Q: (CNN) -- Iran won't be attending this week's international peace conference on Syria because it won't embrace the framework laid out in a previous conference, U.N. and Iranian officials said Monday.

The last-minute invitation to Iran, a leading Syrian ally, had threatened to derail the talks after the leading Syrian opposition group and the United States spoke out against it. Louay Safi, a spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition, called Iran's attendance "a deal-breaker."

Iran announced Monday afternoon that it would not accept "any preconditions" for joining the talks, slated to begin Wednesday in Switzerland. That includes acceptance of the communique issued at the first Geneva conference in 2012, said Mohammad Khazaee, Tehran's U.N. ambassador.

"If the participation of Iran is conditioned to accept Geneva I communique, Iran will not participate in Geneva II conference," Khazaee said in a written statement Monday afternoon. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had made a similar declaration on Iranian state TV earlier Monday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who issued the invitation Sunday, believed he had Iran's assurance that it accepted the original Geneva declaration, his spokesman, Martin Nesirky, told reporters.

"The secretary-general is deeply disappointed by Iranian public statements today that are not at all consistent with that stated commitment," Nesirky said.The declaration "remains the internationally agreed framework for ending the crisis," he said -- and without Iran's acceptance, this week's conference "will proceed without Iran's participation," he added.

The goal of the talks is to set up a transitional government to help end the violence that has wracked the country.

1. Iran
2. because it won't embrace the framework laid out in a previous conference
3. U.N. and Iranian officials
4. Monday
5. Syria
6. Yes
7. at the last-minute
8. the leading Syrian opposition group
9. peace
10. transitional
11. to help end the violence
12. unknown
13. U.N. and Iranian officials
14. that it would not accept "any preconditions" for joining the talks

Numbered questions:
1. Who will not be in attendance to the meeting?
2. why?
3. says who?
4. when?
5. What was the topic of the meeting?
6. Was Iran invited?
7. when?
8. who was against it?
9. what is the end result they want to achieve?
10. What kind of government do they want to establish?
11. why?
12. What as is caused?
13. Who made an announcement Monday?
14. What did Iran announce?

Q: (CNN) -- Jason Day nearly pulled out of the World Cup of Golf after learning he had lost eight relatives to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Instead he completed an emotional double victory Sunday in Melbourne as he claimed the individual title and paired with Adam Scott to lead Australia to team honors.

After finishing with a final round 70 for 10-under at Royal Melbourne, Day said his Filipino mother Dening and his sisters had been in this thoughts throughout the event.

They were in the gallery to watch the 24-year-old hold off Thomas Bjorn of Denmark by two shots in a tense final round.

"I am just happy that she is here and I get to hug her," he said.

"It would have been the easiest thing for me to just go ahead and pull out of the tournament with what has been going on over the last week, just to be up there with my mum and support her," he added.

Day lost his grandmother, an uncle and six cousins in the November 8 tragedy and he said that both he and World No.2 Scott would assist with the relief program.

"We will definitely be giving some money or raising money and trying to raise awareness to what has really happened over there.

"To have that lead going into Sunday with all that stuff going on, to finally finish off and hit a great shot into 18 like I did and to win like that was a very big move in my golfing career."

1. Jason Day
2. golf
3. he had lost eight relatives
4. to Typhoon Haiyan
5. in the Philippines.
6. No
7. Yes
8. He won
9. his team won
10. Adam Scott
11. Australia

Numbered questions:
1. What athlete is the article about?
2. What sport does he play?
3. What tragedy befell him?
4. To what?
5. Where did this occur?
6. Did he cancel his golf playing?
7. Did he perform well?
8. How well did he do in the individual competition?
9. And the team competition?
10. Who did he compete on a team with?
11. Where are they from?

Q: 16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9 = 4:3) is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2010 it has become the most common aspect ratio for televisions and computer monitors, and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television. This has replaced the old .

Dr. Kerns H. Powers, a member of the SMPTE Working Group on High-Definition Electronic Production, first proposed the 16:9 (1.7:1) aspect ratio at a time when nobody was creating 16:9 videos. The popular choices in 1980 were: 1.3:1 (based on television standard's ratio at the time), 1.6:1 (the European "flat" ratio), 1.85:1 (the American "flat" ratio), 2.20:1 (the ratio of 70mm films and Panavision) and 2.39:1 (the CinemaScope ratio for anamorphic widescreen films).

Powers cut out rectangles with equal areas, shaped to match each of the popular aspect ratios. When overlapped with their center points aligned, he found that all of those aspect ratio rectangles fit within an outer rectangle with an aspect ratio of 1.7:1 and all of them also covered a smaller common inner rectangle with the same aspect ratio 1.7:1. The value found by Powers is exactly the geometric mean of the extreme aspect ratios, 4:3 (1.3:1) and 2.35:1 (or 64:27, see also for more information), 1.770 which is coincidentally close to 16:9 (1.7:1). Applying the same geometric mean technique to 16:9 and 4:3 yields the aspect ratio, which is likewise used as a compromise between these ratios.

1. 16:9 = 4:3) is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2010 it has become the most common aspect ratio for televisions and computer monitors
2. yes
3. HDTV
4. Full HD
5. non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television
6. Kerns H. Powers
7. yes
8. yes
9. SMPTE Working Group on High-Definition Electronic Production
10. 1980s
11. 1.3:1
12. yes
13. 1.6:1
14. yes
15. yes
16. 1.85:1
17. 2.20:1
18. yes
19. Panavision
20. no

Numbered questions:
1. What is the most common aspect ratio for TVs?
2. Is this the international standard?
3. For which types of TV?
4. And?
5. Anything else?
6. Who proposed this ratio?
7. Is he a doctor?
8. Was he a member of any professional organizations at the time?
9. Which one?
10. What decade did he make this proposal?
11. Were there other choices then?
12. Was that considered standard?
13. What about in Europe?
14. Was that considered flat?
15. Did America have a flat ratio?
16. What was it?
17. What was used for 70mm movies?
18. Was that used for anything else?
19. What?
20. Did Powers use rectangles with different areas?