Q: (CNN) -- It's been more than three weeks since militants from the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group dragged 276 girls out of their beds at a boarding school in northern Nigeria, and still no one knows where the girls are. International assistance has begun to flow into Nigeria, whose president has vowed to end the terror threat plaguing his country.

Here's what you need to know to get caught up:

Where are the girls?

It's anyone's guess. Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in a video that he was going to sell them into slavery, but it's unknown whether he has. Pentagon spokesman U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby and other officials have said they believe the girls may have been separated into smaller groups, making the task of finding them inordinately more difficult. Gordon Brown, a former UK prime minister and the U.N.'s special envoy for global education, speculated that the girls may have been moved into neighboring countries. "The search must be in Niger, Cameroon and Chad, to see if we can find information," he said.

What's being done to find them?

Nigeria hasn't given a lot of information about its efforts other than to say that its soldiers have been out in the field, looking for the girls. Nigerian police offered a $310,000 reward, but there's no evidence that has turned up any leads. The United States and Britain have sent advisers to help the Nigerian government find the girls, stage rescue missions and help in the larger fight to defeat Boko Haram.

Answer the following questions:
1. When did Boko Haram kidnap the girls?
2. Where are they?
3. Who leads the group?
4. Who is looking for them?
A: 1. three weeks ago
2. no one knows
3. Abubakar Shekau
4. soldiers
Q: The Kelvin scale is an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics. The kelvin (symbol: K) is the base unit of temperature in the International System of Units (SI). The kelvin is defined as the fraction of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water (exactly 0.01C or 32.018F). In other words, it is defined such that the triple point of water is exactly 273.16K.

The Kelvin scale is named after the Belfast-born, Glasgow University engineer and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (18241907), who wrote of the need for an "absolute thermometric scale". Unlike the degree Fahrenheit and degree Celsius, the kelvin is not referred to or typeset as a degree. The kelvin is the primary unit of temperature measurement in the physical sciences, but is often used in conjunction with the degree Celsius, which has the same magnitude. The definition implies that absolute zero (0K) is equivalent to .

In 1848, William Thomson, who later was made Lord Kelvin, wrote in his paper, "On an Absolute Thermometric Scale", of the need for a scale whereby "infinite cold" (absolute zero) was the scale's null point, and which used the degree Celsius for its unit increment. Kelvin calculated that absolute zero was equivalent to 273C on the air thermometers of the time. This absolute scale is known today as the Kelvin thermodynamic temperature scale. Kelvin's value of "273" was the negative reciprocal of 0.00366the accepted expansion coefficient of gas per degree Celsius relative to the ice point, giving a remarkable consistency to the currently accepted value.

Answer the following questions:
1. What activity stops at absolute zero?
2. On which scale is it the null point?
3. For whom is the Kelvin scale named?
4. What was his title?
5. When was he born?
6. Where?
7. When did he die?
8. What school did he work at?
9. What paper did Lord Kelvin write?
10. When?
A: 1. all thermal motion
2. The Kelvin scale is an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.
3. William Thomson,
4. 1st Baron Kelvin
5. 1824
6. Belfast
7. T1907
8. Glasgow University
9. "On an Absolute Thermometric Scale",
10. 1848
Q: Brian O'Nolan (; 5 October 1911 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. His English language novels, such as "At Swim-Two-Birds", and "The Third Policeman", were written under the "pen name" Flann O'Brien. His many satirical columns in "The Irish Times" and an Irish language novel "An Beal Bocht" were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen.

O'Nolan's novels have attracted a wide following for their bizarre humour and modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Nolan was influenced by James Joyce. He was nonetheless sceptical of the cult of Joyce which overshadows much of Irish writing, saying "I declare to God if I hear that name Joyce one more time I will surely froth at the gob."

O'Nolan attended Blackrock College where he was taught English by President of the College, and future Cardinal, John Charles McQuaid.

According to Farragher and Wyer:

Dr McQuaid himself was recognised as an outstanding English teacher, and when one of his students, Brian O'Nolan, alias Myles na gCopaleen, boasted in his absence to the rest of the class that there were only two people in the College who could write English properly namely, Dr McQuaid and himself, they had no hesitation in agreeing. And Dr McQuaid did Myles the honour of publishing a little verse by him in the first issue of the revived College Annual (1930) this being Myles' first published item.

Answer the following questions:
1. does ONolan have a lot of followers?
2. why?
3. where did ONolan go to college?
4. who taught him english?
5. what did McQuaid go on to become?
6. is O'Nolan still alive?
7. how old was he when he died?
8. who was his influence?
9. what was his pen name?
10. what did he write under that name?
11. what did O'Nolan say proudly in class one day?
12. did everyone agree?
13. what was his other pen name?
14. what did he write under that name?
15. what are some of O'Nolans titles?
16. what did McQuaid do for Myles?
17. in what?
A:
1. yes
2. their bizarre humour and modernist metafiction
3. Blackrock College
4. John Charles McQuaid
5. Cardinal
6. no
7. 55
8. James Joyce
9. Flann O'Brien
10. His English language novels
11. there were only two people in the College who could write English properlly
12. yes
13. Myles na gCopaleen
14. satirical columns
15. "At Swim-Two-Birds", and "The Third Policeman"
16. published a verse by him
17. the College Annual