Question:
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Once upon a time, there was a little white mouse that lived on a farm. He liked to hide in the hay stacks where it was warm through the day and night. On cold winter days, he would wiggle out from the hay stack to get closer to the lamp in the barn, getting some extra warmth. One winter day, the mouse was very cold, but needed something to eat. He left the hay stack, and ran past the lamp. He ran across an old wood board that was laying on top of the snow - the mouse didn't have mittens and wanted to keep his feet warm. He ran and ran until he couldn't any longer. The cold weather was keeping every living thing inside, so the mouse was all alone. He walked towards the house and met a little bug named Fred. Fred told the mouse that he went inside and found lots of crumbs to eat on the kitchen floor. The mouse waited until the farmer's wife, Julie, came out the back door, and then the mouse ran into the kitchen. There were bread crumbs everywhere! The mouse ate as many as he could before anyone found him. He heard the back door open again, and hid under the oven. It was warm there - there must have been a pie baking. Farmer Bill liked pies more than bread, cake, or cookies. The mouse stayed there to warm up, then ran back to the barn to sleep for the night.
1. What did the mouse eat?
2. What is the farmers name?
3. And what does he like most?
4. Is the mouse male or female?
5. What was keeping every living thing inside?
6. Who told the mouse about the food?
7. And his name was?
8. Where did the mouse keep warm?
9. Where did he spend the majority of his time during the day keeping warm?
10. Who was Fred married to?

Numbered answers:
1. bread crumbs
2. Bill
3. pies
4. Male
5. cold weather
6. a bug
7. Fred
8. by the lamp
9. in the hay stacks
10. Julie

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(CNN) -- The 5-year-old son of country music singer Mindy McCready has been recovered and is in good health in the custody of officials in Arkansas, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Children and Families told CNN Friday.

"We're working with local law enforcement and the Arkansas (Division of Children and Family Services) and we're going to bring him home to Florida to his legal guardian as soon as possible," Terri Durdaller said about the boy, Zander.

Mindy McCready's assistant said the singer turned Zander over to the Arkansas authorities and that he would be returned to her on Monday. "She's looking forward to having her case heard in front of an unbiased courtroom," the assistant said. "She has a 99% chance of her child leaving with her on Monday morning."

She described Zander as "very OK."

But Mindy McCready's mother and stepfather, Gayle and Michael Inge, have legal custody of the boy and the singer has only visitation rights.

"We're relieved," they told CNN. "We feel sorrow for Zander because he's traumatized, and for Mindy. We just hope she does the right thing from here on out and that this is a wake-up call for her."

The boy was located hours after Gayle Inge made a public plea for her daughter to obey a court order to return her son to the care of the Inges.

The imbroglio started when McCready, who has fought a public battle against drug addiction, took her son from her father's Florida home.

This week, a Florida judge ordered McCready to return the boy to authorities. When she did not comply, another judge issued an emergency "pickup order," authorizing officers to pick up the boy. The singer was ordered to produce Zander and failed to do so.
1. how old is Mindy McCready son ?
2. where was he recovered ?
3. was he in good health ?
4. who did they tell this too ?
5. where does he live ?
6. what is the boys name ?
7. who said it about him ?
8. She described Zander as what ?
9. imbroglio started when McCready did what ?
10. what chance did she have ?
11. of what ?
12. whit who ?
13. on what day ?
14. what time of day ?
15. who has custody ?
16. names ?
17. is he traumatized ?
18. what did a judge do ?
19. to who ?
20. the next judge ordered what ?

Numbered answers:
1. Five
2. Arkansas
3. yes
4. CNN
5. Florida
6. Zander
7. Terri Durdaller
8. ery OK
9. took her son from her father's Florida home.
10. 99%
11. child leaving
12. her
13. Monday
14. morning
15. McCready's mother and stepfathe
16. Gayle and Michael Inge
17. yes
18. eturn the boy
19. authorities
20. pickup order

Question:
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Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially known for its dictionaries.

In 1831, George and Charles Merriam founded the company as G & C Merriam Co. in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1843, after Noah Webster died, the company bought the rights to "An American Dictionary of the English Language" from Webster's estate. All Merriam-Webster dictionaries trace their lineage to this source.

In 1964, Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc. acquired Merriam-Webster, Inc. as a subsidiary. The company adopted its current name in 1982.

In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, . In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary, "An American Dictionary of the English Language". To help him trace the etymology of words, Webster learned 26 languages. Webster hoped to standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of the country used somewhat different vocabularies and spelled, pronounced, and used words differently.

Webster completed his dictionary during his year abroad in 1825 in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge. His 1820s book contained 70,000 words, of which about 12,000 had never appeared in a dictionary before. As a spelling reformer, Webster believed that English spelling rules were unnecessarily complex, so his dictionary introduced American English spellings, replacing "colour" with "color", "waggon" with "wagon", and "centre" with "center". He also added American words, including "skunk" and "squash", that did not appear in British dictionaries. At the age of 70 in 1828, Webster published his dictionary; it sold poorly, with only 2,500 copies putting him in debt. However, in 1840, he published the second edition in two volumes with much greater success.
1. Who bought Merriam Webster?
2. Who bought them in 1964?
3. What is Merriam Webster most known for?
4. What type of book is that?
5. What was Webster's first name?
6. What did he own the rights to?
7. When did he pass away?
8. Who purchased the rights to his dictionary after that?
9. When did Webster first publish a dictionary?
10. What about before that?
11. How long did it take him to expand that into something bigger?
12. Did he learn a lot of languages?
13. How many?
14. For what purpose?
15. What was his goal in creating this book?
16. Did people across the country say things differently?
17. Where did he finally finish his work?
18. Where at?
19. Where else?
20. How many words had never been in a dictionary before?
Numbered answers:
1. G & C Merriam Co
2. Encyclopdia Britannica
3. Dictionaries.
4. A reference book.
5. Noah.
6. An American Dictionary of the English Language
7. 1843
8. George and Charles Merriam.
9. 1828
10. 1806
11. 2 decades.
12. Yes
13. 26
14. Help him trace the etymology of words.
15. Standardize American speech
16. Yes
17. 1825
18. Paris
19. University of Cambridge
20. 12,000