Problem: "Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1985, "some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home." But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lighining-bug . But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Althoug fan became the usual term. sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseballbugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, "to install an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant "to cheat", and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a _ in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug' in his invented record player."
1. Who said bugs were eating the plants?
2. What was he also known as?
3. Was somebody already using that word before him?
4. Who?
5. What glowing bug had Americans named?
6. In the 19th and 20th centuries?
7. When did someone find a bug in his record player?
8. Who?
9. How long did it take him to find it?
10. Since when has bug meant to cheat?
11. A hundred years later, what did it mean?
12. Could a lunatic be referred to as a bug?
13. Did the English stop using the word?
14. What's an object you could call a bug?
15. Did they call baseball fans bugs?
16. In what year did he start being used like a computer glitch?
17. When did Washing write about bugs in his diary?
18. What sort of alarm was called a bug?
19. Was something to eavesdrop with known as a bug?
20. How was it used to describe a car?
Answer: 1. George Washington
2. father of America
3. Yes
4. Englishmen
5. lighining-bug
6. Yes
7. 1889
8. Edison
9. two previous nights
10. 1840s
11. annoying
12. No
13. Yes
14. small machine
15. Yes
16. 1878
17. 1985
18. burglar alarm
19. Yes.
20. unknown

Q: The booger on the balloon sailed far and wide. The wind pushed it. The wind pulled it. The booger on the balloon sailed into a house. In the house was a table. On the table was an orange. Next to the orange was some chocolate. Under the table was a crayon. Under the crayon was a seed. The booger on the balloon flew out of the house. Outside, there was snow. A dog went woof. A cat went meow. But the booger on the balloon did not hear them. The booger on the balloon had no ears! The wind blew the booger on the balloon far away, until one day...

...POP!

The booger on the balloon fell on top of an alligator, never to be seen again.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was the weather like?
2. How many animals were there?
3. What sound did the booger make?
4. When was it seen after hitting the alligator?
5. How many objects did it hit?
6. What was on the table?
7. What was under it?
8. What sounds did the dog and cat make?
9. What sound did the alligator make?
10. What caused the balloon to move?
A: 1. Outside, there was snow
2. two
3. POP
4. nowhere
5. unknown
6. an orange and some chocolate
7. a crayon and a seed
8. A dog went woof. A cat went meow
9. unknown
10. The wind

Problem: London (CNN) -- Pierre Omidyar, founder of online auction site eBay, said Wednesday he is teaming up with journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has led reporting on secret U.S. surveillance programs, to create a new online mass media venture.

Greenwald announced late Tuesday that he was quitting The Guardian for "a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity" but said he was not ready to give more details.

Now Omidyar has confirmed to CNN's Christiane Amanpour that he is behind the new media venture, which includes Greenwald and others -- and that he will personally fund it.

Greenwald has been at the forefront of a series of high-profile reports based on leaks from former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Journalist Jeremy Scahill and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras will also be joining the venture, Omidyar said.

Greenwald has been working with Poitras, based in Berlin, on NSA-related stories. Scahill is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."

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Greenwald, who lives in Brazil, said Tuesday that it had not been easy to leave The Guardian, but that he could not turn down the "momentous new venture."

"My partnership with the Guardian has been extremely fruitful and fulfilling: I have high regard for the editors and journalists with whom I worked and am incredibly proud of what we achieved," he said.

"The decision to leave was not an easy one, but I was presented with a once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity that no journalist could possibly decline. "
1. Where does Greenwald live?
2. Which organization is he leaving?
3. Was he pleased with his work there?
4. What will be his new opportunity?
5. Who is he partnering with?
6. What business did he create?
7. Who will be funding this new project?
8. Has this information been confirmed?
9. To whom?
10. At what company?
11. Which journalist is also involved in the project?
12. Which of his works became a best-seller?
13. Where is Laura Poitras based out of?
14. What is her profession?
15. Is she a part of the new team?
16. Who has she already had some experience working with?
17. On what?
18. Who was the former NSA contractor who exposed several leaks?
19. Who thinks he deserves a Nobel Prize?
20. Who has already reported on secret surveillance programs in the past?
Answer:
1. Brazil
2. The Guardian
3. Yes
4. a new online mass media venture
5. Pierre Omidyar
6. eBay
7. Omidyar
8. yes
9. Christiane Amanpour
10. CNN
11. Jeremy Scahill
12. "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."
13. Berlin
14. documentary filmmaker
15. Yes
16. Greenwald
17. NSA-related stories
18. Edward Snowden
19. his father
20. Glenn Greenwald