Problem: Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Rebels pushed Thursday northward on three fronts toward the coastal cities of al-Zawiya, Aziziya and Sorman, with their ultimate goal being Tripoli, rebel field commander Adel Al-Zintani told CNN.

Six rebels died and dozens more were wounded in fighting Wednesday and Thursday, he said.

He predicted that the fighters would reach the coastal road that leads to the capital city within days.

Zawiya is strategically important because the coastal road through the city is the main supply line from the Tunisian border to areas held by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Regime officials were not available Thursday evening for comment.

Fighting was continuing around Misrata, where rebel spokesman Mohamed Ibrahim said the main hospital reported four rebels killed and 54 wounded.

Meanwhile, in New York, a spokesperson for Ban Ki-moon said the U.N. secretary-general "is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties as a result of the conflict in Libya."

Ban is urging "all Libyan parties" to engage with his special envoy, Abdel-Elah Al-Khatib, "and respond concretely and positively to the ideas presented to them, in order to end the bloodshed in the country," the spokesperson said.

His remarks came three days after allegations that a NATO strike in the village of Majer near Zlitan wound up killing 85 civilians --- 33 children, 32 women and 20 men.

The Tripoli government called it "a massaacre" of civilians; NATO has said its warplanes struck two farms used as a staging point for Gadhafi's forces
1. In what direction were the rebels headed on Thursday?
2. On how many fronts?
3. What's one of them?
4. Can you name another?
5. And the last?
6. Which was the main city on their agenda?
7. In what country?
8. How long would it take them to arrive at the capital?
9. Who was the leader there?
10. What two places shared a common supply line?
11. Were there any casualties during this midweek battle?
12. How many?
13. Which field commander spoke with CNN?
14. Was it peaceful in Misrata?
15. Who reported the dead and wounded there?
16. How many were wounded?
17. Did any die?
Answer: 1. northward
2. Three
3. Aziziya
4. Sorman
5. al-Zawiya
6. Tripoli
7. Libya
8. within days
9. Moammar Gadhafi
10. Zawiya and Tunisia
11. yes
12. 85
13. Adel Al-Zintani
14. no
15. main hospital
16. 54
17. yes

Problem: The "Billboard" 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by "Billboard" magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week.

The chart is based mostly on sales (both at retail and digital) of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide with the Global Release Date of the music industry) and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week. The chart's streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday.

New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are also included in "Billboard" 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for retail sale in the United States (yet purchased in the U.S. as imports) are not eligible to chart. A long-standing policy which made titles that are sold exclusively by specific retail outlets (such as Walmart and Starbucks) ineligible for charting, was reversed on November 7, 2007, and took effect in the issue dated November 17.
1. what is the chart based on?
2. what is a recording act remembered by?
3. how often is it published?
4. on what day?
5. are all albums included in the chart?
6. which are not?
7. can these be bought in the US anyways?
8. What did Nielsen start keeping track of?
9. when did he start?
10. what days were they between?
11. when did this change?
12. to what?
13. what happened to titles sold by retail outlets in the past?
14. what happened before it was reversed?
15. when was it reversed?
16. what is Billboard 200?
17. what is it used to convey?
18. is it worldwide?
19. are digitals eligible?
20. where is the list published?
Answer: 1. the 200 most popular music albums and EPs
2. by its "number ones"
3. weekly
4. Saturday
5. no
6. Albums that are not licensed for retail sale in the United States
7. yes
8. sales
9. in 1991
10. originally Monday to Sunday
11. July 2015
12. Friday to Thursday.
13. it was reversed
14. they were ineligible for charting,
15. November 7, 2007
16. a record chart
17. the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States
18. no
19. yes
20. "Billboard" magazine.

Problem: Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, it denotes a larger area that includes the Indian-administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir (subdivided into Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh divisions), the Pakistani-administered territories of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and Chinese-administered territories of Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram Tract.

In the first half of the 1st millennium, the Kashmir region became an important centre of Hinduism and later of Buddhism; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose. In 1339, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the "Salatin-i-Kashmir" or Shah Mir dynasty. Kashmir was part of the Mughal Empire from 1586 to 1751, and thereafter, until 1820, of the Afghan Durrani Empire. That year, the Sikhs, under Ranjit Singh, annexed Kashmir. In 1846, after the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War, and upon the purchase of the region from the British under the Treaty of Amritsar, the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, became the new ruler of Kashmir. The rule of his descendants, under the "paramountcy" (or tutelage) of the British Crown, lasted until the partition of India in 1947, when the former princely state of the British Raj was claimed by both Pakistan and India. It is currently a disputed territory, administered by three countries: India, Pakistan, and China.
1. What region was important for relions?
2. What religions were important there?
3. Where is it located?
4. Which part?
5. What used to outline the region?
6. What outlines the area now?
7. Who runs the area now?
8. Before then?
9. Who was the first Muslim ruler?
10. When did the Sikh take over?
Answer:
1. the Kashmir region
2. Hinduism, Buddhism and Kashmir Shaivism
3. the Indian subcontinent
4. the northernmost geographical region
5. the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range
6. the Indian-administered territory, the Pakistani-administered territories and the Chinese-administered territories
7. India, Pakistan, and China
8. Pakistan and India
9. Shah Mir
10. 1820