Question:
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3).

Founded and currently led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. , the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has 463 members.

The W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire) in October, 1994. It was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) with support from the European Commission and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which had pioneered the Internet and its predecessor ARPANET.

The organization tries to foster compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards defined by the W3C. Incompatible versions of HTML are offered by different vendors, causing inconsistency in how web pages are displayed. The consortium tries to get all those vendors to implement a set of core principles and components which are chosen by the consortium.
1. Who leads the WC3?
2. Did he also found it?
3. When?
4. Which month?
5. Where?
6. Was he with someone else previously?
7. Who?
8. Do they use an acronym?
9. What is it?
10. Do they try to foster anything with its members?
11. Name one thing?
12. Anything else?
13. What?
14. Does the W3C set any standards?
15. Local ones?
16. Which type?
17. Did anyone support the forming of the group?
18. Who?
19. Anyone else?
20. Who?

Numbered answers:
1. Tim Berners-Lee
2. yes
3. 1994
4. October
5. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science
6. yes
7. the European Organization for Nuclear Research
8. yes
9. CERN
10. yes
11. compatibility
12. yes
13. agreement
14. yes
15. no
16. World Wide
17. yes
18. the European Commission
19. yes
20. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Question:
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The family across the street has a cat. He is a cute black kitty named Dillon. The cat is about two years old, and the family has had him for about a year. He is an indoor cat who is not allowed to go outside. The children like to play with Dillon because he still acts like a kitten. Dillon jumps around, and chases flies, beetles and spiders. When he plays with the children, he sometimes uses his paws to attack them, but he doesn't try to hurt them with his claws. Dillon is a great cat but he has one problem: he likes to eat bread. The family only feeds him cat food, never human food like steak or potatoes. But the cat likes the smell of bread so much that he tries to find it everywhere he can. Dillon jumps up on the kitchen table when a sandwich is there, and tries to carry it away. He finds loaves of bread from the store on the floor and claws through the wrappers. The cat climbs into the bread cupboard looking for hot dog and hamburger buns. The family tries to make Dillon stop getting into the bread by spraying him with water when he goes after bread. They yell at him when he walks on the table. But Dillon does not listen. The kitty keeps trying to find bread to eat. The family thinks that the man who took care of Dillon when he was a very young kitten must have been a baker or cook, and that's why Dillon likes the smell and taste of bread so much!
1. Who has a pet?
2. What type?
3. What colour is it?
4. What is its name?
5. How old is it?
6. How long have they owned it?
7. What does he get in trouble for?
8. Does the yelling stop him?
9. What else?
10. Anything else?
11. How do they punish him?
12. What does he go after?
13. What is bad about him?
14. What sort?
15. Is that it?
16. Is bread part of his normal diet?
17. What does he get for dinner?
18. Why does he want bread?
19. Why would he like that so much?
20. Is he gentle with kids?

Numbered answers:
1. The family across the street
2. Cat
3. Black
4. Dillon
5. Two
6. A year
7. Walking on the table
8. No
9. Stealing sandwiches
10. Stealing buns
11. Spraying him with water
12. Insects
13. He likes to eat bread
14. Hot dog and hamburger buns
15. Sandwich
16. No
17. Cat food
18. He likes the smell of bread
19. His previous owner was a baker
20. Yes

Question:
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"The Lord of the Rings", one of the best sellers in the new millennium , was made up of three parts--"The Fellow Ship of the Ring", "Two Towers", and "The Return of the King". Millions upon millions of people have read it in over 25 different languages, but fewer know about the author and the history of the composition of the creative masterwork.

John Ronald Refuel Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892. His parents died when he was a child. Living in England with his aunt, Tolkien and his cousins made up play languages, a hobby that led to Tolkien's becoming skilled in Welsh, Greek, Gothic, Old Norse and Anglo--Saxon.

After graduating from Oxford, Tolkien served in World War I. In 1917, while recovering from trench fever he began composing the mythology for The Rings. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon in the 1930s at Oxford, Tolkien was part of an informal discussion group called the Inklings, which included several writers. The group was soon 1istening to chapters of Tolkien's imaginative work "The Hobbit".

Hobbit was a name Tolkien created for people that could best be described as half-sized members of the English rural class. Hobbits live in hillside holes. One of them,Bilbo Baggins, looks for treasures with a group of dwarves . On the way, he meets the twisted, pitiful creature Gollum, from whom he sees a golden ring that makes the holder invisible.

One of Tolkien's students persuaded her employer, publisher Allen & Unwind, to look at a draft . The chairman of the firm, Stanley Unwind, thought that the best judge for a Children's book would be his ten-year-old son. The boy earned a shilling for reporting back that the adventure was exciting, and "The Hobbit" was published in 1937.

It sold so well that Unwind asked for a continuation. Over a dozen years later, in 1954, Tolkien produced "The Lord of the Rings", a series of books so creative that they hold readers both new and old -- after their publication.
1. Who wrote the Lord of the Rings?
2. When was he born?
3. Where?
4. Who raised him
5. What did he do for fun with cousins?
6. What real languages did he learn?
7. What are the 3 sections of the Lord of the Rings?
8. Where did he go to school?
9. Did he leave before graduating?
10. What diid he teach?
11. What was his discussion group named?
12. What were hobbits?
13. Were they the same thing as dwarves?
14. Where were their homes?
15. What was one of the hobbits named?
16. What terrible creature did he meet?
17. How much did a child receive for reviewing The Hobbit?
Numbered answers:
1. John Ronald Refuel Tolkien
2. 1892
3. South Africa
4. his aunt
5. made up play languages
6. Welsh, Greek, Gothic, Old Norse and Anglo--Saxon
7. unknown
8. Oxford
9. no
10. Anglo-Saxon
11. the Inklings
12. half-sized members of the English rural class
13. no
14. hillside holes
15. Bilbo Baggins
16. Gollum
17. a shilling