Problem: Oceania ( or ) is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia. Spanning the eastern and western hemispheres, Oceania covers an area of and has a population of 40 million. Oceania is the smallest continental grouping in land area and the second smallest in population after Antarctica.

The islands at the geographic extremes of Oceania are Bonin Islands, a politically integral part of Japan; Hawaii, a state of the United States; Clipperton Island, a possession of France; the Juan Fernandez Islands, belonging to Chile; the Campbell Islands, belonging to New Zealand; and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, belonging to Australia. Oceania has a diverse mix of economies from the highly developed and globally competitive financial market of Australia and New Zealand, which rank high in quality of life and human development index, to the much less developed economies that belong to countries such as of Kiribati and Tuvalu. The largest and most populous country in Oceania is Australia, with Sydney being the largest city of both Oceania and Australia.

The first settlers of Australia, New Guinea, and the large islands just to the east arrived between 50,000 and 30,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still roamed. Oceania was first explored by Europeans from the 16th century onward. Portuguese navigators, between 1512 and 1526, reached the Tanimbar Islands, some of the Caroline Islands and west Papua New Guinea. On his first voyage in the 18th century, James Cook, who later founded the Hawaiian Islands, went to Tahiti and followed the east coast of Australia for the first time. The Pacific front saw major action during the Second World War, mainly between the belligerents United States, its ally Australia, and Japan.
1. What does Oceania have a diverse mix of?
Answer: 1. Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia

Problem: Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts all the children she can. Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents passed away. Pinky's parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed. Today , she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage. Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn't give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food. If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. "I know what it is to be poor and hungry." As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favorite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless. Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright, Her oldest baby, Aarita Rai, is now 20 years old, Then, there is 19-year-old Nimbe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Ten-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father's death. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale. "I like children. It's not one more mouth to feed but one more soul saved," Pinky says.
1. How old is Pinky?
2. What does she collect?
3. Why?
4. When did she adopt her first kid?
5. How did her parents feel about it?
6. What did she do to pay for it?
7. Where was the baby from?
8. What happened to her parents?
9. What is her name?
10. What is her current age?
11. Why did she adopt her second child?
12. How old is she now?
13. Where is she employed?
14. How many kids has she adopted?
15. What kind of house does she have?
16. Where is it?
17. Does she have any other kids?
18. Where did she get them?
19. How does Pinky feel about kids?
Answer: 1. 30
2. children
3. her first baby was an orphan
4. when she was 14
5. they did not mind
6. she started working full time
7. Nepal
8. they passed away
9. Aarita Rai
10. 20
11. her mother was unable to look after her
12. 19
13. in a government office
14. 12
15. a brown mud-washed house
16. Sikkim
17. 2 sons
18. from her marriage
19. she likes children

Problem: (CNN) -- When White House press secretary Josh Earnest said this week that President Barack Obama had "substantially improved the tranquillity of the global community," many observers reacted with disbelief.

When the President refused to go to the U.S.-Mexico border last week to see the crisis of young people flooding into the United States because "he's not interested in photo ops," lesser mortals noted he had played pool with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, dropped by a brewery to have a beer and shook hands with a man wearing a horse-head mask.

When he went to Delaware on Thursday and opened with a few sentences about the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine before joking about Joe Biden and going back to his prepared text on infrastructure, many thought he had failed to take seriously an international disaster. They were even less impressed when he had lunch at the Charcoal Pit and ordered burgers and fries (not a photo op, of course). It was not until 24 hours later that he took to the podium to promise an aggressive investigation.

With the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria causing the collapse of Iraq and continued violence in Syria, the Syrian dictatorship consolidating its power, the Iranians failing to take steps to end their nuclear weapons program and Hamas firing more than 1,000 rockets at Israel, the President and his team have moved decisively to brief The New York Times on his passion for late-night intellectual dinners exploring physics, architecture and questions far more profound than the fate of the Middle East.
1. Who was playing pool?
2. With who?
3. Who's that?
4. Of what?
5. Did the president go to a bar?
6. Where else did he go?
7. What did he do there?
8. Did he meet anyone unusual?
9. How so?
10. What kind?
11. Where did he go Thursday?
12. What did he talk about there?
13. Who did he joke about?
14. What is happening in Iraq?
15. Why?
16. Is there a battle happening somewhere?
17. Where?
18. Who is the first person mentioned?
19. What does he do?
20. What did he say?
Answer:
1. Barack Obama
2. John Hickenlooper
3. A governor
4. Colorado
5. No
6. a brewery
7. had a beer
8. Yes
9. a man with a rather unique mask
10. of a horse's head
11. to Delaware
12. the shooting down of an airliner
13. Joe Biden
14. the collapse of it
15. because of the Islamic State of Iraq
16. Yes
17. Syria
18. Josh Earnest
19. he's a press secretary
20. that President Obama had "substantially improved the tranquillity of the global community,"