Question: Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent (the first being Asia). At about 30.3 million km (11.7 million squaremiles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of its total land area. With /1e9 round 1 billion people as of , it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognised sovereign states (countries), nine territories and two "de facto" independent states with limited or no recognition.

Africa's average population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the place of origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago, including "Sahelanthropus tchadensis", "Australopithecus africanus", "A. afarensis", "Homo erectus", "H. habilis" and "H. ergaster"with the earliest "Homo sapiens" (modern human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. 1. What is the largest continet?
2. What is the most populous?
3. What is the second largest?
4. How big is it
5. What is the second most populous continent
6. How many people live in it
7. How much of the world's population is that
8. What Sea is to the north
9. What ocean is to the southeast
10. What about to the west
11. How many countries are in Africa
12. How many territories?
13. What is it's median age?
14. In what year?
15. What was the worldwide median age at that time
16. What is Africa's largest country by size
17. By population?
18. What is the scientific name for great apes?
19. Where was the earliest Homo sapiens found?
20. To what year was it dated Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Asia
2. Asia
3. Africa
4. 30.3 million km
5. Africa
6. 1 billion people
7. 16%
8. Mediterranean Sea
9. Indian Ocean
10. Atlantic Ocean
11. 54 fully recognised countries
12. nine
13. 19.7
14. 2012
15. 30.4
16. Algeria
17. Nigeria
18. Hominidae clade
19. central Eastern Africa
20. around seven million years ago

Question: Damascus is the capital and likely the largest city of Syria, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city. It is commonly known in Syria as "ash-Sham" and nicknamed as the "City of Jasmine". In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major cultural centre of the Levant and the Arab world. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 .

Located in south-western Syria, Damascus is the centre of a large metropolitan area of 2.6 million people (2004). Geographically embedded on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau above sea level, Damascus experiences a semi-arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus.

First settled in the second millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. After the victory of the Abbasid dynasty, the seat of Islamic power was moved to Baghdad. Damascus saw a political decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Today, it is the seat of the central government and all of the government ministries. 1. What city is this article talking about?
2. Located where?
3. Why did the population of Aleppo go down?
4. What is the city's nickname?
5. and the population?
6. Is it the oldest city?
7. Its a major cultural center of wht?
8. What river flows through it?
9. and why is there a semi arid climate ther?
10. When was it first settled? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Damascus
2. Syria
3. no
4. the city of Jasmine
5. 1,711,000 .
6. one of them
7. the Levant
8. The Barada River
9. because of the rain shadow effect.
10. in the second millennium BC

Question: Liverpool is famed for many things -- most especially The Beatles and its football team. But few would associate the city with one of the most famous political speeches in history. Yet tourism officials in the city have published the claim that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" was written at a city centre hotel. The allegation has been made in a guide to a major art event named Liverpool Discovers.

A map in the guide shows more than 20 locations where famous people were born along with places associated with celebrities and events in their life. The guide claims, "Martin Luther King visited his supporters in Liverpool three times, and the first draft of his famous speech 'I Have a Dream' is claimed to have been written at Adelphi Hotel." The speech, delivered to civil rights campaigners on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1963, is one of the most quoted texts in history and was a definitive moment in the American Civil Rights Movement and in the fight for racial equality.

Dr. King's biographer, Godfrey Hodgson, said that the suggestion did not fit the facts. He said, "I don't believe it. If he had been to Liverpool, there would have been massive media reports, as he would have been a big figure by then. Dr. King did visit the UK on a number of occasions but he was not in the UK around the time of this famous speech in 1963."Prof. John Belcham, a history lecturer of University of Liverpool who wrote an 800year history of Liverpool in 2008, confirmed that he was unaware of any connection between Dr. King and the city. 1. Where was Martin Luther King purported to have written his speech?
2. More specifically?
3. What made the claim?
4. What function is the guide assoiated with?
5. What speech was the claim about?
6. Was it actually written there?
7. Who doubted the claim?
8. What's his name?
9. What's a reason why he doubted it?
10. Who else doubted the claim?
11. What makes him an authority on the subject?
12. Did MLK ever visit Liverpool?
13. What football team is the city famous for?
14. What band is it famous for?
15. Is the city involved with the claim?
16. How so? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Liverpool
2. Adelphi Hotel
3. a guide to a major art event
4. Liverpool Discovers.
5. I Have a Dream
6. no
7. Dr. King's biographer
8. Godfrey Hodgson
9. there would have been massive media reports
10. Prof. John Belcham
11. wrote an 800year history of Liverpool in 2008
12. Yes
13. Liverpool FC
14. The Beatles
15. Yes
16. tourism officials in the city have published the claim that Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" was written at a city centre hotel