Problem: On a stormy day last August, Tim heard someone shouting. Looking at the sea carefully, he saw that two kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea. Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, had rowed out in a boat to _ a football. Once they'd rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The boys were terrified and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for _ and the boat was out of control. Tim knew that it would soon be swallowed by the waves. "Everything went quiet in my head," Tim recalls. "I'm trying to figure out how to swim to the boys in a straight line." Tim took off his clothes and jumped into the water. Every 500 yards or so, he raised his head to judge his progress. "At one point, I considered turning back," he says. "I wondered if I was putting my life at risk." After 30 minutes of struggling, he was close enough to shout to the boys, "Take down the umbrella!" "Let's aim for the pier ," Jack said. Tim turned the boat toward it. Soon afterward, waves crashed over the boat, and it began to sink. "Can you swim?" he cried. "A little bit," the boys said. Once they were in the water, Tim decided it would be safer and faster for him to pull the boys toward the pier. Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and floated on their backs. Tim swam toward land as water washed over the boys' faces. "Are we almost there?" they asked again and again. "Yes," Tim told them each time. After 30 minutes, they reached the pier. ,.
1. How old were the boys who went out to sea?
2. What were there names?
3. Who heard them shouting?
4. What was caught in the wind and pulled the boat out?
5. What did Tim do before he jumped in the ocean?
6. Did he turn back?
7. What did he wonder?
8. Did he struggle for 60 minutes?
9. What did he do after 30 minutes?
10. What did he tell them to do?
11. Could the boys swim?
12. Where did Tim pull the boys toward?
13. Did they only have one life jacket?
14. What did they ask over and over?
15. Did it take them 45 minutes to get back?
16. How long did it take them?
Answer: 1. 12
2. Christian and Jack
3. Tim
4. a beach umbrella
5. took off his clothes
6. no
7. if he was putting his life at risk
8. no
9. he shouted to the boys
10. Take down the umbrella
11. A little bit
12. the pier
13. no
14. Are we almost there?
15. no
16. 30 minutes

Problem: Pester came running into the room. He came to a fast stop when he saw the dog. He'd seen a dog before, every cat has, and he used to live with a black dog named Henry, but he'd never seen a brown one before. It seemed strange to him, but not as strange as it was to see Linda the brown chicken in the living room last spring. That still confused him.

He thought he liked this dog, not because of the color, but because it was small. And it was so hairy. It was a like a mop that could run around. He jumped on his favorite chair and looked down as Maggie ran under it. She was kind of cute for a dog, Pester thought to himself. He layed down on the chair and pawed at her as she ran in a circle under it. He tapped her ears as she went by, and waved his tail like a flag trying to get her attention. After a little more of this, Pester curled up in a ball on the chair and took a nap.
1. Who came running into the room?
2. Is he human?
3. What is he?
4. What did he see?
5. was that the first one he saw?
6. what color is the dog?
7. who else did he see that was brown?
8. is she a dog?
9. what is she?
10. does he like this dog?
11. why?
12. anything other reason?
13. from where did he look at the dog?
14. did he like this chair?
15. does the dog have a name?
16. what is it?
17. do they play?
18. did the dog like that?
Answer: 1. Pester
2. No
3. a cat
4. the dog
5. No
6. brown
7. Linda
8. no
9. a chicken
10. possibly
11. because it was small
12. because it was hairy
13. a chair
14. yes
15. yes
16. Maggie
17. yes
18. yes

Problem: London, England (CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally took the stand Monday at the U.N.'s international tribunal at The Hague to defend himself against genocide charges stemming from the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict.

For CNN's Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson, the 64 year-old was as defiant and unrepentant as the man he recalled meeting outside Sarajevo in 1993-94, as Bosnian-Serb forces shelled the city.

Karadzic, who faces 11 charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the war, told the tribunal the Serb cause is "just and holy," and dismissed as myths two of the worst atrocities of a conflict that claimed 100,000 lives -- the three-year siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre in 1995.

He even claimed that the image of the Muslims as victims was untrue and that they were the first to attack. Their fighters "had blood up to their shoulders," he said.

"I will defend that nation of ours and their cause that is just and holy," he said in his defiant opening statement. The aim of the "Muslim plotters," he added, was "100 percent power, as it was in the Ottoman Empire."

"This is reminiscent of those days," said Robertson, who reported from the Bosnian capital during the war. "These were the exact same justifications: 'we're the ones that had been under attack, we're the ones being wronged.'

"It's very telling that he's not trying to address specific issues, such as the Srebrenica massacre and such like, which are going to be the main parts of the prosecution.
1. what media outlet ran this story?
2. in what city?
3. who is Radovan Karadzic?
4. how old is he?
5. how many charges is he facing?
Answer:
1. CNN
2. London
3. Former Bosnian Serb leader
4. 64
5. 11