input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN)"A long, long, time ago..."

Those five words, when uttered or sung, makes baby boomers immediately think of Don McLean's pop masterpiece "American Pie." It's hard to believe that his phenomenal 8 minute allegory, which millions of Americans know by heart, is 44 years old. All sorts of historical cross-currents play off each other in this timeless song, brilliantly gilded with the unforgettable chorus, which starts as "Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie." There is no real way to categorize McLean's "American Pie" for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock.

On Tuesday, Christie's sold the 16-page handwritten manuscript of the song's lyrics for $1.2 million to an unnamed buyer.

McLean was a paperboy when, on February 3, 1959, he saw that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson had been tragically killed in an airplane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa. "The next day I went to school in shock and guess what?" McLean recalled. "Nobody cared. Rock 'n' roll in those days was sort of like hula hoops and Buddy hadn't had a big hit on the charts since '57." By cathartically writing "American Pie," McLean has guaranteed that the memory of those great musicians lives forever.

Having recorded his first album, "Tapestry," in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the "generation lost in space." When his cultural anthem "American Pie" was released in November 1971, it replaced Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A Changin" as the Peoples Almanac of the new decade. It's important to think of "American Pie" as one would of Henry Longfellow's "Evangeline" or Johnny Mercer's "Moon River" -- an essential Americana poem emanating wistful recollection, blues valentine, and youthful protest rolled into one. There is magic brewing in the music and words of "American Pie," for McLean's lyrics and melody frame a cosmic dream, like those Jack Kerouac tried to conjure in his poetry-infused novel "On the Road." 1. Where is Don McLean from?
2. Where did he attend college?
3. What was his job when Buddy Holly died?
4. How did Buddy Holly die?
5. Was anyone else famous on that plane?
6. Who?
7. Where did the plane crash?
8. What song did that accident inspire McLean to write?
9. When was it released?
10. What was the name of the album?
11. What was going on during that album release in California?
12. What was the song of the decade before American Pie?
13. Who sang that?
14. How long is American Pie?
15. How old is it?
16. How does the chorus start?
17. How does the tune start?
18. Do many people know the words to it?
19. Can it be categorized easily?
20. How much did the handwritten lyrics sell for?
numbered_answers: 1. New York.
2. Berkeley, California.
3. A paperboy.
4. Airplane crash.
5. Yes.
6. Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.
7. Clear Lake, Iowa.
8. American Pie.
9. November 1971.
10. Tapestry,.
11. Student riots.
12. The Times They Are A Changin'.
13. Bob Dylan.
14. 8 minutes.
15. 44 years old.
16. Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie.
17. A long, long, time ago.
18. Yes.
19. No.
20. $1.2 million.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel. Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States.

While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. (or CNN Domestic) to distinguish the American channel from its international sister network, CNN International. As of August 2010, CNN is available in over 100 million U.S. households. Broadcast coverage of the U.S. channel extends to over 890,000 American hotel rooms, as well as carriage on cable and satellite providers throughout Canada. Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN International, which can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories.

As of July 2015, CNN is available to about 96,374,000 cable, satellite, and telco television households (82.8% of households with at least one television set) in the United States. 1. What does CNN stand for?
2. How many households is it available in?
3. Has it always provided 24/7 news coverage?
4. Where does CNN broadcast from?
5. Where is that?
6. Who is it owned by?
7. Is that owned by another company?
8. Does it have an international network?
9. Where is CNN headquartered?
10. Does it ever broadcast from there?
11. When?
12. How many countries is CNN available in?
13. When was CNN founded?
14. Before CNN launched, did any other TV channel provide news only?
numbered_answers: 1. Cable News Network
2. over 100 million
3. yes
4. the Time Warner Center
5. New York City,
6. Turner Broadcasting System
7. yes
8. yes
9. Atlanta
10. yes
11. On the weekend
12. 212
13. 1980
14. no

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Paris, France (CNN) -- She's been called "beautiful," "hot" and "sexy" but when it comes to tennis, the most apt description for Maria Sharapova has to be "tough."

The Russian rallied from a set down three straight times to reach this year's French Open final and then prevailed in Saturday's thrilling three-hour finale against rising star Simona Halep, 6-4 6-7 6-4.

"This is the toughest grand slam final I've ever played," Sharapova, who was contesting a ninth such match, summed up as she collected her trophy.

Even after losing the second set and hitting a flurry of double faults, Sharapova still had the edge.

She's almost a sure thing in third sets on clay, having triumphed 20 times in a row. It's been six years since the 27-year-old was defeated after capturing the first set in a clay-court match, too.

But if Halep maintains this form, it won't be long before she opens her grand slam account.

Smaller and with less power than Sharapova, the Romanian nonetheless almost did the unthinkable -- toughing out the now five-time grand slam champion. Her manager, Virginia Ruzici, remains the last Romanian to win a grand slam, in Paris in 1978.

Sharapova famously uttered in 2007 that she felt like a "cow on ice" playing on clay but the French Open has now become her most productive grand slam -- it's the only one she's won more than once and it's the only one she's won after two serious shoulder injuries in 2008 and 2013. 1. What does Maria Sharapova do?
2. What tennis match has she competed in?
3. Who did she compete against?
4. Was she victorious?
5. How long was the match?
6. What was the score at the end of the first round?
7. The second?
8. The third?
9. How many times has she won in a row in third sets on clay?
10. Has she lost after winning the first round on clay?
11. How many years ago?
12. How old is she?
13. Has she won any competitions more than once?
14. Which?
numbered_answers:
1. tennis player
2. French Open
3. Simona Halep
4. Yes
5. three hours
6. 6-4
7. 6-7
8. 6-4
9. 20
10. Yes
11. six years
12. 27
13. Yes
14. French Open