Q: Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omaha's population was 408,958, making it the nation's 44th-largest city; this had increased to 446,970 as of a 2016 estimate. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, with an estimated population of 895,151 residing in eight counties. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 estimate. Nearly 1.3 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile (80km) radius of Downtown Omaha, the city's center.

Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the "Gateway to the West". Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the World's Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omaha's central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub. Throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the world's largest, and its meatpacking plants gained international prominence.

1. speculators
2. Council Bluffs
3. No
4. Iowa
5. 1854
6. No
7. the Missouri River
8. the Gateway to the West
9. the World's Fair
10. the Trans-Mississippi Exposition
11. Midwestern
12. it became a national transportation hub
13. Yes
14. railroads
15. none
16. Douglas County
17. Omaha-Council Bluffs
18. Yes
19. 408,958

Numbered questions:
1. Who started Omaha?
2. Where were they from?
3. Is that in Nebraska?
4. What state?
5. When did this occur?
6. Is it on the Mississippi River?
7. Which river?
8. What was the city known as?
9. What happened there in 1898?
10. What was the event called?
11. Is Omaha near the middle of the country?
12. What happened because of its central location?
13. If I were a brew master would Omaha have been a good place for me?
14. What else was it known for in the 1900s?
15. How many cities in Nebraska are larger than Omaha?
16. What county is it a part of?
17. What metropolitan area does it belong to?
18. Does that include parts of a different state?
19. What was its population in 2010?

Q: Laura and Graham were having a party for their good friend Judy. Judy had graduated high school and they wanted to show her how proud they were of her, and Judy would be moving far away at the end of the year. Judy was going to college to become a doctor. She thought about becoming a lawyer or an engineer. She even thought about being a scientist. Judy would be bringing her friend Mike. There wouldn't be many people at the party, since this was a celebration with close friends. Laura set out drinks and snacks for Judy and the other guests. The snacks she set out were salty pretzels.

1. Laura and Graham
2. Judy
3. Judy's graduation.
4. No
5. No
6. to college
7. No
8. To be a doctor
9. Mike
10. Laura

Numbered questions:
1. Who was throwing a party?
2. For who?
3. What for?
4. Is she planning on staying near her friends?
5. Was the party huge and loud?
6. Where is she going?
7. To become an engineer?
8. What is she going for?
9. Who did she bring to the party?
10. Who sat out the drinks and snacks?

Q: First recognized in 1900 by Max Planck, it was originally the proportionality constant between the minimal increment of energy, E, of a hypothetical electrically charged oscillator in a cavity that contained black body radiation, and the frequency, f, of its associated electromagnetic wave. In 1905 the value E, the minimal energy increment of a hypothetical oscillator, was theoretically associated by Einstein with a "quantum" or minimal element of the energy of the electromagnetic wave itself. The light quantum behaved in some respects as an electrically neutral particle, as opposed to an electromagnetic wave. It was eventually called the photon.

Classical statistical mechanics requires the existence of h (but does not define its value). Eventually, following upon Planck's discovery, it was recognized that physical action cannot take on an arbitrary value. Instead, it must be some multiple of a very small quantity, the "quantum of action", now called the Planck constant. Classical physics cannot explain this fact. In many cases, such as for monochromatic light or for atoms, this quantum of action also implies that only certain energy levels are allowed, and values in between are forbidden.

1. Einstein
2. In 1905
3. E
4. as an electrically neutral particle
5. an electromagnetic wave
6. the photon
7. Max Planck
8. a physical one
9. some multiple of a very small quantity
10. the "quantum of action"
11. yes
12. the Planck constant
13. no
14. only certain ones are allowed
15. they're forbidden

Numbered questions:
1. Who originally associated the minimal energy increment of a hypothetical oscillator with a "quantum" or minimal element of the energy of the electromagnetic wave itself?
2. When did he do this?
3. What letter is the value called?
4. How did the light value behave?
5. As opposed to what?
6. What was it later called?
7. Who was energy E originally recognized by?
8. What type of action can't take an arbitrary value?
9. What must it be instead?
10. What is that also known as?
11. Is there another name for it?
12. What is it?
13. Is this fact widely understood in physics?
14. What does this imply about energy levels?
15. What about values in between?

Q: Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs, but he doesn't let this stop him.

The brave 26-year-old man plays football and golf, and swims, in spite of the fact that he has no arms or legs.

Nick has a small foot on his left side, which helps him balance and makes him able to kick. He uses his one foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up.

"I call it my chicken drumstick ," joked Nick, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Los Angeles. "I'd be lost without it. When I get in the water I float because 80 percent of my body is lungs and my drumstick acts as a propeller ."

"He's very modest, but he gets marriage proposals from women all the time," said Nick's friend Steve Appel.

"He would love to get married and start a family, but he's waiting for the right girl to come along."

When Nick was born his father was so shocked that he left the hospital room. His _ mother couldn't bring herself to hold him until he was four months old.

His disability came without any medical explanation, which was a rare case. Nick and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them.

"My mother was a nurse and she did everything right during pregnancy but she still blamed herself," he said.

"It was so hard for them, but right from the start they did their best to make me independent. My dad put me in the water at 18 months and gave me the courage to learn how to swim."

1. yes
2. football, golf, and swimming
3. yes
4. Steve Appel.
5. Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs
6. yes
7. yes
8. yes
9. 18 months
10. his dad

Numbered questions:
1. Does he play any sports?
2. Which sports?
3. Can he pick things up?
4. What's his friend's name?
5. Why is he disabled?
6. Does he want a family?
7. Was it hard for his parents?
8. Did they start him in sports early?
9. How old was he?
10. Who helped him learn to swim?