Problem: Joe Clancy, the interim director of the U.S. Secret Service, said that the agency has been "severely damaged in recent years by failures" and explained some key mistakes made by the Secret Service when a fence jumper was able to run inside the White House two months ago.

In his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Clancy, who was tapped to lead the agency last month, also laid out protocols the Secret Service is trying to improve in the wake of the fence jumper and other problems in the past few years.

"I openly acknowledge that a failure of this magnitude, especially in light of other recent incidents, requires immediate action and longer term reform," he said.

His appearance comes a week after the Department of Homeland Security published a report revealing failures in training, equipment and communications at the agency.

Clancy said when the jumper, Omar Gonzalez, started to scale the fence, officers nearby outside the barrier started shouting verbal commands before sprinting over and coming "about an arm's length or two arms' lengths short of reaching him" before he breached the fence.

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, joked that Gonzalez "got further in the White House than some of my Republican colleagues have ever gotten."

He asked if a moat would be effective in stopping future White House jumpers.

"Sir, it may be," Clancy replied, but added the Secret Service tries to recognize the accessibility and historic nature of the White House.

Their first step, Clancy continued, is working with the National Park Service to "do something with the fence," including possibly making it taller.
1. Who ran into the White House?
2. When did that happen?
3. Who was at fault?
4. Why did this happen according to a report by Homeland Security?
5. Was the jumper a female?
6. What was their name?
7. Did anyone try to stop him?
8. Who said the Secret Service had been damaged?
9. What is his job?
10. What did he say they needed to work with the park service for?
11. What else did he say may stop others from jumping it.
Answer: 1. a fence jumper
2. 2 months ago
3. the Secret Service
4. because of failures in training, equpiment and communication
5. no
6. Omar Gonzalez,
7. yes
8. Joe clancy
9. interim director of the Secret Service
10. do something with the fence
11. a moat

Problem: Lviv (, ; , ; German "Lemberg"; ; ; see also other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine and the seventh-largest city in the country overall, with a population of around 728,350 as of 2016. Lviv is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

Named in honor of the Leo, the eldest son of Rus' King Daniel of Galicia, it was the capital of the Kingdom of GaliciaVolhynia (also called Kingdom of Rus') from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great who then became known as the King of Poland and Rus'. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was known again as Lwow and was the centre of the Lwow Voivodeship in the Second Polish Republic. After World War II, it became part of the Soviet Union (by Stalin Djugashvili gift to Ukrainian SSR) with Ukrainian Peoples coming back to their Homeland and in 1991 of independent Ukraine. Administratively, Lviv serves as the administrative center of Lviv Oblast and has the status of city of oblast significance.
1. What is the biggest city in the west?
2. How many people live there?
3. Which of the countries is it in?
4. Is it the country's biggest place?
5. How many cities are bigger?
6. Is it a place without culture?
7. What happened to it after WW2?
8. In what way?
9. From whom?
10. To whom?
11. Who was the name of the place meant to praise?
12. Who was his dad?
13. What was it central place of at that time?
Answer: 1. Lviv
2. 728,350
3. Ukraine
4. no
5. Six
6. yes
7. it became part of the Soviet Union
8. by gift
9. Stalin Djugashvili
10. Ukrainian SSR
11. Leo
12. Rus' King Daniel
13. Lwow Voivodeship

Problem: The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity. Special relativity applies to elementary particles and their interactions, describing all their physical phenomena except gravity. General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its relation to other forces of nature. It applies to the cosmological and astrophysical realm, including astronomy.

The theory transformed theoretical physics and astronomy during the 20th century, superseding a 200-year-old theory of mechanics created primarily by Isaac Newton. It introduced concepts including spacetime as a unified entity of space and time, relativity of simultaneity, kinematic and gravitational time dilation, and length contraction. In the field of physics, relativity improved the science of elementary particles and their fundamental interactions, along with ushering in the nuclear age. With relativity, cosmology and astrophysics predicted extraordinary astronomical phenomena such as neutron stars, black holes, and gravitational waves.

Albert Einstein published the theory of special relativity in 1905, building on many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincare and others. Max Planck, Hermann Minkowski and others did subsequent work.

Einstein developed general relativity between 1907 and 1915, with contributions by many others after 1915. The final form of general relativity was published in 1916.
1. Whose theory did Einstein's replace?
2. How old was Newton's theory?
3. What is one phenomenon predicted with relativity in the field of astronomy?
4. Did the theory predict black holes?
5. Neutron stars?
6. Supernovae?
7. Was Einstein's theory based entirely on his own findings?
8. What is the name of one man whose findings Einstein drew from?
9. And another?
10. And one more?
11. Did Max Planck continue in Einstein's line of work?
12. Who else did?
13. What age did Einstein's theories bring about?
14. What two theories are included in the theory of relativity?
15. True or False: Special relativity describes how gravity works.
16. Does general relativity apply to the study of space?
17. What century does Einstein's theory belong to?
18. In what year did he begin to develop general relativity?
19. When did he publish its final form?
20. When did others begin to add to it?
Answer:
1. Isaac Newton
2. 200
3. cosmological
4. yes
5. yes
6. no
7. no
8. Albert A. Michelson
9. Hendrik Lorentz
10. Henri Poincare
11. yes
12. Hermann Minkowsk
13. nuclear age
14. special relativity and general relativity
15. false
16. yes
17. 20th century
18. 1907
19. 1916
20. 1915