Q: (CNN) -- In the last week, Jeremy Lin has gone from an unknown professional basketball player struggling to get time on court to an overnight sporting and media sensation. CNN takes a closer look at the first U.S.-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA, and how he's becoming more popular with every game.

Who is Jeremy Lin?

Born to parents Shirley and Gie-Ming on August 23, 1988, Lin is an Asian-American NBA player for the New York Knicks. He wears the jersey No. 17 and plays as point guard. As a professional basketballer he's not overly tall, measuring 6 feet, 3 inches (191 centimeters) and weighs 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms). He played for four years at Harvard, and has spent just one year as a professional player.

Career highlights:

Following his stint at Harvard (where he was twice named to the all-Ivy League), Lin failed to get drafted by an NBA franchise, and instead signed as a free agent with the Golden State Warriors in July, 2010. In December 2011, Lin signed with the New York Knicks after being cut by the Houston Rockets. His 109 points in his first four starts this past week have surpassed Allen Iverson's to become the most by any player since the NBA-ABA merger in 1976.

'Linsanity': Why the hype?

Everyone loves a battle-against-the-odds story, and Lin fits the bill perfectly. The reasons for his meteoric rise to become a U.S. basketball sensation are numerous, but it all starts with talent. In just weeks he's gone from one-time bench-warmer to team savior, leading the Knicks to five straight victories and averaging more than 20 points per game, while his field goal percentage during this winning streak tops 50%. In Friday's game against Kobe Bryant's L.A. Lakers, he reeled off 38 points in that victory alone.

1. Jeremy Lin
2. the first U.S.-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA
3. Yes.
4. August 23, 1988
5. 6 feet, 3 inches (191 centimeters)
6. No.
7. 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms).
8. No
9. signed as a free agent with the Golden State Warriors
10. No
11. The New York Knicks
12. In December 2011
13. Yes
14. five straight victories
15. more than 20
16. 109 points in his first four starts,the most by any player since the NBA-ABA merger.
17. in 1976
18. Allen Iverson
19. one year
20. Harvard
21. point guard
22. Everyone loves a battle-against-the-odds story

Numbered questions:
1. Who does 'Linsanity' refer to?
2. Who is that?
3. Is he popular?
4. When was he born?
5. How tall is he?
6. Is that tall for a basketball player?
7. How much does he weigh?
8. Did he get drafted right out of college?
9. What did he do instead?
10. Is he still with them?
11. What team does he play for now?
12. When did he join them?
13. Are they doing well with him on the team?
14. How well?
15. How many points does he average a game?
16. How were his first four starts this week?
17. When did they merge?
18. Who held the old record?
19. How long has he been a professional?
20. Where did he play in college?
21. What position does he play?
22. Why do people like him so much?

Q: CHAPTER TWENTY.

HAROLD APPEARS IN A NEW CHARACTER, AND TWO OLD CHARACTERS REAPPEAR TO HAROLD.

The mind of Yambo was a strange compound--a curious mixture of gravity and rollicking joviality; at one time displaying a phase of intense solemnity; at another exhibiting quiet pleasantry and humour, but earnestness was the prevailing trait of his character. Whether indulging his passionate fondness for the jumping-jack, or engaged in guiding the deliberations of his counsellors, the earnest chief was equally devoted to the work in hand. Being a savage--and, consequently, led entirely by feeling, which is perhaps the chief characteristic of savage, as distinguished from civilised, man,--he hated his enemies with exceeding bitterness, and loved his friends with all his heart.

Yambo was very tender to Harold during his illness, and the latter felt corresponding gratitude, so that there sprang up between the two a closer friendship than one could have supposed to be possible, considering that they were so different from each other, mentally, physically, and socially, and that their only mode of exchanging ideas was through the medium of a very incompetent interpreter.

Among other things Harold discovered that his friend the chief was extremely fond of anecdotes and stories. He, therefore, while in a convalescent state and unable for much physical exercise, amused himself, and spent much of his time, in narrating to him the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Yambo's appetite for mental food increased, and when Crusoe's tale was finished he eagerly demanded more. Some of his warriors also came to hear, and at last the hut was unable to contain the audiences that wished to enter. Harold, therefore, removed to an open space under a banyan-tree, and there daily, for several hours, related all the tales and narratives with which he was acquainted, to the hundreds of open-eyed and open-mouthed negroes who squatted around him.

1. Yambo
2. gratitude
3. yes
4. a friendship
5. no
6. mentally
7. physically
8. socially
9. an interpreter.
10. no
11. he was a chief
12. it was a strange compound
13. anecdotes and stories
14. his friends
15. with all his heart
16. his enemies
17. with exceeding bitterness
18. Robinson Crusoe
19. an open space under a banyan-tree
20. hundreds

Numbered questions:
1. Who was helpful when Harold was sick?
2. What did he feel?
3. Did something spring up?
4. What?
5. Were they alike?
6. How did they differ?
7. How else?
8. And?
9. How did they communicate?
10. Was he competent?
11. What did Yambo do?
12. How was his mind?
13. Who did he love?
14. Which people did he love?
15. How much?
16. Who did he hate?
17. How badly?
18. Who had an adventure?
19. Where did Harold move to?
20. How many heard the stories?

Q: .British people are famous for drinking tea. But brother and sister, Sarah and Bobby Green, became young millionaires when they opened a chain of American-style coffee shops in the UK. Having the idea: It started when Sarah took a weekend trip to New York to visit her brother Bobby. One evening, in a Thai restaurant, Sarah told Bobby how much she wished she could buy American-style coffee in London. Bobby suggested they started their own coffee shop. Sarah fell in love with the idea. Doing the Research: Back in London, she spent a whole day on the London subway, getting off the train at different stations to taste the coffee. "It was terrible, and I knew there was a gap in the market." In 1995, they opened their first Coffee Republic shop in central London. Making it work: The first year was very difficult. British people were not used to the names of American coffees, like latte and macchiato. But being successful was their dream and they were not going to give up. Today, there are over 100 Coffee Republic shops all over the country and the company has PS30 million a year. Advice for others: Sarah has now written a best-selling book about their experience, calledAnyone Can Do It ! She hopes it will help other young people to start their own businesses. She says, "If you think you have the energy, then get out and follow your dream."

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Anyone Can Do It !
4. Well
5. Get out and follow it
6. About her and her brother's
7. Yes
8. Coffee shops
9. No
10. American-style
11. in the UK
12. Bobby
13. Yes
14. Millions
15. Young
16. New York
17. No
18. thai
19. No

Numbered questions:
1. Do Brits like tea?
2. Has Sarah written a book?
3. What's it titled?
4. Did it sell well or poorly?
5. What do you need to do to follow your dream?
6. Did Sarah right about her and her brother's experience or some other people's?
7. Does following your dream take energy?
8. What type of shops did she and her brother open?
9. Were they British style?
10. What type, then?
11. Where were they opened?
12. What's Sarah's brother's name?
13. Have they been successful with their business?
14. How much money have they made?
15. Are they young or old?
16. Where had Sarah visited Bobby?
17. During the week?
18. What type of restaurant were they eating in?
19. Is the coffee in London at random train stations any good?