Q: (CNN) -- Lionel Messi has agreed a new contract with Barcelona, which will keep the Argentine at the Spanish club until 2018.

The 25-year-old already had a deal that expired with the European giants in 2016, but that has now been extended by two years.

Messi has been in sensational form this year, scoring 90 goals for both club and country to surpass the previous goalscoring record for a calendar year set by Gerd Mueller in 1972, when the German scored 85 goals.

The 21-time Spanish champions have also verbally agreed new deals with midfielder Xavi, who will extend his contract from 2014 until 2016, while defender Carles Puyol, whose contract had been due to expire next year, will stay with Barca until 2016.

None of the players has yet to put pen to paper on their new contracts but the Barca website says this will happen "over the course of the next few weeks".

"This news means that FC Barcelona has secured its ties with three of its most important players," the club said on its official website.

While both club captain Puyol, 34, and Xavi, 32, are significant figures at the club, Barcelona officials are likely to look upon the extension of Messi's deal as the most important.

Widely regarded as the best footballer in the world, the diminutive Argentina international has often spoke of the debt of gratitude he believes he owes the Catalan club.

At the age of 11, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency and neither his existing club in his home town Rosario -- Newell's Old Boys -- nor Buenos Aires giants River Plate were prepared to provide the money to treat his condition, which amounted to some US$1,000 per month.

Answer the following questions:
1. How old is Messi?
2. He has agreed a new contract with who?
3. What will this contract lead to?
4. Who are the significant figures at the club?
5. His deal with European giants expired in what year/
6. At what age was Messi diagnosed with a deficiency?
7. What's the name of the deficiency?
8. Was anyone prepared to give money for his treatment?
9. what was the amount that was needed monthly?
10. When did the German score 85 goals?
A: 1. 25
2. Barcelona
3. it will keep the Argentine at the Spanish club
4. Puyol and Xavi
5. 2016
6. 11
7. a growth hormone deficiency
8. no
9. $1,000
10. in 1972
Q: The Peales were a famous family of American artists. Charles Willson Peale is best remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution. He painted portraits of Franklin and Jefferson and over a dozen of George Washington. His life-size portrait of his sons Raphaelle and Titian was so realistic that George Washington reportedly once tipped his hat to the figures in the picture. Charles Willson Peale gave up painting in his middle age and devoted his life to the Peale museum, which he founded in Philadelphia. The world's first popular museum of art and natural science mainly covered paintings by Peale and his family as well as displays of animals in their natural settings. Peale found the animals himself and found a method to make the exhibits more lifelike. The museum's most popular display was the skeleton of a huge, extinct elephant, which Peale _ on a New York farm in 1801. Three of Peale's seventeen children were also famous artists. Paphaelle Peale often painted still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese. His brother Rembrandt studied under his father and painted portraits of many noted people, including one of George Washington. Another brother, Rubens Peale, painted mostly landscapes and portraits. James Peale, the brother of Charles Willson Peale, specialized in miniatures . His daughter Sarah Miriam Peale was probably the first professional female portrait painter in America.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was the Peale family occupation?
2. What is Charles Wilson Peale known best for?
3. How many figures are listed?
4. Is John Adams one of them?
5. How many paintings of George Washington did he paint?
6. Who did he fool with his life-like painting?
7. Who was depicted in that artwork?
8. What were their names?
9. Did Peale paint when he was elderly?
10. Why not?
11. Why?
12. Where was that located?
13. Was it the first art museum for ordinary people?
14. What else was there besides paintings?
15. What science displays were there?
16. Was there an elephant skeleton there?
17. Did people like to see it?
18. Who many children did he have?
19. And how many were artists?
20. What were Paphaelle's subjects?
21. Where did Rembrandt Peale study?
A: 1. they were artists
2. his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution.
3. Three
4. No
5. more than 12
6. George Washington
7. his sons
8. Raphaelle and Titian
9. No
10. he gave up painting in his middle age
11. he devoted his life to the Peale museum
12. Philadelphia
13. Yes
14. natural science
15. displays of animals in their natural settings
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. seventeen
19. . Three
20. still lives of flowers, fruit, and cheese
21. under his father
Q: In England, a civil parish (CP) is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. It is an administrative parish, in contrast to an ecclesiastical parish.

A civil parish can range in size from a large town with a population of about 80,000 to a single village with fewer than a hundred inhabitants. In a limited number of cases a parish might include a whole city where city status has been granted by the Monarch. Reflecting this diverse nature, a civil parish may be known as a town, village, neighbourhood or community by resolution of its parish council. Approximately 35% of the English population live in a civil parish. As of 31 December 2015 there were 10,449 parishes in England.

On 1 April 2014, Queen's Park became the first civil parish in Greater London. Before 2008 their creation was not permitted within a London borough.

The division of land into ancient parishes was linked to the manorial system: parishes and manors often covered the same area and had the same boundaries. The manor was the principal unit of local administration and justice in the early rural economy. Later the church replaced the manor court as the rural administrative centre, and levied a local tax on produce known as a tithe. In the medieval period, responsibilities such as relief of the poor passed increasingly from the Lord of the Manor to the parish's rector, who in practice would delegate tasks among his vestry or the (often well-endowed) monasteries. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the power to levy a rate to fund relief of the poor was conferred on the parish authorities by the Act for the Relief of the Poor 1601. Both before and after this optional social change, local (vestry-administered) charities are well-documented.

Answer the following questions:
1. How many parishes were there in England in 2015?
2. What is a civil parish?
3. What kind of territorial designation is it?
4. About what percentage of English live in a civil parish?
5. What was the first civil parish in Greater London?
6. On what date?
7. What was the dividing up of land into ancient parishes linked to?
8. What was a manor?
9. What later replaced it?
10. What's the range in size of a civil parish?
11. Can parishes include whole cities?
12. What wasn't permitted before 2008?
13. In medieval times, where did responsibilities pass?
14. What was the Act for the Relief of the Poor?
15. In what year?
16. Did parishes and manors sometimes cover the same places?
17. What was the main unit of local administration and justice in early rural economy?
18. What was a tithe?
19. Who delegated tasks to his vestry?
A:
1. 10,449
2. a town, village, neighbourhood or community
3. the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties
4. Approximately 35
5. Queen's Park
6. 1 April 2014
7. the manorial system
8. the principal unit of local administration and justice in the early rural economy
9. the church
10. about 80,000 to fewer than a hundred inhabitants
11. Yes
12. creation of civil parishes were not permitted within a London borough.
13. to the parish's rector
14. the power to levy a rate to fund relief of the poor
15. 1601
16. Yes
17. The manor
18. a local tax on produce
19. the parish's rector