Q: The "Billboard" Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by "Billboard" magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming.

The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is readily available on a real-time basis, and is tracked on a Monday to Sunday cycle (previously Wednesday to Tuesday). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by "Billboard" on Tuesdays. Example:

The first number one song of the Hot 100 was "Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Nelson, on August 4, 1958. As of the issue for the week ending on October 7, 2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,067 different number one hits. The current number one song is "Bodak Yellow" by Cardi B.

Prior to 1955, "Billboard" did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the rock era in 1955, three such charts existed:

Although officially all three charts had equal "weight" in terms of their importance, many chart historians refer to the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart when referencing a song's performance prior to the creation of the Hot 100; until the start of the rock era in 1955, radio was still in its Golden Age, characterized more by spoken-word programs than music radio, and physical record sales were still the dominant indicator of a recording's popularity. On the week ending November 12, 1955, "Billboard" published The Top 100 for the first time. "The Top 100" combined all aspects of a single's performance (sales, airplay and jukebox activity), based on a point system that typically gave sales (purchases) more weight than radio airplay. The "Best Sellers In Stores", "Most Played by Jockeys" and "Most Played in Jukeboxes" charts continued to be published concurrently with the new "Top 100" chart.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the Billboard Hot 100?
2. Who publishes it?
3. What is one thing the ranking is based on?
4. And another?
5. And the last?
6. What changed in 1991?
7. What day is the list released?
8. Before 1955 what did not exist?
9. What did radio mainly consist of before 1955?
10. What date was the first top 100 list published?
A: 1. is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles
2. "Billboard" magazine
3. sales
4. online streaming
5. radio play
6. Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991
7. Tuesdays
8. "Billboard" did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart
9. more spoken-word programs than music radio
10. November 12, 1955
Q: PERUGIA, Italy (CNN) -- A judge Tuesday convicted Rudy Guede, a native of the Ivory Coast, in last year's murder of a British woman in Italy and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

Briton Meredith Kercher was found dead in her Perugia apartment last November.

Judge Paolo Micheli also ruled that adequate evidence exists to try an American woman, Amanda Knox, and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the killing of Meredith Kercher, said defense attorneys and Francisco Maresca, the lawyer for the victim's family.

Their trial will begin December 4. Guede, Knox and Sollecito have all denied wrongdoing. Guede's attorney said he will appeal the conviction and sentence.

Kercher, a 21-year-old exchange student at the University of Perugia, was found nearly a year ago, dead in her bed, with a knife wound to her neck. Official reports said Kercher may have been sexually assaulted before she died and that she bled to death.

Members of Kercher's family spoke to reporters following the court proceeding. John Kercher Jr., one of the woman's brothers, said it was "overwhelming" to be in the same room as Guede when the judge convicted and sentenced him.

But Lyle Kercher, a second brother, said that "pleased" wasn't the right word for the family's feelings, noting that his sister was murdered. "Satisfied" was more appropriate given the circumstances, he said.

At his lawyers' request, Guede, hoping for a lesser sentence, received a separate fast-track trial from Knox and Sollecito.

Lawyers for Sollecito, 24, and Knox, 21, asked that their clients -- who have been in jail since shortly after the murder -- be allowed to stay under house arrest if indicted.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was murdered?
2. Where?
3. When?
4. How old was she?
5. How long ago was the murder?
6. What school did she attend?
7. What was used to kill her?
8. Who was convicted?
9. Who was given 30 years?
10. Who was from the Ivory Coast?
A: 1. Briton Meredith Kerche
2. Perugia apartment
3. last November.
4. a 21-year-old
5. a year ago
6. University of Perugia
7. a knife
8. Guede, Knox and Sollecito
9. a British woman in Italy
10. unknown
Q: EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., the third largest private company in Birmingham, Alabama, with annual sales of nearly $2 billion according to the BBJ's 2013 Book of Lists. EBSCO offers library resources to customers in academic, medical, K12, public library, law, corporate, and government markets. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives. In 2010, EBSCO introduced its EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to institutions, which allows searches of a portfolio of journals and magazines.

EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a family owned company since 1944. "EBSCO" is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Co. According to "Forbes Magazine", EBSCO is one of the largest privately held companies in Alabama and one of the top 200 in the United States, based on revenues and employee numbers. Sales surpassed $1billion in 1997 and exceeded $2billion in 2006.

EBSCO Industries is a diverse company which includes over 40 businesses. EBSCO Publishing was established in 1984 as a print publication called "Popular Magazine Review", featuring article abstracts from more than 300 magazines. In 1987 the company was purchased by EBSCO Industries and its name was changed to EBSCO Publishing. It employed around 750 people by 2007. In 2003 it acquired Whitston Publishing, another database provider. In 2010 EBSCO purchased NetLibrary and in 2011, EBSCO Publishing took over H. W. Wilson Company. It merged with EBSCO Information Services on July 1, 2013. The merged business operates as EBSCO Information Services. , the President is Tim Collins.

Answer the following questions:
1. Is the company family owned?
2. When was it started?
3. Where is the headquaters?
4. What does it offer?
5. What kind of resources are offered?
6. Are consumers charged for the services?
7. Is it a brick and mortar establishment or is it on the web?
8. What does the name stand for?
9. Is it a large company?
10. It's in the top how many in the US?
11. Is it diverse?
12. How many businesses are included?
13. When was the publishing division established?
14. Was EBSCO its original name?
15. What was it?
16. When did the name change?
17. When did the merger happen?
18. Who is the president?
19. How much income did the generate in 1997?
20. How long did it take to double that?
A:
1. yes
2. 1944
3. in Ipswich
4. library resources
5. EBSCONET and EBSCOhost
6. yes
7. it is online
8. it is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Co.
9. yes
10. the top three
11. yes
12. over 40
13. 1984
14. no
15. Popular Magazine Review
16. 1987
17. July 1, 2013
18. Tim Collins
19. over $1billion
20. 9 years