Problem: When Mr. Brown entered the classroom that Friday morning, he stopped at the blackboard. For there, on the blackboard, were words in huge red letters: BROWN IS STUPID! Mr. Brown thought for a moment. This could only have been the work of one of the four boys who had been kept in after school the day before. Mr. Brown turned the blackboard around so that the words could not be seen. Half an hour later,Mr. Brown wrote four names on the board: Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie. Then he said, "I want these four to stay in the classroom. The rest of you may go to the playground." The four boys came to the blackboard. "One of you has written a most impolite remark on the blackboard," he stared at them and _ , "which one of you did it?" The four boys gathered closer together, afraid of what was to come. "Was it you, Gerald?" Gerald shook his head. "No, it was not me, Sir," he gave the teacher a most sincere look in his wide eyes. "What do you have to say, Alex?" "I don't know anything about it, Sir," said Alex, and his ears turned red. Michael had a bright idea. "Perhaps someone broke in during the night," he said. "And when he saw the lovely red chalk lying there, he wrote something on the blackboard." "Is that the best you can think so, Michael?" asked the teacher. "I only thought ..." "And what about you, Laurie?" Laurie said in a rather low voice, "I didn't do it, Sir. I don't even know what it says on the blackboard." "You really don't know what's written there?" Mr. Brown asked. "And I don't think dear Gerald knows either." "No, Sir. No idea." "Michael, Alex, can either of you tell me what it says on the blackboard?" "No, Sir!" the two boys answered together. Brown walked forward and his fingers seized a schoolboy. He said in his kindest and softest voice to the other three boys, "Very well. I only punish the one who has been telling lies, and you three may go to the playground!"
1. How many young men are involved in the story?
2. what were they called?
3. were they well behaved?
4. Did they all get to go to recess?
5. Who was the instructor?
6. Did the story take place in church?
7. Where were they?
8. Was the instructor happy with the young men?
9. why?
10. what did they write?
11. did the instructor send the other students home?
12. Where did he send them?
13. was the writing in small letters?
14. what color was it?
15. did they use a marker to write on the board?
16. what did they use?
Answer: 1. four
2. Gerald, Alex, Michael and Laurie.
3. No
4. No
5. Mr. Brown
6. No
7. a classroom
8. No
9. they wrote something bad on the blackboard
10. BROWN IS STUPID!
11. No
12. to the playground
13. No
14. red
15. No
16. chalk

Q: (CNN) -- Even a presidential campaign's airplane troubles can get partisan in an election year.

Aviation incidents involving President Barack Obama and Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, have inspired hundreds of supporters commenting at CNN.com to connect those events to the candidates' political positions.

When the Air Force One pilot aborted his first landing in Toledo, Ohio, due to weather on Wednesday, commenters were quick to jump on Obama.

"See, Barack Obama can't even land a plane correctly," wrote a commenter whose handle is TheOtherBob. "He was probably checking the polls - thinks he has Ohio in the bag - no need to land," wrote another commenter.

"He was distracted, since he was busy adjusting gas prices over his smart phone," wrote another commenter.

Ann Romney's smoke-filled plane

Ann Romney couldn't catch a break, either. Her airplane cabin filling up with smoke due to an electrical problem was no laughing matter, but commenters quickly took aim at her husband and his response.

Mitt Romney talked about not being able to open the airplane's windows in flight. (New York Times writer Ashley Parker, who wrote the presidential pool report mentioning the comments, declined to comment on his remarks, referring CNN to a New York magazine piece where she made it clear that Romney was joking.)

"Maybe if Romney hadn't started the outsourcing trend, that plane would have been built and maintained better by hardworking 47%ers," wrote one commenter.

"Firefighters came to the rescue, paramedics were there on time and the police took special care of your security. We are the 47% your husband scorns," wrote commenter Kweso.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who's Ann married to?
2. Which political party is he with?
3. Where were hundreds commenting?
4. Where was the aborted landing?
5. When?
6. Why?
7. Who didn't think Obama could land it?
8. What was Ann's plane full of?
9. Why?
10. Was it a funny matter?
11. Was Mitt being funny about not being able to open a window?
12. Did firefighters race to the tarmac?
A: 1. Mitt Romney
2. Republican
3. CNN.com
4. Toledo, Ohio
5. Wednesday
6. due to weather
7. TheOtherBob
8. smoke
9. electrical problem
10. No
11. Yes
12. Firefighters came to the rescue

Problem: The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American family-owned and operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto-racing sports events. Bill France Sr. founded the company in 1948 and his grandson Brian France became its CEO in 2003. NASCAR is motorsport's preeminent stock-car racing organization. The three largest racing-series sanctioned by this company are the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. The company also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, the Whelen All-American Series, and the NASCAR iRacing.com Series. NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 of the 50 US states as well as in Canada. NASCAR has presented exhibition races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan, the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico, and the Calder Park Thunderdome in Australia.

NASCAR has its official headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida, and also maintains offices in the North Carolina cities of Charlotte, Concord, and Conover. Regional offices are located in New York City and Los Angeles, with international offices in Mexico City and Toronto. Owing to NASCAR's Southern roots, all but a handful of NASCAR teams are still based in North Carolina, especially near the city of Charlotte.
1. Who founded NASCAR?
2. When?
3. What does it rule over?
4. What's one of the three largest series they sanction?
5. How many races do they sanction?
6. On how many racetracks?
7. In how many states?
8. In how many countries?
9. Where are most of the teams located?
10. What does NASCAR stand for?
11. Do they oversee the Camping World Truck series?
12. Where is the exhibition race held in Australia?
13. What office is in Daytona Beach?
14. Do they have international offices?
15. Where's one at?
16. And another?
17. How is Brian France related to Bill?
18. When did Bill take over the company?
19. Where's an exhibition in Japan held?
20. Is there another there?
Answer:
1. Bill France Sr.
2. in 1948
3. auto-racing sports events
4. the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
5. over 1,500 races
6. over 100
7. 39
8. two
9. all but a handful of NASCAR teams are still based in North Carolina, especially near the city of Charlotte.
10. National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
11. yes
12. Calder Park Thunderdome
13. its official headquarters
14. yes
15. in Mexico City
16. Toronto
17. he is his grandson
18. in 2003.
19. at the Suzuka circuit
20. yes