Q: The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (stylized in its logo as abc since 1957) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the DisneyABC Television Group, a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, with additional major offices and production facilities in New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.

ABC originally launched on October 12, 1943 as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS and NBC. In the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop and greenlight many successful series. In the 1980s, after purchasing an 80% interest in cable sports channel ESPN, the network's parent merged with Capital Cities Communications, owner of several print publications, and television and radio stations. In 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABC's assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company.

1. October 12, 1943
2. On Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan
3. Yes
4. New York City, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.
5. United Paramount Theatres
6. A chain of movie theaters
7. Yes
8. An 80% interest in ESPN
9. A cable sports channel
10. Yes
11. In 1996
12. unknown
13. The Walt Disney Company.

Numbered questions:
1. When did ABC launch?
2. Where is it headquartered?
3. Does it have locations elsewhere?
4. For example?
5. Who did they first merge with?
6. What kind of business is that?
7. Did they purchase another business?
8. What?
9. What's that?
10. Were they ever bought out?
11. When?
12. For how much?
13. By who?

Q: Mark Twain, the famous American writer, was traveling in France. Once he was going by train to Dijon. That afternoon he was very tired and wanted to sleep, so he asked the conductor to wake him up when they came to Dijon. But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. "I'll probably protest loudly when you try to wake me up," he said to the conductor, "but do not take any notice, just put me off the train anyway." Then Mark Twain went to sleep. Later, when he woke up, it was night-time and the train was in Paris already. He realized at once that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up at Dijon. He was very angry. He ran up to the conductor and began to shout at him."I have never been so angry in all my life," Mark Twain said. The conductor looked at him calmly. "You are not half so angry as the American whom I put off at Dijon," he said.

1. Dijon
2. by train
3. the conductor
4. Mark Twain
5. No
6. afternoon
7. America
8. France
9. No
10. a very heavy sleeper
11. No
12. protest loudly
13. No
14. put me off the train anyway
15. No
16. in Paris
17. angry
18. the conductor
19. the American whom I put off at Dijon
20. Yes

Numbered questions:
1. Where was the stop he wanted off at?
2. what kind of vehicle was he in?
3. whom did he ask to awaken him?
4. who is this sleepy person?
5. was he traveling by night?
6. what time of day?
7. where is Twain from?
8. what country is he in now?
9. is he a light sleeper?
10. what kind is he?
11. does he wake up silently?
12. what does he think he'll do when he is awoken?
13. does he want the conductor to be concerned with that?
14. what does he want him to do?
15. does the conductor do this?
16. where does Twain awaken?
17. how does he feel about this?
18. who does he yell at?
19. who is angrier than Twain?
20. was the conductor calm about this?

Q: The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Marshallese: Aolepan Aorokin Majel),[note 1] is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population of 53,158 people (at the 2011 Census) is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets. The islands share maritime boundaries with the Federated States of Micronesia to the west, Wake Island to the north,[note 2] Kiribati to the south-east, and Nauru to the south. About 27,797 of the islanders (at the 2011 Census) live on Majuro, which contains the capital.

Micronesian colonists gradually settled the Marshall Islands during the 2nd millennium BC, with inter-island navigation made possible using traditional stick charts. Islands in the archipelago were first explored by Europeans in the 1520s, with Spanish explorer Alonso de Salazar sighting an atoll in August 1526. Other expeditions by Spanish and English ships followed. The islands derive their name from British explorer John Marshall, who visited in 1788. The islands were historically known by the inhabitants as "jolet jen Anij" (Gifts from God).

1. with stick charts.
2. during the 2nd millennium BC
3. Micronesian colonists
4. Islands in the archipelago
5. in the 1520s,
6. the Republic of the Marshall Islands
7. near the equator in the Pacific Ocean
8. from British explorer John Marshall,
9. in 1788.
10. "jolet jen Anij"
11. Gifts from God
12. 53,158 people
13. yes
14. the larger island group of Micronesia.
15. 1,156
16. the Federated States of Micronesia
17. Kiribati
18. Nauru
19. yes
20. Wake Island

Numbered questions:
1. How did the Marshal Islands origianaly become populated?
2. When did the island become inhabited?
3. Who settled there?
4. What did the Europeans find?
5. when?
6. what is the official name of the Islands?
7. Where is it located?
8. How did it get its name?
9. When?
10. What were the islands previously known as?
11. What does that mean?
12. what was the last recorded population?
13. Does the country belong to any groups?
14. which group?
15. how many islands does the country consist of?
16. Who do they share boundaries with west of them?
17. to the south east?
18. What country is south of them?
19. Is there a country to the north?
20. Which one?