Q: CHAPTER XXXVI

Selingman had scarcely left the place when Ernshaw arrived, piloted into the room by Aaron, who had been waiting for him below. Maraton and he gripped hands heartily. During the first few days of the campaign they had been constant companions.

"At least," he declared, as he looked into Maraton's face, "whatever the world may think of the justice of their cause, no one will ever any longer deny the might of the people."

"None but fools ever did deny it," Maraton answered.

"How are they in the north?" Ernshaw asked.

"United and confident," Maraton assured him. "Up there I don't think they realise the position so much as here. In Nottingham and Leicester, people are leading their usual daily lives. It was only as we neared London that one began to understand."

"London is paralysed with fear," Ernshaw asserted, "perhaps with reason. The Government are working the telephones and telegraph to a very small extent. The army engineers are doing the best they can with the East Coast railways."

"What about Dale and his friends?"

Ernshaw's dark, sallow face was lit with triumph.

"They are flustered to death like a lot of rabbits in the middle of a cornfield, with the reapers at work'!" he exclaimed. "Heckled and terrified to' death! Cecil was at them the other night. 'Are you not,' he cried, 'the representatives of the people?' Wilmott was in the House--one of us--treasurer for the Amalgamated Society, and while Dale was hesitating, he sprang up. 'Before God, no!' he answered. 'There isn't a Labour Member in this House who stands for more than the constituency he represents, or is here for more than the salary he draws. The cause of the people is in safer hands.' Then they called for you. There have been questions about your whereabouts every day. They wanted to impeach you for high treason. Through all the storm, Foley is the only man who has kept quiet. He sent for me. I referred him to you."

1. Ernshaw
2. Aaron
3. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who arrived shortly after he left?
2. and who was "guiding" him?
3. Did they shake hands?

Q: Washington (CNN) -- When the race is done, the balloons have wilted, and the confetti has been swept up, Campaign 2012 may be marked more by its failures than its triumphs.

But here's the starkest failure in these final days before the vote: Neither candidate has made a convincing enough argument for his presidency to break free of the margin of error in the polls.

No matter who is elected, close to as many Americans will have voted against him as for him.

Sure, Barack Obama has generally stayed a point or two ahead of his rival in most battlegrounds, but despite his mighty pushes and the advantage of the bully pulpit he has rarely done any better. And Mitt Romney, while he has managed to relentlessly nip at the president's heels like a dog chasing a car (as opposed to one riding on top), he has never been able to decisively bridge the gap from "also ran" to "front runner."

Mad dash in final bid for votes

The most recent CNN Poll of Polls -- an average of 10 national polls -- has Obama just one point ahead of Romney, 48%-47%. The latest CNN/ORC survey in the battleground state of Ohio has Obama up 50%-47%, and in Florida by just one point, 50%-49%. Both results are well within the polls' margin of error of plus or minus 3.5%.

And if both parties are not haunted by the ever-growing mob of voters calling themselves independents, they ought to be.

At least Dr. Rita Kirk at Southern Methodist University thinks so. She is director of the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. "Independent isn't a party," she says. "It just means 'none of the above.' People are not really satisfied with either party."

1. Obama
2. Romney
3. one point
4. No
5. 48%-47%
6. Ohio and Florida
7. Obama
8. 2012
9. They will wilt
10. its failures
11. its triumphs
12. no
13. Dr. Rita Kirk
14. Southern Methodist University
15. director
16. the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility.
17. Independent isn't a party
18. It just means 'none of the above.
19. no

Numbered questions:
1. Who is leading in the most recent poll referenced?
2. Against who?
3. By what percentage?
4. 50-49?
5. What then?
6. What key states were mentioned?
7. Who was leading there?
8. What year is this election?
9. What is going to happen to the balloons?
10. What does the author think the election will be remembered for?
11. Rather then what?
12. Is either person expected to win big?
13. Who is the first female mentioned by name?
14. Where does she work?
15. What is her job title?
16. Of what?
17. What is she quoted as saying?
18. What is it actually?
19. Are these voters happy with either party?

Q: The 1992 Summer Olympic Games (Spanish: "Juegos Olimpicos de Verano de 1992"; Catalan: "Jocs Olimpics d'estiu de 1992"), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event played in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992. Beginning in 1994, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the games in alternating even-numbered years; as a result, the 1992 Summer Olympics were the last competition to be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics. The games were the first to be unaffected by boycotts since 1972.

Barcelona is the second-largest city in Spain, and the birthplace of then-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch. The city was also a host for the 1982 FIFA World Cup. On October 17, 1986, Barcelona was selected to host the 1992 Summer Games over Amsterdam, Belgrade, Birmingham, Brisbane, and Paris, during the 91st IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland. Barcelona had previously bid for the 1936 Summer Olympics, but they ultimately lost to Berlin.

The 1992 Summer Olympic programme featured 257 events in the following 25 sports:

A total of 169 nations sent athletes to compete in the 1992 Summer Games.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, twelve of the fifteen new states formed a Unified Team, while the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania each had their own teams for the first time since 1936. For the first time, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina competed as independent nations after their separation from Socialist Yugoslavia, and Namibia and the unified team of Yemen (previously North and South Yemen) also made their Olympic debuts.

1. 1992
2. Summer
3. Games of the XXV Olympiad
4. be staged in the same year as the Winter Olympics
5. No
6. second-largest
7. Juan Antonio Samaranch.
8. then-IOC president
9. FIFA World Cup
10. 1986
11. 1936 Olympics
12. Berlin
13. 257
14. 25
15. 169 nations

Numbered questions:
1. What year were the Olympics held in Barcelona?
2. Summer or winter?
3. What were they officially called?
4. What were the 1992 Olympics the last to do?
5. Is Barcelona Spain's largest city?
6. What are they?
7. Who was born there?
8. What was his title?
9. What did the city host in 1982?
10. When was the city selected to host the olympics?
11. What other year did they try to host them?
12. Who did they lose to?
13. How many events were in the 1992 games?
14. How many different sports?
15. How many countries competed?