Question: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (abbreviated as MGM or M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

Once the largest, most glamorous, and most revered film studio, MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Pictures. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California. It is one of the world's oldest film studios.

In 1971, it was announced that MGM would merge with 20th Century Fox, a plan which never came into fruition. Over the next thirty-nine years, the studio was bought and sold at various points in its history until, on November 3, 2010, MGM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM emerged from bankruptcy on December 20, 2010, at which time the executives of Spyglass Entertainment, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, became co-chairmen and co-CEOs of the holding company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

As of 2017, MGM co-produces, co-finances, and co-distributes a majority of its films with Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.

MGM Resorts International, a Las Vegas-based hotel and casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MGM", is not currently affiliated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 1. What does M G M stand for?
2. Are they an Australian based company?
3. Where?
4. What do they specialize in?
5. Where is their HQ?
6. Is it a newer group?
7. Who did they combine with?
8. When were they created?
9. Who do they work with in 2017?
10. Are they associated with any hotels?
11. Did they ever run out of money?
12. when?
13. Did they come out of that the same year?
14. Who helped?
15. Who was granted chairs among other titles in the company? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
2. no
3. America
4. the production and distribution of feature films and television programs
5. Beverly Hills
6. no
7. no one
8. 1924
9. Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros
10. no
11. yes
12. in 2010
13. yes
14. Spyglass Entertainment
15. Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum

Question: (CNN) -- Pausing to catch her breath at the bottom of the mountain, Lindsey Vonn was back in business.

It may not have been fast, it may not have been smooth but it was still a landmark moment for the Olympic downhill champion.

The American skiing star had finished her first race since making a complicated recovery from a knee injury.

Vonn needed reconstructive surgery on her right knee after landing heavily on the opening day of the Alpine Ski World Championships in Austria in February.

She has waited 10 months to go racing again and in November her return was put on ice when she partially tore one of her reconstructed knee ligaments in training.

There were no complications for Vonn on her first competitive return down Canada's Lake Louise course -- but her time did not trouble the leaders.

She finished her run in one minute 59.22 seconds -- more than three seconds off the leading time and 40th overall.

The start of the race had been delayed by hazy cloud and extremely cold temperatures which dropped as low as -36 Celsius. Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch eventually came out on top with the quickest time.

Vonn is racing against time to find form and fitness as she attempts to defend her downhill crown at February's Winter Olympics in the Russian resort of Sochi.

There she will aim to emulate the feat of fellow American, Picabo Street, who came back the season after reconstructive surgery to win gold at Nagano in 1998. 1. What's the name of the athlete the story's about?
2. What sport does she do?
3. Has she competed internationally?
4. Successfully?
5. What problem did she suffer?
6. Where did it occur?
7. What happened?
8. Which knee was injured?
9. When did the injury occur?
10. What was she competing in?
11. How long was it before she could ski again?
12. Were there any complications in her recovery?
13. What happened?
14. How long did she complete her first run in?
15. Did she win?
16. What place was she in?
17. Did the race start on time?
18. Why not?
19. How cold?
20. who was the winner? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Lindsey Vonn
2. downhill skiing
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. a knee injury
6. in Austria
7. she landed heavily
8. Her right knee
9. in February
10. the Alpine Ski World Championships
11. 10 months
12. Yes
13. she partially tore one of her reconstructed knee ligaments in training
14. one minute 59.22 seconds
15. No
16. 40th
17. No
18. it was delayed by hazy cloud and extremely cold temperatures
19. -36 Celsius
20. Maria Hoefl-Riesch

Question: A photograph or photo is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic medium such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating photographs is called photography. The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek ("phos"), meaning "light", and ("graphe"), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light".

The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicephore Niepce. The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later, but Niepce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera exposure lasting for hours or days was required. In 1829 Niepce entered into a partnership with Louis Daguerre and the two collaborated to work out a similar but more sensitive and otherwise improved process.

After Niepce's death in 1833, Daguerre concentrated on silver halide-based alternatives. He exposed a silver-plated copper sheet to iodine vapor, creating a layer of light-sensitive silver iodide; exposed it in the camera for a few minutes; developed the resulting invisible latent image to visibility with mercury fumes; then bathed the plate in a hot salt solution to remove the remaining silver iodide, making the results light-fast. He named this first practical process for making photographs with a camera the daguerreotype, after himself. Its existence was announced to the world on 7 January 1839 but working details were not made public until 19 August. Other inventors soon made improvements which reduced the required exposure time from a few minutes to a few seconds, making portrait photography truly practical and widely popular. 1. what is a photo
2. how are they created
3. what year was the word photograph coined
4. what was made in 1822
5. what happened in 1829
6. who died in 1833
7. how do you create a light sensitive silver iodide
8. is photograpy practical and popular
9. how are most created
10. who died in 1833 Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface
2. by light falling on a light-sensitive surface
3. 1839
4. The first permanent photograph
5. In 1829 Niepce entered into a partnership with Louis Daguerre
6. Niepce
7. exposing a silver-plated copper sheet to iodine vapor
8. yes
9. sing a camera
10. Niepce