Problem: "Mohawk Guy," a Mars rover flight director, isn't just a social media sensation -- he made an impression on President Barack Obama, too.

"I, in the past, thought about getting a mohawk myself, but my team keeps on discouraging me," Obama told scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a phone call Monday broadcast on NASA TV.

"And now that he's received marriage proposals and thousands of new Twitter followers, I think that I'm going to go back to my team and see if it makes sense," he said to the sound of laughter from dozens of NASA employees.

Obama called NASA mission specialists to congratulate them on the successful landing of the rover Curiosity, which reached Mars one week ago. He praised them for their achievements in the phone call, which was both laudatory and lighthearted.

"Mohawk Guy," whose real name is Bobak Ferdowsi, has become famous for his look during the rover landing last week. As the world waited for Curiosity to touch down, Ferdowsi sported a red-and-black mohawk; the sides of his head featured yellow dyed stars.

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"It does sound like NASA has come a long way from the white-shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors," Obama told Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi and colleagues. "You guys are a little cooler than you used to be."

More seriously, Obama thanked the scientists for devoting their lives to the cause of exploration outside our planet.

"What you've accomplished embodies the American spirit," he said. "Our expectation is that Curiosity is going to be telling us things that we did not know before," he said, and that the rover will lay the groundwork for an even more "audacious undertaking," which would be "a human mission to the red planet."
1. What is his nickname?
2. Who has he impressed?
3. What impressed him?
4. What was it?
5. Where does he work?
6. What is his name?
7. What were they watching?
8. What was it called?
9. Where did it go?
10. What is it's name
11. What did they used to wear?
12. Who did the president tell this to?
13. Who is he?
Answer: 1. Mohawk Guy,
2. President Barack Obama
3. his look during the rover landing
4. a red-and-black mohawk; the sides of his head featured yellow dyed stars.
5. NASA
6. Bobak Ferdowsi
7. the rover landing
8. Curiosity
9. the red planet."
10. Mars
11. white-shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors
12. Charles Elachi
13. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director

Problem: CHAPTER XLIV.

BROOKE BURGESS TAKES LEAVE OF EXETER.

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The time had arrived at which Brooke Burgess was to leave Exeter. He had made his tour through the county, and returned to spend his two last nights at Miss Stanbury's house. When he came back Dorothy was still at Nuncombe, but she arrived in the Close the day before his departure. Her mother and sister had wished her to stay at Nuncombe. "There is a bed for you now, and a place to be comfortable in," Priscilla had said, laughing, "and you may as well see the last of us." But Dorothy declared that she had named a day to her aunt, and that she would not break her engagement. "I suppose you can stay if you like," Priscilla had urged. But Dorothy was of opinion that she ought not to stay. She said not a word about Brooke Burgess; but it may be that it would have been matter of regret to her not to shake hands with him once more. Brooke declared to her that had she not come back he would have gone over to Nuncombe to see her; but Dorothy did not consider herself entitled to believe that.

On the morning of the last day Brooke went over to his uncle's office. "I've come to say good-bye, Uncle Barty," he said.

"Good-bye, my boy. Take care of yourself."

"I mean to try."

"You haven't quarrelled with the old woman,--have you?" said Uncle Barty.

"Not yet;--that is to say, not to the knife."
1. Where did Brooke spend the last two days of his stay?
2. What had he done before that?
3. Who suggested Dorothy remain at Nuncombe?
4. Why?
5. Did they say they were prepared to put her up?
6. What accommodations did they offer?
7. What reason did she give to leave?
8. To whom?
9. Where did she go when she left there?
10. How long after she got there did Brooke leave?
11. Did she mention him to her family?
12. Who did he go visit the day he left?
13. What was his name?
14. Where did he visit him?
Answer: 1. Miss Stanbury's house.
2. He had made his tour through the county,
3. Her mother and sister
4. and you may as well see the last of us."
5. yes
6. a bed
7. she'd named a day
8. to her aunt
9. the Close
10. the day before his departure.
11. no
12. his uncle
13. Barty,"
14. to his uncle's office

Problem: Golf in the USA was until quite recently the hobby of old,middle class white men.Not any more.The fact that the class,age and race barriers that existed in the sport have finally been broken down is due almost entirely to two people.Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie.

Tiger Woods was born in California in 1975 and is one of the greatest golfers of all time.His ethnic background is marvelously rich and varied.His father Earl was of mixed of black,Chinese and Native American ancestry and his mother Kultida,who was originally from Thailand,also had Chinese and Dutch forefathers.

Woods became a professional golfer in 1996 and,less than a year later,astonished the world easily winning the prestigious Masters Colf Tournament,an annual event which takes place at the Augusta Golf Club in Georgia,USA.At 21,he was the youngest golfer ever to win the tournament,but much more important,he was also the first Asian American to do it.

Woods'amazing achievement is put into perspective when you realize that until 1990,no non-white American had ever been allowed to join Augusta Golf Club.Even in 2000,it only had two black members.In fact,in 1977,Clifford Roberts,the chairman of the club and founder of the Masters Tournament,proclaimed:"As long as 1 am alive,golfers will be white and caddies

will be black."Roberts died not long after making this racist remark...

Fortunately,his views were not shared by his successors and the dramatic appearance of Tiger Woods on the Golf scene radically changed attitudes to the sport and prompted a major surge of interest in the game among ethnic minorities end young people in the USA.

Michelle Wie,a Korean American born in 1989 whose mother was an amateur golf champion in Korea,will probably became the greatest woman golfer of all time.She's 1.85 meters tall and she can play a golf ball further than most men.Like Woods,she has transformed the world of golf,and wants to do so in even more dramatic ways.She has expressed her determination to play on the men's tournament circuit,not just the women's,and has already appeared in several professional men's tournaments.

Thanks to Woods and Wie,golf in America will never be the same again.
1. In what year was Tiger Woods born?
2. In what state?
3. What sport does he play?
4. Is he mixed race?
5. What racial background does his father have?
6. And his mother?
7. From what country is she?
8. What is her name?
9. In what year did Woods start his career in golfing?
10. Did he win a big award within a year of that?
11. Where does it take place?
12. How old was Woods at this time?
13. Was he the first Asian American to win it?
14. Who was chairman of the Augusta Golf Club?
15. What tournament did he establish?
16. In what year was Michelle Wie born?
17. What nationality is she?
18. Was her mother involved in golfing?
Answer:
1. 1975
2. California
3. Golf
4. ethnic background is marvelously rich and varied
5. black,Chinese and Native American
6. Chinese and Dutch
7. Thailand
8. Kultida
9. 1996
10. Masters Colf Tournament
11. Augusta Golf Club in Georgia
12. 21
13. yes
14. Clifford Roberts
15. Masters Tournament
16. 1989
17. 1989
18. Korean American