Q: A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner ---- and the bird now speaks Spanish. The reunion was brought about by Teresa Micco, a Southern California veterinarian who mistook Nigel, an African gray parrot, for her own missing bird, the Daily Breeze reported on Sunday. Teresa Micco tracked Nigel's microchip to Darren Chick, a British man who lives in Torrance, California. "I introduced myself and said, 'Have you lost a bird?' "Micco told the newspaper. "He first said, 'No' But he thought I meant recently " When she checked on Chick's name and said she had his African gray parrot, "He looked at me like I was crazy. " He said his bird had gone missing for four years earlier. Little is known about Nigel's whereabouts for the past four years, but Chick says the bird's British accent is gone, and it now chatters in Spanish. Chick says last week's reunion brought tears of joy to his eyes---despite the fact that Nigel bit him when he first tried to pick him up. Micco said the behaviour was not unusual and that Nigel would settle back in soon enough. "He is doing very well," Chick told the newspaper. "It is really strange. I knew it was him from the minute I saw him" It is the fifth parrot reunion helped by Micco, who has been running advertisements for her own missing bird for nine months. That parrot, Benjamin, escaped in February when it flew out through a door that had been left open. Julissa Sperling found Nigel outside her home and brought him to Micco after seeing one of her advertisements. "He was the happiest bird. He was singing and talking all the time," Sperling said. "He was barking like my dogs. I am from Panama, and he was saying, 'What happened?' in Spanish."

1. Nigel
2. no
3. five
4. Benjamin
5. yes
6. unknown
7. Spanish
8. it had a British accent but it is gone now
9. more
10. now
11. Torrance, California.
12. microchip
13. yes
14. Nigel bit him
15. no
16. unknown
17. Julissa Sperling
18. dog
19. no
20. veterinarian

Numbered questions:
1. What is the parrot's name?
2. Does it speak Italian?
3. How many parrots has Micco reunited with their owners?
4. Who is Micco's parrot?
5. Has it been missing since February?
6. Who left the door open?
7. What accent does Nigel have?
8. Any others?
9. Was Nigel missing for more or less time than Benjamin has been missing?
10. Is it an African swallow?
11. In what city does its owner live?
12. What technology helped to locate the owner?
13. Was he happy to get the bird back?
14. How did Nigel react initially?
15. Does that mean the bird doesn't like him anymore?
16. Was the owner actively looking for his bird?
17. Who found the bird?
18. What animal was the bird mimicking?
19. Was he speaking in French?
20. What is Micco's occupation?

Q: Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) -- A defense attorney Tuesday tried to poke holes in the highly emotional testimony of the first witness in the murder trial of Olympian double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, as another witness said she also heard screams the night model Reeva Steenkamp was killed.

On the second day of the trial, testimony continued with the questioning of Pistorius' neighbor, Michelle Burger, who said Monday she was awakened by screams, followed by gunshots, when Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend on Valentine's Day last year.

Defense attorney Barry Roux attacked Burger's credibility, accusing her of using her husband's statement to craft her own.

Paragraph by paragraph, Roux pointed out similarities between their two statements. Burger repeatedly explained that the statements were similar because they both heard the same thing. "I'm as honest as I can be to the court," she said.

Pistorius has admitted he killed Steenkamp but pleaded not guilty, saying that he mistakenly believed he was shooting a burglar. He only realized after firing four shots that his girlfriend was not in bed but in the bathroom he was firing at, his defense team said on his behalf Monday.

Burger cried when she described the gunfire. "It was awful to hear the shots," she said through tears.

On Monday, Burger testified that, "Something terrible was happening at that house." She called the shouts and screams "petrifying."

Roux questioned how Burger had heard the screams from far away: "You heard that out of a closed toilet in a house 177 meters away?"

1. Valentine's Day
2. She was shot
3. Pistorius
4. her boyfriend
5. He's an olympian
6. Pistorius
7. yes
8. he admitted it
9. no
10. he believed she was a burglar
11. the bathroom
12. four
13. they heard screams
14. the night she was killed
15. Michelle Burger
16. Pistorius' neighbor
17. screams
18. gunshots
19. scared
20. 177 meters

Numbered questions:
1. What day did Steenkamp die?
2. How did she die?
3. by who?
4. Who is he?
5. What is he known for?
6. Who is on trial?
7. Did he do it?
8. How do you know?
9. Did he plead quilty?
10. What is his excuse for killing her?
11. Where was she when he shot her?
12. How many times did he shoot her?
13. What did witnesses claim?
14. When?
15. Who took the stand on the second day?
16. Who is she?
17. how did she wake up?
18. What else did she hear?
19. How did the noises make her feel?
20. How far apart were their houses?

Q: Zheng He was an amazing man. He was born in 1371. Eleven years later, he was caught by the army of a rich young man called Zhu Di and made to work for him. Over time the rich man saw that Zheng He was very clever and strong and they became close friends. In 1403 Zhu Di was made the King of China and he asked Zheng He to join his government. The King wanted to learn more about the world and show other countries his power. He ordered many new ships to be built and made Zheng He their leader. between 1405 and 1433, Zheng He led seven sea trips to different parts of the world. He certainly travelled to India, Africa and the Middle East. A few people think his ships have even reached South America and Australia. Each trip lasted between two and four years and it is believed he sailed more than 50,000 kms during the years of his travels.Zheng He led a fleet with 28,000 men and over 300 ships, such as boats for food, water and even soldiers' horses. On these trips he brought with him many Chinese goods like silk and medicine to give to foreign kings or to sell for local goods. He returned from each trip with boats filled with expensive things such as gold and treasures, foreign guests and strange animals like a giraffe. It is a pity that we may never learn everything about Zheng He' s travels. The Columbus of the east, Zheng He, died in 1433. After that, the new king, had these trips stopped and he burned almost all the books about Zheng He's travels, because he believed the trips were unlucky and too expensive. It is only in the last 50 years that historians have begun to carefully study the adventures of great Zheng He.

1. Zhu Di was made the King of China
2. Zheng He
3. 1371
4. yes
5. yes
6. yes
7. seven
8. no
9. between two and four years
10. 300
11. 28,000
12. India, Africa, Middle East, South America and Australia
13. silk, medicine
14. gold, treasures, foreign guests and strange animals
15. giraffe
16. no
17. the new king burned almost all the books
18. in the last 50 years
19. 1433
20. Columbus

Numbered questions:
1. What happened in 1403?
2. Who did he ask to join his government?
3. When was he born?
4. was he friends with Z.Di?
5. Did Z.He travel on boats?
6. Did he make a lot of sea voyages?
7. how many?
8. were they short trips?
9. about how long did they last?
10. how many ships did he oversee?
11. how many men?
12. what countries did they go to?
13. what did he carry in the ships?
14. did he bring live things back with him?
15. what animal?
16. do we know everything about him?
17. what is one reason why not?
18. when did historians start studying him?
19. when did he die?
20. what other famous explorer is he referred to as?