Question: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster with its headquarters at Broadcasting House in London. The BBC is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed contract staff are included.

The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer catch-up. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBC's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian.

Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd, which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd. 1. what company is the story about?
2. is that an acronym?
3. what does it stand for?
4. do the have many people working for them?
5. how many?
6. how many more?
7. are they all full time?
8. have they been around for a long time?
9. how were they created?
10. who oversees them?
11. where are their main offices?
12. is it named?
13. what is it called?
14. how is their work paid for?
15. who pays this tax?
16. anyone else?
17. who?
18. so everyone in Britain?
19. then who? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. The BBC
2. Yes
3. The British Broadcasting Corporation
4. Yes
5. over 20,950
6. 14452
7. No
8. Yes
9. under a Royal Charter
10. the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
11. London
12. Yes
13. Broadcasting House
14. principally by an annual television licence fee
15. British households
16. Yes
17. British companies, and organisations
18. No
19. People using any type of tv equipment

Question: Michael Dunn killed Jordan Davis. That's not in dispute, but according to attorneys' opening statements Thursday in Dunn's murder trial, almost everything else is.

Assistant State Attorney John Guy, speaking for the prosecution, painted a picture of four innocent teens who stopped at a Jacksonville, Florida, gas station for gum and cigarettes amid a day of "mall hopping and girl shopping" over Thanksgiving break in 2012. Dunn asked the teens to turn down their music, and Jordan disrespected him, saying "F*** that n****r" -- nothing more -- and for that, Dunn opened fire, hitting Jordan three times.

It was a markedly different account from that of defense attorney Cory Strolla, who told jurors that the music was so loud, it was rattling the windows of the teens' SUV, and when Dunn politely asked one of them to turn it down, Jordan uttered the three-word explicit phrase, demanded his pal turn the music back up and began jawing with Dunn.

Jordan then produced a weapon -- either a gun or a lead pipe, Strolla alleged -- and told Dunn, "I'm going to f***ing kill you," the attorney said. He added, "You're dead, bitch. This is going down now," the attorney alleged.

While Guy said Jordan and Dunn "exchanged f-bombs back and forth," Strolla said his client never uttered a curse word. And while Guy cited witnesses who said an incensed Dunn began shooting after telling Jordan, "You're not going to talk to me like that," Strolla insisted that Jordan was getting out of the car, armed, with the intention of hurting or killing Dunn. 1. ?
2. What is the name of the defendent?
3. in which state did the crime occur?
4. Did it happen in a mall?
5. What was the murder weapon?
6. Who is Cory Strolla?
7. Who got shot?
8. How loud did the Dunn say the music was?
9. What kind of car did the teens have?
10. Which holiday is mentioned in the story? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. unknown
2. Michael Dunn
3. in Florida
4. no
5. a gun
6. the defense attorney
7. Jordan Davis
8. loud enough to shake the windows
9. an SUV
10. Thanksgiving

Question: Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria medicine. The 84-year-old's route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she's never worked overseas. In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was _ Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit "Mission 523 "was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of "Mission 523". "Mission523" read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, more than 240,000 compounds around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood , which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point. After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. " In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague. Lianda Li, says Ms Tu is "unsociable and quite straightforward", adding that "if she disagrees with something, she will say it." Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a "tough and stubborn woman". Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives. 1. What is the name of the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize?
2. What was her work?
3. How do they call her in China?
4. Does she have a medical degree?
5. How is the malaria spread?
6. What is the name of the secret research unit?
7. How many compounds were testes around the world?
8. Which compost did the team find that was used to treat maria in China around 400 AD?
9. Did it work?
10. What did Tu Youyou find out about this compost?
11. What did Lianda say about Tu Youyou?
12. How long Fuming Liao has been working with Tu Youyou?
13. How many lives are saved because Tu Youyou? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Tu Youyou
2. helping to create an anti-malaria medicine
3. she is being called the "three nos" winner:
4. No
5. Mosquitos
6. Mission 523
7. 240,000
8. sweet wormwood
9. Yes
10. heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.
11. unsociable and quite straightforward
12. More than 40 years
13. millions of lives.