question: Washington (CNN) -- Leading American Muslims on Wednesday strongly criticized this week's planned congressional hearing into the alleged radicalization of members of their community, calling it an unfair attack on loyal citizens and a dangerous break from the traditional U.S. embrace of tolerance and pluralism.

Rep. Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has said Thursday's hearing is necessary to explore the extent to which al Qaeda is trying to influence and indoctrinate U.S. Muslims, among other things. But his plans have created an uproar, with critics accusing Republican leaders of bigotry and comparing the hearings to Sen. Joseph McCarthy's allegations of Communist infiltration in the early years of the Cold War.

American Muslim leaders have also taken issue with King's assertion that they haven't sufficiently cooperated with law enforcement officials, and dismissed his claim that the overwhelming majority of mosques are run by extremist imams. Such claims are "demonstrably false," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

"Except for a tiny minority," extremists have found "no fertile ground in America," he said. He said King is engaged in "fear-mongering," and called the New York Republican "unfit" to head the Homeland Security Committee.

"We are not in denial as a community that something is going on, that there are bad actors in every community," said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, a member of the Council of Muslim Organizations. King is "onto something, but he is going in the wrong direction."

And Attorney General Eric Holder weighed in as well, disputing King's premise that Islamic leaders haven't done enough to help police during a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
1. Who condemned this week's planned congressional hearing?
2. Why?
3. Anything else?
4. Who is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee?
5. Are American Muslims in agreement with King's views?
6. What does King believe is happening?
7. Who is accusing Republican leaders of bigotry?
8. Who do they think Rep. King's hearings are similar to?
9. What did he believe?
10. When was McCarthy's situation relevant?
11. Is there any truth to Peter's claims of Muslims infiltrating America for wrong doing?
12. How much?
13. Does the Muslim community completely disagree with King?
14. How do they feel?
15. Who does King say is running most of the mosques?
16. Who is Nihad Awad?
17. What does he say of these claims?
18. Who else had something to say about King's views?
19. Who is he?
20. Does support King's claim about Islamic leaders dropping the ball?
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answer: 1. American Muslims
2. It is an unfair attack on loyal citizens
3. a break from US tolerance and pluralism
4. Rep. Peter King
5. No.
6. The al Qaeda is trying to influence U.S. Muslims.
7. Critics
8. Sen. Joseph McCarthy
9. There was Communist infiltration
10. In the early years of the Cold War.
11. Some.
12. A tiny minority.
13. No.
14. He is going in the wrong direction.
15. By extremist imams.
16. Executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
17. They are "demonstrably false."
18. Eric Holder
19. Attorney General
20. No

question: Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia). Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French "Australasie") in "Histoire des navigations aux terres australes" (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India.

Physiographically, Australasia includes New Zealand, Australia (including Tasmania), and Melanesia: New Guinea and neighbouring islands north and east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. The designation is sometimes applied to all the lands and islands of the Pacific Ocean lying between the equator and latitude 47 south. Physiographically, Australasia includes the Australian landmass (including Tasmania), New Zealand, and New Guinea. The independent country of Papua New Guinea also includes approximately 600 offshore islands.

Most of Australasia lies on the southern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, flanked by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south. Peripheral territories lie on the Eurasian Plate to the northwest, the Philippine Plate to the north, and in the Pacific Ocean including numerous marginal seas atop the Pacific Plate to the north and east.
1. Is New Zealand in Australasia?
2. How about Australia?
3. New Guinea too?
4. Why?
5. Who came up with this terminology?
6. When?
7. Where?
8. How New Zealand can be part of it too?
9. Is Melanesia part of it Physiographically?
10. What latitude demarcate it?
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answer: 1. Yes
2. Yes
3. sometimes
4. usually considered part of Melanesia
5. Charles de Brosses
6. 1756
7. "Histoire des navigations aux terres australes"
8. unknown
9. Yes
10. 47 south

question: Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (Literally "Frankfurt on the Main", ), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2015 population of 732,688 within its administrative boundaries, and 2.3million in its urban area. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, which has a population of 5.5million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr. Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013, the geographic centre of the EU is about to the east of Frankfurt's CBD, the Bankenviertel. Frankfurt is culturally and ethnically diverse, with around half of the population, and a majority of young people, having a migration background. A quarter of the population are foreign nationals, including many expatriates.

Frankfurt is an alpha world city and a global hub for commerce, culture, education, tourism and transportation. It's the site of many global and European corporate headquarters. Frankfurt Airport is among the world's busiest. Frankfurt is the major financial centre of the European continent, with the HQs of the European Central Bank, German Federal Bank, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, DZ Bank, KfW, several cloud and fintech startups and other institutes. Automotive, technology and research, services, consulting, media and creative industries complement the economic base. Frankfurt's DE-CIX is the world's largest internet exchange point. Messe Frankfurt is one of the world's largest trade fairs. Major fairs include the Frankfurt Motor Show, the world's largest motor show, the Music Fair, and the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's largest book fair.
1. What is the largest city in Hesse?
2. Is it the largest city in Germany?
3. How many are larger?
4. What is Hesse?
5. What is Frankfurt's CBD?
6. Are many people in Frankfurt from elsewhere?
7. About what portion are from elsewhere?
8. True or False: Most migrants to Frankfurt are elderly.
9. What is the name of one of the financial institutions headquartered in Frankfurt?
10. And another?
11. And one more?
12. Does the city have tech startups?
13. What is Messe Frankfurt?
14. Is it large?
15. How large?
16. What is another notable fair there?
17. And another?
18. Is there a music fair?
19. Is it the world's biggest?
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answer:
1. Frankfurt
2. no
3. four
4. a German state
5. the Bankenviertel
6. yes
7. around half
8. False.
9. the European Central Bank
10. the German Federal Bank
11. Deutsche Bank
12. yes
13. a trade fair
14. yes
15. one of the world's largest
16. the Frankfurt Motor Show
17. the Frankfurt Book Fair
18. yes
19. unknown