Q: (EW.com) -- Carrie Underwood blew away the competition on the Billboard 200 this week, scoring her third straight number one album with her fourth release, "Blown Away," and moving 267,000 copies.

Other Top 10 newcomers included Norah Jones, with her Danger Mouse-produced "Little Broken Hearts," B.O.B., Marilyn Manson, and the first-ever soundtrack from NBC's "Smash."

Check out the full Top 10 below:

1. Carrie Underwood, "Blown Away" -- 267,000

This is Underwood's third straight number one after 2009s "Play On," which debuted with 318,000, and 2007s "Carnival Ride," which started with 527,000. Underwood's 2005 debut "Some Hearts" is her only album to not reach the summit of the chart it debuted at No. 2 with 315,000 (behind Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor") and eventually sold 7.2 million copies. Her current single "Good Girl" has climbed up to No. 8 on the country songs chart, and follow-up "Blown Away," which she performed on the Idol stage last week, kicks off its run at No. 22 on the Hot Digital Songs chart.

2. Norah Jones, "Little Broken Hearts" -- 110,000

Norah Jones could have stayed the course and made lovely, jazz-tinged, perhaps slightly snoozy records and gone platinum for the rest of her career (her Grammy-winning debut "Come Away With Me" sold over 10 million copies, and her three subsequent records have all reached platinum status), but the chanteuse took a risk with her darker, Danger Mouse-produced fifth album. As such, "Little Broken Hearts" opened to Jones' lowest sales ever but somehow, we doubt she's too worried about it.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who took the number 1 album place this week?
2. What was the name of her album?
3. What was her previous number 1 record?
4. In what year was that?
5. What is her current single ranked?
6. What is her current single, "Good Girl" ranked?
7. Where did she recently perform "Blown Away"?
8. What genre of music does she sing?
9. Were there other new performers in the top 10?
10. Who else was a new top 10 artist?
11. How many albums did Norah sell with her Grammy-winning debut?
12. Have any of her other albums gone platinum?
13. How many?
14. What does the article say about
15. What does the article say about "the chanteuse" and her 5th album?
16. Was this a successful record for her?
17. What album of Carrie's did not reach number 1?
18. And what year was that?
A: 1. Carrie Underwood
2. Blown Away
3. Play On
4. 2009
5. one
6. No. 8
7. Idol stage
8. country
9. Norah Jones
10. Marilyn Manson
11. over 10 million copies
12. yes
13. three
14. Little Broken Hearts" opened to Jones' lowest sales ever
15. took a risk with her darker, Danger Mouse-produced fifth album
16. lowest sales ever
17. Some Hearts
18. 2005

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

However, some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bifacial culture. Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BC). Professor Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians were settled along the coast of Eastern Arabia, today's Persian Gulf region, before it flooded at the end of the Ice Age.

Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Neo-Sumerian Empire or Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance) approximately 2100-2000 BC, but the Akkadian language also remained in use. The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is considered to have been the world's first city, where three separate cultures may have fused that of peasant Ubaidian farmers, living in mud-brick huts and practicing irrigation; that of mobile nomadic Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats; and that of fisher folk, living in reed huts in the marshlands, who may have been the ancestors of the Sumerians.

1. When did Native Sumerian rule come back for a time?
2. What was that era called?
3. Did it have another name?
4. What was it?
5. Was there another language being used then as well?
6. What was that called?
7. What is thought to be the first city on earth?
8. What people lived there?
9. Is that on the Mediterranean?
10. How many cultures are said to have come together there?
11. Which of those followed sheep and goats?
12. Did they live in green tee pees?
13. What did the fishing culture live in?
14. Did they live in the mountains?
15. What people were they related to?
16. Who used water for their livlihood?
17. Do all scholars agree that there was one substrate language?
18. Where do they suspect the Sumerian language originated from?
19. Are their good historical records of this time period?
20. What happened to this region at the end of the ice age?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 2100-2000 BC,
2. Neo-Sumerian Empire
3. yes
4. Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance)
5. yes
6. Akkadian
7. Eridu
8. Sumerians
9. no
10. Three
11. Semitic pastoralists
12. no
13. reed huts
14. no
15. Sumerians.
16. Ubaidian farmers
17. no
18. that of the hunter and fisher peoples
19. no
20. it flooded

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

The Iranian languages or Iranic languages form a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, which in turn are a branch of the Indo-European language family. The speakers of Iranian languages are known as Iranian peoples. Historical Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE 900 CE), and New Iranian (since 900 CE). Of the Old Iranian languages, the better understood and recorded ones are Old Persian (a language of Achaemenid Iran) and Avestan (the language of the Avesta). Middle Iranian languages included Middle Persian (a language of Sassanid Iran), Parthian, and Bactrian.

As of 2008, there were an estimated 150200 million native speakers of Iranian languages. Ethnologue estimates there are 86 Iranian languages, the largest amongst them being Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Balochi.

The term Iranian is applied to any language which descends from the ancestral Proto-Iranian language. Iranian derives from the Persian and Sanskrit origin word Arya.

1. What branch are Iranian languages considered?
2. How many people speak the language?
3. How many types of languages are there?
4. How many groups are there?
5. What are they?
6. Of the old languages which ones are the ones that were recorded more.
7. How many old ones were there?
8. What all types of languages is the term applied to?
9. Where does the word Iranian come from?
10. What year did they say how many people speak the languages?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Indo-Iranian
2. 150200 million
3. 86
4. Four
5. Persian, Pashto, Kurdish, and Balochi.
6. Old Persian and Avestan
7. Two
8. Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE 900 CE), and New Iranian (since 900 CE)
9. Proto-Iranian l
10. 2008