question: London (CNN) -- Reports that a Scottish teenager took his own life after becoming the victim of an alleged Internet blackmail scam have heightened concerns in Britain over online abuse.

Daniel Perry, from Dunfermline, was reportedly the victim of blackmailers who recorded his interactions via Skype with a person he believed was an American girl his own age.

They then threatened to show his family the footage unless he paid up, UK media reports say. Instead, the 17-year-old jumped from a bridge last month.

News of his death comes on the heels of outrage over the suicide of 14-year-old Hannah Smith, from Leicestershire in England. Her family said she took her own life after she was bullied on the social networking website ask.fm, having gone there to seek advice on the skin condition eczema.

Her funeral was held Friday at St. Mary's Church in her hometown of Lutterworth.

The mourners were asked by Hannah's father to wear brightly colored clothes, not black, the church's vicar, the Rev. Charlie Styles, said in an online statement beforehand.

Styles said the informal service would "provide a focal point for the community in a time of shock and great sadness."

Daniel was also taunted and urged to kill himself by trolls on the Ask.fm website, The Daily Telegraph newspaper said.

The Telegraph quoted Daniel's mother, Nicola, on Friday as saying the people behind the video scam he fell prey to are "clever and dangerous" and had manipulated the footage.

"He wasn't doing anything wrong, just what anyone his age might do, but this scam is all about exploiting young people," she said.
1. What is alarming someone?
2. What was the issue?
3. How old was the victim?
4. What was his name?
5. Where was he from?
6. What were they saying they would do with the film?
7. How could he prevent this?
8. What happened at St. Mary's church?
9. how old was she?
10. and where is she from?
11. Did she and Daniel both die in the same way?
12. How?
13. Had anyone encouraged Daniel to committ suicide?
14. Who did this?
15. Did his mother think he had done something wrong?
16. What does she think this scam does?
17. What app did they use to film Daniel?
18. Did he think he was speaking with someone in Britain?
19. Where did he think the person was located?
20. What ailment was Hannah seeking help for?
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answer: 1. an Internet blackmail scam
2. blackmailers who recorded interactions via Skype
3. 17
4. Daniel Perry
5. Dunfermline, Scottland
6. show his family the footage
7. pay
8. Hannah Smith's funeral
9. 14
10. Leicestershire in England
11. yes
12. suicide
13. yes
14. trolls on the Ask.fm website
15. no
16. exploi young people
17. Skype
18. no
19. America
20. eczema

question: Geodesy (/didsi/), also named geodetics, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth. The history of geodesy began in antiquity and blossomed during the Age of Enlightenment.

Early ideas about the figure of the Earth held the Earth to be flat (see flat Earth), and the heavens a physical dome spanning over it. Two early arguments for a spherical Earth were that lunar eclipses were seen as circular shadows which could only be caused by a spherical Earth, and that Polaris is seen lower in the sky as one travels South.

The early Greeks, in their speculation and theorizing, ranged from the flat disc advocated by Homer to the spherical body postulated by Pythagoras. Pythagoras's idea was supported later by Aristotle. Pythagoras was a mathematician and to him the most perfect figure was a sphere. He reasoned that the gods would create a perfect figure and therefore the Earth was created to be spherical in shape. Anaximenes, an early Greek philosopher, believed strongly that the Earth was rectangular in shape.

Since the spherical shape was the most widely supported during the Greek Era, efforts to determine its size followed. Plato determined the circumference of the Earth (which is slightly over 40,000km) to be 400,000 stadia (between 62,800 and 74,000km or 46,250 and 39,250mi) while Archimedes estimated 300,000 stadia (48,300km or 30,000mi), using the Hellenic stadion which scholars generally take to be 185 meters or of a geographical mile. Plato's figure was a guess and Archimedes' a more conservative approximation.
1. When did geodesy begin?
2. When did it flourish?
3. Which Greek argued for a flat Earth?
4. Who argued for a perfect sphere?
5. Who later agreed with him?
6. Why did Pythagoras think the Earth was a sphere?
7. Who thought the Earth was rectangular?
8. Who was Anaximenes?
9. How did early ideas describe the heavens?
10. How does the position of Polaris change as one goes South?
11. What measurement did Plato make?
12. What units of measurement did he use?
13. What did he measure the circumference as?
14. What range of km does this convert to?
15. Is that larger than Earth's actual circumference in km?
16. What is the actual value in km?
17. Did Plato and Archimedes arrive at the same measurement?
18. What was Archimedes' estimate?
19. Using what kind of stadia?
20. How did Plato arrive at his estimate?
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answer: 1. in antiquity
2. during the Age of Enlightenment
3. Homer
4. Pythagoras
5. Aristotle
6. Because the most perfect figure was a sphere.
7. Anaximenes
8. an early Greek philosopher
9. a dome over the earth
10. it's seen lower in the sky
11. the circumference of the Earth
12. stadia
13. 400,000 stadia
14. 62,800 and 74,000
15. yes
16. 40,000
17. no
18. 300,000 stadia
19. the Hellenic stadion
20. a guess

question: Elizabeth jumped right out of bed on Saturday morning. Today was the day her father was going to take her and her sister, Rebecca, to the zoo. Her mother made them biscuits and eggs for breakfast. The two girls were too excited to sit still. They didn't even watch any cartoons before they left for the zoo in the car. The first thing they saw was a zoo worker carrying a pail of fish. He was going to feed the penguins. The penguins looked funny walking on land but were very fast swimmers in the water. Next, the girls ran to where the pandas live. The pandas were playing by rolling down the hill. After watching the pandas, the girls and their father moved to where the lions were. One lion was asleep on his back but the others were in a circle eating some meat. It did not look tasty. The girls didn't want to watch this any more so they walked to where the zebras were eating grass. Rebecca thought it would be fun to ride one like a horse.
1. Who jumped out of bed?
2. On what day?
3. Who was going to take her to the zoo?
4. Who else was going with them?
5. What was her sister's name?
6. What did their mother make?
7. Did they watch cartoons before going?
8. What was the first thing they saw?
9. Was he going to feed the lions?
10. Were the penguins fast on land?
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answer:
1. Elizabeth
2. Saturday
3. her father
4. her sister
5. Rebecca
6. biscuits and eggs
7. no
8. a zoo worker carrying fish
9. no
10. no