Q: (CNN) -- It began as horseplay, with two teenage stepbrothers chasing each other with blow guns and darts. But it soon escalated when one of the boys grabbed a knife.

Michael Barton, Quantel Lotts' stepbrother, was stabbed to death at age 17.

The older teen, Michael Barton, 17, was dead by the time he reached the hospital, stabbed twice.The younger boy, Quantel Lotts, 14, would eventually become one of Missouri's youngest lifers.

Lotts was sentenced in Missouri's St. Francois County Circuit Court in 2002 to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder in his stepbrother's stabbing death.

It made no difference that at the time of the deadly scuffle, Lotts was barely old enough to watch PG-13 movie and too young to drive, vote or buy beer.

"They locked me up and threw away the keys," Lotts, now 23, said from prison. "They took away all hope for the future."

His stepmother, the victim's mother, has forgiven Lotts and is working with lawyers to gain his release.

Lotts is one of at least 73 U.S. inmates -- most of them minorities -- who were sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in prison for crimes committed when they were 13 or 14, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization in Alabama that defends indigent defendants and prisoners.

The 73 are just a fraction of the more than 2,000 offenders serving life sentences for crimes they committed as minors under the age of 18.

Across the country, most juvenile offenders and many adults are given a second chance. Charles Manson, convicted in seven notorious murders committed when he was 27, will be eligible for his 12th parole hearing in 2012. He's been denied parole 11 times. Even "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz, who confessed to killing six people in the 1970s when he was in his 20s, has had four parole hearings, though he has said he doesn't deserve parole and doesn't want it.

1. Quantel Lotts
2. Quantel Lotts, 14,
3. Quantel Lotts' stepbrother, was stabbed to death at age 17
4. stepbrother
5. Blow guns and darts
6. A knife.
7. 2002
8. Missouri
9. life in prison
10. first-degree murder
11. More than 2,000
12. 73
13. Equal Justice Initiative
14. Alabama
15. Yes
16. Yes
17. To gain his release.

Numbered questions:
1. Who was the youngest boy?
2. At what age?
3. How many teens did he kill?
4. Was he related to the deceased?
5. What weapons did they play with initially?
6. Which weapon was fatal?
7. What year did this occur?
8. In what state?
9. How many years was the sentence?
10. What was the official crime?
11. How many other youth received life sentences in the U.S.?
12. How many were only 13 or 14 at the time of their crime?
13. According to whom?
14. Based where?
15. Has Lott's stepmother forgiven him?
16. Does she want him to be released?
17. Who is she working with to that end/

Q: (CNN) -- Organizers of the 2018 Russia World Cup insist they have nothing to hide ahead of an investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

Football's world governing body FIFA awarded the 2018 competition to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar in December 2010, a decision which has been dogged by allegations of corruption and wrongdoing.

Michael Garcia, a former New York attorney, is head of the investigative arm of FIFA's ethics committee and will visit all of the countries involved in the bidding process for the two tournaments, beginning in London next week. Garcia has always insisted he is completely independent from FIFA and would not hesitate to take action against president Sepp Blatter or other top FIFA officials if he found evidence that they broke the rules.

The head of media for Russia 2018 says the committee will co-operate fully with Garcia's fact-finding investigation.

"We can confirm the local organizing committee (LOC) will fully support Mr Garcia's work if he contacts us," read a statement issued to CNN.

"The Russia 2018 committee ran a bid campaign in full compliance with FIFA rules and ethics, and we were awarded the right to host the FIFA World Cup because of the unique and compelling proposition we put together.

"The LOC continues to conduct itself with exactly the same degree of transparency, commitment to excellence and spirit of fair play."

Blog: Can the Qatar World Cup be moved?

How and where Garcia's potential meeting with Russia takes place is open to question given in April he was one of 18 people barred from entering the country over what Moscow said were human rights abuses, linked to the lawyer's arrest and charging of Viktor Bout, a Russian, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. for arms trafficking.

1. CNN
2. Organizers of the 2018 Russia World Cup
3. The bidding process
4. the 2018 and 2022 tournaments

Numbered questions:
1. What media outlet published this story?
2. Who claims they have nothing to hide?
3. what process is being investigated?
4. for which tournaments?

Q: Los Angeles (CNN) -- Cartoonist Jerry Robinson, who worked on the earliest Batman comics and claimed credit for creating the super-villain The Joker, died Thursday at the age of 89, his family confirmed.

"Batman has lost another father," Batman movie producer Michael Uslan said. "Farewell to my dear, dear friend, mentor and idol, Jerry Robinson."

Spider-man co-creator Stan Lee, who was with rival Marvel Comics, called him "a genuine talent and a genuine gentleman."

"Jerry Robinson was not only one of the finest artists ever to illustrate comic books, but he was also the head of an editorial syndicate which made cartoons available worldwide, as well as being an inspiration to young artists, whom he always found time to help and advise," Lee said.

Robinson, in a panel discussion at New York Comic Con in 2009, said he was a 17-year-old creative writing student at Columbia University when he was hired as a writer and illustrator at DC Comics.

Though he was initially just assisting Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger, his chance to create The Joker came in 1940, when the demand for more Batman stories overloaded Finger.

"This was going to be a problem, so I volunteered to do one of the stories," Robinson said.

He handed in the work for a grade in his college creative writing class, he said.

"I wanted a very strong villain, because I thought that's going to carry the story," Robinson said. "Villains are more exciting."

He wanted his villain to have a sense of humor, and "in a space of hours" one night "somehow The Joker came out," Robinson said. The first Joker image was modeled out of the joker card in a deck of playing cards, he said.

1. The Joker
2. 1940
3. the joker card in a deck of playing cards
4. Bob Kane
5. Bill Finger
6. Jerry Robinson
7. 89
8. Thursday
9. "genuine talent and a genuine gentleman"
10. Marvel Comics
11. 2009
12. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. Which villain did this cartoonist create?
2. When ?
3. What was the model for the first Joker image?
4. Who was one of the first Batman creators?
5. Who was another?
6. Which cartoonist died recently?
7. How old was he?
8. What day of the week ?
9. What did Stan Lee call him?
10. Who did Stan Lee work for?
11. Which Comic Con year is mentioned?
12. Did Robinson speak there?