Question: Max was sitting at home reading his favorite book. The story was about cakes. Max thought to himself, "I am going to go to the store and get stuff to make a cake!" Max headed to the grocery store to get the cake ingredients. Max was going to make a banana and chocolate cake. On his way he saw his friend Greg, a small wolf. Greg was also heading to the store. Greg was going to make a pie for his mother. He needed to get strawberries and blueberries. Max asked Greg if he wanted to walk to the store together. Greg the wolf said yes, so they walked to the store together. At the store the other people looked at Max and Greg. They had never seen an alligator and a wolf who are friends before. Max and Greg laughed at this. Max got the chocolate and bananas to make his cake and Greg got the strawberries and blueberries to make his pie. They left the store. Max waved good bye to Greg. "See you later alligator," said Greg. Max went home and made his cake, it was very good. 1. Where was Max?
2. Doing what?
3. What was the book about?
4. And what did it make him want to do?
5. And did he go?
6. What kind of cake?
7. Who did he see on the way?
8. And what was he?
9. Where was he going?
10. Why?
11. And what did he need to do that?
12. What was Max?
13. Did they get what they needed?
14. And did Max make his cake?
15. And how was it? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. home
2. reading his favorite book
3. cakes
4. go to the store and get stuff to make a cake
5. Yes
6. banana and chocolate
7. his friend Greg
8. a small wolf
9. to the store
10. Greg was going to make a pie for his mother
11. strawberries and blueberries
12. an alligator
13. Yes
14. Yes
15. it was very good.

Q: Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law or involves trading in influence.

Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, gombeenism, parochialism patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement. Corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking, though is not restricted to these activities. Misuse of government power for other purposes, such as repression of political opponents and general police brutality, is also considered political corruption.

The activities that constitute illegal corruption differ depending on the country or jurisdiction. For instance, some political funding practices that are legal in one place may be illegal in another. In some cases, government officials have broad or ill-defined powers, which make it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal actions. Worldwide, bribery alone is estimated to involve over 1 trillion US dollars annually. A state of unrestrained political corruption is known as a kleptocracy, literally meaning "rule by thieves".

1. Corruption.
2. Over 1 trillion dollars.
3. The use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain.
4. No.
5. Yes.
6. Not always.
7. Kleptocracy.
8. Rule by thieves.

Numbered questions:
1. What is bribery a type of?
2. How much money is estimated to change hand from bribery?
3. What is political corruption?
4. Would a mayor robbing a store be considered political corruption?
5. What about a senator accepting bribes to vote for a proposal?
6. Are political corruption laws generally the same worldwide?
7. What is defined as uncontrolled political corruption?
8. What's the literal meaning of that?

input: (CNN) -- As World Cup openers go, this was about as bad as it gets for Portugal.

Thumped 4-0 by Germany, one key defender sent off, another possibly out of the tournament with injury and its World Player of the Year looking decidedly unfit.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo wasn't lacking in effort but was as powerless as those around him to prevent Portugal being steamrollered by Der Mannschaft in Salvador.

It started badly for Paulo Bento's men and got steadily worse as Germany maintained its record of scoring at least four goals in every opening World Cup match since 2002.

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They were 1-0 down after 10 minutes when Joao Pereira was adjudged to have hauled down Mario Gotze. Fellow Bayern Munich star Thomas Muller confidently slotted home the penalty.

It was 2-0 when Mats Hummels thumped a header into the net from Toni Kroos' corner.

Just five minutes later, Real Madrid defender Pepe tangled with Muller, who sank theatrically to the turf claiming a hand to the face.

Pepe then stood over his opponent and pushed his head towards Muller's, the referee producing a straight red card.

Muller then struck just before the interval to put the game well beyond Portugal, pouncing on a loose ball inside the area to fire past Rui Patricio.

Portugal made a change at the break, as Ricardo Costa replaced Miguel Veloso, but it made little difference as Germany continued to press home their advantage.

Mesut Ozil, who plays for Arsenal, should have found the net when played through on goal but he hit his shot straight at Patricio. 1. Was the record broken?
2. Who lost the world cup?
3. to whom?
4. Was someone replaced?
5. What color card was produced?
6. What caused it?
7. Did the change out prove effective? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. unknown
2. Portugal.
3. Germany
4. unknown
5. red card.
6. Pepe then stood over his opponent and pushed his head towards Muller's
7. unknown