Problem: (CNN) -- Fans of "Dancing With the Stars" know how grueling the competition can be.

Contestants practice for hours a day, and almost every season some celebs are brought low by injury. So how in the world will Valerie Harper, who just months ago announced that she had a terminal form of cancer, go for that mirror ball trophy?

Apparently with the same spirit that caused the "Rhoda" actress to offer this up for fans:

"I hope you dance! I hope you dance," Harper told CNN on Wednesday. " And that's what I'm saying to everybody, that's just my message. Dance."

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Harper announced in March that she had been diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a condition in which cancer cells spread into the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. But Harper told CNN that she does not have brain cancer.

"I have lung cancer," she said. "It is situated in the lining of the brain; it's not even in the brain."

Her husband, Tony Cacciotti, encouraged her to sign on with the hit ABC dance competition, she said. He runs the couple's production company and had been considering her participation for a few years.

The actress said she initially resisted the idea.

"I said, 'Give me one good reason,' " Harper recalled. "He said, 'You have cancer! Get up there, and show people that you can dance and do -- and the doctors said it's fine to exercise. Encourage people to move, to exercise, to do all the things that will be good for them, and mainly not to sit in the house and glower and worry and feel sorry for yourself because you have this disease and anything else.'"
1. Who is competing on a show?
2. On which show?
3. What disease does Harper have?
4. What object could she win?
5. Does she have brain cancer?
6. What kind then?
7. Who is she married to?
8. Did he discourage her?
9. What network is the show on?
10. What is his occupation?
11. What show was she known for?
12. Is it an easy contest?
13. Who interviewed her?
14. When?
15. When did she announce she had cancer?
16. What month?
17. Did the doctors clear her to participate?
18. Was she excited to do it at first?
19. How long to participants practice?
20. Are people injured?
Answer: 1. Valerie Harper
2. Dancing With the Stars
3. leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
4. mirror ball trophy
5. No
6. lung cancer,
7. Tony Cacciotti
8. No
9. ABC
10. He runs the couple's production company
11. Rhoda
12. No
13. CNN
14. Wednesday.
15. just months ago
16. March
17. Yes
18. No
19. hours a day
20. Yes

Problem: (CNN) -- After months of bloodshed, intrigue and revenge that made Yemen seem like an Arabian version of Hamlet, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally transferred his powers to his vice president, and elections are to be held in three months.

At the ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to seal the transition deal worked out by the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saleh seemed relaxed and even chuckled as he signed several copies of the agreement, the result of intense diplomatic shuttling by U.N. envoy Jamal bin Omar and growing pressure from the international community.

But Saleh also took a parting shot at his opponents, saying they had destroyed in months everything that had been built over years.

April Longley Alley, Yemen analyst at the International Crisis Group, says the Riyadh deal offers an "opportunity to move past the current political impasse and to deal with critical issues like deteriorating economic and humanitarian conditions as well as the very difficult task of institutional reform."

Even so, Longley Alley and other analysts expect the epilogue to be anything but predictable. There are plenty of competing elements left behind: the thousands of mainly young demonstrators who took to the streets of Sanaa and other cities in January to demand democratic change, the tribal alliance that took up arms against Saleh, secessionists in the south and a Shiite rebellion in the north, well-organized Islamist groups and a budding al Qaeda franchise.

Perhaps the most powerful figure in Yemen now is Brig. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, commander of the 1st Armored Division. He defected in March and took a chunk of the army with him. His units now control northern districts of the capital and are facing off against powerful remnants of the Saleh clan. The president's son, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, long groomed to be his successor, and his nephew, Yahya Muhammad Saleh, command the most effective units.
1. Where did the bloodshed occur
2. Name the president who transferred his power?
3. to who?
4. When will the election take place?
5. What was happening at the ceremony?
6. How was Saleh's reaction?
7. did he sign papers?
8. Did he blame his opponents?
9. What did he say?
10. Name the UN envoy?
Answer: 1. unknown
2. President Ali Abdullah Saleh s
3. to his vice president
4. three months.
5. to seal the transition deal worked out by the Gulf Cooperation Council
6. seemed relaxed
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. they had destroyed in months everything that had been built over years.
10. Jamal bin Omar

Problem: Every evening at six o'clock an old man goes to a restaurant near his house. He eats dinner. After dinner, he drinks coffee and talks to the people at the restaurant. The old man's name is Bill. Bill eats at the restaurant every evening because he is lonely. His wife died and he has no children. Every evening the same waitress brings Bill to his dinner. Her name is Cara. She is 17 years old. Cara is kind to Bill. She knows he is lonely, so she talks to him. If Bill is late for dinner, she calls him on the telephone. "Are you OK?" she asks him. One evening Bill doesn't come to the restaurant. Cara calls him, but he doesn't answer the phone. Cara calls the police. "Please go to Bill's house." Cara tells the police. Later the police call Cara at the restaurant. "Bill died in his sleep," the police tell her. Bill was 82 years old. A week later, a man comes to the restaurant. "I have something for Cara," the man says. The man gives Cara a check for $500000. The money is from Bill. "This money is for me? From Bill?" Cara asks the man. "Yes," the man answers. "But...why?" Cara asks the man. "Bill liked you," the man says. "You were kind to him"
1. Where does Bill go to eat dinner every night?
2. at what time?
3. What is the name of the waitress that serves Bill every day?
4. Is she nice to Bill?
5. What does she do if he is late for dinner?
6. Is she close to Bill's age?
7. How old is she?
8. What did she do when Bill did not answer the phone one night?
9. What did she tell them to do?
10. How long after Bill died did a man go to visit Cara at her work?
11. Did he give her a check?
12. Who was it from?
13. What happened to Bill?
14. How old was he?
15. Did he have children?
16. Why did Bill leave money to Cara?
Answer:
1. restaurant near his house
2. six o'clock
3. Cara
4. Yes
5. she calls him on the telephone
6. No
7. 17 years old
8. Cara calls the police
9. Please go to Bill's house
10. A week later
11. Yes
12. The money is from Bill
13. Bill died in his sleep
14. 82 years old
15. he has no children
16. You were kind to him