Problem: Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from New Guinea island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji.

The region includes the four countries of Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.
Besides these independent countries, Melanesia also includes:

The name "Melanesia" (in French "Melanesie" from the Greek , "black", and , "islands") was first used by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1832 to denote an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands whose inhabitants he thought were distinct from those of Micronesia and Polynesia.

The name "Melanesia" ("islands of dark [people]") is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants. The concept among Europeans of Melanesia as a distinct region evolved gradually over time as their expeditions mapped and explored the Pacific. Early European explorers noted the physical differences among groups of Pacific Islanders. In 1756 Charles de Brosses theorized that there was an 'old black race' in the Pacific who were conquered or defeated by the peoples of what is now called Polynesia, whom he distinguished as having lighter skin. In the first half of the nineteenth century Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent and Jules Dumont d'Urville identified Melanesians as a distinct racial group.
1. What area of the world is Melanesia in?
2. Which island starts it?
3. Which place ends it?
4. How many countries are in it?
5. Is Vanuatu one of them?
6. Which language is the name from?
7. What does the name mean?
8. Who created the term?
9. When?
10. To label what?
11. Did he think they were different from other groups?
12. How many other groups?
13. What were their names?
14. Who described these people as different from others?
15. Who else?
16. When did de Brosses make his theory?
17. What did he think had existed?
18. What happened to them?
19. By whom?
20. What was different about the Polynesians?
Answer: 1. Oceania
2. New Guinea
3. Fiji
4. four
5. yes
6. French
7. islands of dark [people]
8. Jules Dumont d'Urville
9. in 1832
10. an ethnic and geographical grouping of islands
11. yes
12. two
13. Micronesia and Polynesia
14. Jules Dumont d'Urville
15. Charles de Brosses
16. In 1756
17. an 'old black race'
18. they were conquered or defeated
19. the peoples of what is now called Polynesia
20. they had lighter skin

Q: (CNN) -- He may be a long way from the football field, but Pele at least is back to talking and getting better at a Sao Paulo, Brazil, hospital.

The city's Albert Einstein Hospital issued a statement Saturday saying the football legend -- born Edson Arantes do Nascimento -- was improving but still in intensive care battling an illness.

Pele is lucid, talking and responding to antibiotics, the hospital said. He remains on temporary dialysis, which was a reason he was moved to the ICU in the first place, because the machine he needed was there.

The hospital issued a second statement later Saturday, indicating that Pele continues to recover and that doctors plan to take him off dialysis early Sunday.

Earlier this week, the 74-year-old was admitted to the medical facility -- the same place he recently underwent surgery to remove kidney stones -- for a urinary tract infection.

The athletic icon had one kidney removed during this days as a player, his aide, Jose Fornos Rodrigues, told CNN.

Pele tweeted Thursday that he was looking forward to spending the holidays with family and starting "the new year with renewed health, with many international trips planned."

"I am blessed to receive your love and support," Pele said, "and thank God this is nothing serious."

Known as "The Black Pearl" and simply "The King," Pele is one of the best known names in all of sports.

He burst onto the scene as a teenager, helping lead his native Brazil to the 1958 World Cup championship. Pele went on to star on two other World Cup title teams as well, in 1962 and 1970, in addition to a breakthrough career with the Brazilian club Santos and later with the New York Cosmos of the now-defunct North American Soccer League.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is back to talking and getting better at Sao Paulo Brazil, hospital?
2. What did the Hospital's statement say?
A: 1. Pele
2. he was improving

Problem: My heart went out to Barb Dunn the moment her 16-year-old son, Daniel, answered my question.

Once he gets his license in June, would he text and drive? That's what I asked during a kitchen table conversation in their Roxbury, New Jersey, home.

As you can see in the video above, his answer was not the one his mom expected.

"I'm taking a deep breath," said Dunn, who recently purchased visor clips for Daniel's friends who have already gotten their licenses that say "Stay alive. Don't text and drive."

"I wouldn't even mind if he said, 'I'm at a red light and I picked up the phone for a minute to read something and put it back down,' but that moving and texting freaks me out. It's not acceptable."

Daniel's mom might have wanted to slam her head against the counter but still she told me she appreciated her son's candor and realized in that moment how difficult it is to persuade teens, who text nearly all day long, not to do it while behind the wheel.

"Even a well-meaning teen is going to have trouble saying no when they get that buzz" from an incoming text or status update, said David Teater, senior director for the National Safety Council. "It's almost a Pavlovian response."

Teater sadly knows all too well what can go wrong with distracted driving. Ten years ago, a 20-year-old woman who had been talking on a cell phone ran a red light and killed his then 12-year-old son, Joe. Since then, he's dedicated his life to raising awareness about the dangers of talking on a cell phone while behind the wheel. A newer concern: how to eliminate driving while texting.
1. Who answered the interviewer's question?
2. Who was with him?
3. How old is he?
4. When is he able to drive?
5. Who else has their licenses?
6. What did she buy for them?
7. What do they say?
8. What is she afraid of him doing?
9. Who believe kids have problems leaving there phones alone while driving?
10. What does he call their actions?
11. Where does he work?
12. What is his job title?
13. Did anything happen to make him chose this job?
14. When did it happen?
15. What was the driver doing?
Answer:
1. Daniel
2. his mom
3. 16
4. in June
5. Daniel's friends
6. visor clips
7. "Stay alive. Don't text and drive."
8. moving and texting
9. David Teater
10. a Pavlovian response
11. the National Safety Council
12. senior director
13. His son was killed
14. Ten years ago
15. talking on a cell phone