question: (CNN) -- Answers to the quiz are in bold.

1. What is the 5-digit number in which the first, third and last digits are the same, the first digit is four less than the second, the last is four less than the fourth and the second and fourth are the same? (Hint: The sum of all the digits is 33.) 59,595

2. Boris Smetana and Karl Smith were world-class chess champions. In one series of matches, each won every game. How? They were not playing each other

3. Nicole was sure she got the right answer when her botany teacher asked her to pick out the plant that was not a tree from the list below. Which one would you choose? Peach, plum, walnut, linden, banana Banana

4. Six bricklayers can lay 24 bricks in half an hour. How many bricks can 12 bricklayers lay in two hours? 192 (Each bricklayer lays four bricks in half an hour, or eight bricks in an hour. That is 16 bricks in two hours times 12 bricklayers who can lay 16 bricks each.)

5. What is the number that is one more than one-tenth of one-fifth of one-half of 4,000? 41. (4,000/2 = 2,000, /5=400,/10=40,+1=41)

6. In a pie-eating contest, Alice was neither first nor last, but she beat Evan. Ben beat Alice. Carol beat Dan who beat Ben. Who was last? Evan

7. What letter would logically complete the series below? A Z B Y C X D W E? V (There are two series: A to E forward and Z, Y, X, W backward)
1. How many digits are in the number?
2. Are they all the same?
3. What do you get when you add them up?
4. Name two chess players.
5. Did they lose a game?
6. What class was Nicole in?
7. Do bananas grow on trees?
8. How many bricks can 6 workers lay?
9. Was Alice first in the contest?
10. Who did she beat?
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answer: 1. Five
2. No, first, third and last digits are the same,
3. 33
4. Boris Smetana and Karl Smith
5. No, each won every game
6. botany
7. yes, banana Banana
8. 24 bricks
9. No, Alice was neither first nor last
10. she beat Evan

A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present.On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office,a street urchin was walking around the shining car."Is this your car,Paul?"he asked.

Paul answered,"Yes,my brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy was surprised."You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you nothing?Boy,I wish..." He hesitated.

Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for.He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.

"I wish," the boy went on,"that I could be a brother like that." Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then he said again, "Would you like to take a ride in my car?"

"Oh yes,I'd love that."

After a short ride,the boy turned and with his eyes shining,said,"Paul,would you mind driving in front of my house?"

Paul smiled a little.He thought he knew what the boy wanted.He wanted to show his neighbours that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again. "Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked.

He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.

"There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn't cost him a cent. And some day I'm going to give you one just like it...then you can see for yourself all the nice things in the Christmas windows that I've been trying to tell you about."

Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.

:urchin hesitate neighbour crippled cent What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who gave Paul a car?
2. On what day?
3. Did Paul offer a ride someone?
4. Boy or girl?
5. What was the boy's wish?
6. Did the boy accept the ride?
7. Where did the boy ask Paul to drive?
8. What was wrong with the boy's brother?
9. Where did the boy sit the brother?
10. What did he point to?
11. Did the disabled brother go for a ride in the car?
12. Did the car cost a lot of money?
13. Who shined the car?
14. Was the boy surprised at the gift of the car to Paul?
15. What expression did Paul have when the boy asked him to drive the car by his house?
16. Who did Paul think the boy wanted to see him pull up in the car?
17. How many steps were in front of the boy's house?
18. Did the boys ascend the steps slowly?
19. By what moniker did the boy address is brother?
20. What did the boy tell his brother he'd give him one day?
Answer: 1. his brother
2. Christmas Eve
3. yes
4. boy
5. he could be a brother like that
6. yes
7. in front of his house
8. crippled
9. down on the step
10. to the car
11. yes
12. yes it was expensive
13. older brother
14. yes
15. smiled
16. his neighbours
17. two
18. yes
19. Buddy
20. a car

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

Mr. Barbecue-Smith was gone. The motor had whirled him away to the station; a faint smell of burning oil commemorated his recent departure. A considerable detachment had come into the courtyard to speed him on his way; and now they were walking back, round the side of the house, towards the terrace and the garden. They walked in silence; nobody had yet ventured to comment on the departed guest.

"Well?" said Anne at last, turning with raised inquiring eyebrows to Denis.

"Well?" It was time for someone to begin.

Denis declined the invitation; he passed it on to Mr Scogan. "Well?" he said.

Mr. Scogan did not respond; he only repeated the question, "Well?"

It was left for Henry Wimbush to make a pronouncement. "A very agreeable adjunct to the week-end," he said. His tone was obituary.

They had descended, without paying much attention where they were going, the steep yew-walk that went down, under the flank of the terrace, to the pool. The house towered above them, immensely tall, with the whole height of the built-up terrace added to its own seventy feet of brick facade. The perpendicular lines of the three towers soared up, uninterrupted, enhancing the impression of height until it became overwhelming. They paused at the edge of the pool to look back.

"The man who built this house knew his business," said Denis. "He was an architect."

"Was he?" said Henry Wimbush reflectively. "I doubt it. The builder of this house was Sir Ferdinando Lapith, who flourished during the reign of Elizabeth. He inherited the estate from his father, to whom it had been granted at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries; for Crome was originally a cloister of monks and this swimming-pool their fish-pond. Sir Ferdinando was not content merely to adapt the old monastic buildings to his own purposes; but using them as a stone quarry for his barns and byres and outhouses, he built for himself a grand new house of brick--the house you see now." 1. Who left?
2. Was everyone happy he left?
3. Where did they go?
4. How tall is the house?
5. Was it made of wood?
6. What was it made of?
7. What was they standing by?
8. what did it use to be?
9. For who?
10. Who built the house?
11. When was he alive?
12. Did they talk about the departed guest?
numbered_answers:
1. Mr. Barbecue-Smith
2. Yes
3. Round the side of the house
4. Seventy feet
5. No
6. Brick
7. By the pool
8. A fish-pond
9. Monks
10. Sir Ferdinando Lapith
11. during the reign of Elizabeth.
12. No