Problem: Johnny walked toward the time machine. His adult neighbor, the scientist, had asked him to watch it for him for the weekend. He had also asked Johnny not to touch it. But it was a time machine. Johnny had to see it.

The machine was big and silver and shiny and looked like an ice cream cone that had been dropped. It had a square hole as tall as Johnny and it hummed like a fridge.

Johnny took a deep breath and stepped inside. Just a peek, he thought.

There were three buttons inside. One said "past," and one said "present." Another said "space."

Johnny looked at the buttons. He looked at the buttons some more. He waited and without thinking, his arm jumped out in front of him. He pushed the button that said "past."

There was a bright light! And bam!

Johnny stepped out of the machine. It was raining, and there were many strange looking trees. The air was warm. The dirt below was muddy.

He took a deep breath. "So this is the past," Johnny said.

Just then he heard a bump. And another one. The ground shook. The bumps got louder and the ground shook harder. A tree fell.

Johnny heard a roar.

Two more trees fell.

Suddenly, Johnny saw it: A Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Johnny was so scared he couldn't breathe.

The T. Rex looked up, and left, and right. He sniffed the air and leaned down. He didn't seem to see Johnny.

Then Johnny sneezed. And the T. Rex started walking towards him. Faster and faster. Bump. Bump bump. Bumpbumpbumpbump until he was running.

Johnny jumped back into the time machine and pressed "present."

There was a bright light and Johnny was back home.

He took a deep breath. He was home.

"Phew," he said.

Next time, he would listen to his adult neighbor, he thought.
1. What did Johnny do?
2. Where?
3. Why?
4. Should he touch it?
5. Was the machine large?
6. And what color was it?
7. And what did it look like?
8. What shape was the hole?
9. And how big?
10. Did it make a sound?
11. How many buttons did it have?
12. What did the first say?
13. And the second?
14. And the final one?
15. Did he touch them?
16. Which one?
17. And what did he do next?
18. How was the weather?
19. And how did the air feel?
20. What did he hear?
21. Then what?
Answer: 1. walked
2. toward the time machine
3. His adult neighbor, the scientist, had asked him to watch it for him for the weekend.
4. No
5. Yes
6. silver
7. an ice cream cone that had been dropped.
8. square
9. as tall as Johnny
10. Yes
11. three
12. past
13. present
14. space
15. his arm jumped out in front of him. He pushed the button
16. the one that said "past."
17. Johnny stepped out of the machine
18. It was raining
19. warm
20. a bump. And another one
21. a roar.

Q: NEW YORK (CNN) -- In the midst of the ongoing culture wars, can it be a good idea to put out a comedy about two Stone Age men who wander into the Bible?

In "Year One," Jack Black stars as an inquisitive Stone Age man, with Michael Cera as his sidekick.

Harold Ramis thinks so.

"Year One," which he directed, concerns two men -- played by Jack Black and Michael Cera -- who leave their home and, in their travels, meet biblical characters such as Cain, Abel, Abraham and Isaac. Among the locales: ancient Sodom, which "didn't seem worse than Las Vegas to me," Ramis told CNN.

"Year One" comes out Friday.

Ramis, whose writing and directing credits include "Groundhog Day" and "Analyze This," said it was time for a new biblical epic -- of sorts.

"No one had done this film for our generation," he told CNN. It's like, you know, when 'Animal House' [which Ramis co-wrote] came out, there were college films. Every generation had college films, but our generation didn't have one yet, and I don't know that our generation - this young, new generation of kids has a, you know, a sandal epic yet, and this is the one. This is for them."

Ramis rounded up a cast of comedians familiar to any watcher of Judd Apatow-produced movies -- no surprise, since Apatow is a producer of "Year One." Christopher Mintz-Plasse ("Superbad"), Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live," "Step Brothers") and Bill Hader ("Tropic Thunder") all have parts.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the director of the movie being described?
2. Who plays the leads?
3. What are their characters?
4. What's the title of the movie?
5. What time period is it set in?
6. Who was the movie geared towards?
7. Who is the producer?
8. What is Sodom compared to?
9. Which Characters will Black and Cera encounter?
10. What other movies does Ramis have to his name?
11. What kind of actors was he looking to cast?
A: 1. Harold Ramis
2. Jack Black and Michael Cera
3. An inquisitive Stone Age man and his sidekick
4. Year One
5. Stone Age
6. People in college
7. Judd Apatow
8. Las Vegas
9. Biblical characters
10. "Groundhog Day" and "Analyze This"
11. Comedians

Problem: In law and government, de jure (; , "in law") describes practices that are legally recognized by official laws. In contrast, ("in fact" or "in practice") describes situations that are generally known to exist in reality, even if not legally authorized. The terms are often used to contrast different scenarios, for example, "I know that, de jure, this is supposed to be a parking lot, but now that the flood has left four feet of water here, it's a de facto swimming pool".

It is possible to have multiple simultaneous conflicting ("de jure") legalities, possibly none of which is in force ("de facto"). After seizing power in 1526, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi made his brother, Umar Din, the lawful ("de jure") Sultan of Adal. Ahmad, however, was in practice ("de facto") the actual Sultan, and his brother was a figurehead. Between 1805 and 1914, the ruling dynasty of Egypt ruled as "de jure" viceroys of the Ottoman Empire, but acted as "de facto" independent rulers who maintained a polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, from about 1882, the rulers had only "de jure" rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state. Thus, Egypt was by Ottoman law "de jure" a province of the Ottoman Empire, but "de facto" was part of the British Empire.
1. What is the topic of conversation?
2. Is there a specific practice?
3. Who was Adal's Sultan?
4. Who was in practice?
5. When did Egypt rule?
6. What law did they fall under?
7. What is de jure and de facto used to contrast?
8. What relationship did Egypt have with Britain?
9. And what was it referred to around 1882?
10. Can you have more than one conflict at once?
Answer:
1. Different kinds of laws
2. de jure
3. Umar Din
4. Ahmad,
5. Between 1805 and 1914
6. de jure
7. situations
8. de facto
9. a British puppet state
10. yes