Q: Buckingham Palace has a history that dates back over 500 years and has changed hands on numerous occasions, however, much of the building that remains standing today is from the original structure built in the early 1700's.

In the beginning Buckingham Palace was originally known as Buckingham House. However, in 1762 George III liked the house so much that he bought it for 28,000 and renamed it "The Queen's House". The reason for this was down to the fact that he bought the house to give to his wife Charlotte. Shortly after he did this, work soon began in order to remodel the house with the help of Sir William Chambers. This trend then continued with the accession of George IV in 1820 when he decided to reconstruct the house but he still used it for the same purpose that his father did.

One of the biggest physical changes to the house occurred several years later when the king had a change of mind. It was in 1826 that King George IV set about transforming the house into what it is known today, Buckingham Palace. He did this with the help of an architect known as John Nash.

The work that Nash carried out involved doubling the size of the main block through adding a new suite of rooms on the garden side facing the west. He then faced this with mellow Bath stone, which reflected the French neo-classical influence favored by George IV. Many of the rooms that Nash added still remain pretty much unchanged today.

The palace as it stands today acts as not only the London residence of Her Majesty the Queen but also the administrative headquarters of the Royal Household. It is in fact one of the few working royal palaces that remain in the world today. The state rooms are extensively used by the Queen as well as members of the royal family as a way of receiving and entertaining guests on state, ceremonial and official occasions.

Answer the following questions:
1. When was the palace built?
2. What is the name?
3. Does the same family control the palace?
4. Why not?
5. What was the original name of the palace?
6. Was it called something else after that?
7. By WHO?
8. wHAT DID HE CALL IT?
9. wHEN DID HE GAIN CONTROL OF IT?
10. hOW DID HE DO SO?
11. For how much?
12. Who did he buy it for?
13. Who resided there next?
14. What year did he assume control?
15. What happened in 1826?
16. Into what?
17. Upon who's orders?
18. What is the palace besides home to the queen?
19. For whom?
20. Which rooms are used most often by the queen?
21. Are there many other functioning palaces in the world?
A: 1. Early 1700's
2. Buckingham Palace
3. No
4. It has changed hands on numerous occasions,
5. Buckingham House
6. Yes
7. George III
8. "The Queen's House"
9. in 1762
10. hE BOUGHT IT.
11. 28,000
12. his wife Charlotte
13. George IV
14. 1820
15. Transforming the house.
16. what it is known as today
17. King George IV
18. Administrative headquarters.
19. The Royal Household.
20. The state rooms
21. No.
Q: (CNN) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is known for bold disagreement, conservative arguments, pointed questions and the occasional crude hand gesture, and still, it's been an intense few months for one of the high court's most polarizing figures, with biting insults hurled in his direction.

Last month, Scalia dissented in the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 health care ruling, writing that the court undermined values of "caution, minimalism, and the understanding that the federal government is one of limited powers."

Three days earlier, when the high court mostly rejected Arizona's immigration law, Scalia's minority opinion showed he was "more than usually outraged," CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said. In a solo dissent read from the bench, the 76-year-old dressed down the Obama administration and suggested Arizona wouldn't have entered the union if it had known how the ruling would come down: "If securing its territory in this fashion is not within the power of Arizona, we should cease referring to it as a sovereign state."

While many call Scalia a brilliant legal mind, his dissent on the court's Arizona immigration decision was accused of being too political, "more like a right-wing blogger or Fox News pundit," according to Politico. The Daily Beast called it "his churlish and self-aggrandizing and probably unethical tirade."

An opinion in Salon called Scalia an "increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard: a pompous celebrant of his own virtue and rectitude" -- in short, the headline said, a "ranting old man." Liberal Washington Post opinion writer E.J. Dionne Jr. called for Scalia to resign.

Answer the following questions:
1. who called for Scalia to resign?
2. who is he?
3. what does Scalia do?
4. What was the health care ruling?
5. was he happy about the ruling?
6. would Arizona have entered the Union if they knew about the ruling?
7. what is Arizona wanting to do?
8. what was rejected?
9. how angry was he?
10. who reported that?
11. who is he?
12. what was accused of being too political?
13. How old is Scalia?
14. what is he known for?
15. and?
16. was he happy with the Obama administration?
17. was he compared to a Fox news pundit?
18. by who?
19. what did Salon call him?
20. what did the Daily Beast call it?
A: 1. E.J. Dionne Jr.
2. Liberal Washington Post opinion writer
3. Supreme Court Justice
4. 5-4
5. no
6. no
7. secure its territory
8. Arizona's immigration law
9. more than usually outraged
10. Jeffrey Toobin
11. CNN senior legal analyst
12. his dissent on the court's Arizona immigration decision
13. 76
14. bold disagreement, conservative arguments, pointed questions
15. occasional crude hand gesture,
16. no
17. yes
18. Politico.
19. increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard
20. his churlish and self-aggrandizing and probably unethical tirade.
Q: "I believe you're the right person to write an advice column for the students called Dear Amy!" Jenny, editor of the school newspaper, said to Andy, who finally agreed to accept the job if Jenny promised not to tell it to anyone else. At first it wasn't too bad. Most of the letters he received were interesting and quite easy to answer. Then came a letter from a person named Joe. "Dear Amy," it began, "I'm in real trouble. I've wanted to be a songwriter all my life, but my parents don't even let me take music lessons. I have a guitar, but they both get angry if I play. I've tried explaining, but they didn't listen. I feel sad. Should I run away from home? Maybe that will make my parents agree." The letter signed "Joe". Andy thought about this letter for a long time. Should he advise someone to run away from home? Probably not. But didn't Joe have a right to be a songwriter if he wanted to? Andy thought hard, but couldn't think out a good answer. Andy couldn't sleep. He just worried about poor Joe. At a bar a few days later, Eleanor, a girl in Andy's maths class, sat down next to him and asked, " What's wrong with you? You look a little worried." "I guess I do," said Andy. "If you get a problem, why don't you try writing to Dear Amy about it?" asked Eleanor. Andy sighed. But Eleanor continued, "In fact, I guess Dear Amy is rather busy with other problems. She still hasn't answered the _ letter I wrote her last week. You'd better read it -- it may even make the most hard-hearted person cry! It was supposed to be from a songwriter named Joe."

Answer the following questions:
1. how did the letter begin?
2. what was the name of the person the letter came from?
3. how did it begin?
A:
1. Jenny thought it would be a good idea
2. joe
3. "Dear Amy,"