Q: (CNN)Longtime New York City radio and television personality Joe Franklin has died. He was 88.

"Joe went unexpectedly and passed away Saturday night," friend and former producer Steve Garrin said.

Franklin was a fixture on late-night radio and TV in New York, working at WJZ and WOR, and recently at the Bloomberg Radio Network.

"The last two weeks were the first time he ever missed a broadcast in over 60 years" Garrin said.

Though he never broke onto the national scene, Franklin was "in many ways, the pioneer of the modern TV talk show format," according to his website, which says he interviewed more than 300,000 guests.

The likes of Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Bill Cosby and Liza Minnelli got early exposure on his show.

He also interviewed offbeat characters who would give "The Joe Franklin Show" a "great uniqueness. On any given night you might find a world renown artist sitting next to a balloon folder from New Jersey," his website says.

He was remembered as a "NYC legend" and "radio and TV icon who was the spirit of a hard-working New Yorker" by fans on Twitter. Others said that his "accidental absurdism was like an Ionesco play every night" and that "Joe Franklin was every New Yorker's oddball, congenial neighbor."

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Franklin, who was often parodied on "Saturday Night Live" by Billy Crystal, also played himself in such films as "Manhattan," "Ghostbusters" and "Broadway Danny Rose."

He was an avid collector of entertainment nostalgia. His website says he had more than 50,000 movie stills, 170,000 magazines, 20,000 playbills and 200,000 pieces of sheet music. Photographs show a lot of his collection crammed into his office.

Answer the following questions:
1. Is Joe Franklin alive?
2. How old was he?
3. Where did he live?
4. was his death expected?
5. how long did he go without missing a broadcast?
6. when did he miss a show?
7. How many people has he had on his show as guests?
8. What was the name of his show?/
9. was he considered a legend/
10. how many movie stills did he own?
A: 1. no
2. 88
3. New York City
4. No
5. 60 years
6. The last two weeks
7. 300,000 guests.
8. "The Joe Franklin Show"
9. yes
10. 50,000
Q: Grace wants to play Frisbee. She goes to her store to buy a Frisbee. She picks out a red Frisbee. It is small enough to fit in her hand. It costs 75 cents. She buys it. She leaves the store. When Grace gets home, she has no one to play with. She looks for her friend Susan. Susan is not at home. She looks for her friend Jeff. Jeff is not allowed to go outside. Grace finds a dog named Ginger. Ginger loves to play frisbee. Grace tosses the frisbee to Ginger. Ginger catches it in her mouth. Ginger brings the frisbee back to Grace. Grace tosses the frisbee again. Ginger jumps up in the air and catches it. Grace throws the Frisbee one more time. The Frisbee lands in a tree. Grace is too short to reach the Frisbee. Grace pets Ginger and tells her that she is a good girl. Grace takes Ginger home. They eat cookies. The next day, they come back to the park. They get their Frisbee back. They play again.

Answer the following questions:
1. What did Grace buy?
2. for how much?
3. was it big?
4. What color was the frisbee?
5. Did anyone play frisbee with her?
6. who?
7. Did she try to play with anyone else?
8. Who?
9. Why didn't she play with Susan?
10. and Jeff?
11. Did she like playing with Ginger?
12. Was ginger good at playing frisbee?
13. Did they do anything else together?
14. Do they play frisbee again?
15. when?
16. did something happen to the frisbee?
17. how?
18. where did grace take ginger?
19. is ginger a person?
A: 1. a Frisbee
2. 75 cents
3. no
4. red
5. Yes
6. Ginger
7. yes
8. Susan and Jeff
9. she is not at home
10. he is not allowed to go outside
11. yes
12. yes
13. They eat cookies.
14. yes
15. The next day
16. it landed in a tree
17. Grace throws the Frisbee one more time
18. home
19. no, a dog
Q: Chokwe Selassie, aged 13, is working hard to help drivers avoid potholes . The eighth-grader was inspired to kick off his creation on a recent morning, when his mother was driving him to school. Their car was damaged as it went over a huge pothole in the middle of the street in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. He decided to do something about the pothole problem in his city.

Chokwe developed the app with his friends Rodriguez Ratliff and Emmanuel Brooks. When the app detects a pothole, it is highlighted in red. And if you get close to the pothole, your phone will warn you with a beep. Drivers can also use the app to report any potholes and look for other routes they can take to avoid roads that have them.

The app relies on current available information about the streets of Jackson, already stored in a database of the city's 311 call system. Through the call system, citizens dial 3-1-1 to report non-emergency problems which include potholes. Chokwe and his friends determined that focusing on the 10 busiest streets in Jackson would give them a large enough sample size to test the prototype.

While developing the app, the boys took part in a Minority Male Makers Program sponsored by Verizon and held at Jackson State University. They learned 3D printing and design, and how to create apps. Through the program Chokwe and his friends received encouragement and guidance.

Although the app isn't yet available for sale, Chokwe is already looking for ways to improve the app. He hopes to add more to it until it spreads all over the country.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is Chokwe trying to help people do?
2. How old is he?
3. Whee does he live?
4. Is he a student?
5. Who was driving a car that got damaged?
6. What did he invent to track potholes?
7. Did he have any help?
8. What were their first names?
9. What happens when a pothole is detected?
10. Will his invention tell you if you're about to hit a pothole?
11. What system has the street info available for the app?
12. How many streets did they use for their prototype?
13. Were they very well traveled roads?
14. Where did the boys learn to make apps?
15. Held where?
A:
1. help drivers avoid potholes
2. 13,
3. Jackson, Mississippi
4. yes he's a eighth-grader
5. his mother
6. Chokwe developed the app
7. his friends
8. Rodriguez Ratliff and Emmanuel Brooks.
9. it is highlighted in red.
10. yes, your phone will warn you with a beep
11. city's 311 call system
12. 10
13. unknown
14. Minority Male Makers Program sponsored by Verizon
15. Jackson State University.