input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Antioch on the Orontes (; , also Syrian Antioch) was an ancient Greco-Roman city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. Its ruins lie near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey, and lends the modern city its name.

Antioch was founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals. The city's geographical, military, and economic location benefited its occupants, particularly such features as the spice trade, the Silk Road, and the Persian Royal Road. It eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the Near East. It was also the main center of Hellenistic Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. Most of the urban development of Antioch was done during the Roman Empire, when the city was one of the most important in the eastern Mediterranean area of Rome's dominions.

Antioch was called "the cradle of Christianity" as a result of its longevity and the pivotal role that it played in the emergence of both Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. The Christian New Testament asserts that the name "Christian" first emerged in Antioch. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis, and its residents were known as "Antiochenes". The city was a metropolis of half a million people during Augustan times, but it declined to relative insignificance during the Middle Ages because of warfare, repeated earthquakes, and a change in trade routes, which no longer passed through Antioch from the far east following the Mongol conquests. 1. WHen was Antioch founded?
2. By who?
3. WHo was he?
4. Where was it located?
5. Are any modern places near it?
6. What one?
7. What was one way the city's placement was a good one?
8. ANy other ways?
9. Was it near any particular trading lines?
10. What was one?
11. And another?
12. Was the city associated with any faiths?
13. How many?
14. WHat was one?
15. How is it connected to that religion?
16. WHat is the other faith?
17. How was it important to that one?
numbered_answers: 1. Antioch was founded near the end of the 4th century BC
2. by Seleucus I Nicator
3. he was one of Alexander the Great's generals.
4. on the eastern side of the Orontes River
5. yes
6. Antakya
7. its economic location benefited its occupants
8. unknown
9. yes
10. the Persian Royal Road
11. the Silk Road
12. yes
13. two
14. Christianity.
15. The Christian New Testament asserts that the name "Christian" first emerged in Antioch.
16. Judaism
17. it played a pivotal role in its emergence

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN)Jordan executed two al Qaeda prisoners before dawn Wednesday, following through on a promised strong response to the ISIS killing of pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh, a government spokesman said.

Put to death were Sajida al-Rishawi, the Iraqi would-be suicide bomber whose release ISIS had previously requested, and Ziad Karbouli, a former top aide to the deceased leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the spokesman said.

Al-Rishawi was executed for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing at a wedding reception in Jordan that killed dozens. Karbouli was sentenced to death in 2007 after he was convicted of acts of terrorism that killed one person, the plotting of more terrorist attacks and the possession of explosives, the Jordanian spokesman said.

The executions come a day after video and stills appeared to show a Jordanian military pilot being burned alive while confined in a cage.

CNN is not showing images of the killing, which triggered global condemnation and prompted immediate promises of retaliation and protests in Jordan, one of more than 60 nations involved in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

The 22-minute video begins with an attack on Jordan's King Abdullah II, suggesting he is to blame for what happened to the pilot, Moath al-Kasasbeh.

A short time after the video became public, Jordanian military spokesman Mamdouh Al Amri said al-Kasasbeh was "assassinated" on January 3.

His statement indicates the back-and-forth in recent weeks between Jordan and ISIS about a possible prisoner exchange to free the pilot took place after his death. Jordan repeatedly had asked ISIS to show proof that al-Kasasbeh was alive. 1. What day of the week did the execution take place?
2. Who was executed?
3. What were their names?
4. Did ISIS try to get involved with either of them?
5. Which one?
6. What was ISIS's involvement?
7. Who led the coalition against ISIS?
8. Who spoke on Jordan's behalf?
9. What did he have to say?
10. Did he have to ask more than once?
11. What did he specifically ask?
12. Were any of the people executed women?
13. Which one?
14. What was her crime?
15. What did she do exactly?
16. Where did the bombing take place?
17. How many casualties were there at the reception?
numbered_answers: 1. Wednesday,
2. two prisoners
3. Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad Karbouli,
4. yes
5. Sajida al-Rishawi
6. ISIS had previously requested his release
7. U.S.
8. the Jordanian spokesman
9. he talked about why the prisoners were executed
10. yes
11. for ISIS to show proof that al-Kasasbeh was alive.
12. yes
13. Al-Rishawi
14. terrorism
15. she had a role in a 2005 suicide bombing
16. at a wedding reception
17. dozens

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. That median is the value separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. For a data set, it may be thought of as the "middle" value. For example, in the data set {1, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9}, the median is 6, the fourth largest, and also the fourth smallest, number in the sample. For a continuous probability distribution, the median is the value such that a number is equally likely to fall above or below it.

The median is a commonly used measure of the properties of a data set in statistics and probability theory. The basic advantage of the median in describing data compared to the mean (often simply described as the "average") is that it is not skewed so much by extremely large or small values, and so it may give a better idea of a "typical" value. For example, in understanding statistics like household income or assets which vary greatly, a mean may be skewed by a small number of extremely high or low values. Median income, for example, may be a better way to suggest what a "typical" income is.

Because of this, the median is of central importance in robust statistics, as it is the most resistant statistic, having a breakdown point of 50%: so long as no more than half the data are contaminated, the median will not give an arbitrarily large or small result. 1. What is of great importance in robust statistics?
2. The median is a measure of what?
3. A data set within what?
4. What is the advantage of the median?
5. Skewed so much as what?
6. What other helpful measure does it give?
7. What can skew a mean?
8. In robust statistics, is the median is the most resistant statistic?
9. For a continuous probability distribution, how do you explain a median?
10. For a data set, how could you describe the median?
11. In robust statistics, the median has a breakdown point of what?
12. And can't have more than half the data, what?
13. Then what will happen?
numbered_answers:
1. The median.
2. The properties of a data set.
3. Statistics and probability theory.
4. It is not skewed so much.
5. Extremely large or small values.
6. It may give a better idea of a "typical" value.
7. By a small number of extremely high or low values.
8. Yes.
9. The value such that a number is equally likely to fall above or below it.
10. The "middle" value.
11. 50%:
12. Contaminated.
13. The median will not give an arbitrarily large or small result.