Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Mark Twain is a name not usually connected with Broadway , but now his play "Is He Dead" will receive its first public performance on November 29. "Is He Dead" was written by Mark Twain in 1898 but was never performed. It was rediscovered in 2002 by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, an English professor and director of the American Studies Program at Stanford University. It was published the following year by the University of California Press. The story is about a group of poor artists who fake the death of their friend in order to increase the value of his work. "Is He Dead" is set in France in the 1840s and centers on the French painter Jean-Francois Millet. "Millet was probably the most popular European painter in the United States in Twain's lifetime," Fishkin said in a telephone interview. "Americans greatly admired him because he focused on the life of the common man and the common woman." According to Fishkin, "Is He Dead" is a satire about how value is created in the art world. Twain wrote the play when he was coming out of the hardest time of his life.

1. What will be performed
2. Who wrote it?
3. When?
4. Who found it?
5. What does she do?
6. Where?
7. In what state?
8. What is it about?
9. Who was the friend?
10. where was it suppose to happen?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. the play "Is He Dead"
2. Mark Twain.
3. 1898
4. Shelley Fisher Fishkin
5. English professor and director of American Studies Program.
6. Stanford University
7. California.
8. poor artists who fake the death of their friend in order to increase the value of his work.
9. Jean-Francois Millet
10. United Sates

Question: Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by "Billboard" magazine in the United States.

This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sales and streaming.

The current number-one song, as of the chart dated for October 7, 2017, is "Body Like a Back Road" by Sam Hunt.

"Billboard" began compiling the popularity of country songs with its January 8, 1944 issue. Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records". The chart length was not standardized; a given week had anywhere from two to eight positions.

For approximately ten years, from 1948 to 1958, "Billboard" used three charts to measure the popularity of a given song. In addition to the jukebox chart, these charts included:

The names of each chart changed slightly during each chart's life. The "jukebox" chart which by 1956 was known as "Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes" ended on June 17, 1957. The "best sellers" and "jockeys" charts continued until October 13, 1958.

Starting with the October 20, 1958 issue, "Billboard" began combining sales and radio airplay in figuring a song's overall popularity, counting them in one single chart called "Hot C&W Sides". The chart began with a standard length of 30 positions each week. The name of the chart, and the number of positions varied through the years: Its name was switched to "Hot Country Singles" on November 3, 1962; it was expanded to 50 slots on January 11, 1964; then 75 on October 15, 1966; and finally 100 beginning July 14, 1973. 1. what is the number one song on the Hot Country Songs chart in this article?
2. as of what date?
3. how many positions are on that chart?
4. does it include streaming data too?
5. who publishes it?
6. is that a tv show?
7. what is it?
8. when did they start tracking the popularity of country songs?
9. what three charts did they use to measure a songs popularity?
10. how long did they use those for?
11. what years did it span?
12. when did the jukebox chart end?
13. did the other charts end at the same time?
14. when did they end?
15. how many positions did the new C&W chart have?
16. when did they start that?
17. did they ever expand the position count?
18. to what?
19. what was the chart named in 1962? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. "Body Like a Back Road"
2. October 7, 2017
3. 50
4. yes
5. "Billboard"
6. no
7. magazine
8. January 8, 1944
9. "jukebox", "best sellers" and "jockeys"
10. For approximately ten years
11. 1948 to 1958
12. June 17, 1957
13. no
14. October 13, 1958.
15. 30
16. October 20, 1958
17. yes
18. 50, 75, and 100
19. "Hot Country Singles"

Q: By the time Rihanna was seventeen ,she had released her first album and had an international hit with her first single Pon de Replay. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael , Barbados in 1988 . She grew up there with her two younger brothers . As a child , she loved singing . She formed her first group with friends from secondary school when she was just fifteen . In 2004 friends introduced the group to American record producer Evan Rogers ,who was on holiday in Barbados . Rogers thought Rihanna could be a star in America,so she moved there aged sixteen to take up music after she finished school. Rihhanna lived with Rogers and his wife . Then she worked for Def Jam Recordings and started working on her first album , Music of the Sun .It came out at in 2005 and got into the top ten . Over 69,000 copies of the album were sold in the first week alone . It went on to sell over two million copies worldwide and Rihanna quickly became a big star . Her second album , A Girl Like Me ,came out a year later and included the song SOS , which was her first number one hit in America. In 2007 Rihanna brought out her third album , Good Girl Gone Bad ,which had more dance music than the first two albums. Rihanna sold more than fifteen million album and forty - five million singles worldwide between 2005 and 2010 ,the most of any artist at the same time . However ,she manages to find time for her charity work ,too . She has performed in several concerts to raise money for charity and in 2006 she created her Believe Foundation to help sick children . She also took part in Gucci's activities to raise money for children in Africa.

1. Pon de Replay
2. 2005
3. Def Jam Recordings
4. 1988
5. Saint Michael
6. Barbados
7. seventeen
8. got into the top ten
9. Over 69,000
10. over two million copies
11. Rihhanna lived with Rogers and his wife
12. a year later
13. No

Numbered questions:
1. what was the name of Rihanna's first album?
2. when did Music of the Sun come out?
3. what record studio put it out?
4. when was she born?
5. in what city?
6. where is that?
7. how old was she when she released her first album?
8. true or false: music of the sun hit the top 10
9. how many copies of it sold the first week?
10. how many did it sell worldwide?
11. who did she live with when she first arrived in the US?
12. how long after her first album did it take for her second album to come out?
13. did she find love in a hopeless place?