(CNN) -- It has been a rocky couple of years for the people of Egypt. Since the 2011 revolution, the economy has tanked, street protests are an almost daily occurrence and the political situation remains volatile.

However, a handful of young Egyptians have found that the best way to take a stand against the turmoil is with stand-up comedy.

"We are like a little beam of sunlight, coming through and reminding people, 'Don't worry! When this cloud passes, it will be brighter. It will be happier,'" says Rami Borai, a comedian in one of Egypt's first home-grown comedy troupes, Hezb El Comedy.

The group, whose name means "The Comedy Party," was formed in 2009 by Hashim Al Gahry, who admits he started up with "zero capital." Al Gahry and some friends pooled their savings, and started marketing the group through social media. When they're not performing, Hezb El Comedy teaches the art of stand-up to other aspiring comics, instructing them on things like timing and body language.

"We're not the funniest people in the world, but it's the experience that has put us in a position to give them advice and tell them, 'These are our mistakes, and this is what you can do to avoid what we did,'" says Al Gahry.

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Other Arab nations are similarly investing in grassroots comedy. In Qatar, a few young comics have come together to form SUCQ (an acronym for Stand Up Comedy Qatar).

"It's an American art. We took it from the Americans. We have reshaped it to adapt to our culture and society and people," says Hamad Al Amri, 24, a comedian who is also a banker by day. Mohamed Kamal, who also performs stand-up with SUCQ, notes that given Qatar's political climate, there are limits to what he can joke about. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What place is this article aiming at?
2. When did their revolution take place
3. What did the young Egyptians come up with?
4. Name one of the comedian?
5. What's the group's name?
6. and what does it mean?
7. What year was it formed>
8. By who?
9. Did he have any capital at all?
10. So what did he use?
11. How did they market their group?
Answer: 1. Egypt
2. 2011
3. Stand-up comedy to combat turmoil
4. Rami Borai
5. Hezb El Comedy.
6. The Comedy Party
7. 2009
8. Hashim Al Gahry
9. No
10. Savings
11. Through social media

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States. The state is bordered by South Dakota to the north, Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River, Kansas to the south, Colorado to the southwest and Wyoming to the west. It is the only triply landlocked U.S. state. Nebraska's area is just over 77,220 sq mi (200,000km) with almost 1.9 million people. Its state capital is Lincoln, and its largest city is Omaha, which is on the Missouri River.

Indigenous peoples including Omaha, Missouria, Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and various branches of the Lakota (Sioux) tribes lived in the region for thousands of years before European exploration. The state is crossed by many historic trails and was explored by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Nebraska was admitted as the 37th state of the United States in 1867. It is the only state in the United States whose legislature is unicameral and officially nonpartisan.

Nebraska is composed of two major land regions: the Dissected Till Plains and the Great Plains. The Dissected Till Plains is a region of gently rolling hills and contains the state's largest cities, Omaha and Lincoln. The Great Plains occupy most of western Nebraska, characterized by treeless prairie, suitable for cattle-grazing. The state has a large agriculture sector and is a major producer of beef, pork, corn and soybeans. There are two major climatic zones: the eastern half of the state has a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification "Dfa"), with a unique warmer subtype considered "warm-temperate" near the southern plains like in Kansas and Oklahoma which have a predominantly humid subtropical climate. The western half has a primarily semi-arid climate (Koppen "BSk"). The state has wide variations between winter and summer temperatures, decreasing south through the state. Violent thunderstorms and tornadoes occur primarily during spring and summer, but sometimes in autumn. Chinook winds tend to warm the state significantly in the winter and early spring. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the thirty seventh state?
2. When?
3. What is unusual about it?
4. How many different peoples lived there?
5. Who explored it?
6. How big is it?
7. How many people live there?
8. How many land regions are there?
9. What is one of them?
10. And the other?
11. Which one contains the largest cities?
12. Does it have one climate zone?
13. How many?
14. Is it divided north and south?
15. How than?
16. When do they have violent storms?
17. What warms the state?
18. What is interesting about the state and its land that is the only one in the US?
19. Is it on a major river?
20. Which one?
Answer: 1. Nebraska
2. 1867
3. It is the only state in the United States whose legislature is unicameral and officially nonpartisan
4. At least 6.
5. Lewis and Clark
6. just over 77,220 sq mi
7. almost 1.9 million
8. two
9. the Great Plains
10. the Dissected Till Plains
11. The Dissected Till Plains
12. No.
13. two
14. No.
15. East and West.
16. primarily during spring and summer
17. Chinook winds
18. It is the only triply landlocked U.S. state.
19. Yes.
20. the Missouri

(CNN) -- A Florida jury awarded a widow $23.6 billion in punitive damages in her lawsuit against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, her lawyer said.

Cynthia Robinson claimed that smoking killed her husband, Michael Johnson, in 1996. She argued R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer. Johnson started smoking when he was 13 and died of lung cancer when he was 36.

The jury award Friday evening is "courageous," said Robinson's lawyer, Christopher Chestnut.

"If anyone saw the documents that this jury saw, I believe that person would have awarded a similar or greater verdict amount," he said.

The Escambia County trial took four weeks and the jury deliberated for 15 hours, according to the Pensacola News Journal. The verdict included more than $16 million in compensatory damages, the newspaper said.

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Chestnut said five of the six jurors who heard the case were 45 or younger, which meant he had to show them how the tobacco industry presented its product before the public awareness campaigns on tobacco risks and dangers in the 1990s.

In a statement, J. Jeffery Raborn, vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said, "The damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law.

"This verdict goes far beyond the realm of reasonableness and fairness and is completely inconsistent with the evidence presented," said Raborn. "We plan to file post-trial motions with the trial court promptly and are confident that the court will follow the law and not allow this runaway verdict to stand." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was given the money?
2. How much was that?
3. for what?
4. Who was the defendant?
5. In which state?
6. Who was the plaintiff?
7. Who was killed?
8. Why?
9. When?
10. How did he got the ailment?
11. Did they point finger to anyone?
12. Who was that?
13. Did they tell him beforehand about the danger?
14. Who actully gave the verdict?
15. When?
16. Who broke the news?
17. How long the process took?
18. Was the company happy about it?
19. Who expressed that opinion?
20. Who is he?
21. Do they want to counter it?
22. Are they confident abotut it?
23. Where they will protest about it?
Answer:
1. a widow
2. $23.6 billion
3. claimed that smoking killed her husband
4. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
5. Florida
6. Cynthia Robinson
7. killed her husband, Michael Johnson
8. died of lung cancer when he was 36
9. in 1996
10. started smoking when he was 13
11. R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer
12. R.J. Reynolds
13. R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer.
14. the jury deliberated for 15 hours, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
15. Friday evening
16. according to the Pensacola News Journa
17. trial took four weeks and the jury deliberated for 15 hours,
18. J. Jeffery Raborn, vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said, "The damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law.
19. J. Jeffery Raborn
20. vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said,
21. "We plan to file post-trial motions with the trial court promptly
22. are confident that the court will follow the law and not allow this runaway verdict to stand."
23. the trial court