Question: Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN) -- He escaped the war, but life's no happier now for Omar. The 8-year-old Syrian refugee longs for friends back in Qusayr, hard hit by a civil war that grinds on. He also misses days in school -- when the most he had to worry about was finishing his homework.

"I work so I can bring money for my family," says Omar. His mother, like other refugees, asked that their last names not be used as they are worried for their safety.

Eddie Izzard: In Syrian refugee camps, another day of childhood is lost

I met Omar on a hot, dusty day in Lebanon's wind-swept Bekaa Valley. We were interviewing his mother when Omar and his 14-year-old brother came zooming by on a motorbike. They had just finished gathering eggs at a nearby farm -- what little money the kids make is the only way their family is able to survive.

The job is hard, but Omar went through an even more difficult experience recently.

"They hit us," he says timidly, describing how Lebanese boys his age beat him up.

"They said to me," he adds, embarrassed and close to tears, " 'Damn every Syrian.' "

Omar now faces a different kind of brutality -- a harsh reality reflected in the weary faces of kids all around. Their eyes make them seem far older. There's no childhood spark, with smiles few and far between.

I ask a 15-year-old girl what life's been like for her here.

"Life?" She asks unbelievingly -- as if the question were a farce. 1. Who escaped war?
2. How old is he?
3. where is he from?
4. Does he miss someone?
5. Who?
6. From where?
7. Is it a peaceful town?
8. Why?
9. Does he have perfect attendance?
10. What does he do to help his family?
11. What is his moms name?
12. Who did he meet?
13. Does he enjoy his childhood?
14. How old is he?
15. Does Omar have siblings?
16. How old
17. Was the job easy for him?
18. Were they nice to him?
19. What did they do?
20. Was there a girl? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Omar
2. Eight
3. Syrian
4. yes
5. his friends
6. Qusayr
7. no
8. Civil War
9. No
10. he works
11. unknown
12. Eddie Izzard
13. no
14. unknown
15. yes
16. 14
17. No
18. no
19. Hit them
20. Yes

Question: Almost two decades ago, a parlor game called "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" became an unlikely grass-roots phenomenon among movie buffs and foretold today's social web of online connections.

Maybe the only one who was not amused by the game was Kevin Bacon himself.

"I was horrified by it. I thought it was a giant joke at my expense," said the prolific actor Saturday during a talk at the South by Southwest Interactive festival here. "I appreciate it now. But I was very resistant to it (at first)."

The game, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, requires players to link celebrities to Bacon, in as few steps as possible, via the movies they have in common. The more odd or random the celebrity, the better. For example, O.J. Simpson was in "The Naked Gun 33" with Olympia Dukakis, who was in "Picture Perfect" with Kevin Bacon.

Inspired by "six degrees of separation," the theory that nobody is more than six relationships away from any other person in the world, the game was dreamed up in 1994 by Brian Turtle and two classmates at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. They were watching "Footloose" on TV when it was followed by another Kevin Bacon movie, and then another.

"It was just one of those lightbulb moments," said Turtle, who joined Bacon onstage at SXSW. "It was like, 'This guy is everywhere! He's the center of the entertainment universe.' "

After it spread among their friends, Turtle and his co-creators, Craig Fass and Mike Ginelli, managed to get booked on Jon Stewart's then-MTV show to explain the game. 1. what is the inspiration of the game?
2. what is the name of the game?
3. what inspired that game (other than kevin bacon)?
4. when was the game invented?
5. who thought it up?
6. did anyone help him?
7. who?
8. where did they go to school?
9. where is that?
10. what are the names of the two class mates?
11. did kevin bacon like the game?
12. how does he feel about it now?
13. how many years has the game been in existence at the time of the article? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Kevin Bacon
2. "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon"
3. "six degrees of separation,"
4. 1994
5. Brian Turtle
6. Yes
7. two classmates
8. Albright College
9. Reading, Pennsylvania
10. Craig Fass and Mike Ginelli
11. not at first
12. he appreciates it
13. Almost two decades

Question: Probably no other musical instrument is as popular as the guitar around the world. Musicians use the guitar for almost all kinds of music. Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar. The traditional Spanish folk music called Flamenco could not exist without a guitar. The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar. And rock and roll music would almost be impossible without this instrument.

Music experts do not agree about where the guitar was first played. Most agree it is ancient. Some experts say an instrument very much like a guitar was played in Egypt more than 1,000 years ago. Most experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the 12thcentury. The guitar continued to develop in Spain. In the 1700s it became similar to the instrument we know today.

Many famous musicians played the instrument. The famous Italian violins Niccole Paganism played and wrote music for the guitar in the early 1800s. Franz Schubert used the guitar to write some of his famous works. In modern times Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia helped make the instrument extremely popular.

In the 1930s, Les Paul began experimenting to make an electric guitar. He invented the solid-bodied electric guitar in 1946. The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in 1952. It became a powerful influence on popular music. The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different. Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the public to this music. Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in 1952. It is called "Meet Mister Callaghan." 1. What muscial instrument is being talked about here?
2. What kind of music you usually hear a guitar?
3. Where was it first played?
4. What about the modern guitar?
5. Did any famous muscians play the guitar in those times?
6. Who?
7. When was the electric guitar famous?
8. who was les paul
9. Did he use a special guitar?
10. What did it look like
11. Did Les have any popular songs? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. the guitar
2. all kinds of music
3. Egypt
4. Spain
5. yes
6. Niccole Paganism
7. 1952
8. A guitar player
9. Yes
10. Like a traditional guitar?
11. Yes