Problem: London (CNN) -- Jurre Hermans, the 11-year-old Dutch boy who entered the 250,000 ($400,000) Wolfson Economics Prize with a pizza-based plan for saving the eurozone, did so because he had an idea and the winnings sounded "very attractive," he told CNN.

Jurre received a 100 ($131) gift voucher and special mention when the prize shortlist was announced Tuesday for his detailed entry -- including a picture, below -- showing how debt can be exchanged for slices of pizza.

Exiting the euro: As easy as pizza?

The competition was launched in October by Simon Wolfson, the man behind British retail chain Next, to try and find ways to deal with a collapse of the euro -- the currency tying together 17 European countries. The euro has been under intense pressure since Greece was forced to take a bail-out from its eurozone peers and the International Monetary Fund almost two years ago.

Through his father Julius, Jurre told CNN he had an idea to solve the euro crisis and also thought the prize money sounded "attractive."

Jurre, the youngest entrant to the prize, proposed Greece should leave the euro, with the Greek people slotting their funds into a bank "exchange machine" and getting drachma -- the Greek currency before the country joined the euro in 2001 -- back.

As Jurre explains in his application, the bank then gives the euros to the Greek government and "all these euros together form a pancake or a pizza. Now the Greek government can start to pay back all their debts, everyone who has a debt gets a slice of the pizza."
1. How old was the Dutch boy mentioned in this article?
2. How much was the prize in the contest he entered?
3. How did he describe the prize?
4. How much was the gift card he got worth?
5. What was as easy as pizza to him?
6. Who started the contest?
7. Which store was he working with?
8. What was the contest trying to do?
9. Who is Julius?
10. Who was he talking to?
11. Was Jurre the youngest person to enter the contest?
12. He proposed that Greece should do what?
13. So where should the Greek people put their money?
14. And then what would they get back?
15. When had they stopped using the drachma?
16. Would the bank give all the euros they got to someone else?
17. To who?
18. When all the euros are put together what do they make?
19. Then the Greek government can give each of its debholders what?
20. Did Jurre actually win the contest?
Answer: 1. 11
2. 250,000 ($400,000)
3. Attractive
4. 100 ($131)
5. Exiting the euro
6. Simon Wolfson,
7. Next,
8. Deal with a collapse of the euro
9. Jurre's father.
10. CNN
11. Yes.
12. Should leave the euro with the Greek
13. A bank "exchange machine"
14. Drachma.
15. 2001
16. Yes
17. The Greek government
18. A pancake or a pizza.
19. A slice of the pizza.
20. No.

Problem: When I was a little girl I lived in a place with no winter. It was always warm there. It never got cold. It never snowed. Sometimes it rained. Sometimes there was wind. But there was no snow on the trees or on the ground. There was no snow falling on our heads. There was no snow to make a snowman.

My teacher's name was Mrs. Scott. One day in December, Mrs. Scott told us that we were going to make a snowman. We were excited! We wanted to see a snowman. We knew how a snowman looked. We knew a snowman was made of three snowballs. A snowman had to have a carrot nose and black eyes and buttons. A snowman had a hat and a scarf. We knew all these things.

Mrs. Scott asked us to bring everything we needed to our classroom to make a snowman. Jimmy said, "I can bring the hat and the scarf." Anita said, "I can bring a carrot for the nose." Selma said, "I can cut out some black circles for the eyes and the buttons." Ricky asked, "But who can bring the snow?"

Mrs. Scott said, "I know what to do."

The next day all the children brought the things for the snowman. We did not know where Mrs. Scott would get the snow. Then she showed us. Our snowman is made of three bushes! Three bushes painted white! We put all the things on the bushes and it looked like a real snowman.
1. What did the teacher say the class would build?
2. what was her name?
3. and in what month was this?
4. what was the snowman made out of?
5. Who was bringing the accessories for it?
6. Who brought items for the head?
7. And what about for the face?
8. Why was there no white powder to use?
9. what was the temperature like?
10. was there any sort of precipitation?
11. what kind?
Answer: 1. a snowman
2. Mrs. Scott
3. December
4. snowballs
5. the students
6. Jimmy
7. Anita
8. there was no winter
9. warm
10. Sometimes
11. rain

Problem: One day in 1924, five men who were camping in the Cascade Mountains saw a group of huge apelike creatures coming out of the woods. They hurried back to their wooden house and locked themselves inside. While they were in, the creatures threw rocks against the house. Several hours later these strange hairy giants went back into the woods. After the men returned to the town and told the people about their adventure, _ . These were the people who remembered hearing tales about footprints of an animal that walked like a human being. The five men, however, were not the first to have seen these creatures called Bigfoot. Long before their experience, the local Native Americans were certain that a group of apelike animals had been living in the _ mountain for centuries. In 1958, some workers, who were building a road through the jungles of Northern California, often found huge footprints in the earth around their camp. Then in 1967, Roger Patterson, a man who was interested in finding Bigfoot, went into the same jungles with a friend. While riding, they were suddenly thrown off from their horses. Patterson saw a tall apelike animal standing not far away. He managed to take photos of the hairy creature before it disappeared in the jungles. When Patterson's photos were shown to the public, not many people believed his story. Richard Brown, an experienced hunter, discovered a similar creature. He saw the animal clearly through the telescopic lens of his rifle . He said the creature looked more like a human being than an animal. Later many other people also found deep footprints in the same area. In spite of regular reports of sightings and footprints, most experts still do not believe that Bigfoot really exists .
1. Who was camping one day?
2. Where?
3. What did they see?
4. What were they?
5. Were they the first to see them?
6. Who else saw them?
7. Who else?
8. Did he take a video of it?
9. How about a picture?
10. Did he show anyone?
Answer:
1. five men
2. Cascade Mountains
3. group of huge apelike creatures
4. Bigfoo
5. no
6. local Native Americans
7. Roger Patterson
8. no
9. yes
10. yes