Q: (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has just agreed to take on the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Abigail Fisher, a white woman, argues that she has been a victim of the university's race-conscious admission policies; the university contends that its drive for racial and ethnic diversity is educationally enriching -- a benefit to all students.

Will the ugly discourse that generally characterizes debate over racially preferential policies disappear with the wave of a magic Supreme Court wand? It seems unlikely. The issue is a cat with many more than nine lives. It arrived in the early 1970s and, despite many attacks, some of which have taken the form of amendments to state constitutions, it has survived in pretty fine fettle.

The court will have only eight justices to hear the arguments. Elena Kagan, having been involved in the case as solicitor general in the Obama administration, has bowed out of participation. Her absence, however, leaves five justices likely to express at least some degree of skepticism about the racial preferences given to non-Asian minorities in the admissions process.

Has the University of Texas been enriched by academic diversity? Maybe. But equally likely is the possibility that racial double standards reinforce stereotypes about smart whites and even smarter Asians. There are certainly wide gaps in the average SAT scores between blacks and Hispanics, on the one hand, and whites and Asians, on the other hand.

Among freshmen entering the University of Texas in 2009 who did not fall into the top 10% of their high school class (automatic admission at the university), Asians scored at the 93rd percentile of 2009 SAT takers nationwide, whites at the 89th percentile, Hispanics at the 80th percentile and blacks at the 52nd percentile. Startling? No. This picture has been well known for a long time. Heartbreaking, yes, because the numbers mean the underperforming minority students are being woefully ill served by the K-12 school system. Moreover, arriving at institutions of higher education with an academic disadvantage, they do not catch up, as it has become clear.

1. The case of Fisher v. University of Texas.
2. Eight
3. Elena Kagan
4. Abigail Fisher
5. No
6. White
7. She has been a victim of the university's race-conscious admission policies
8. That it's educationally enriching
9. Yes
10. Early 1970s
11. At the 93rd percentile
12. No

Numbered questions:
1. What is the Supreme Court going to hear?
2. How many justices will hear about the case?
3. Who bowed out?
4. Who is the person in the case?
5. Is she a Hispanic?
6. What race is she?
7. Why is she going to court?
8. What does the university say about its racial and ethnic diversity?
9. Has there been many cases like this in the Supreme Court?
10. When did it first come to light?
11. What did Asians score on the SAT nationwide?
12. Was this startling?

Q: (CNN) -- If anyone knows hip-hop, it's Ice-T.

The rapper-turned-actor has added a title to his resume: filmmaker. Ice (born Tracy Marrow) recently sat down with CNN to answer some iReporter questions and discuss his new documentary, "Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap."

The film explores the genre as art form and includes lots of big names in the music industry, including Kanye West, Nas, Eminem and Dr. Dre. When it came time to find voices for his project, Ice didn't have to look far.

"I did the film by calling only my friends I had in my address book," the rapper said. "All my homies I'd been in the business with over 20 years. (I told them,) 'I'm just going to ask you questions, not about the money, the cars, the jewelry, the beef, but the craft.' "

In an earlier interview, the star of "Law & Order: SVU" noted that there was an abundance of rap stars who wanted to appear in his documentary.

"There's lots of people I would love to have interviewed, but you got to remember the movie only could last two hours," he explained. "At the end of my filming, I had 52 rappers shot. I had 35 rappers waiting to be shot. My first edit was four hours, so I just couldn't fit everybody into the movie, so yeah, there's a lot of people missing, but I think I was able to get a good cross-section of the different styles of hip-hop."

His decades in the rap game allowed him insider access and candid interviews.

1. Tracy Marrow
2. rapper and actor
3. "Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap."
4. Kanye West, Nas, Eminem and Dr. Dre
5. by calling them
6. they were in his address book
7. 20 years
8. the craft
9. money, cars, jewelry, beef
10. Law & Order: SVU
11. yes
12. 87
13. 35
14. four hours
15. two hours
16. yes
17. filmmaker
18. CNN
19. yes
20. hip-hop

Numbered questions:
1. What is Ice-T's real name?
2. What are his occupations?
3. What's his new film called?
4. Who is featured?
5. How did he get those people to take part?
6. How did he know how to contact them?
7. How many years has he been working?
8. What will he ask about?
9. And won't?
10. What TV show is he on?
11. Did lots of people want to participate?
12. How many rappers participated?
13. How many were still waiting?
14. How long was the original cut?
15. How long did it need to be?
16. Did he get everyone he wanted to appear?
17. What's his new occupation?
18. Who did the interview with him?
19. Does it explore rap as art?
20. He got people from different styles of what type of music?

Q: The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.

Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all three "major" record companies in the UK (Warner Music UK, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group), and hundreds of independent music labels and small to medium-sized music businesses.

It has represented the interests of British record companies since being formally incorporated in 1973 when the principal aim was to promote British music and fight copyright infringement.

In 2007, the association's legal name was changed from British Phonographic Industry Limited (The).

It founded the annual BRIT Awards for the British music industry in 1977, and, later, The Classic BRIT Awards. The organizing company, BRIT Awards Limited, is a fully owned subsidiary of the BPI. Proceeds from both shows go to the BRIT Trust, the charitable arm of the BPI that has donated almost 15m to charitable causes nationwide since its foundation in 1989. In September 2013, the BPI presented the first ever BRITs Icon Award to Sir Elton John. The BPI also endorsed the launch of the Mercury Prize for the Album of the Year in 1992.

The recorded music industry's Certified Awards program, which attributes Platinum, Gold and Silver status to singles, albums and music videos (Platinum and Gold only) based on their sales performance (see BPI Certified Awards program), has been administered by the BPI since its inception in 1973. In September 2008, the BPI became one of the founding members of UK Music, an umbrella organisation representing the interests of all parts of the industry.

1. the British recorded music industry's trade association
2. British record companies
3. hundreds of music companies
4. the trhee "major" record companies in the UK
5. Warner Music UK, Sony Music Entertainment, and Universal Music Group
6. the association's legal name was changed
7. British Phonographic Industry Limited (The)
8. the annual BRIT Awards for the British music industry in 1977
9. the inception of the BPI
10. the British Phonographic Industry
11. BPI
12. The Certified Awards program
13. no
14. an umbrella organisation of BPI
15. to promote British music and fight copyright infringement
16. to the BRIT Trust
17. the charitable arm of the BPI
18. the BPI presented the first ever BRITs Icon Award to Sir Elton John
19. the Mercury Prize for the Album of the Year
20. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. What is the BPI?
2. Whose interests does it represent?
3. What is its membership made up of?
4. Including which three companies?
5. What are those?
6. What happened in 2007?
7. From what?
8. What was founded in 1977?
9. What happened in 1973?
10. What is a common name for the BPI?
11. Who does BRIT Awards Limited, belong to?
12. What attributes attributes Platinum, Gold and Silver status to singles?
13. Do music videos get silver singles status?
14. What is UK Music?
15. What was the main aim of being incorporated in 1973?
16. What do profits of the BRIT Awards and the Classic BRIT Awards go to?
17. What is the BRIT Trust?
18. What happened in 2013?
19. What prize was started in 1992?
20. Was an award also given to David Bowie in 2013?