question: Although she's quite young, Drew Barrymore can be a Hollywood legend . She was born on February 22, 1975, in California. Being from a family that produced great actors, she quickly found her way into the spotlight . When she was 11 months old, she made her first advertisement on TV. She made her first movie at the age of 2. Five years later, she acted Gertie in Steven Spielberg's famous film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). However, it wasn't all roses and sunshine when Barrymore was growing up. She was drinking wine by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10. Most kid stars in Hollywood fail to become stars as adults. And most of the time, once they're out of the spotlight, they stay out. But Drew Barrymore doesn't. As she was growing older, Barrymore got to learn that life is more meaningful than dangerous actions in the films. She started to build a career in 1997. She has made many successful films since then, including Charlie's Angels (2000) and 50 First Dates (2004). "In my life, there is darkness and drama, and I 'm trying my best. I just want to challenge myself and prove that I can do more." In fact, if you don't know her _ childhood, you might find it hard to believe she's such a sweet person now. Like many of the characters she plays in her comedy, Drew is easy-going and laughs a lot. In 2007, she was on the cover of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People issue. "Life is very interesting ... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths," Drew said.
1. Who was born on February 22nd, 1975?
2. Is she a successful film star?
3. What is one of them?
4. Another?
5. Was she from parents who were in show biz?
6. How old was she during her first job?
7. What about her first feature?
8. Did she play someone named Bertie?
9. Who did she play in E.T.?
10. How many vices did she have?
11. Was she in her teens when she did those things?
12. What is her father's name?
13. When she she restart her acting?
14. Is she like the girls she portrays in her dramas?
15. What year was she recognized as very beautiful in the media?
16. Was it by Variety?
17. Was it by Rolling Stone?
18. What has she learned?
19. Is she considered grumpy?
20. How is she described?
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answer: 1. Drew Barrymore
2. yes
3. Charlie's Angels
4. 50 First Dates
5. yes
6. 11 months
7. Two
8. no
9. Gertie
10. two
11. no
12. unknown
13. 1997
14. no
15. 2007
16. no
17. no
18. life is meaningful
19. no
20. sweet

question: North Africa is a group of Mediterranean countries situated in the northern-most region of the African continent. The term "North Africa" has no single accepted definition. It is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west, to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east. Others have limited it to the countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, a region known by the French during colonial times as "Afrique du Nord" and by the Arabs as the Maghreb ("West"). The most commonly accepted definition includes Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, as well as Libya, Sudan, and Egypt. The term "North Africa", when commonly used in North Africa and the Middle East, often refers only to the countries of the Maghreb and Libya. Egypt, due to its greater Middle Eastern associations, is in the Middle East.

The countries of North Africa share a common ethnic, cultural and linguistic identity that is unique to this region. North west Africa has been inhabited by Berbers since the beginning of recorded history, while the eastern part of North Africa has been home to the Egyptians. Following the Muslim conquest in the seventh century C.E., the region underwent a process of Arabization and Islamization that has defined its cultural landscape ever since.
1. Does North African countries share commonalties?
2. what do they share in common?
3. Who inhabits the North west?
4. When was the Muslim conquest?
5. Is "north Africa" defined?
6. Does it only have one definition?
7. what is the most common definition?
8. what kind of countries are in North Africa?
9. true or false, egypt is a part of north africa
10. is Egypt a part of the middle east?
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answer: 1. yes
2. ethnic, cultural and linguistic identities
3. Berbers
4. in the seventh century C.E.
5. somewhat
6. no
7. Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, as well as Libya, Sudan, and Egypt
8. countries situated in the northern-most region of the African continent
9. true
10. yes

question: Plato (; Greek: "Platon", in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years. Others believe that the oldest extant manuscript dates to around AD 895, 1100 years after Plato's death. This makes it difficult to know exactly what Plato wrote.

Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato laid the very foundations of Western philosophy and science. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." In addition to being a foundational figure for Western science, philosophy, and mathematics, Plato has also often been cited as one of the founders of Western religion and spirituality. Plato's influence on Christianity is often thought to be mediated by his major influence on Saint Augustine of Hippo, one of the most important philosophers and theologians in the foundation of the Western thought. In the 19th century, the philosopher Nietzsche called Christianity "Platonism for the people". Numenius of Apamea viewed this differently, he called Plato the Hellenic Moses. This would justify the superiority of Christianity over Hellenism because Moses predates Platothus the original source of this wisdom is the root of Christianity and not Hellenistic culture.
1. who was a philosopher?
2. where?
3. what did he found?
4. what is that?
5. what was special about it?
6. What makes it difficult to know what he wrote?
7. who was his teacher?
8. who was one of his students?
9. is that the most notable one?
10. what did the three achieve together?
11. what kind?
12. where can Plato's footnotes be found?
13. was he the founder of anything else?
14. what?
15. through what influence?
16. who is that?
17. was he significant?
18. how?
19. Who was a philosopher in the 19th century?
20. what did he say about a certain religion?
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answer:
1. Plato
2. Classical Greece
3. the Academy in Athens
4. an institution of higher learning
5. it was the first in the Western world
6. the oldest extant manuscript dates to around AD 895, 1100 years after he died
7. Socrates
8. Aristotle
9. yes
10. they laid foundations of philosophy and science
11. Western
12. in the European philosophical tradition
13. yes
14. Western religion and spirituality
15. by his influence on Saint Augustine of Hippo
16. a philosophersand theologian
17. yes
18. one of the most important
19. Nietzsche
20. that it was "Platonism for the people"