Q: Connie Talbot was born on November 20th, 2000. She is an English child singer from Streetly, West Midlands. She is best known for being on "Britain's Got Talent"(<<>> )when she was just six. She has been singing since she was 19 months old. The song she is most known for is Somewhere over the Rainbow. And now she is touring the country with the UK's biggest children's choir--Young Voices. Do you know what the Young Voices Tour is? Well, it's a great event for children. It is great for them to sing on a big stage with thousands of other children. Everyone waits for the parents to arrive in the evening to watch the children put on a great show. There is so much fun. When the lights turn on, everyone sings together at the same time as one. It's so loud and powerful . Connie loves looking around at the choir and seeing everyone so happy when she was performing. "We've heard you got a new Guinness world record!" I asked her. "Yes! I am very proud. It was amazing to get the Guinness world record for the biggest choir at the back of a singer. I am glad to share that world record with more than 6000 other children present that day," she answered.

Answer the following questions:
1. How old was Talbot on Britain's Got Talent?
2. Who was with her to get the world record?
3. When was she born?
4. What is the Young Voices Tour?
5. What song is she best known for?
6. Was she 2 years old when she began singing?
7. Are the parents there at the tour event?
8. Where is Connie from?
9. Who asked her about the world record?
10. How did she feel about getting the record?
A: 1. six
2. more than 6000 other children
3. November 20th, 2000
4. a great event for children
5. Somewhere over the Rainbow
6. no
7. yes
8. Streetly, West Midlands
9. I
10. amazing
Q: Mesopotamia (, "[land] between rivers"; "bilad ar-rafidayn"; ; "miyan rudan"; "Beth Nahrain" "land of rivers") was a historic region situated within the TigrisEuphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and IranIraq borders.

The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.

Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthian Empire. Mesopotamia became a battleground between the Romans and Parthians, with western parts of Mesopotamia coming under ephemeral Roman control. In AD 226, eastern part of it fell to the Sassanid Persians. Division of Mesopotamia between Roman (Byzantine from AD 395) and Sassanid Empires lasted until the 7th century Muslim conquest of Persia of the Sasanian Empire and Muslim conquest of the Levant from Byzantines. A number of primarily neo-Assyrian and Christian native Mesopotamian states existed between the 1st century BC and 3rd century AD, including Adiabene, Osroene, and Hatra.

Answer the following questions:
1. Were there Assyrians in Mesopotamia in 2000 BC?
2. Name one other group that was present around that time.
3. What is 3100 BC often known as?
4. Who took over Babylon?
5. Was that in 500 AD?
6. When then?
7. Who took the area after that?
8. When?
9. Did he control it until he died?
10. And what happened then?
11. Did the Romans ever take over?
12. Which part?
13. Who did they fight with for control?
14. What later happened to the eastern portion?
15. Who divided the area in 600 AD?
16. Who took over Persia in the seventh century?
17. What else did they conquer at that time?
A: 1. yes
2. The Sumerians
3. the beginning of written history
4. the Achaemenid Empire
5. no
6. 539 BC
7. Alexander the Great
8. 332 BC
9. yes
10. it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.
11. yes
12. western parts
13. the Parthians
14. it fell to the Sassanid Persians
15. unknown
16. Muslim
17. Levant from Byzantines
Q: James was a nice old man who lived by himself. Every day he would walk down the road by his house and say hello to everyone. It was fun saying hello to everyone but he felt lonely sometimes. He wanted a pet to take care of. One day as he was walking down the road a little brown and spotted puppy came up to him and wanted James to pet him. James reached down and petted the puppy and smiled. James hoped to see the puppy again. Many days later James went for a walk again. He thought to himself, "I guess I won't ever see the brown puppy again. I hoped to see him again." A nice young lady said to James, "Would you like a puppy?" James said, "I would like a puppy that was like the one I petted before." The lady smiled. She was holding the little brown and spotted puppy. She told James that she found the little puppy in the woods. She said that the little puppy did not have a family. James said happily, "I would love to give the puppy a home!" So James grabbed the little brown and spotted puppy and took him home. James and the little brown puppy became great friends. James named him Spotty.

Answer the following questions:
1. who was james?
2. did he have a family?
3. did he like that?
4. who did he greet?
5. did he enjoy that?
6. what approached him?
7. what did it want?
8. did he?
A:
1. A nice old man
2. No
3. unknown
4. everyone
5. Yes
6. a little brown and spotted puppy
7. It wanted James to pet him
8. Yes