question: Playing a football player won Cuba Gooding Jr. an Oscar. Could playing another -- one who was the focus of "the trial of the century" -- win him further accolades?

The actor has been cast as O.J. Simpson in the new FX anthology miniseries "American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson," the network announced. Gooding won the Academy Award for best actor in a supporting role in 1996 for his performance as wide receiver Rod Tidwell in the film "Jerry Maguire."

The new miniseries will focus on the famous trial and according to a statement is "told from the perspective of the lawyers that explores the chaotic behind-the-scenes dealings and maneuvering on both sides of the court, and how a combination of prosecution confidence, defense wiliness, and the LAPD's history with the city's African-American community gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt."

The miniseries was developed by Ryan Murphy, who created the very successful "American Horror Story" anthology franchise for FX. Murphy didn't have to look far for his Marcia Clarke; the prosecuting attorney will be played by Sarah Paulson, who has appeared in all four seasons of "American Horror Story."

Each season of "American Crime Story" will delve into a different true crime story that made headlines and captivated the public. The first season is based on the book "The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson" by CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

Production is scheduled to begin early next year in Los Angeles.

1. Where is production scheduled to start?
2. When?
3. Will every season of American Crime Story be about the same crime?
4. Will it cover very obscure crimes?
5. Was the first season based on radio waves emitting from space?
6. What was it based on then?
7. Who wrote that?
8. What's his professional title?
9. What organization is he associated with?
10. Who's the first season of ACS about?
11. What actor is playing him?
12. Has Cuba ever played a football player before?
13. Who?
14. Was his portrayal as Rod well received?
15. When did he have that role?
16. In what film?
17. Does the LAPD have a good history or a bad history with a community within L.A.?
18. Which community?
19. What did the LAPD's bad history with that community provide a jury with?
20. What other show has Ryan Murphy created?
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answer: 1. Los Angeles.
2. Early next year
3. No
4. No
5. No
6. The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
7. Jeffrey Toobin.
8. CNN legal analyst
9. CNN
10. O.J. Simpson
11. Cuba Gooding Jr.
12. Yes
13. Rod Tidwell
14. Yes
15. 1996
16. Jerry Maguire
17. No
18. African-American
19. Reasonable doubt
20. American Horror Story

question: CHAPTER XI

Thus William Wetherell became established in Coniston, and was started at last--poor man--upon a life that was fairly tranquil. Lem Hallowell had once covered him with blushes by unfolding a newspaper in the store and reading an editorial beginning: "We publish today a new and attractive feature of the Guardian, a weekly contribution from a correspondent whose modesty is to be compared only with his genius as a writer. We are confident that the readers of our Raper will appreciate the letter in another column signed 'W. W.'" And from that day William was accorded much of the deference due to a litterateur which the fates had hitherto denied him. Indeed, during the six years which we are about to skip over so lightly, he became a marked man in Coniston, and it was voted in towns meeting that he be intrusted with that most important of literary labors, the Town History of Coniston.

During this period, too, there sprang up the strangest of intimacies between him and Jethro Bass. Surely no more dissimilar men than these have ever been friends, and that the friendship was sometimes misjudged was one of the clouds on William Wetherell's horizon. As the years went on he was still unable to pay off the mortgage; and sometimes, indeed, he could not even meet the interest, in spite of the princely sum he received from Mr. Willard of the Guardian. This was one of the clouds on Jethro's horizon, too, if men had but known it, and he took such moneys as Wetherell insisted upon giving him grudgingly enough. It is needless to say that he refrained from making use of Mr. Wetherell politically, although no poorer vessel for political purposes was ever constructed. It is quite as needless to say, perhaps, that Chester Perkins never got to be Chairman of the Board of Selectmen.
1. who was established in Coniston ?
2. who covered him ?
3. how ?
4. was the Guardian a yearly contribution ?
5. what was the column signed by ?
6. who became a marked man ?
7. what is the most important of literary labors ?
8. who was unable to pay the mortgage ?
9. Who paid him a large sum of money ?
10. of where ?
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answer: 1. William Wetherell
2. Lem Hallowell
3. reading an editorial
4. unknown
5. W. W.'"
6. William
7. the Town History of Coniston
8. William Wetherell
9. Mr. Willard
10. the Guardian

question: Cyprus (i/saprs/; Greek: IPA: [cipros]; Turkish: Kbrs IPA: [kbs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: ; Turkish: Kbrs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Syria and Turkey.[e] Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel and Palestine, north of Egypt and east of Greece.

The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians, was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914).
1. what did archaeologists find?
2. from what time frame?
3. where is it located?
4. who were the settlers in the area?
5. when did they settle?
6. how many people occupied it?
7. was it ever conquered?
8. by who?
9. when did they hold power?
10. is it the most populated place in the Sea?
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answer:
1. the Neolithic village of Khirokitia
2. from the 10th millennium BC
3. in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
4. by Mycenaean Greeks
5. the 2nd millennium BC
6. Nine
7. yes
8. The Ottoman's
9. between 1571 and 1878
10. no