Q: The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: Les "XXIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver") and commonly known as Vancouver 2010, informally the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010, in Vancouver, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands, and in the nearby resort town of Whistler. Approximately 2,600 athletes from 82 nations participated in 86 events in fifteen disciplines. Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games were organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), headed by John Furlong. The 2010 Winter Olympics were the third Olympics hosted by Canada and the first by the province of British Columbia. Previously, Canada hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Vancouver is the largest city to host the Winter Olympics, a title soon to be turned over to Beijing in 2022.

Following Olympic tradition, then-Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan received the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The flag was raised on February 28, 2006, in a special ceremony and was on display at Vancouver City Hall until the Olympic opening ceremony. The event was officially opened by Governor General Michaelle Jean, who was accompanied by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the 2010 winter Olympics known as?
2. And commonly as?
3. What date did it occur?
4. What was the nearby resort town?
5. How many athletes emerged?
6. From how many nations?
7. in how many events?
8. and how many disciplines?
9. What 2 games were organized by the VANOC?
10. Who was the head?
11. Was the 2010 Olympic game the 2nd olympics hosted by Canada?
12. Then what was it?
A: 1. XXI Olympic Winter Games
2. Vancouver 2010
3. February 12 to 28, 2010
4. Whistler
5. Approximately 2,600
6. 82
7. 86
8. Approximately 2,600 athletes from 82 nations participated in 86 events in fifteen disciplines
9. the Olympic and Paralympic Games
10. John Furlong
11. no
12. the third
Q: (CNN) -- An Arizona couple who wanted to adopt a woman's baby know more than they're saying about the 8-month-old boy's disappearance, police say.

Gabriel Johnson hasn't been seen since December 26, police said, and his mother was arrested last week in Miami Beach, Florida, after not reporting for a December 28 child custody hearing in Arizona.

"We have some good indications at this point with our investigation that Tammi and Jack Smith do know more information than they have provided to us that could possibly lead us to Gabriel," Sgt. Steve Carbajal, spokesman for the Tempe (Arizona) Police Department, told HLN's Nancy Grace on Thursday.

For their part, the Smiths told HLN's Jean Casarez on "Nancy Grace" that they voluntarily took polygraph tests Friday at the Tempe Police Department.

"The polygraph test is not like what you see on TV," Jack Smith said. "It's almost like being strapped into the electric chair, so it's very intensive. And we were very happy to do it."

The Smiths have said they met Elizabeth Johnson, 23, seven months ago during a long layover at an airport, and later the three discussed a plan to adopt Johnson's child, Gabriel.

But the boy's father, Logan McQueary, has legal custody and has said Elizabeth Johnson urged him to sign papers giving the Smiths custody of the boy, but he refused.

"She didn't want Logan to have the baby, and we couldn't adopt the baby because Logan wouldn't sign the papers," Tammi Smith said on "Nancy Grace."

Answer the following questions:
1. What did the AZ couple want to do?
2. how old?
3. what happened?
4. name of baby?
5. date last seen?
6. Moms name?
7. age?
8. Where was mom arrested?
9. when was court date?
10. who is steve carbajal?
11. Did they go on TV?
12. What station?
13. What show?
14. Did boy have a dad?
15. name?
16. did he have custody?
17. Did the anyone take a polygraph test?
18. who?
19. was it easy?
20. were they happy to do it?
21. Did they pass the test?
A: 1. adopt a baby
2. 8 months
3. the baby disappeared
4. Gabriel Johnson
5. December 26
6. Elizabeth Johnson,
7. 23
8. Miami Beach, Florida,
9. December 28
10. Tempe police sargeant
11. yes
12. HLN
13. Nancy Grace
14. yes
15. Logan McQueary
16. yes
17. yes
18. the Smiths
19. no
20. yes
21. unknown
Q: At Buya in Eritrea, one of the oldest hominids representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found by Italian scientists. Dated to over 1 million years old, it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind and provides a link between hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans. It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was also a major player in terms of human evolution, and may contain other traces of evolution from Homo erectus hominids to anatomically modern humans.

The Scottish traveler James Bruce reported in 1770 that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia, noting that the two territories were frequently in conflict. The Bahre-Nagassi ("Kings of the Sea") alternately fought with or against the Abyssinians and the neighbouring Muslim Adal Sultanate depending on the geopolitical circumstances. Medri Bahri was thus part of the Christian resistance against Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of Adal's forces, but later joined the Adalite states and the Ottoman Empire front against Abyssinia in 1572. That 16th century also marked the arrival of the Ottomans, who began making inroads in the Red Sea area.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was the traveler?
2. Where was he from?
3. Did he report on three terrtories?
4. How many did he report on?
5. What were they?
6. What was their name?
7. Did one of those regions have a nickname?
8. Was it "Jewels of the Ocean"?
9. Was it French researchers who discovered a similarity between early men?
10. Who was it?
11. What date was that discovery made?
12. Were these links the oldest finds of their type?
13. What happened in 1572?
14. Against what region?
A:
1. James Bruce
2. Scotland
3. No
4. two
5. territories
6. Medri Bahri and Abyssinia
7. Yes
8. No
9. no
10. Italian
11. unknown
12. yes
13. Medri Bahri joined the Adalite states
14. Adal's forces