input: Southern California, often abbreviated SoCal, is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost 10 counties. The region is traditionally described as "eight counties", based on demographics and economic ties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The more extensive 10-county definition, including Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, is also used based on historical political divisions. Southern California is a major economic center for the state of California and the United States.

The 8- and 10-county definitions are not used for the greater Southern California Megaregion, one of the 11 megaregions of the United States. The megaregion's area is more expansive, extending east into Las Vegas, Nevada, and south across the Mexican border into Tijuana.

Southern California includes the heavily built-up urban area stretching along the Pacific coast from Ventura, through the Greater Los Angeles Area and the Inland Empire, and down to Greater San Diego. Southern California's population encompasses seven metropolitan areas, or MSAs: the Los Angeles metropolitan area, consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties; the Inland Empire, consisting of Riverside and San Bernardino counties; the San Diego metropolitan area; the OxnardThousand OaksVentura metropolitan area; the Santa Barbara metro area; the San Luis Obispo metropolitan area; and the El Centro area. Out of these, three are heavy populated areas: the Los Angeles area with over 12 million inhabitants, the Riverside-San Bernardino area with over four million inhabitants, and the San Diego area with over 3 million inhabitants. For CSA metropolitan purposes, the five counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura are all combined to make up the Greater Los Angeles Area with over 17.5 million people. With over 22 million people, southern California contains roughly 60 percent of California's population. 1. How many counties make up the focus area?
2. Name all the counties starting with a consonant.
3. Which are the two remaining?
4. SoCal's population includes how many metro areas?
5. Which is one area?
6. Which counties make up that area?
7. What is another MSA?
8. How many counties is it made up of?
9. Which is one?
10. And the other?
11. Which counties make up the Greater LA area?
12. What is the population in that area?
13. What percent of the Cali population is that? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. eight
2. Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.
3. Imperial and Orange
4. seven
5. the Los Angeles metropolitan area
6. Los Angeles and Orange
7. the Inland Empire
8. two
9. Riverside
10. San Bernardino
11. Los Angeles and Orange
12. over 17.5 million
13. roughly 60 percent

question: (CNN) -- After months of speculation, one of Formula One's worst kept secrets has finally been confirmed.

Fernando Alonso, the double world champion who recently left Ferrari, will rejoin McLaren for the 2015 season, which gets underway in March.

The Spaniard, who won back-to-back world titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006, joins the British team after ending his four-year association with Ferrari.

He will be partnered by Jenson Button, whose services were retained above Kevin Magnussen, who stays on as a test and reserve driver.

Between them, Alonso and Button have won three world titles, 47 grands prix and achieved 147 podium finishes from a combined 500 races.

Now 33, Alonso will be expected to boost McLaren's fortunes after a season which saw it struggle to match the pace set by the all-conquering Mercedes team.

"Over the past year I have received several offers, some of them really tempting given the current performance of some of the teams that showed interest," he said in a statement.

"But, more than a year ago, McLaren-Honda contacted me and asked me to take part, in a very active way, in the return of their partnership -- a partnership that dominated the Formula 1 scene for so long."

Between 1988 and 1992, McLaren and Honda won 44 grands prix out of 80, with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost winning all but one of the 16 races in one season.

"I still remember, as a kid, the posters in my wardrobe, my toy cars in which I dreamed I would one day emulate Ayrton, and the kart that my father built for my older sister, and that I ended up falling in love with," Alonso added.
1. Who ended their partnership with Ferrari?
2. How long was he with Ferrari?
3. Which team will he join?
4. For which season?
5. When does it begin?
6. What country is he from?
7. Who will be his partner?
8. How many races have they finished, combined?
9. And how many top three finishes from those?
10. How old is Alonso?
11. Has he dreamt of racing since he was a child?
12. Did he have several offers from other teams?
13. When did McLaren-Honda contact him with an offer?
14. Does McLaren-Honda have a winning track record?
15. How many Grand Prix races has the team won?
16. Out of how many?
17. In how many years?
18. Which two drivers won the majority of their season's races?
19. How many did they lose?
20. Who will be on the team as a test and reserve driver?
****
answer: 1. Fernando Alonso
2. four years
3. McLaren
4. 2015
5. March
6. Spain
7. Jenson Button
8. 500
9. 147
10. 33
11. yes
12. yes
13. more than a year ago
14. yes
15. 44
16. 80
17. four
18. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost
19. only one
20. Kevin Magnussen

Question: (CNN) -- Here's something shocking.

Democrats and Republicans totally disagree about the significance of the GOP's victory in the first major competitive congressional ballot box test of 2014.

Republican candidate David Jolly narrowly edged out Democrat Alex Sink to win Tuesday's special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District. Jolly will fill out the term of his former boss, longtime Republican Rep. Bill Young, who died in October.

Republicans win first election showdown of the year

The race was consistently in the spotlight with national Republicans framing the election as a referendum on Obamacare. They injected a massive infusion of outside ad money into the race and some pundits cast the election as a possible bellwether for November's midterms.

"I think this was a referendum on (President Barack Obama's) policies and on Obamacare, that played out significantly to the disadvantage of (House Democratic Leader) Nancy Pelosi. And I think it sets the tone for what's coming in the fall," Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told CNN Wednesday.

"We've been trying to tell people this is a referendum election, Obamacare is not helping people the way it was promised, and Democrats are going to have a lot of answering to do," Walden added.

But his counterpart at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sees very little predictive value in the results.

"Special elections are not indicators of the future. They never have been. They never will be. And certainly this is not an indicator of the future," Rep. Steve Israel, the DCCC chairman, told reporters. 1. Who won Florida's 13th Congressional District?
2. Of what politcal party?
3. Against?
4. On which day of the week?
5. Who's chair was to be filled?
6. What happened to him?
7. In what month?
8. Which election win for the right was this?
9. What was there a massive infusion of?
10. From where?
11. Outside what?
12. Who was the House Democratic Leader? Provide a numbered list of answers.
****
A numbered of answers:
1. David Jolly
2. Republican
3. Alex Sink
4. Tuesday
5. Bill Young
6. He died
7. October
8. the first
9. money
10. outside
11. ad money
12. Nancy Pelosi