input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. (CNN) -- An octogenarian climber has abandoned his bid to reclaim the title of the oldest man to climb Mt Everest after a combination of poor climbing weather and government red tape forced him to call off the ascent.

Veteran Nepali climber Min Bahadur Sherchan, 81, had been acclimatizing at base camp, ready to reclaim his title from longtime rival 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura who became the oldest climber to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain last week.

However, a government promise to provide one million Nepali rupees (US$11,200) for the bid -- on which other sponsorship money hinged -- was awaiting government Cabinet approval in Kathmandu.

Team leader Ishwari Poudel told CNN that going up Everest was now too risky because the snow had started to melt, making ladders and other equipment unstable.

He said that since other expeditions had already left the mountain, there would be no manpower available in the event of a rescue.

The government had also pledged to help Sherchan's bid by waiving the Everest climbing permit fee of US$10,000 but this was also held up by Cabinet delays.

Purna Chandra Bhattarai, the Tourism Industry Division of the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, said his department, which processes climbing permits, had received the application late and the waiver could only be decided by ministers.

"The government makes decisions following its own procedure," he said.

Sherchan downplayed rumors he was returning due to health concerns.

"When one goes to climb such a mountain there are small health issues," he told CNN. 1. Who deserted their bid?
2. Why did he do that?
3. Who was it?
4. Did the government agree to give money?
5. How much?
6. Who made a statement of it being to risky?
7. Why did he feel that way?
8. What else did the government agree to?
9. How much was that?
10. What rumors was downplayed?
11. Was the waiver turned in late?
12. What was the outcome behind this>
13. Who was over this department?
14. How old was Sherchan?
15. Why didn't he fulfill his reclaim?
numbered_answers: 1. octogenarian climber
2. to reclaim title as oldest man to climb Mt. Everest.
3. Min Bahadur Sherchan
4. Yes
5. one million Nepali rupees
6. Ishwari Poudel
7. the snow had started to melt.
8. to help by waiving the Everest climbing permit fee.
9. US$10,000
10. That Sherchan was returning due to health concerns.
11. Yes.
12. The decision was now on ministers.
13. Purna Chandra Bhattarai, the Tourism Industry Division of Ministry
14. 81
15. poor climbing weather and government red tape.

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

A SOIREE WILDLY INTERRUPTED, AND FOLLOWED UP BY SURPRISING REVELATIONS.

One afternoon Captain Lee and Emma called on Mrs Tipps, and found her engaged in earnest conversation with Netta. The captain, who was always in a boiling-over condition, and never felt quite happy except when in the act of planning or carrying out some scheme for the increase of general happiness, soon discovered that Netta was discussing the details of a little treat which she meant to give to the boys and girls of a Sunday-school which she and her mother superintended. With all his penetration he did not, however, find out that the matter which called most for consideration was the financial part of the scheme--in other words, how to accomplish the end desired with extremely limited means. He solved the question for them, however, by asserting that he intended to give all the scholars of all the Sunday-schools in the neighbourhood a treat, and of course meant to include Netta's school among the rest-- unless, of course, she possessed so much exclusive pride as to refuse to join him.

There was no resisting Captain Lee. As well might a red-skin attempt to stop Niagara. When once he had made up his mind to "go in" for something, no mortal power could stop him. He might indeed be _turned_. Another object of interest, worthy of pursuit and judiciously put before him, might perhaps induce him to abandon a previous scheme; but once his steam was up, as John Marrot used to say, you could not get him to blow it off into the air. He was unlike the iron horse in that respect, although somewhat like him in the rigour of his action. Accordingly the thing was fixed. Invitations were sent out to all the schools and to all who took an interest in them, and the place fixed on was a field at the back of Mrs Tipps's villa. 1. Who was irresistible?
2. What is his will compared to?
3. Was he easily swayed?
4. Was it at all possible to sway him?
5. How?
6. Who made an analogy about his will?
7. What was it?
8. What was sent to educational facilities?
9. Who did Lee visit?
10. Was he with anyone?
11. Was anyone else there?
12. When did he feel most satisfied?
13. What had they been talking about?
numbered_answers: 1. Captain Lee
2. iron horse
3. No
4. Yes
5. Another object of interest, worthy of pursuit
6. John Marrot
7. once his steam was up, you could not get him to blow it off into the air
8. Invitations
9. Mrs Tipps
10. Netta
11. Emma
12. when in the act of planning or carrying out some scheme for the increase of general happiness
13. the details of a little treat

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Chlorine is a chemical element with symbol Cl and atomic number 17. The second-lightest of the halogens, it appears between fluorine and bromine in the periodic table and its properties are mostly intermediate between them. Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. It is an extremely reactive element and a strong oxidising agent: among the elements, it has the highest electron affinity and the third-highest electronegativity, behind only oxygen and fluorine.

The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride (common salt), has been known since ancient times. Around 1630, chlorine gas was first synthesised in a chemical reaction, but not recognised as a fundamentally important substance. Carl Wilhelm Scheele wrote a description of chlorine gas in 1774, supposing it to be an oxide of a new element. In 1809, chemists suggested that the gas might be a pure element, and this was confirmed by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810, who named it from based on its colour.

Because of its great reactivity, all chlorine in the Earth's crust is in the form of ionic chloride compounds, which includes table salt. It is the second-most abundant halogen (after fluorine) and twenty-first most abundant chemical element in Earth's crust. These crustal deposits are nevertheless dwarfed by the huge reserves of chloride in seawater. 1. What is this about?
2. What is that?
3. What is it represented by?
4. Is there a specific number?
5. What is it?
6. What color is it?
7. What state is it?
8. Is it non-reactive?
9. What does it have the highest of?
10. And ranks at number three as?
11. Where is it usually found?
12. When was it first written about?
13. By whom?
14. What did he say it was?
15. Who later spoke of it?
16. When?
17. Is it found in the ocean?
18. In small quantities?
19. What ranking is it, in common-ness?
20. Do we consume it?
numbered_answers:
1. Chlorine
2. a chemical element
3. symbol Cl
4. yes
5. 17
6. yellow-green
7. gas
8. no
9. electron affinity
10. electronegativity
11. unknown
12. in 1774
13. Carl Wilhelm Scheele
14. an oxide of a new element
15. Sir Humphry Davy
16. 1810
17. yes
18. no
19. unknown
20. yes