Q: What do Tom Sawyer and Jumping Frogs have in common? Stories about both of them were created by one man: Mark Twain. Twain was four years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, located on the west bank of the Mississippi. Twain grew up there and was fascinated with (......) life along the river----the steamboats, the giant lumber rafts, and the people who worked on them.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is one of Twain's best loved short stories, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of his most famous novels. Both these works are celebrated by events held during National Tom Sawyer Days, which originated in the late 1950s and became national in the 1960s. Children enter their frogs in the jumping contest during National Tom Sawyer Days. There's also a fence painting contest to see who can paint the fastest. The idea for this contest comes from a scene in Tom Sawyer, in which Tom has been told to paint the fence in front of the house he lives in. It's a beautiful day, and he would rather be doing anything else. As his friends walk by, he makes them believe that it's fun to paint, and they join in the "fun". By the end of the day, the fence has three coats of paint!

Although the story of Tom Sawyer is a fiction, it's based on facts. If you go to Hannibal, you'll see the white fence, which still stands at Twain's boyhood home.

1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
3. Yes
4. Missouri
5. The 1960s
6. unknown
7. Children enter their frogs in jumping contests.
8. Fence painting contest
9. No
10. unknown
11. No
12. unknown
13. Yes
14. Mark Twain
15. Life along the river
16. Four
17. unknown

Numbered questions:
1. What's one of Mark Twain's most popular novels?
2. What else is celebrated in National Tom Sawyer Days?
3. Is it an official holiday?
4. Where?
5. When did it become official?
6. What days is the holiday held on?
7. What's an example of a thing that people do to celebrate it?
8. Anything else?
9. Is Tom Sawyer a real person?
10. Did he live in Missouri?
11. Did he enjoy painting?
12. Did he like frogs?
13. Is he based on a real person?
14. Who?
15. What did Twain like about his home?
16. How old was he when he started living there?
17. When was he born?

Q: Miami (CNN) -- Two South Florida imams and a third family member were arrested Saturday on charges of providing support to the Pakistani Taliban, the Justice Department said.

In addition, three others in Pakistan were also indicted on the same charges.

FBI agents arrested Hafiz Khan and his son Izhar Khan in South Florida, the department said. They are expected to make their initial court appearance in federal court on Monday.

Another of Hafiz Khan's sons, Irfan Khan, was arrested in Los Angeles and will appear in court there.

Also charged are three Pakistani residents: Ali Rehman, Alam Zeb, and Amina Khan. Amina Khan is Hafiz Khan's daughter, and Zeb is his grandson.

The four-count indictment alleges that all six defendants conspired to provide material support to a conspiracy to kill, injure and kidnap people abroad, and that they provided support to the Pakistani Taliban.

Hafiz Khan is the imam at Flagler Mosque in Miami. Izhar Khan, is an imam at the Jamaat Al-Mu'mineen Mosque in Margate, Florida.

"Despite being an imam, or spiritual leader, Hafiz Khan was by no means a man of peace. Instead, as today's charges show, he acted with others to support terrorists to further acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming," U.S. Attorney Wilfredo A. Ferrer said. "But for law enforcement intervention, these defendants would have continued to transfer funds to Pakistan to finance the Pakistani Taliban, including its purchase of guns."

The indictment describes a number of occasions where Hafiz Khan transferred money to Pakistan, and where money was withdrawn once there.

1. Hafiz Khan
2. at Flagler Mosque in Miam
3. Hafiz Khan and Izhar Khan were both imams in Florida
4. the Jamaat Al-Mu'mineen Mosque
5. Hafiz and Izhar Khan
6. to finance the Pakistani Taliban
7. purchasing guns, among other things
8. Saturday
9. Irfan Khan
10. Los Angeles
11. Three
12. two
13. four
14. six
15. federal court
16. yes
17. Monday
18. once

Numbered questions:
1. Who was an imam?
2. Where?
3. Who was imam in Florida?
4. Which temple was Izhar an imam for?
5. Who was transferring money to Pakistan?
6. For what purpose?
7. What did they need the money for?
8. When were the two imams arrested?
9. Who was arrested with them?
10. Where will Irfan Khan go to court?
11. How many Pakistani residents were also charged?
12. How many are related to Hafiz?
13. How many counts does their indictment carry?
14. How many total defendents are being charged?
15. In which court will Hafiz appear?
16. Will this be the first appearance?
17. When will it occur?
18. How many times was money withdrawn in Pakistan?

Q: (CNN) -- When plans were announced to build a giant new transoceanic canal across Nicaragua, the young Hong Kong businessman leading the project acknowledged the widespread skepticism. "We don't want it to become an international joke," said Wang Jing, a 40-year-old with no significant engineering experience and a background he described as "very normal."

That was in June 2013, when the Nicaraguan legislature, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, had just allowed Wang to move forward with his five-year project .

It is not certain that the canal, which would be one of the most ambitious and expensive engineering projects on Earth, will ever get built. But it looks set to move forward, and even some of the most determined doubters are starting to reconsider.

Last Thursday, the government and Wang's company, Nicaragua Canal Development Investment, announced that construction will start on Dec. 22.

The development's estimated price tag -- $50 billion -- is four times the size of the entire Nicaraguan economy. The canal itself would be deeper, wider and longer than the Panama Canal, just a few hundred miles to the south. The Panama Canal's expansion is almost ready, which raises the question of why another costly canal is needed.

The Nicaraguan opposition has called the project the biggest scam in the country's history, and engineering experts are divided over whether the project is feasible.

Pedro Alvarez, chairman of civil engineering at Rice University, has expressed doubts that it will ever be completed. He worries that it will be abandoned. His greatest concern is severe damage to Lake Nicaragua, the largest freshwater reservoir in Latin America.

1. it was announced that construction will start
2. Dec. 22.
3. Wang Jing
4. a businessman
5. Hong Kong
6. building a canal
7. across Nicaragua
8. the Nicaraguan legislature
9. $50 billion
10. yes
11. four times
12. The Panama Canal expansion
13. the new one
14. chairman of civil engineering at Rice University
15. a few hundred miles
16. no
17. damage to Lake Nicaragua

Numbered questions:
1. what happened last thursday?
2. when?
3. who said they dont want to become a joke?
4. who is he?
5. from where?
6. what is the project he's in charge of?
7. where?
8. who told him to move forward in June?
9. how much will the project cost?
10. is that bigger than the economy there?
11. by how much?
12. why are some saying this isnt needed?
13. which canal will be bigger?
14. who is Pedro Alvarez?
15. how far away is the other canal?
16. is Alvarez supportive of the canal?
17. what is his concern?