Problem: The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body, and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. The league was founded as the Victorian Football League (VFL) as a breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing in 1897. Originally comprising only teams based in the Australian state of Victoria, the competition's name was changed to the Australian Football League for the 1990 season, after expanding to other states throughout the 1980s.

The league currently consists of 18 teams spread over five of Australia's six states (Tasmania being the exception). Matches have been played in all mainland states and territories of Australia, as well as in New Zealand and China. The AFL season currently consists of a pre-season competition (currently branded as the "JLT Community Series"), followed by a 23-round regular (or "home-and-away") season, which runs during the Australian winter (March to September). The top eight teams then play off in a four-round finals series, culminating in the AFL Grand Final, which is held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground each year. The winning team in the Grand Final is termed the "premiers", and is awarded the premiership cup. The current premiers are the Richmond Football Club.
1. whats AFL?
2. when was it founded?
3. what was it formally called
4. why was it called that before AFL?
5. What is the current "premiers"?
6. what does "premiers" even mean?
7. what does the season consists of?
Answer: 1. Australian Football League
2. 1897
3. Victorian Football League
4. breakaway from the previous Victorian Football Association
5. Richmond Football Club
6. winning team in the Grand Final
7. pre-season competition and 23-round regular season

Q: CHAPTER XI. A FESTIVAL AND A PARTING

My grandfather and I were seated at table together. It was early June, the birds were singing in the garden, and the sweet odours of the flowers were wafted into the room.

"Richard," says he, when Scipio had poured his claret, "my illness cheated you out of your festival last year. I dare swear you deem yourself too old for birthdays now."

I laughed.

"So it is with lads," said Mr. Carvel; "they will rush into manhood as heedless as you please. Take my counsel, boy, and remain young. Do not cross the bridge before you have to. And I have been thinking that we shall have your fete this year, albeit you are grown, and Miss Dolly is the belle of the province. 'Tis like sunshine into my old heart to see the lads and lasses again, and to hear the merry, merry fiddling. I will have his new Excellency, who seems a good and a kindly man, and Lloyd and Tilghman and Dulany and the rest, with their ladies, to sit with me. And there will be plenty of punch and syllabub and sangaree, I warrant; and tarts and jellies and custards, too, for the misses. Ring for Mrs. Willis, my son."

Willis came with her curtsey to the old gentleman, who gave his order then and there. He never waited for a fancy of this kind to grow cold.

"We shall all be children again, on that day, Mrs. Willis," says he. "And I catch any old people about, they shall be thrust straight in the town stocks, i' faith."

Answer the following questions:
1. What month was it?
2. Who were seated together?
3. Who was singing?
4. Where?
5. Who did they want to ring for?
6. What did Willis do when she arrived to the man?
7. Who would be thrown in the stocks?
8. Who poured the old man's claret?
9. Who wasn't able to enjoy the previous year's festivities?
10. The smell of what filled the room they were in?
11. Who filled the claret?
12. Who might feel he was too old for birthdays?
13. What was Mr. Carvel's advice to the young one?
14. Who was the province belle?
15. What brightened one of their hearts?
A: 1. June
2. grandfather and I
3. birds
4. in the garden
5. Mrs. Willis
6. curtsey
7. any old people
8. Scipio
9. Richard
10. sweet odours of the flowers
11. Scipio
12. Richard
13. remain young
14. Miss Dolly
15. to see the lads and lasses again

Problem: (CNN) -- Thus far, NBC's late-night transition has been like butter.

Jay Leno hosted his final episode of "The Tonight Show" on February 6 with massive celebrity support and even bigger ratings, and Jimmy Fallon took over on February 17 with the same level of excitement.

But there's still one more piece of the Peacock's puzzle left to be added: Seth Meyers.

At 12:35 a.m., the 40-year-old "Saturday Night Live" star will step behind the desk of "Late Night" and occupy a chair once filled by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and, directly before him, his pal and fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum Fallon.

With that kind of history, it goes without saying that there's pressure on Meyers not to screw up. Yet instead of marching in and tearing down "Late Night's" past, Meyers is planning to keep tradition intact while playing to his strengths.

After 12 years on "SNL," nine of which he served as head writer, Meyers is by all accounts more of a cerebral comedian than a performer. His colleagues give him credit for being the guy who'd rather set up the joke than steal the thunder, and some of his best work doesn't even include his face. See: Tina Fey as Sarah Palin:

Or Louis C.K. as Abraham Lincoln:

Or Amy Poehler killing it as a rapping Sarah Palin:

"There's the class clown, and then there's the guy who sits in the back and says an aside about the class clown," Meyers said to The Wall Street Journal. "That's me."
1. Who was taking over for Jay Leno?
2. How old is Myers?
3. Did he intend to tear down Late Nights past?
4. What did he do before Late Night?
5. How long was he there?
6. What was hid job there for 9 of those years?
7. Who did he write some of his best work for?
8. Who else?
9. Anyone else?
10. In what publication did he say he would make a joke about the class clown?
11. When did Leno host his last episode?
12. When did Fallon start?
13. What was his reception?
14. What channel are their shows on?
Answer:
1. Jimmy Fallon
2. 40
3. No
4. SNL
5. 12 years
6. Head writer
7. Tina Fey
8. Louis C.K.
9. Amy Poehler
10. The Wall Street Journal.
11. February 6
12. February 17
13. Great excitement
14. NBC