Problem: CHAPTER THIRTEEN.

TYRANTS AND PLOTTERS.

Leaving Christian and Adams to carry out their philanthropic intentions, we return to Matthew Quintal, whom we left sprawling on the ground in his garden.

This garden was situated in one of the little valleys not far from Bounty Bay. Higher up in the same valley stood the hut of McCoy. Towards this hut Quintal, after gathering himself up, wended his way in a state of unenviable sulkiness.

His friend McCoy was engaged at the time in smoking his evening pipe, but that pipe did not now seem to render him much comfort, for he growled and puffed in a way that showed he was not soothed by it, the reason being that there was no tobacco in the pipe. That weed,--which many people deem so needful and so precious that one sometimes wonders how the world managed to exist before Sir Walter Raleigh put it to its unnatural use--had at last been exhausted on Pitcairn Island, and the mutineers had to learn to do without it. Some of them said they didn't care, and submitted with a good grace to the inevitable. Others growled and swore and fretted, saying that they knew they couldn't live without it. To their astonishment, and no doubt to their disgust, they did manage to live quite as healthily as before, and with obvious advantage to health and teeth. Two there were, however, namely, Quintal and McCoy, who would not give in, but vowed with their usual violence of language that they would smoke seaweed rather than want their pipes. Like most men of powerful tongue and weak will, they did not fulfil their vows. Seaweed was left to the gulls, but they tried almost every leaf and flower on the island without success. Then they scraped and dried various kinds of bark, and smoked that. Then they tried the fibrous husk of the cocoa-nut, and then the dried and pounded kernel, but all in vain. Smoke, indeed, they produced in huge volumes, but of satisfaction they had none. It was a sad case.
1. Who sprawled on the ground?
2. Where?
3. Who was left to carry out their philanthropic intention?
4. And who else?
5. Where was the garden located?
6. What stood in the valley?
7. Why was McCoy not relaxed by the pipe?
8. Did they smoke bark?
9. Was it sad?
10. What was left to the seagulls?
Answer: 1. Matthew Quintal
2. in his garden
3. Christian
4. Adams
5. in one of the valleys not far from Bounty Bay
6. hut of McCoy
7. there was no tobacco in the pipe
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. seaweed

Problem: Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or which the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critic's fame, stature, and volume of reviews.

Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, and a classmate from the University of Southern California law school, Jason Dietz. Rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005. CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation.

Nick Wingfield of "The Wall Street Journal" wrote in September 2004: "Mr. Doyle, 36, is now a senior product manager at CNET but he also acts as games editor of Metacritic". Speaking of video games, Doyle said: "A site like ours helps people cut through...unobjective promotional language". "By giving consumers, and web users specifically, early information on the objective quality of a game, not only are they more educated about their choices, but it forces publishers to demand more from their developers, license owners to demand more from their licensees, and eventually, hopefully, the games get better". He added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation.
1. When did Metacritic begin?
2. What month?
3. How many people helped design it?
4. Who are they?
5. What is it?
6. What is it a collection of?
7. Of What?
8. What does it do with the reviews scores?
9. What kind of average?
10. What is the review changed into?
11. Who bought Metacritic?
12. When?
13. Who owns it now?
14. Do they also own CNET?
15. Who is the games editor?
16. What is his other duty?
17. How old is he?
18. Who works for The Wall Street Journal?
19. What does he do there?
20. When did he write about Metacritic?
Answer: 1. 1999
2. July
3. Three
4. Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts
5. a website
6. reviews
7. media products
8. averages them?
9. weighted
10. a percentage
11. CNET
12. 2005
13. the CBS Corporation
14. yes
15. Mr. Doyle
16. senior product manager
17. 36
18. Nick Wingfield
19. writes
20. September 2004

Problem: The House of Bourbon is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty (). Bourbonic kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently have monarchs of the House of Bourbon.

The royal Bourbons originated in 1272 when the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon married the youngest son of King Louis IX. The house continued for three centuries as a cadet branch, while more senior Capetians ruled France, until Henry IV became the first Bourbon king of France in 1589. Bourbon monarchs then united to France the small kingdom of Navarre, which Henry's father had acquired by marriage in 1555, ruling both until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Restored briefly in 1814 and definitively in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the senior line of the Bourbons was finally overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. A cadet Bourbon branch, the House of Orleans, then ruled for 18 years (18301848), until it too was overthrown.

The Princes de Conde were a cadet branch of the Bourbons descended from an uncle of Henry IV, and the Princes de Conti were a cadet branch of the Conde. Both houses were prominent French noble families well known for their participation in French affairs, even during exile in the French Revolution, until their respective extinctions in 1830 and 1814.
1. What 's the main topic?
2. When did it originate?
3. Was the wife or the husband the Bourbon in the marriage?
4. Who did she marry?
5. What is The House of Bourbon?
6. In what century did the house have Spanish thrones?
7. What dynasty did they belong to?
8. In what century did they first rule?
9. And for how much longer did the house hold on?
10. What branch?
11. What types of rules were French property at the time?
12. Name a Bourbon cadet branch?
Answer:
1. The House of Bourbon
2. 1272
3. wife
4. the youngest son of King Louis IX.
5. a European royal house of French origin
6. By the 18th century
7. the Spanish Bourbon dynasty
8. 16th
9. three centuries
10. a cadet branch
11. senior Capetians
12. the House of Orleans