Q: Washington (CNN) -- Establishment Republicans, backed by business-friendly outside groups, launched a counter-offensive this year against conservative Senate challengers after two election cycles of hard-right candidates winning GOP primaries but losing in November.

Republicans need to flip six seats this year to win back the majority and don't want the same scenario to play out again. The tea party's scorecard this year is far different than in 2010 and 2012, when it knocked off several establishment-backed candidates.

Short-lived tea party victories

It's too early to say if the party's over, but as Stuart Rothenberg of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report wrote earlier this month, "it's already clear that the pragmatist conservatives have stopped the anti-establishment's electoral momentum."

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March 4

Firebrand Republican Rep. Steve Stockman launched a last-minute bid against Texas Sen. John Cornyn, but he never seriously challenged the incumbent. Cornyn won by more than 40 points.

May 6

North Carolina state House Speaker Thom Tillis won big against his top two conservative opponents, winning enough of the vote in the primary to avoid a costly runoff that would have delayed his general election face-off against Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, one of the nation's most vulnerable incumbents.

May 13

The primary in solidly red Nebraska might have been the high-water mark for the tea party in this cycle. Ben Sasse, a former Bush administration official who was endorsed by high-profile conservatives like Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin as well as the Club for Growth and other well-funded conservative groups, beat his two primary opponents and will likely coast to victory in November.

1. Six
2. Establishment
3. Knocked off several establishment-backed candidates.
4. Steve Stockman
5. John Cornyn
6. Texas
7. Yes, Cornyn did
8. More than 40 points
9. Thom Tillis
10. He won
11. No
12. Kay Hagan
13. No
14. Bush
15. Ted Cruz
16. Yes
17. Sarah Palin
18. Yes
19. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. How many seats do Republicans need for the majority?
2. which kind of Republicans launched a campaign against challengers?
3. What did the Tea Party do in 2010 and 2012?
4. Which man is referred to as a "Firebrand?"
5. who did he run against?
6. in which state were they running?
7. did he win?
8. How much did Stockman lose by?
9. Who is speaker of North Carolina
10. did he win or lose his primary?
11. did he have a run off election?
12. who will he run against in the main election?
13. is this her first time running for office?
14. What president did Ben Sasse work under?
15. Who endorsed him?
16. anyone else?
17. who?
18. any groups?
19. is he expected to win his contest?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. On a sunny day in July, Sylvia left the front gate open. From the spot where Rex was napping in the grassy yard, he had listened to the sound of the gate sliding open, and waited for it to snap shut. It didn't. The click of Sylvia's shoes faded into the distance, and yet the snap of the shutting gate didn't come. Finally, Rex pushed himself up on one paw so he could look towards the front of the yard, where the gate moved in the breeze. Rex moved slowly towards the gate at first, but as he neared the sidewalk he shot through the opening, his shiny black fur twinkling in the sun as he sped down the street. Rex ran from block to block through the neighborhood, with no leash to pull him back. When all four legs started to burn from running, Rex slowed down and started sniffing the grass around him. His stomach growled and he hoped he'd find some food in the grass. All he found was sidewalk chalk, a few little black ants, and flowers that made him sneeze. The sun was going down, and Rex thought about Sylvia coming home to rub his ears and fill his food bowl. He looked up and down the sidewalk for his home. Nothing. Rex was lost. He stood completely still and raised his ears as high as they would go. He sat and listened, and listened and sat. Just as the sun passed over the mountains in the distance, Rex heard, from very far away, the soft "click click click" of Sylvia walking towards the house. Rex ran home. 1. what did rex hear?
2. what sound did that make?
3. was it loud?
4. what month was it?
5. how was the weather/
6. what did sylvia do on that day?
7. what didn't rex hear?
8. where was he?
9. doing what?
10. what color was he?
11. did rex immediately leave?
12. was his fur matted?
13. where did he run?
14. what wasn't he wearing that he usually did?
15. what did he do when he finished running?
16. what was he feeling then?
17. was he able to get anything to eat?
18. did rex know where his home was?
19. how did he know where it was?
20. where did the sun set behind?
numbered_answers: 1. Sylvia walking towards the house
2. click click click
3. no
4. July
5. sunny
6. left the front gate open
7. the gate closing
8. the yard
9. napping
10. black
11. no
12. no
13. the neighborhood
14. a leash
15. slowed down and started sniffing the grass
16. hungry
17. no
18. no
19. he heard sylvia walking home
20. the mountains

(CNN) -- Ariel Castro used the promise of a puppy to lure Michelle Knight into the Cleveland home where he held her hostage for 11 years.

"He tells me, 'Just come in for a little while. The puppies are upstairs. You can take one home to your son,'" Knight said in an interview broadcast Tuesday on the syndicated "Dr. Phil" talk show.

But she soon realized there were no puppies inside Castro's home. And it wasn't long, Knight said, before he trapped her in an upstairs room and tied her up with an extension cord. From there, he took her down into the basement about 24 hours later, she said.

It was the beginning of more than a decade of torture, rape, starvation and beatings for Knight. The hope of seeing her son again, she said, inspired her fight to survive.

"I want my son to know me as a victor, not a victim," Knight told host Dr. Phil McGraw. "And I wanted him to know that I survived, loving him. His love got me through."

Castro lured Knight into his vehicle from a Family Dollar store in Cleveland in 2002, promising to give her a ride. She was the first of three women he would capture and imprison in his home for about a decade. They were freed in May after one of the women, Amanda Berry, called out to neighbors for help.

In August, Castro was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years after he pleaded guilty to 937 counts, including murder and kidnapping. He committed suicide in his prison cell in September. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How'd Castro lure someone?
2. Who'd he lure?
3. Where'd he lure her to?
4. How long did he keep her?
5. How many counts did he plead guilty to?
6. What was one of the counts?
7. What was the other?
8. How long was his sentence?
9. When was he sentenced?
10. What did Casto spend a decade doing to Knight?
11. Did she fight to survive?
12. Why?
13. What'd Castro use to tie her up with?
14. What show did she appear on?
15. What did her son's love do for Knight?
16. What had Castro promised to give Knight?
17. What else?
18. When?
19. Where?
20. How many other women were there?
Answer:
1. with puppies
2. Michelle Knight
3. into his home
4. about a decade.
5. 937
6. murder
7. kidnapping
8. \life in prison plus 1,000 years
9. In August
10. torture, rape, starvation and beatings
11. yes
12. The hope of seeing her son again
13. an extension cord.
14. \Dr. Phil
15. got her through."
16. a puppy
17. a ride
18. 2002,
19. Cleveland
20. three