Problem: The Iberian Peninsula , also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe. The peninsula is principally divided between Portugal and Spain, comprising most of their territory. It also includes Andorra and a small part of France along the peninsula's northeastern edge, as well as Gibraltar on its south coast, a small peninsula that forms an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. With an area of approximately , it is the second largest European peninsula, after the Scandinavian.

The English word "Iberia" was adapted from the use of the Ancient Greek word by Greek geographers under the rule of the Roman Empire to refer to what is known today in English as the Iberian Peninsula. At that time, the name did not describe a single political entity or a distinct population of people. Strabo's 'Iberia' was delineated from Keltike (Gaul) by the Pyrenees and included the entire land mass southwest (he says "west") of there.

The ancient Greeks reached the Iberian Peninsula, of which they had heard from the Phoenicians, by voyaging westward on the Mediterranean. Hecataeus of Miletus was the first known to use the term "Iberia", which he wrote about circa 500 BC. Herodotus of Halicarnassus says of the Phocaeans that "it was they who made the Greeks acquainted with... Iberia." According to Strabo, prior historians used "Iberia" to mean the country "this side of the " as far north as the river Rhone in France, but currently they set the Pyrenees as the limit. Polybius respects that limit, but identifies Iberia as the Mediterranean side as far south as Gibraltar, with the Atlantic side having no name. Elsewhere he says that Saguntum is "on the seaward foot of the range of hills connecting Iberia and Celtiberia."
1. What country has an overseas territory on the peninsula
2. Was the territory small>
3. What peninsula is it
4. Where is it located?
5. How many countries share the area?
6. What are the primary countries?
7. Is it the largest peninsula in Europe?
8. Which one is larger?
9. What language does Iberia come from?
10. Did it describe a people group?
11. Who first used the term Iberia?
12. When did he use the term?
13. From who did the Greeks hear about Iberia?
14. What sea did they travel on?
15. In what direction?
16. What is the northern limit of Iberia
Answer: 1. the United Kingdom
2. yes
3. The Iberian Peninsula
4. in the southwest corner of Europe
5. Five
6. Portugal and Spain
7. no
8. the Scandinavian
9. Ancient Greek
10. no
11. The English
12. t circa 500
13. the Phoenicians
14. the Mediterranean
15. west
16. France

Problem: The latest chapter in Amanda Knox's long legal battle began Monday in Florence, Italy, with a retrial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

But Knox, 26, who has expressed concern about returning to a country where she spent four years behind bars, was not in court.

Neither was Kercher's family, which said in a statement submitted by their lawyer in court on Monday that they would be following the new trial closely from the United Kingdom.

Knox was convicted in 2009 of murdering Kercher, a 21-year old British exchange student who was found stabbed to death in November 2007 in the villa the two young women rented in the central Italian university town of Perugia.

Family: Amanda Knox won't return to Italy for new trial

The convictions of Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were overturned in 2011 for "lack of evidence."

After her acquittal, Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle, where she has been living since.

Knox: Sometimes, I can't stop crying

But Italy's Supreme Court decided last year to retry the case, saying the jury that acquitted Knox didn't consider all the evidence, and that discrepancies in testimony needed to be answered.

The retrial's opening day Monday was dominated by procedural items. The presiding judge, Alessandro Nencini, read out the facts of the case, including the conviction of Ivory Coast native Rudy Guede for his role in Kercher's murder.

The defense teams asked for several items of evidence to be retested for DNA, and Nencini agreed that a knife found in Sollecito's apartment would be re-examined. The court also agreed to hear testimony from Luciano Aviello, who served time in jail with Sollecito and claims that his brother killed Kercher.
1. Where did Knox's legal battle start?
2. what was she convicted of?
3. What is her home town?
4. When was she convicted?
5. Is she in prison now?
6. Why not?
7. Why did that happen?
8. When was Kercher found stabbed to death?
9. Will she be back in Italy for the retrial?
10. Why not?
Answer: 1. Italy
2. killing of her roommate
3. Seattle
4. 2009
5. No
6. The jury acquitted
7. They didn't consider all the evidence.
8. November 2007
9. No
10. Knox has expressed concern about returning.

Problem: A gramophone record (phonograph record in American English) or vinyl record, commonly known as a "record", is an analogue sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride (previously shellac) disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. Phonograph records are generally described by their diameter in inches (12", 10", 7"), the rotational speed in rpm at which they are played (16 23, 33 13, 45, 78), and their time capacity resulting from a combination of those parameters (LP long playing 33 13 rpm, SP 78 rpm single, EP 12-inch single or extended play, 33 or 45 rpm); their reproductive quality or level of fidelity (high-fidelity, orthophonic, full-range, etc.), and the number of audio channels provided (mono, stereo, quad, etc.).

The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century, replacing the phonograph cylinder recordwith which it had co-existed from the late 1880s through to the 1920sby the late 1920s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed. By the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. From the 1990s to the 2010s, records continued to be manufactured and sold on a much smaller scale, and were especially used by disc jockeys (DJ)s, released by artists in some genres, and listened to by a niche market of audiophiles. The phonograph record has made a niche resurgence in the early 21st century 9.2 million records were sold in the U.S. in 2014, a 260% increase since 2009. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014.
1. Is "phonograph record" a British term?
2. What dialect is it from?
3. How many synonyms are there for what's often called just a "record" are there?
4. What are they?
5. Are these items digital?
6. Are they currently the most popular way to transmit music?
7. When did they stop being the most popular?
8. What was popular before?
9. When did the gramophone record become more popular than the cylinder?
10. And what replaced the gramophone record?
11. Are vinyl records fading away?
12. Who uses them today?
13. What's the nickname of that profession?
14. What kind of people like to hear music coming from records?
15. How many different ways of distinguishing types of records are there?
16. What are they?
17. How many sizes are there?
18. How many speeds?
19. How is the speed measured?
20. What material are they made from?
Answer:
1. No
2. American English
3. three
4. gramophone record, phonograph record and vinyl record
5. no
6. No
7. late in the 20th century
8. the phonograph cylinder record
9. the late 1920s
10. compact discs
11. No
12. disc jockeys
13. DJs
14. audiophiles
15. Five
16. diameter, speed, time capacity, reproductive quality and number of audio channels
17. three
18. four
19. in the rpm at which they are played
20. polyvinyl chloride