Q: Islamabad, Pakistan -- A Pakistani government minister who had said he was getting death threats because of his opposition to a controversial blasphemy law was shot to death Wednesday.

Shahbaz Bhatti was the only Christian member of the Cabinet in Pakistan, where 95 percent of people are Muslim. He served as the government's minister of minority affairs.

He was shot and killed in Islamabad on Wednesday morning, Pakistani police said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

"(The) assassination of Bhatti is a message to all of those who are against Pakistan's blasphemy laws," said Ihsanullah Ihsan, a Taliban spokesman.

Bhatti had been critical of the law, saying at one point, "I am ready to sacrifice my life for the principled stand I have taken because the people of Pakistan are being victimized under the pretense of blasphemy law."

Other officials have also been targeted for opposing the blasphemy law, which makes it a crime punishable by death to insult Islam, the Quran or the Prophet Mohammed.

In January, the governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was assassinated by his security guard because he spoke out against the law.

After Taseer's death, Bhatti pledged to continue pushing for amendments in the law.

"I will campaign for this ... these fanatics cannot stop me from moving any further steps against the misuse of (the) blasphemy law," he said at the time.

Bhatti said he was facing threats on his life, but was not afraid.

"I was told by the religious extremists that if you will make any amendments in this law, you will be killed," he said.

1. government minister
2. Pakistan
3. Shahbaz Bhatti
4. shot and killed
5. blasphemy
6. Wednesday morning
7. Christian
8. Taliban
9. blasphemy laws
10. No
11. yes
12. yes
13. Salman Taseer
14. security guard
15. In January
16. against
17. governor
18. Punjab

Numbered questions:
1. Who was getting death threats?
2. Of what country?
3. What was his name?
4. What happened to him?
5. Why?
6. When?
7. What was his religion?
8. Who shot him?
9. What was he against?
10. Was he the only person that opposed them?
11. Was he scared?
12. Was anyone else killed for the same reason?
13. Who?
14. Who killed him?
15. When?
16. What was Taseer's position?
17. What was his job?
18. Of what?

Q: Aristocracy (Greek "aristokratia", from "" "excellent", and "" "power") is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class. The term derives from the Greek "aristokratia", meaning "rule of the best".

At the time of the word's origins in ancient Greece, the Greeks conceived it as rule by the best qualified citizensand often contrasted it favourably with monarchy, rule by an individual. In later times, aristocracy was usually seen as rule by a privileged group, the aristocratic class, and was contrasted with democracy.

The concept evolved in Ancient Greece, whereby a council of leading citizens was commonly empowered and contrasted with representative democracy, in which a council of citizens was appointed as the "senate" of a city state or other political unit. The Greeks did not like the concept of monarchy, and as their democratic system fell, aristocracy was upheld.

In Ancient Rome, the Republic consisted of an aristocracyas well as consuls, a senate, and a tribal assembly. In the Middle Ages and early modern era, aristocracies primarily consisted of an influential aristocratic class, privileged by birth, and often by wealth, land and property. Since the French Revolution, aristocracy has generally been contrasted with democracy, in which all citizens should hold some form of political power. However, this distinction is often oversimplified.

1. ancient Greece
2. "aristokratia
3. "rule of the best"
4. the best qualified citizens
5. a privileged group
6. monarchy,
7. Better
8. democracy.
9. democratic
10. monarchy
11. an individual
12. a council
13. No
14. yes
15. by birth
16. wealth, land and property.
17. yes
18. Three
19. excellent", and "power"
20. no

Numbered questions:
1. Where did the word aristocracy begin to be used?
2. What word is it derived from?
3. Which means?
4. Who is in charge in this system?
5. During more recent times?
6. What type of government was it compared with a long time ago?
7. Did they think it was better or worse than that?
8. What is it compared with in recent times?
9. What government didn't work out in Greece?
10. And what type did they not want?
11. Who ruled in this system in Greece?
12. Who did in an aristocracy?
13. Were they elected?
14. Did it become a rich class in later years?
15. How was membership decided after the middle ages?
16. What other privileges did they have besides money?
17. Did another civilization have an aristocracy?
18. How many other things besides it were a part of their government?
19. What do the two Greek words that aristocracy is derived from mean?
20. In modern usage, do all people have a political voice in the system?

Q: (CNN) -- The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California interstate.

It took the California Highway Patrol to bring the car safely to a stop.

The driver, Jim Sikes, said he was traveling east on Interstate 8 outside of the San Diego area when he attempted to pass a slower vehicle.

"I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny ... and it just stuck there," he said at a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office. "As I was going, I was trying the brakes ... and it just kept speeding up."

Sikes said he called 911 for help, and dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car. But nothing worked.

At one point, Sikes said he reached down to try to pull the accelerator up, but it "stayed right where it was."

Alerted by emergency dispatchers, a California Highway Patrol officer was able to catch up to Sikes' Prius and used the patrol car's public address system to instruct Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time.

The tactic worked, and the car slowed to about 50 mph. Sikes said he was able to shut off the car, and it rolled to a stop. The responding officer, Todd Neibert, positioned his patrol car in front of the Prius as a precaution to prevent it from moving again.

1. Jim Sikes
2. His car's accelerator became stuck
3. Toyota Prius
4. California
5. A southern California interstate.
6. The California Highway Patrol
7. They instructed Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time
8. dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car
9. He positioned his patrol car in front of the Prius
10. He pushed the gas pedal to pass a car
11. To pass a car

Numbered questions:
1. Who called 911?
2. Why?
3. What make and model?
4. Where?
5. What road?
6. Who helped?
7. What did they do?
8. Anything else?
9. Did the patrolman do anything else?
10. What was he doing when it malfunctioned?
11. What was he attempting?