Q: Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewellery, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. It took its name, short for "Arts Decoratifs", from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925. It combined modernist styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.

Art Deco was a pastiche of many different styles, sometimes contradictory, united by a desire to be modern. From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism; the bright colors of Fauvism and of the Ballets Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis Philippe and Louis XVI; and the exotic styles of China and Japan, India, Persia, ancient Egypt and Maya art. It featured rare and expensive materials, such as ebony and ivory, and exquisite craftsmanship. The Chrysler Building and other skyscrapers of New York built during the 1920s and 1930s are monuments of the Art Deco style.

1. building design
2. yes
3. radios and vacuum cleaners
4. modernist styles
5. rich materials
6. The Chrysler Building
7. other skyscrapers built during the 1920s and 1930s
8. Arts Decoratifs
9. 1925
10. Paris
11. luxury
12. glamour
13. yes
14. yes
15. a desire to be modern
16. bold geometric forms
17. Cubism
18. the bright colors
19. unknown
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Name something Art Deco had an effect on?
2. Any common household items?
3. Like what?
4. That style merged fine craftmanship with what?
5. And what else?
6. What monument is considered Art Deco in New York?
7. Just the Chrysler Building?
8. What is the long, proper name for Art Deco?
9. What year did the exhibition that the term came from happen?
10. Where?
11. During it's prime, what's something Art Deco stood for?
12. What else?
13. Was Art Deco formed by lots of different styles?
14. Did they sometimes contradict each other?
15. What brought them together?
16. From the start, it was influenced by what ind of forms?
17. Known as?
18. What stood out about Fauvism?
19. Who was this in the time of?
20. Did the style incorporate ebony and ivory?

Q: (CNN) -- NASCAR's Hall of Fame class for 2015 includes Bill Elliott, one of its most popular drivers ever, and Wendell Scott, the only African-American to win a top-level race, the auto racing sanctioning body announced Wednesday.

Three other drivers -- Fred Lorenzen, Joe Weatherly and Rex White -- will be inducted at a ceremony on January 30 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Elliott won one Winston Cup title and 44 races in his 37-year career, including two victories at the Daytona 500. Known as "Awesome Bill from Dawsonville", a reference to his Georgia hometown, Elliott won the series top circuit championship in 1988. He was voted NASCAR's most popular driver a record 16 times.

In 1963, Scott became the only African-American to win a race at NASCAR's highest level, taking a 100-mile feature at Jacksonville, Florida, on December 1. He also was the first African-American to race full time in NASCAR's premier series, called the Grand National Series at the time.

Scott made the top 10 in 30% of the races in his 13-year Grand National career. He was portrayed in the 1977 movie "Greased Lightning" by Richard Pryor. He died in 1990.

Lorenzen was considered one of the sport's first superstars and won 26 races while running a part-time schedule in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Weatherly was a two-time champion, in 1962 and in 1963, when he raced for nine different teams.

White was a short-track specialist in the early days of NASCAR. And since there were few super speedways, White finished in the top five about half the time. He won the 1960 championship and 28 races in his career (only twice at tracks longer than a mile).

1. Bill Elliott
2. Bill Elliott

Numbered questions:
1. Who was part of Nascar's Hall of Fame for 2015?
2. Who was the driver that most people liked the most?

Q: CHAPTER II

A fat, unwholesome--looking creature, half native, half Belgian, waddled across the open space towards the hut in which the two strangers had been housed. He was followed at a little distance by two sturdy natives bearing a steaming pot which they carried on a pole between them. Trent set down his revolver and rose to his feet.

"What news, Oom Sam?" he asked. "Has the English officer been heard of? He must be close up now."

"No news," the little man grunted. "The King, he send some of his own supper to the white men. 'They got what they want,' he say. 'They start work mine soon as like, but they go away from here.' He not like them about the place! See!"

"Oh, that be blowed!" Trent muttered. "What's this in the pot? It don't smell bad."

"Rabbit," the interpreter answered tersely. "Very good. Part King's own supper. White men very favoured."

Trent bent over the pot which the two men had set upon the ground. He took a fork from his belt and dug it in.

"Very big bones for a rabbit, Sam," he remarked doubtfully.

Sam looked away. "Very big rabbits round here," he remarked. "Best keep pot. Send men away."

Trent nodded, and the men withdrew.

"Stew all right," Sam whispered confidentially. "You eat him. No fear. But you got to go. King beginning get angry. He say white men not to stay. They got what he promised, now they go. I know King--know this people well! You get away quick. He think you want be King here! You got the papers--all you want, eh?"

1. yes
2. A fat, unwholesome--looking creature, half native, half Belgian
3. two sturdy natives
4. set down his revolver
5. and rose to his feet.
6. yes
7. Rabbit
8. yes
9. when Trent nodded
10. To go

Numbered questions:
1. Was someone followed?
2. Who?
3. By who?
4. What did Trent do
5. Then what?
6. Was something in the pot?
7. What?
8. Was it big?
9. When did the men withdraw
10. What did Sam want Trent to do