Problem: The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the PlayStation, and is the second installment in the PlayStation lineup of consoles. It was released on March 4, 2000 in Japan, October 26, 2000 in North America, November 24, 2000 in Europe, and November 17, 2000 in Australia. It competed with Sega's Dreamcast, Microsoft's Xbox, and Nintendo's GameCube in the sixth generation of video game consoles.

Announced in 1999, the PlayStation 2 was the first PlayStation console to offer backwards compatibility for its predecessor's DualShock controller, as well as for its games. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time, selling over 155 million units, with 150 million confirmed by Sony in 2011. More than 3,874 game titles have been released for the PS2 since launch, and more than 1.5 billion copies have been sold. Sony later manufactured several smaller, lighter revisions of the console known as "Slimline" models in 2004 and well on, and in 2006, announced and launched its successor, the PlayStation 3.

Even with the release of its successor, the PlayStation 2 remained popular well into the seventh generation and continued to be produced until January 4, 2013, when Sony finally announced that the PlayStation 2 had been discontinued after 13 years of production one of the longest runs for a video game console. Despite the announcement, new games for the console continued to be produced until the end of 2013, including "Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Adoulin" for Japan, "Pro Evolution Soccer 2014" for North America and Europe, and "FIFA 14" for Brazil.
1. What does PS2 Stand for?
2. What company made it?
3. What year?
4. Name a competitor?
5. Was there another one?
6. What PS2 popular?
7. How many units sold?
8. How many game releases?
9. Was it able to play games from original PlayStation.
10. Where there other PS2 versions?
11. What was it called?
12. When was Playstion 3 announced?
13. How many years of production for PS2.
14. Was that long or short for the industry?
Answer: 1. PlayStation 2
2. Sony Computer Entertainment.
3. March 4, 2000 in Japan.
4. Sega's Dreamcast
5. Microsoft's Xbox
6. Yes.
7. Over 155 million units
8. More than 3,874
9. Yes.
10. Yes
11. "Slimline"
12. unknown
13. 13
14. The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time,

Problem: Autumn means different things to different people. "It all depends on your personality," said British naturalist Richard Mabey. "Personality shapes your view of the season," he said. "You may see it as a fading-away,a packing-up ,or as a time of packing in another sense--the exciting gathering of resources before a long journey."

If this is true,perhaps it tells us a little about,for instance,Thomas Hood,the 19th Century English poet. About November,he wrote:

No warmth,no cheerfulness,no healthful ease

No shade,no shine,no butterflies,no bees

November!

On the other hand,another English poet John Keats,already sensing he was seriously ill,was inspired by a late September day to pen one of the most famous poems in the English language,To Autumn. He wrote to a friend afterwards that there was something comforting and healing about it.

According to Richard Mabey,Keats has the biological evidence on his side. Autumn is not a time of slowing down,but a time of new beginnings and great movements of creatures. For example,just at the moment that Keats's "gathering swallows" ( in To Autumn)are departing for Africa,millions of creatures are fleeing from the frozen north like Iceland,Greenland and Russia to winter along the east and south coasts of Britain. According to scientists,before falling,the leaves transfer their chlorophyll and carbohydrates into the woody parts of the tree for safe keeping over winter. What remains is the natural antioxidants in the leaves: the yellow and orange carotenoids ,and another protective chemical specially produced for autumn,the bright-red anthocyanin .High colour is not a signal of deterioration and decline,but of detox ability and good health.

A century after Keats,the American poet Loren Eiseley wrote in his journal:

"Suppose we saw ourselves burning-like maples in a golden autumn. And that we could break up like autumn leaves...dropping their substance like chlorophyll. Wouldn't our attitude towards death be different?"
1. What season is being talked about?
2. What does Richard Mabey do?
3. What is his nationality?
4. Who wrote about November?
5. What was his occupation?
6. What was his nationality?
7. What time period did he live?
8. Who is the next poet mentioned?
9. What was his nationality?
10. Was his writing well known?
11. What was the name of his famous poem?
12. What inspired the poem?
13. Was he in good health when it was written?
14. Do things slow down in Autumn?
15. What happens to leaves before they fall?
16. What is left behind?
17. Is high color a bad thing?
18. What is it a sign of?
19. When did Loren Eiseley live?
20. What is his nationality?
21. What kind of evidence does Keats have on his side?
Answer: 1. Autumn
2. he's a naturalist
3. British
4. Thomas Hood
5. poet
6. English
7. 19th Century
8. John Keats
9. English
10. Yes
11. To Autumn
12. a late September
13. No
14. No
15. leaves transfer their chlorophyll and carbohydrates into the woody parts of the tree
16. natural antioxidants
17. No
18. detox ability and good health
19. A century after Keats
20. American
21. biological

Problem: Many of the stories written by Mark Twain take place in Hannibal, Missouri. The small wooden house where he lived as a boy still stands there. Next to the house is a wooden fence. It is the kind described in Twain's book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," published in1876.

In that story, Tom has been told to paint the fence. He does not want to do it. But he acts as if the job is great fun. He tricks other boys into believing this. His trick is so successful that they agree to pay him money to let them finish his work. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is considered one of the best books about an American boy's life in THE the1800s.

Tom Sawyer's good friend is Huckleberry, or "Huck," Finn. Mark Twain tells this boy's story in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Huck is a poor child, without a mother or home. His father drinks too much alcohol and beats him.

Huck's situation has freed him from the restrictions of society. He explores in the woods and goes fishing. He stays out all night and does not go to school. He smokes tobacco.

Huck runs away from home. He meets Jim, a black man who has escaped from slavery. They travel together on a raft made of wood down the Mississippi River. Huck describes the trip: "It was lovely to live on the raft. Other places seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft... Sometimes we'd have that whole river to ourselves for the longest time... We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them---. "
1. Where do many of his stories take place?
2. Who was told to paint the fence?
3. Who runs away from home?
4. When was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer published?
5. Who does huck meet when he runs away from home?
6. What is Huck's full name?
7. Does he smoke tobacco?
8. Does he go to school?
9. Did Huck enjoy living on the raft?
10. Does the house where Mark Twain grew up still exist?
11. What stands next to it?
12. Who does Tom trick into painting the fence for him?
13. Does huck come from a wealthy family?
14. Does he have a mother?
15. Does he have a home?
16. Who beats him?
17. Is Jim a white man?
18. What is Jem's race?
19. Where did he escape from?
20. Did Huck and Jim get along?
Answer:
1. Hannibal, Missouri
2. Tom
3. Huck
4. 1876.
5. He meets Jim, a black man who
6. Huckleberry, or "Huck," Finn.
7. Yes
8. No
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Next to the house is a wooden fence.
12. He tricks other boys
13. No
14. No
15. No
16. His father beats him
17. No
18. Black
19. from slavery.
20. Yes