question: (CNN) -- It was far from vintage Barcelona, but it was enough to keep alive the Catalan club's dwindling hopes of retaining the Spanish league title.

With white handkerchiefs waving in the Camp Nou to indicate the fans' frustration at what appeared to be another disappointing setback, Lionel Messi came to the rescue on Sunday to earn a 2-1 victory against Athletic Bilbao.

Having been knocked out of the Champions League, then losing the Copa del Rey final to Real Madrid, Gerardo Martino's team had been staring down the barrel of an unthinkable fourth successive defeat.

With Atletico Madrid having gone seven points clear at the top of the table with Friday's 2-0 win over Elche, it would've spelled disaster if Barca could not recover from Aritz Aduriz's opener for the fourth-placed Basques.

The early signs weren't good.

After Messi had a goal ruled out for offside, Aduriz hit the Barca woodwork with a spectacular overhead kick, then Alexis Sanchez smacked the Bilbao bar when it seemed easier to score.

Aduriz ghosted through Barca's frail defense to slot in a low shot five minutes after the break, and teammate Markel Susaeta had an effort ruled out for offside soon after.

To the home supporters' intense relief, Pedro provided the equalizer in the 72nd minute with his 15th league goal this season, diverting a low shot from Sanchez into the net from close range.

Soon after that, Messi picked himself up after being fouled on the edge of the penalty area and fired a free-kick through the wall.
1. Did Messi have a goal ruled out?
2. When was the game?
3. What was the score?
4. Who hit the woodwork?
5. Who did they beat?
6. Where was Messi fouled?
7. What hopes did the win keep alive?
8. What is the coaches name?
9. What were they knocked out of?
10. What were fans waving?
11. What team is the article about?
12. What did the white handkerchiefs represent?
13. Who did they lose the Copa del Rey final to?
14. When did Pedro score?
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answer: 1. Yes
2. Sunday
3. 2-1
4. Aduriz
5. Athletic Bilbao.
6. on the edge of the penalty area
7. Catalan club
8. Martino
9. Champions League
10. Camp Nou
11. Atletico Madrid
12. fans' frustration
13. Real Madrid
14. 72nd minute

question: Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart on the right. The characters encoded are numbers 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, basic punctuation symbols, control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a space. For example, lowercase j would become binary 1101010 and decimal 106. ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters (many now obsolete) that affect how text and space are processed and 95 printable characters, including the space (which is considered an invisible graphic:223).

The code itself was patterned so that most control codes were together, and all graphic codes were together, for ease of identification. The first two columns (32 positions) were reserved for control characters.:220, 2368,9) The "space" character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20hex;:23710 for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits. The committee decided it was important to support uppercase 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes,:228, 23714 as was done in the DEC SIXBIT code. Lowercase letters were therefore not interleaved with uppercase. To keep options available for lowercase letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter A was placed in position 41hex to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.:23818 The digits 09 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward.
1. What was this based on?
2. What are they converted to?
3. How many are there?
4. How many print?
5. What is a surprising printable character?
6. What is classified as an invisible picture?
7. What is its number?
8. What are the first two groups saved for?
9. What comes before them?
10. Why?
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answer: 1. the English alphabet
2. seven-bit integers
3. 128
4. 95
5. unknown
6. the space
7. 223
8. control characters
9. space
10. to make sorting easier,

question: Amy was looking for a gift for her little daughter. Suddenly she stopped before a store of dolls. "Girls like dolls," she thought as she was walking into it. Looking around, she saw a grandma doll - one with gray hair and a pair of glasses. In her mind appeared Joyce, her mother. When Amy was a little girl, she got her first doll from Joyce for her birthday. Then the second, the third...A doll a year from Joyce never arrived late. "Why always a doll?" This question had been in Amy's mind until one day her father gave the answer, Little Joyce dreamed to have a doll. Her parents promised one for her fifth birthday. Sadly, they both died in a traffic accident before it arrived. The never-received gift was the most _ in her eyes. Her mother's story being recalled , Amy got an idea. It was Joyce's 60th birthday. A package was delivered to her, with a card that read: Dear Joyce, I forget to send you the package that you should have received on May 20, 1956, your fifth birthday. The gift inside has aged, but I felt that you might still wish to have it. Angel of Joy Joyce opened the package and saw a lovely grandma doll. She held the doll that she had waited for so many years, with tears running down her face. The doll, given by "Angel of Joy", made her the happiest "child" in the world.
1. who was going to get a present?
2. who's daughter?
3. what king of present was she thinking of getting?
4. Is Amy's mom mentioned?
5. what was she called?
6. when she turned 5 was she told she would get something?
7. what?
8. who told her that?
9. did she get it?
10. why not?
11. of natural causes?
12. how did they die?
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answer:
1. daughter
2. Amy's
3. doll
4. yes
5. Joyce
6. yes
7. a doll
8. parents
9. no
10. they both died
11. no
12. traffic accident