Q: There once was a clown named Happy who traveled with the circus. He was one of the most famous clowns of all time, because he was once the star of a movie. Happy did a lot of things in his act that were very silly. He was best known for belting out songs in the wrong key, which would make neighborhood cats meow and howl. Happy would do other funny things in his act, like wrestle a big plastic alligator with tape over its mouth. He would also throw buckets of water at the people watching the circus, wetting all the people in the front seats.

One day, a driver in the circus needed to brush his teeth because he had been eating popcorn all day. He was out of toothpaste, so he went to ask Happy if he could borrow some. Happy was eating a brownie, and his mouth was very full. When he tried to talk, he sounded sillier than ever. The driver laughed and asked Happy to point to the toothpaste. Happy pointed over to the sink, and the driver picked up the toothpaste and left. The driver didn't know that it was trick toothpaste that was pumpkin flavor. The driver hated pumpkin flavor! It tasted so bad. So he took the toothpaste and put it back on Happy's sink. He never borrowed Happy's toothpaste ever again.

1. Happy
2. traveled with the circus.
3. very silly
4. meow and howl
5. belt out songs in the wrong key
6. toothpaste
7. a driver in the circus
8. He was out of toothpaste
9. popcorn
10. a brownie,
11. no
12. trick toothpaste
13. it was pumpkin flavor
14. Bad!
15. put it back on Happy's sink
16. No!
17. the sink
18. wrestle a big plastic alligator with tape over its mouth
19. yes
20. throw buckets of water at the people watching the circus

Numbered questions:
1. What was the clowns name?
2. What did he do?
3. How was his act?
4. What did he do to the neighborhood cats?
5. how?
6. What did Happy let someone borrow?
7. Who?
8. Why did he need it?
9. What was he eating?
10. How about Happy?
11. Was it normal toothpaste?
12. What was it?
13. Why?
14. How did it taste?
15. What did he do with it?
16. Did he like pumkin?
17. Where was the toothpaste?
18. What did Happy do in his act?
19. Anything else?
20. What?

Q: The Organization of American States, or the OAS or OEA, is a continental organization founded on 30 April 1948, for the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states. Headquartered in the United States capital Washington, D.C., the OAS's members are the 35 independent states of the Americas.

As of 26 May 2015, the Secretary General of OAS is Luis Almagro.

The notion of an international union in the New World was first put forward by Simon Bolivar who, at the 1826 Congress of Panama (still being part of Colombia), proposed creating a league of American republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. This meeting was attended by representatives of Gran Colombia (comprising the modern-day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela), Peru, Bolivia, The United Provinces of Central America, and Mexico but the grandly titled "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation" was ultimately ratified only by Gran Colombia. Bolivar's dream soon floundered with civil war in Gran Colombia, the disintegration of Central America, and the emergence of national rather than New World outlooks in the newly independent American republics. Bolivar's dream of American unity was meant to unify Hispanic American nations against external powers.

1. Thee Secretary General of OAS.
2. The Organization of American States.
3. He proposed creating a league of American republics.
4. 1826.
5. 30 April 1948.
6. For the purposes of regional solidarity and cooperation among its member states.
7. Washington, D.C..
8. Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
9. Representatives of Gran Colombia.
10. Gran Colombia.
11. Bolivar's.
12. Civil war in Gran Colombia.
13. Unify Hispanic American nations against external powers.
14. OEA.
15. 35.
16. 26 May 2015.
17. 1826.
18. Colombia.
19. Creating a league of American republics.

Numbered questions:
1. Who is Luis Almagro?
2. What does OAS stand for?
3. What did Simon Bolivar do?
4. In what year?
5. When was the OAS founded?
6. For what reason?
7. Where are its headquarters?
8. What countries comprise Gran Colombia?
9. Who attended the meeting proposed by Bolivar?
10. Who ratified the "Treaty of Union, League, and Perpetual Confederation"?
11. Whose dream floundered?
12. Because of what?
13. What was Bolivar's dream of American unity supposed to do?
14. What is another abbreviation for The Organization of American States besides OAS?
15. How many states are there in it?
16. When did Luis Almagro become Secretary General of OAS?
17. When was the Congress of Panama?
18. What was it still part of then?
19. What was one of the things it proposed?

Q: The MexicanAmerican War, also known as the Mexican War and in Mexico the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas, which Mexico still considered its northeastern province and a part of its territory after its "de facto" secession in the 1836 Texas Revolution a decade earlier.

After its Treaty of Cordoba with obtaining independence in 1821, from the Kingdom of Spain and its Spanish Empire as New Spain for the past 300 years, and a brief experiment with a monarchy government, Mexico became a republic in 1824. It was characterized by considerable instability, leaving it ill-prepared for international conflict only two decades later when war broke out in 1846. Native American raids in Mexico's sparsely settled north in the decades preceding the war prompted the Mexican government to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border (since 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase from the French Empire (France) of Emperor Napoleon I) to the Mexican province of Texas to create a buffer. However, the newly-named "Texians" revolted against the Mexican government of President / dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, who had usurped the Mexican constitution of 1824, in the subsequent 1836 Texas Revolution, creating a republic not recognized by Mexico, which still claimed it as part of its national territory. In 1845, the Texan Republic agreed to an offer of annexation by the U.S. Congress, and became the 28th state in the Union on December 29 that year.

1. 1824
2. 22 yearrs
3. United States of America and the United Mexican States
4. 1846 to 1848
5. Yes
6. the independent Republic of Texas
7. Yes
8. northeastern province
9. 1836
10. Yes
11. brief
12. 1824
13. Native Americans
14. to sponsor migration from the U.S.A. on its northeast border
15. 1845
16. Texan Republic
17. offer of annexation
18. Emperor Napoleon I
19. 1803
20. Texians

Numbered questions:
1. When did Mexico become a republic?
2. So, how long after that was the Mexican-American War?
3. Who were the parties to the Mexican-American War?
4. What was the time period of that war?
5. Did the United States annex anything?
6. What?
7. Did Mexico think it was part of Mexico?
8. What part?
9. When was the Texas Revolution?
10. Was Mexico ever a monarchy?
11. How long was it?
12. Before when?
13. Who was raiding Mexico in the north?
14. What was Mexico's attempted solution to those raids?
15. When did Texas become a US state?
16. What was it just before that?
17. What was the offer it took up from the US then?
18. Which French person was party to the Louisiana Purchase?
19. When was that?
20. What was a new name for Texans?