input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills, New York, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, correctly spelling the word "knaidel."

"It means that I am retiring on a good note," said Mahankali, who attends Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 and was in his last year of eligibility. "I shall spend the summer, maybe the entire day, studying physics."

Mahankali, who wants to become a physicist, had finished third in the two previous national bees, being eliminated after misspelling words with German roots.

"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing," he said, when asked what he thought when he heard the final word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.

Pranav Sivakumar, a 13-year-old from Tower Lakes, Illinois, finished second. He missed on "cyanophycean" before Mahankali nailed "tokonoma" and "knaidel" for the victory.

The annual contest offers the winner a healthy dose of classroom cred, $32,500 in cash and savings bonds, a trophy and a library of reference materials.

Contest isn't bee-all and end-all

Eleven million schoolchildren participated in preliminaries leading up to the national contest this week. Of those, 281 children made the trip to Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington, for the national bee. Eleven spellers made it through to the finals.

Among them were 63 children who had been to at least one national bee before, and had to prepare for some changes in the rules for this year's events.

For the first time, participants had to demonstrate proficiency in vocabulary in addition to spelling. 1. Who is the young subject of the story?
2. How old is he?
3. What did he win?
4. What was the winning word?
5. What is he doing after this event?
6. What does he want to do when he grows up?
7. How did he do in his last two competitions?
8. What kind of words did he have trouble with?
9. What was the origin of the final word this time?
10. What does the word mean?
11. Who was the runner-up?
12. How old is he?
13. Where's he from?
14. What did he misspell?
15. What other word did the winning contestant get right?
16. What's the financial reward for the winner?
17. Do they also get a trophy?
18. Anything else?
19. What?
20. How many kids participate in the prelims for the event?
numbered_answers: 1. Arvind Mahankali
2. 13
3. the Scripps National Spelling Bee
4. "knaidel"
5. studying physics
6. wants to become a physicist
7. he finished third
8. words with German roots
9. German
10. dumpling
11. Pranav Sivakumar
12. 13
13. Tower Lakes, Illinois
14. "cyanophycean"
15. "tokonoma"
16. $32,500 in cash
17. yes
18. yes
19. a library of reference materials
20. eleven million

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Jim wanted to go eat some pizza. He was a giant. He had eaten a hot dog and some carrots earlier that day, but it had been a long time. He was very hungry after a hard day of playing with his kitty. But Jim had a problem, he did know where he was. While playing with his kitten, he had left his yard and wandered into the deep woods that were near his house. It was getting dark outside, and Jim the giant was scared. He was also hungry. It had been a long time since Jim had eaten. Also, it was becoming cold, and Jim had left his jacket on the ground. There was some joy from the fact that he had his kitty. His name was Bob, and was riding around on his shoulder. Still, Jim needed to find his way out of the woods fast. It was at this time that Jim remembered that he had a flashlight in his pocket. With his flashlight, Jim could see the woods, and spot his house off in this distance. He ran home fast. Once he was home, Jim put down his kitty, and ordered a pizza. He was safe. He called his friends Steve and Adam to tell them about his big adventure, and sat down to play with his kitty Bob. 1. What did Jim want to eat?
2. Was he a large guy?
3. What had he eaten earlier?
4. And what else?
5. What had he been playing with?
6. Where?
7. Did he leave the yard?
8. Where did he go?
9. Near his house?
10. What had he left on the ground?
11. What was the kitty's name?
12. Did he bring Jim joy?
13. Where did the cat ride?
14. What did Jim remember he had in his pocket?
15. What could he spot with the flashlight?
16. Did he go home slowly?
17. What did he order when he got home?
18. Who did he call?
19. And who else?
20. What did he tell them about?
21. Did he play with Bob after that?
numbered_answers: 1. pizza
2. Yes.
3. a hot dog
4. carrots
5. his kitty
6. his yard
7. Yes
8. the deep woods
9. Yes.
10. his jacket
11. Bob
12. Yes
13. on Jim's shoulder
14. a flashlight
15. his house
16. No.
17. a pizza
18. Steve
19. Adam
20. his adventure
21. Yes

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. "Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1985, "some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home." But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lighining-bug . But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Althoug fan became the usual term. sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseballbugs, and the like.

Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, "to install an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant "to cheat", and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

We also know the bug as a _ in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug' in his invented record player." 1. Who said bugs were eating the plants?
2. What was he also known as?
3. Was somebody already using that word before him?
4. Who?
5. What glowing bug had Americans named?
6. In the 19th and 20th centuries?
7. When did someone find a bug in his record player?
8. Who?
9. How long did it take him to find it?
10. Since when has bug meant to cheat?
11. A hundred years later, what did it mean?
12. Could a lunatic be referred to as a bug?
13. Did the English stop using the word?
14. What's an object you could call a bug?
15. Did they call baseball fans bugs?
16. In what year did he start being used like a computer glitch?
17. When did Washing write about bugs in his diary?
18. What sort of alarm was called a bug?
19. Was something to eavesdrop with known as a bug?
20. How was it used to describe a car?
numbered_answers:
1. George Washington
2. father of America
3. Yes
4. Englishmen
5. lighining-bug
6. Yes
7. 1889
8. Edison
9. two previous nights
10. 1840s
11. annoying
12. No
13. Yes
14. small machine
15. Yes
16. 1878
17. 1985
18. burglar alarm
19. Yes.
20. unknown