San Francisco's SOMA district in California, United...
[ { "answer": "Noah Baumbach", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Noah Baumbach is emerging as an emotionally acute, not to say eviscerating, observer of the middle-class intelligentsia, the kind of people who write letters to \"The New York Times\" and might plausibly pop up in a Woody Allen movie. \n\nUnlike the Wood...
[ { "answer": "dark and smooth-shaven", "query": "\n CHAPTER VI \n\nTHE BLUNDERING OF ANDREW \n\nThey came face to face in the hall of the Grand Hotel. Duncombe had just returned from his call upon the Marquise. Andrew was leaning upon the arm of a dark, smooth-shaven man, and had apparently just descended...
[ { "answer": "an hour", "query": "\n CHAPTER III \n\nIN THE SHAFT \n\nMrs. Byram had no suspicion that her son might be exposed to any danger until after he had been absent an hour, and then the remembrance of the threats made by Skip Miller and his friends caused her the deepest anxiety. Fred would not h...
[ { "answer": "he didn't want to", "query": "\n A little boy named Joey did not like to brush his teeth. One day, as his mother asked him to brush his teeth, Joey said, \"I don't want to! It's gross and a waste of time!\" In response, Joey's mom told him that in order for him to grow up and be big and stro...
[ { "answer": "Outside, there was snow", "query": "\n The booger on the balloon sailed far and wide. The wind pushed it. The wind pulled it. The booger on the balloon sailed into a house. In the house was a table. On the table was an orange. Next to the orange was some chocolate. Under the table was a cray...
[ { "answer": "Edward Young", "query": "\n CHAPTER FIFTEEN. \n\nMURDER! \n\nThe planting time came round at Pitcairn, and all was busy activity in the little settlement at Bounty Bay. The women, engaged in household work and in the preparation of food, scarcely troubled themselves to cast an anxious eye on...
[ { "answer": "1920s", "query": "\n Totalitarianism is a political system in which the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. A distinctive feature of totalitarian governments is an \"elaborate ideology, a set of ideas ...
[ { "answer": "Porter, Sweeney and Luke Gates", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Three American college students detained in Cairo since Monday night were released from police custody Friday and were headed to the airport to return to the United States, an attorney for one of the men said. \n\nThe men will board thre...
[ { "answer": "G & C Merriam Co", "query": "\n Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially known for its dictionaries. \n\nIn 1831, George and Charles Merriam founded the company as G & C Merriam Co. in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1843, after Noah Web...
[ { "answer": "forty-two", "query": "\n CHAPTER XIII. \n\nMorning found the settlers, with the exception of Col. Zane, his brother Jonathan, the negro Sam, and Martin Wetzel, all within the Fort. Col. Zane had determined, long before, that in the event of another siege, he would use his house as an outpost...
[ { "answer": "a dog", "query": "\n Rob is a dog. Rob is a big red dog. He likes to go to the park. Rob likes the swing. He likes to go as high as he can. To get to the park, Rob has to go to town. When he is in town, he walks by the school. It is by the baseball field. Rob likes to go to the park with Rod...
[ { "answer": "to be interviewed separately", "query": "\n (CNN) -- The parents of a missing Missouri girl have refused to be interviewed separately by authorities, Kansas City police said Wednesday. \n\nBut the attorney representing Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, parents of 11-month-old Lisa Irwin, sai...
[ { "answer": "Yes", "query": "\n Yves Gomes is now a university student in Maryland, but he may soon have to leave the country. \"I still want to continue with my college education and I want to be able to study here and go to medical school,\" he said. \n\nGomes is one of thousands of young illegal immig...
[ { "answer": "The unemployment rate", "query": "\n The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force. During periods of recession, an economy usually exp...
[ { "answer": "Emily Dickinson", "query": "\n Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few. The people with whom she did come i...
[ { "answer": "Dave", "query": "\n CHAPTER VII \n\nIN WHICH DAVE IS ROBBED \n\nDave found himself in a decidedly unpleasant situation. The door of the room was locked and Tom Shocker stood against it. The man lit the gas, but allowed it to remain low. Dave saw Nat Poole standing close to a bed. The money-l...
[ { "answer": "English, Spanish, and French", "query": "\n Many languages in the United States are used, or historically have been used. Over 500 languages are spoken at various levels by the U.S. population. The most commonly used language is English (specifically American English), which is the de facto ...
[ { "answer": "Kacey", "query": "\n Kacey was a princess living in a magical kingdom with her parents and two little brothers. One day a monster bashed down the door to the castle when Kacey wasn't home and grabbed her youngest brother. \"Give me your jewels or I eat him!\" the monster yelled. Kacey's mom ...
[ { "answer": "Winning a pageant title", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Winning a pageant title is life-changing, especially during the year of your reign. \n\nIf it's a big crown, like a state title, it can be like a full-time gig as you prepare for the national event and make appearances. \n\nElizabeth Fechtel se...
[ { "answer": "Saint Lucia", "query": "\n Saint Lucia is a sovereign island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a lan...
[ { "answer": "a football coach", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Helena Costa has had second thoughts over coaching French second-tier side Clermont Foot. \n\nIn May, Clermont appointed Costa, who was previously in charge of the Iran women's national team, as the club's manager for next season. \n\nClermont preside...
[ { "answer": "she was a nurse", "query": "\n Several years ago, Kevin Stephan, then aged 11, was playing baseball when a player accidentally hit him with a bat. Kevin fell down and his heart stopped. Penny Brown, the mother of another player, was watching the game.Penny usually worked in the evenings as a...
[ { "answer": "suspect's lawyer", "query": "\n Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- The suspect in the bombing and mass shooting in Norway believed the terrorist attacks were \"horrible,\" but \"in his head (they) were necessary,\" a man who identified himself as the suspect's lawyer told Norwegian broadcaster TV2. \n\nG...
[ { "answer": "Sam and Tom", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXIV \n\nA CAPTURE AND A SURPRISE \n\nThe others were much astonished by what Tom said, and they could scarcely believe that they had heard aright. \n\n\"Bill Dangler!\" cried Sam, but Tom put his hand over his brother's mouth to silence him. Then he nodded...
[ { "answer": "People with disabilities.", "query": "\n Air travel makes some people very nervous. The crowds, the noise and flying itself can cause unease. But there are classes that people can take to help them defeat the fear of flying. And now we are going to talk about similar training for service dog...
[ { "answer": "Charity Buzz", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Apple CEO Tim Cook might soon be sharing Silicon Valley's most expensive cup of coffee. \n\nSometime in the next year, Cook will sit down for a cup of mud with someone who has paid at least $210,000 for the privilege. \n\nApple fandom taken to its crazies...
[ { "answer": "3:00 AM", "query": "\n At three a.m., Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail train. The train was made up of 13 cars. At the end of the train, 71 mailmen sat sorting the mails. Inside the second car, there were only five mailmen and 128 bags full of five-pound notes. This train h...
[ { "answer": "at the Farnam homestead", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXXI \n\nTHIRLWELL'S REWARD \n\nWinter was nearly over when, one evening, George and Scott arrived at the Farnam homestead where Agatha was a guest. The house was centrally heated, and when the party gathered in Mrs. Farnam's pretty, warm room, ...
[ { "answer": "sickly", "query": "\n Boxing was long viewed sickly. Generally forbidden by law in earlier days, the fighting was usually done with bare fists, and matches often lasted forty or fifty rounds. \n\nIn 1882 John L. Sullivan, a fighter of great power, won the world heavyweight championship from ...
[ { "answer": "17", "query": "\n Attorneys for the family of a 17-year-old student found dead in a rolled-up gym mat at a southern Georgia high school called on authorities Thursday to release surveillance video that they say could show what happened. \n\nKendrick Johnson, they allege, was slain in January...
[ { "answer": "An author.", "query": "\n Bringing a giraffe into the world is _ . A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life. In his book,A View from t...
[ { "answer": "Liang Xiyan", "query": "\n Liang Xiyan still misses her long black hair, which was cut two weeks ago. Liang became a senior high school student in September. In her new school, the rules say that boys' hairstyles must be cropped and girls' hair cannot fall below their shoulders. Liang's scho...
[ { "answer": "Helen", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXVI \n\nFor Helen Rayner that brief, dark period of expulsion from her home had become a thing of the past, almost forgotten. \n\nTwo months had flown by on the wings of love and work and the joy of finding her place there in the West. All her old men had been o...
[ { "answer": "Change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.", "query": "\n Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biologi...
[ { "answer": "The witness, who prosecutors named only as \"M.B.\"", "query": "\n New Brunswick, New Jersey (CNN) -- The man Tyler Clementi was intimate with just days before he committed suicide took the stand Friday, telling jurors that he had noticed a web camera aimed at Clementi's bed. \n\nThe witness...
[ { "answer": "Bret", "query": "\n Once there was a young boy named Bret who had a cat named Wolfgang. The boy had really wanted a wolf for a pet, but his mother said wolves liked to hog the bathroom and liked to blow things down and they snored. So the boy had to call his cat Wolfie. \n\nHe had also thoug...
[ { "answer": "Baldassarre was possessed", "query": "\n CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE. \n\nOUTSIDE THE DUOMO. \n\nWhile Baldassarre was possessed by the voice of Savonarola, he had not noticed that another man had entered through the doorway behind him, and stood not far off observing him. It was Piero di Cosimo, wh...
[ { "answer": "buried in the snow", "query": "\n Hong Kong (CNN) -- A car theft in China that spiraled into a manhunt and a baby's killing has left the country grieving and sparked outrage on social media. \n\nThe body of the infant, whose name was Haobo, was found buried in the snow Wednesday. His father,...
[ { "answer": "York University", "query": "\n York University () is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university. \n\nYork University has approximately 52,300 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, and 295,000 alumni worldwide. It has eleven faculties, inclu...
[ { "answer": "the world's main wine fair,", "query": "\n Bordeaux (; Gascon Occitan: \"\") is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France. \n\nThe municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 243,626 (2012). Together with its suburbs and satellite tow...
[ { "answer": "a suspected double agent", "query": "\n MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spain's spy agency chief said Tuesday a suspected double agent had been arrested who revealed the names of Spanish spies and other state secrets to a foreign nation. \n\nSpain's SER Radio reported the recipient nation was Russia....
[ { "answer": "152 years old", "query": "\n Nokia Corporation, stylised as NOKIA, is a Finnish multinational communications, information technology and consumer electronics company, founded in 1865. Nokia's headquarters are in Espoo, Uusimaa, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. In 2016, Nokia employ...
[ { "answer": "a book", "query": "\n Mothers and daughters go through so much--yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down to write a book together about it all? Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass, both gifted professional writers, prove to be ideal co-writers as they examine th...
[ { "answer": "Jack Hamlin", "query": "\n CHAPTER VI. \n\nThe abrupt disappearance of Jack Hamlin and the strange lady and gentleman visitor was scarcely noticed by the other guests of the Divide House, and beyond the circle of Steptoe and his friends, who were a distinct party and strangers to the town, t...
[ { "answer": "Tiger Woods", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Cockiness and swagger serve him on the golf course, but there's much more to golf's young phenom, Rory McIlroy. \n\nThe U.S. Open winner might hang with tennis great Rafael Nadal, knock back some Heinekens or slip the electronic dance sounds of Swedish Hou...
[ { "answer": "the conversation between his two cousins.", "query": "\n CHAPTER VII \n\nTHE END OF THE TERM \n\n\"What can Gabe Werner be doing around here?\" questioned Randy, who had heard the conversation between his two cousins. \n\n\"I'm sure I don't know,\" answered Jack. \"He doesn't live anywhere i...
[ { "answer": "Should Children Be Allowed to Get Bored", "query": "\n Should Children Be Allowed to Get Bored? Children need time to stand and stare. They should be allowed to get bored to that they can develop their ability to be creative. Children are expected by their parents to be reading a textbook al...
[ { "answer": "Angela Brown", "query": "\n \"Angie, I know you like to sing,\" her father, a worker, told Angela Brown, \"but you must have something to fall back on .\" \n\nBrown took her father's advice. She got a degree in secretarial science before entering Oakwood College, in Huntsville, Alabama. Howe...
[ { "answer": "six", "query": "\n The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States. At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi (Ohio at Cairo: 281,500 cu ...
[ { "answer": "baseball", "query": "\n Sammy loved playing baseball. He would play every day, even if there was no practice that day! One day, Sammy went to the park with his mom to play catch with his friends, but as he was playing, he tripped over a rock, and his shoe slipped off! His shoe went flying in...
[ { "answer": "yes", "query": "\n Erden Eruc has been rowing across the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat since he left California on July 10, 2007. He has been heading for Australia with only birds, fish, and sharks ever since. Crossing the Pacific is only part of his journey. Eruc has decided to go all the way ...
[ { "answer": "October 3", "query": "\n Denver (CNN) -- To the political world, October 3 is a high-stakes night in the presidential election. But for first lady Michelle Obama, it's the date night that wasn't. \n\n\"I told Barack, 'This, you know, attending a presidential debate on my 20th anniversary is ...
[ { "answer": "Fredo", "query": "\n Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Getting a 4-year-old to eat his lunch of pizza and applesauce on a recent Saturday afternoon wasn't exactly what Sam and Diane McMutrie thought they'd be doing after their three kids grew up. \n\nThe couple, in their 50s, are raising Fre...
[ { "answer": "Diana", "query": "\n It is a very usual thing for a person to have a good friend. My good friend is Diana. She is a rich and proud girl. She often thinks that she is too good for anyone. One day after school, I was waiting for Diana when Vivien came up to me. She gave me a cake, I got it. We...
[ { "answer": "no", "query": "\n (CNN) -- While several high-profile actors and directors have rallied around Roman Polanski, not everyone in Hollywood believes he should be freed and forgiven. \n\nThe case surrounding the arrest of director Roman Polanski has both supporters and critics. \n\nIn the face o...
[ { "answer": "Damascus Spring", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Before the Arab Spring came the Damascus Spring. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father Hafez Assad in 2000, there was the promise of a modern and more democratic Syria. \n\nIn his inauguration speech, al-Assad indicated he would be a very different...
[ { "answer": "the Census", "query": "\n The Canada 2011 Census is a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population on May 10, 2011. Statistics Canada, an agency of the Canadian government, conducts a nationwide census every five years. In 2011, it consisted of a mandatory short form census questionnaire ...
[ { "answer": "The Sahara", "query": "\n The Sahara (Arabic: الصحراء الكبرى‎, aṣ-ṣaḥrāʾ al-kubrā , 'the Greatest Desert') is the largest hot desert in the world. It is the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its surface area of 9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi)[citation needed...
[ { "answer": "George Washington", "query": "\n \"Indeed,\" George Washington wrote in his diary in 1985, \"some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.\" But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects a...
[ { "answer": "Florence Burton.", "query": "\n Chapter XXX \n\nThe Man Who Dusted His Boots With His Handkerchief \n\n\n\nWhen Florence Burton had written three letters to Harry without receiving a word in reply to either of them, she began to be seriously unhappy. The last of these letters, received by hi...
[ { "answer": "Pet Food Tester", "query": "\n The Most Unusual Jobs Pet Food Tester . Yes, it's a thing and yes it's totally gross . But Mark Gooley ---the owner of a pet food company, eats dog food for a living. He eats everything from doggie treats and chewy bones to liver mixture. Teddy Bear repair Engi...
[ { "answer": "CBC Film Sales Corporation", "query": "\n Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Gr...
[ { "answer": "artificial heart", "query": "\n A patient on the brink of death has received the world's first self--contained artificial heart--a battery--powered device about the size of a softball that runs without the need for wires,tubes sticking out of the chest.It is powered by a small battery pack w...
[ { "answer": "contempt of Congress,", "query": "\n Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's assertion of executive privilege ahead of a hearing before a House committee, which subsequently recommended his attorney general be cited for contempt of Congress, sets up a fight that has had mixed results in...
[ { "answer": "an orange farm", "query": "\n There once was a giant orange farm in space. No human had ever been there before. It could not be reached by plane, spaceship, car, or any other means of travel. The farm was run by large squirrels, and was started in 1032. They owned the planet the farm was on,...
[ { "answer": "Life of Pi", "query": "\n First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature. It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster s...
[ { "answer": "22", "query": "\n Near East (French: Proche-Orient) is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia. Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. The term has fallen into disuse...
[ { "answer": "International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems", "query": "\n ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It ...
[ { "answer": "Jasper Grinder", "query": "\n CHAPTER XXVII. \n\nBRINGING DOWN TWO BEARS. \n\n\"Bears!\" burst out Sam, and started back in alarm. \n\n\"Bears!\" shrieked Jasper Grinder, and turned as pale as death. \"Oh, somebody save me!\" He wanted to run, but he was in such a tremble he could not, and s...
[ { "answer": "working on a house", "query": "\n When this story happened, they were working around a very large house. Their job was to do the cleaning. It was not a difficult job, but sometimes it was a little dangerous, because they had to walk below where workmen were working. Often these workmen dropp...
[ { "answer": "Robert", "query": "\n CHAPTER II. \n\nBIRTH OF WILLIAM. \n\nA.D. 912-1033 \n\nCastle at Falaise.--Present ruins of the castle.--Scenery of the town and castle.--Wall and buildings.--Watch-towers.--Sentinels.--Enchanting prospect.--Chronological history of the Norman line.--Rollo.--William I....
[ { "answer": "Saturday afternoon", "query": "\n It was a hot Saturday afternoon, and James was going shopping with his mother. While she made her shopping list, James looked out the window. In the sky, he saw pretty birds. He smiled - James liked birds. He saw one last Friday when he was getting muddy in ...
[ { "answer": "Wesley Snipes", "query": "\n Los Angeles (CNN) -- Actor Wesley Snipes said he was nervous about going to jail on Thursday, but was hopeful that his prayers would be answered. \n\n\"We still have prayers out there. We still believe in miracles. So don't send me up the river yet,\" Snipes said...
[ { "answer": "night", "query": "\n I was doing a weekend seminar at the Deerhurst Lodge, north of Toronto. On Friday night a tornado swept through a town north of us called Barrie, killing dozens of people and doing millions of dollars worth of damage. Sunday night, as I was coming home, I stopped the car...
[ { "answer": "weather and climate", "query": "\n The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 191 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873. Established by the ra...
[ { "answer": "Washington, D.C.", "query": "\n Colleges taking another look at value of merit-based aid \n\nGood grades and high tests scores still matter--a lot--to many colleges as they award financial aid. \n\nBut with low-income students projected to make up an ever-larger share of the college-bound po...
[ { "answer": "Jim.", "query": "\n Jim was looking up at the sky when he saw it. He saw a bright light. It got brighter and brighter. But after a few seconds, it started getting less bright. It took him a second to know for sure, but he knew he had seen a shooting star! \n\nThis wasn't the first time that ...
[ { "answer": "Brian", "query": "\n \"Hi, Jenny!\" \"Hi, Brian! What class do you have next?\" \"I have art next,\" says Brian. \"It's my favourite. I draw six pictures every week.\" \"You are a good painter ,\" says Jenny. \"I see some of your pictures. They are beautiful. I like art too, but I am not goo...
[ { "answer": "swimming", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Ryan Lochte won the United States' first gold medal at the London Olympics with an outstanding performance in Saturday's 400m individual medley. \n\nSwimming superstar Michael Phelps, who has 14 Olympic gold medals from his three previous Olympics, could only...
[ { "answer": "sleeping", "query": "\n CHAPTER XI. \n\nAUNT CATHARINE'S HOME. \n\nThe lady sleeps--O may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep! Heaven have her in its sacred keep! This bed being changed for one more holy, This room for one more melancholy, Some tomb, that oft hath flung its black And win...
[ { "answer": "Todd Akin", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Politicians make gaffes almost daily. Some they can overcome. Some are fodder for late-night comedians. Some are deadly to their campaigns. Republican congressman Todd Akin's recent gaffe was so toxic, he may not only have killed his campaign, he may be the ...
[ { "answer": "Bob", "query": "\n Bob rode his bike to his house on Monday. He wanted to get home to get some yogurt. On Tuesday, Bob looked over his shoulder and saw Matt. Matt was looking around in the fridge. On Friday, Bob walked on the ice. He fell down. Matt had a saying for such things, but he forgo...
[ { "answer": "2008", "query": "\n Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) -- It's September of 2014, but Bakari Sellers is already getting calls and visits from the small crop of Democrats considering a 2016 presidential bid. \n\nFew voters outside South Carolina have heard of him. But he's a young star in the sta...
[ { "answer": "no", "query": "\n A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common: typically, a mixture of simplified languages or a simplified primary language with other languages' elements i...
[ { "answer": "Coke", "query": "\n Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company. Originally intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton and was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Co...
[ { "answer": "three years old", "query": "\n (CNN) -- Professional ballet dancer Michaela DePrince was just three years old when she saw a ballerina for the first time. \n\nShe was standing near the gate of the orphanage she was living in the West African country of Sierra Leone when she found a magazine ...
[ { "answer": "a computer software application that interacts with the user", "query": "\n A database management system (DBMS) is a computer software application that interacts with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data. A general-purpose DBMS is designed to allo...
[ { "answer": "George II", "query": "\n Chapter VI.--WINTER-QUARTERS 1760-1761. \n\nA melancholy little event, which afterwards proved unexpectedly unfortunate for Friedrich, had happened in England ten days before the Battle of Torgau. Saturday, 25th October, 1760, George II., poor old gentleman, suddenly...