Q: (CNN) -- The stench of the burnt bodies was so potent, Abu Jafar said, he could smell it from 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) away.

"It smells awful because the regime appears to have burnt so many bodies recently," the opposition activist said Sunday from the beleaguered city of Homs.

"Some cars arrived this morning and carried away dead bodies. We are not sure where."

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Jafar's account comes a day after what may be the deadliest day yet in Syria's 21-month civil war, according to opposition figures.

Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy, gave a dire warning Sunday on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Syria.

"If nearly 50,000 people have been killed in about two years, do not expect just 25,000 people to die next year -- maybe 100,000 will die," he told reporters in Cairo.

"The pace is increasing," he said.

"A solution is still possible, but it is only getting more complicated every day," Brahimi added. "Had we dealt more carefully with this conflict in 2011, it would have been much easier to resolve it. There is no question that it is much harder today."

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Brahimi met Sunday with Nabil Elaraby, secretary-general of the Arab League.

On Saturday, Brahimi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia and China have used their veto power in the U.N. Security Council to block some of the toughest resolutions proposed against the Syrian regime.

1. 2 kilometers
2. burnt bodies
3. Abu Jafar
4. Homs
5. Some cars
6. carried away dead bodies
7. No
8. 50,000 people
9. Lakhdar Brahimi
10. maybe 100,000 will die
11. increasing
12. joint U.N.-Arab League envoy
13. Sunday
14. Syria
15. A solution is still possible
16. No
17. 2011
18. Sergey Lavrov
19. Russian Foreign Minister
20. U.N. Security Council

Numbered questions:
1. how far away could it be smelled?
2. what could be smelled?
3. who was saying this?
4. what city is he from?
5. what arrived in the morning?
6. what did they do?
7. do they know to where?
8. how many people have been killed in two years?
9. who was speaking to reporters?
10. did he have a guess on how many more might die?
11. is this an increasing or decreasing amount?
12. who is Brahimi?
13. when did he give his warning?
14. about what country?
15. does he think there is a solution to this?
16. is it easy?
17. when would it have been simpler to fix?
18. with whom did he meet on Saturday?
19. what is his title?
20. what organization is he part of?

Q: CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Omar bin Laden has a message for his father, Osama: "Find another way."

Omar bin Laden says he last saw his father in 2000 when the son decided to leave al Qaeda.

The son of the most-wanted man in the world spoke Sunday to CNN in a quiet, middle-class suburb about an hour outside Cairo, Egypt.

Omar bin Laden, who works as a contractor, said he is talking publicly because he wants an end to the violence his father has inspired -- violence that has killed innocent civilians in a spate of attacks around the world, including those of September 11, 2001.

"I try and say to my father: 'Try to find another way to help or find your goal. This bomb, this weapons, it's not good to use it for anybody,' " he said in English learned in recent months from his British wife.

He said that's not just his own message, but one that a friend of his father's and other Muslims have expressed to him. "They too say ... my father should change [his] way," he said. Watch whether Omar bin Laden thinks his father will ever be caught "

He said he hasn't spoken to his father since 2000, when he walked away from an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan with his father's blessings. He said he has no idea where his father is, but is confident he will never be caught because locals support him.

Asked if his father might be living along the Afghan-Pakistan border, he said, "Maybe, maybe not."

1. Omar bin Laden's father
2. in 2000
3. he decided to leave al Qaeda.
4. Sunday
5. CNN
6. in a suburb
7. No
8. No
9. Egypt.
10. Yes
11. Cairo
12. about an hour outside Cairo
13. he is a contractor
14. No
15. English
16. his wife
17. No
18. British
19. perhaps living along the Afghan-Pakistan border,

Numbered questions:
1. who was sent a message?
2. when was the last time he saw his dad?
3. what happened during that visit?
4. on what dad did the interview occur?
5. who conducted it?
6. where?
7. was it loud?
8. was it wealthy?
9. what country were they in?
10. were they near somewhere?
11. where?
12. how near?
13. what is the son's profession?
14. does he approve of killing?
15. what language did he recently learn?
16. who taught him?
17. is she Egyptian?
18. what is he nationality?
19. where does he think his dad is?

Q: Richard Ben Cramer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose 1992 book "What It Takes" remains one of the most detailed and passionate of all presidential campaign chronicles, died Monday night, according to his longtime agent, Philippa "Flip" Brophy. He was 62.

The cause of death was lung cancer.

Cramer's work -- and work ethic -- was legendary among reporters. He talked in firm, declamatory bursts in a growl of a voice tinged with cigars and alcohol. He was generous with other writers, dogged in his pursuit of information, and known for idiosyncratically "doing things in his own way, on his own schedule," recalled Brophy.

"He was stubborn, charming and the most brilliant person I knew -- and the warmest," she said.

"He was an unmatched talent who set an enormously high bar for political journalism. I will miss him," said Vice President Joe Biden in a statement. Biden and Cramer became friendly when the author was working on "What It Takes."

CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger, echoing many, attests to his generosity. She was a cub reporter for the old Washington Star when she was assigned to the Maryland statehouse beat. Cramer, then with The (Baltimore) Sun, took her under his wing.

"I was this new kid on the block, and he'd been around and knew Maryland politics very well, and he was smart and a brilliant writer -- and kind to a new reporter on the beat," she said.

Cramer put all his fury, emotion and eye for detail on the page in such works as "Joe DiMaggio: A Hero's Life" (2000), "How Israel Lost" (2004) and especially "What It Takes," a 1,047-page account of the 1988 presidential race.

1. Richard Ben Cramer
2. lung cancer
3. Yes
4. Charming and warm
5. writer
6. Joe Biden
7. Pulitzer Prize
8. What It Takes
9. 1992
10. Yes
11. "Joe DiMaggio: A Hero's Life"

Numbered questions:
1. Who died?
2. How did he die?
3. Was he well liked?
4. How was he described?
5. What was his profession?
6. Who were his friends?
7. What kind of achievements did Cramer have?
8. What was it for?
9. When was that from?
10. Did he have any other books?
11. What other books did he write?