(CNN) -- Lewis Hamilton has always been driven by his emotions -- for better or for worse -- but has he found a new level of maturity with Mercedes?

The double world champion has been schooled in the harsh lessons that Formula One can mete out since he joined McLaren's junior program when just 13 years old.

But, despite this careful education by one of the most straight laced teams in F1, the British boy racer cannot help wearing his heart on his sleeve.

There have been some heady highs and mesmerizing meltdowns in his eight-year career at the highest level of motorsport.

Fizzing with energy, he bounded into the sport in 2007 and refused to lie down when faced with Fernando Alonso, a double world champion, as his feisty McLaren teammate.

With Alonso gone after a single acrimonious season, Hamilton drove the McLaren to the 2008 title with "my heart in my mouth."

At just 23 years old, he had sensationally clinched the championship at the last corner, of the last lap, of the last race to deny Ferrari's Felipe Massa -- and a seething crowd of home fans -- in Brazil.

If 2008 was the young gun's giddy zenith, the 2011 campaign was his gut-wrenching nadir.

His long-distance relationship with American pop star Nicole Scherzinger was more off than on and he had ditched his dad Anthony as manager in favor of a high-profile agency.

Hamilton teetered on the edge of controversy and despair. The torch paper was lit at the Monaco Grand Prix when he was penalized by the race stewards. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was a double world champion?
2. In what?
3. At what age did he join McLaren's junior program?
4. Who did Hamilton have a long distance relationship with?
5. Where is she from?
6. And what kind of star is she?
7. Who did Hamilton let go of as his manager?
8. What's his name?
9. What has Hamilton been schooled in?
10. How many years has his career been?
11. What year did he start in the sport?
12. And what year did he clinch the championship?
13. How old was Hamilton when he clinched the championship?
14. Does he have a lot of energy?
15. What teammate did he refuse to give in to?
16. What was his romance with Nicole Scherzinger like?
17. What balanced on the edge of controversy and sadness?
18. Which race was he penalized in?
19. By who?
20. Who did Hamilton replace his father with?
Answer: 1. Lewis Hamilton
2. racer
3. 13 years old.
4. Nicole Scherzinger
5. American
6. pop star
7. his dad
8. Anthony
9. the harsh lessons that Formula One can mete out
10. eight
11. 2007
12. 2008
13. 23
14. yes
15. Fernando Alonso
16. more off than on
17. Hamilton
18. the Monaco Grand Prix
19. the race stewards.
20. a high-profile agency.

Post-punk is a heterogeneous type of rock music that emerged in the wake of the punk movement of the 1970s. Drawing inspiration from elements of punk rock while departing from its musical conventions and wider cultural affiliations, post-punk music was marked by varied, experimentalist sensibilities and its "conceptual assault" on rock tradition. Artists embraced electronic music, black dance styles and the avant-garde, as well as novel recording technology and production techniques. The movement also saw the frequent intersection of music with art and politics, as artists liberally drew on sources such as critical theory, cinema, performance art and modernist literature. Accompanying these musical developments were subcultures that produced visual art, multimedia performances, independent record labels and fanzines in conjunction with the music.

The term "post-punk" was first used by journalists in the late 1970s to describe groups moving beyond punk's sonic template into disparate areas. Many of these artists, initially inspired by punk's DIY ethic and energy, ultimately became disillusioned with the style and movement, feeling that it had fallen into commercial formula, rock convention and self-parody. They repudiated its populist claims to accessibility and raw simplicity, instead seeing an opportunity to break with musical tradition, subvert commonplaces and challenge audiences. Artists moved beyonds punk's focus on the concerns of a largely white, male, working class population and abandoned its continued reliance on established rock and roll tropes, such as three-chord progressions and Chuck Berry-based guitar riffs. These artists instead defined punk as "an imperative to constant change", believing that "radical content demands radical form". What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. When was the term "post punk" first used?
2. Who first used it?
3. Why?
4. What type of music is it?
5. Is it classical or jazz?
6. What genre is it?
7. Where did the inspiration come from?
8. Was it conventional?
9. What was it marked by?
10. What was seen during this movement?
11. What did the artist's embrace?
12. What kind of subcultures developed?
Answer: 1. late 1970s
2. journalists
3. describe groups beyond punk's sonic template
4. heterogeneous
5. no
6. Post-punk
7. punk rock
8. no
9. varied, experimentalist sensibilities
10. music with art and politics,
11. electronic music, black dance styles and the avant-garde
12. visual art, multimedia performances, independent record labels and fanzines

Defying warnings from the international community, North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Friday, but it broke apart before escaping the earth's atmosphere and fell into the sea, officials said.

"It flew about a minute, and it flew into the ocean," said Noriyuki Shikata, a spokesman for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

He added that Japanese authorities "have not identified any negative impacts, so far," though he said the international ramifications could be significant. "This is something that we think is a regrettable development," he said.

Joseph Cirincione, president of the global security foundation The Ploughshares Fund, told CNN that the launch's apparent failure "shows the weakness of the North Korea missile program" and suggests that the threat from North Korea has been "exaggerated."

"It's a humiliation," he told CNN. "I wouldn't want to be a North Korean rocket scientist today."

In an unusual admission of failure, the North Korean state media announced that the rocket had not managed to put an observation satellite into orbit, which Pyongyang had insisted was the purpose of the launch.

In the past, North Korea has insisted that failed launches have been successful.

"Scientists, technicians and experts are now looking into the cause of the failure," the official Korean Central News Agency said in a report, which was also read out in a news broadcast on state-run television.

The United States, South Korea and other countries see the launch as a cover for a ballistic missile test.

"Our government strongly criticizes their action," said South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Sung Hwan. "They have ignored the starvation of their people and spent money on missiles. It is very unfortunate." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What did the country do?
Answer:
1. launched a long-range