Problem: Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Closing arguments are set for Wednesday in the trial of Mexican soap opera actress Fernanda Romero on federal charges that her marriage was an illegal sham intended only to earn her a U.S. work permit.

On Tuesday, Romero tearfully testified that she really loved Kent Ross, the pizza deliveryman she married five years ago.

Their marriage was real, but it soon fell apart because of his drinking and her focus on a modeling and acting career, Romero told jurors.

Romero is accused of paying Ross $5,000 to marry her on June 12, 2005, but the prosecutor alleged they never lived together as a couple.

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real blocked defense lawyers from using evidence they said would show Romero was set up and turned in by a vengeful photographer angry that she rebuffed his romantic advances.

The job of convincing jurors the marriage was real fell on Romero, a 28-year-old actress-singer-model who starred in Telemundo's "Wounded Soul" soap opera. The prosecutor suggested Romero was using her professional acting skills to sell her own fiction.

Romero testified she married for love, not a green card.

"To be in a loving relationship, forever and ever, like my parents," she testified.

The couple didn't have a family wedding because he is Mormon and she is Catholic, she said.

They kept separate Hollywood apartments because he couldn't break a lease and she traveled a lot, she said.

The first months were "very loving, fun," she said. "We socialized together, passionate. It was the honeymoon stage."
1. Who is Fernanda Romero?
2. Why is she being accused?
3. Whom did she marry with?
4. How long ago did Fernanda Romero get married?
5. Why did the marriage fell apart?
6. How much did Romero pay Ross to marry her?
7. When did they get married?
8. Did they live together?
9. Did Romero love her?
10. Why the couple did not have a family wedding?
11. Why the couple did not live together in Hollywood?
12. How was the first months of the relationship?
Answer: 1. a soap opera actress
2. that her marriage was an illegal sham
3. Kent Ross
4. five years ago
5. his drinking and her focus on a modeling and acting career
6. $5,000
7. June 12
8. no
9. yes
10. because he is Mormon and she is Catholic
11. he couldn't break a lease and she traveled a lot
12. very loving, fun

Problem: Science Fiction

The science fiction type of entertainment is considered by most to be fathered by Jules Verne (A Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) and H. G. Wells (The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds). Sci-Fi, as it is commonly shortened, is a fictional story in which science and technology have a significant influence on the characters and plot. Many such works are guesswork about what the future holds and how scientific findings and technological advances will shape humankind.

Writing in the late 1800s, Jules Verne was remarkably successful in his 10 guesses about future technologies of air conditioning, automobiles, the Internet, television, and underwater, air, and space travel. Unbelievably, of all places from which to choose, Jules Verne guessed Tampa, Florida, USA as the launching site of the first project to the Moon, which was only 200 kilometers away from the actual 1969 location at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

One of the best-known science fiction books is Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Published in 1949, it was not meant as a prediction, but as a warning: Orwell was describing what he saw as the outcome of the ideas, trends, and emerging technologies of his time. Many invented terms from this novel have become common in everyday use, such as "big brother" and "doublethink". Even the author's name has been made into an adjective--Orwellian--and has become a warning descriptor for situations where privacy is lost and the individual becomes sacrifice under a totalitarian government. Nineteen Eighty-Four was translated into sixty-five languages within five years of its publication, setting a record that still stands.

What helps bring science fiction into being is usually a new discovery or innovation. The author creates an analysis of the potential influence and consequences and then wraps it in a pleasant story. For example, the beginning of space exploration was followed a few years later by the Star Trek television program and movie series. Advances in genetics cause fantasies of the end of disease, horrors of eugenics , and thrillers where creatures disappearing long ago are brought back to life. The science fiction author's self-determined role is that of field glasses for humanity--searching the world of future possibilities upon the road which we are traveling.
1. Are there considered to be three fathers of science fiction?
2. How many are there?
3. Who are they?
4. Which one wrote in the 1800's?
5. Was he successful in 12 assumptions about the future?
6. How many was he successful in?
7. Such as?
8. What is this genre's nickname?
9. Are many of the stories certain about what the future will be like?
10. Is there another famous writer of this genre mentioned?
11. Who?
12. What's his most famous book?
13. Was it put out in 1947?
14. When was it put out?
15. Is it only in English?
Answer: 1. no
2. Most consider there are 2
3. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells
4. Jules Verne
5. no
6. 10
7. air conditioning, automobiles, the Internet, television, and underwater, air, and space travel
8. unknown
9. no
10. yes
11. George Orwell
12. Nineteen Eighty-Four
13. no
14. 1949
15. no

Problem: Rajasthan (/rdstn/ Hindustani pronunciation: [radstan] ( listen); literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (342,239 square kilometres (132,139 sq mi) or 10.4% of India's total area). It is located on the western side of the country, where it comprises most of the wide and inhospitable Thar Desert (also known as the "Rajasthan Desert" and "Great Indian Desert") and shares a border with the Pakistani provinces of Punjab to the northwest and Sindh to the west, along the Sutlej-Indus river valley. Elsewhere it is bordered by the other Indian states: Punjab to the north; Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to the northeast; Madhya Pradesh to the southeast; and Gujarat to the southwest. Its features include the ruins of the Indus Valley Civilization at Kalibanga; the Dilwara Temples, a Jain pilgrimage site at Rajasthan's only hill station, Mount Abu, in the ancient Aravalli mountain range; and, in eastern Rajasthan, the Keoladeo National Park near Bharatpur, a World Heritage Site known for its bird life. Rajasthan is also home to two national tiger reserves, the Ranthambore National Park in Sawai Madhopur and Sariska Tiger Reserve in Alwar.
1. What is India's largest state?
2. What is the English translation?
3. What is the area in km?
4. In Miles?
5. Is it 20% of India's area?
6. How much is it?
7. Is it located on the eastern side?
8. What Desert is in the state?
9. What is a Pakistani province it shares a border with?
10. What is an example of an Indian state bordering it?
11. Another?
12. What is to the southeast?
13. What civilization is featured in the state?
14. Are there ruins of a civilization there?
15. Which civilization?
16. Is Mount Abu in the state?
17. In which mountain range?
18. Which national park is in the state?
19. Where is it near?
20. Is it a World Heritage Site?
Answer:
1. Rajasthan
2. Land of Kings
3. 342,239 square kilometres
4. 132,139 sq mi
5. no
6. 10.4%
7. no
8. Rajasthan Desert
9. northwest and Sindh
10. Punjab
11. Gujarat
12. Madhya Pradesh
13. the Dilwara Temples
14. yes
15. Indus Valley Civilizatio
16. yes
17. in the ancient Aravalli
18. Keoladeo National Park
19. near Bharatpur
20. yes