question: Fred Astaire was born in Nebraska in 1899. Fred and his sister, Adele, learned to dance when they were very young. Their mother took them to New York to study dance. They performed in their first professional show when Fred was ten years old and Adele was twelve. Later, as teenagers, the two danced in many shows throughout the United States. Their first big success was on Broadway in 1917. The Astaires -- as they were known --- became Broadway stars. However, in 1932, Adele Astaire married a British man, and stopped performing. But Fred did not give up his dream. He would go on alone, in the movies. Fred said, "Dancing is a sweaty job. You cannot just sit down and do it. You have to get up on your feet. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. I always try to get to know my dance so well that I do not have to think." In 1949, Fred Astaire won a special award for his film work from America's Motion Picture Academy. He also won awards from the television industry for a number of his television programs.[:ZXXK] Fred stopped dancing in 1970. He was more than seventy years old at the time. He said a dancer could not continue dancing forever. He said he did not want to disappoint anyone, even himself. He danced again in public only once after that. It was with another great male dancer, Gene Kelly, in the movie "That's Entertainment, Part Two". Fred Astaire and his first wife, Phyllis, had three children. Phyllis died in 1954. Twenty-five years later, Fred married race horse rider Robyn Smith. Fred Astaire died on June 22, 1987. He was eighty-eight years old. He was called the greatest dancer in the world. His dancing was called perfect. And moviegoers everywhere will remember him as a great performer whose work will live forever in his films.
1. When did Fred have his first professional performance?
2. Who was his first dance partner?
3. Why did she stop performing?
4. Who was his last performance with?
5. What was it?
6. Which one?
7. Did he ever marry?
8. who?
9. Did they have kids?
10. How many?
11. Did he remarry?
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answer: 1. when he was ten
2. his sister
3. married a British man
4. Gene Kelly
5. in a movie
6. That's Entertainment, Part Two
7. yes
8. his first wife was Phyllis
9. yes
10. three
11. yes

question: (CNN) -- The man closest to Tiger Woods when he plays golf says he had no idea about the extramarital affairs that have sidelined Woods from the game.

Steve Williams, Woods' caddy and confidant for nearly a decade, talked to New Zealand's TV3 about the scandal.

"I knew nothing," Williams said in an interview posted on the station's Web site Thursday. "I don't need to clarify it, extend that answer. I knew nothing."

Williams said he's heard the calls from some that he should be fired for not preventing Woods' downfall. "In some people's perception, I'm involved with it, and I've committed a crime or done wrong," he said.

"If the shoe was on somebody else, I would say the same thing, it would be very difficult for the caddy not to know," he said. "But I'm 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing, and that's that."

Williams' wife, Kirsty, defended her husband, insisting he would not have been able to keep the secret from her or Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.

"The four of us are so close," she told TV3. "Being so close, he couldn't know and not say something to Elin or myself. You know, it's just, that's the way it is."

Woods, 34, apologized last month in a tightly controlled televised statement for his "irresponsible and selfish" behavior, which he said included infidelity.

The February 19 statement was his first public appearance since he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in November. The crash and reports about why it happened sparked a barrage of infidelity allegations against the golfer, who has two children with his wife.
1. What famous person is featured?
2. How old is he?
3. And who spoke to TV3?
4. Who is she related to?
5. And does the caddy have a wife?
6. What was her name?
7. Did she side with her hubby?
8. Were the Williams close to the Woods?
9. How long was Steve and Tiger's confidant?
10. When did Tiger first speak on the subject?
11. After what event?
12. What did he hit?
13. What else?
14. When did this happen?
15. Did he have kids at the time?
16. How many?
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answer: 1. Tiger Woods
2. 34
3. Elin Nordegren
4. Woods
5. yes
6. , Kirsty,
7. yes
8. yes
9. nearly a decade
10. February 19
11. he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade
12. a fire hydrant
13. a tree
14. November.
15. Yes
16. two

question: CHAPTER XXIII

AN EVENING AT APPLEYARD

Rankine had got a few days' leave and was spending it at Appleyard. He sat beside Elsie in a corner of the billiard-room, where the party had gathered after dinner. He had arrived during the afternoon, and Andrew was not altogether pleased to see him, although he liked the man. Elsie had suggested that Dick should invite him, and had added that he might as well come when Madge Whitney was there. Since Elsie had not seen Rankine until he arrived, Andrew wondered what she meant; but he admitted that she generally had a reason for what she did.

Nobody had been playing billiards or wanted to begin. Elsie and Mrs. Woodhouse were knitting and the others were talking quietly, while they waited for the evening newspaper.

Presently Staffer made a remark about the Navy, and Madge Whitney looked at Rankine with a smile.

"Don't you feel that you must answer that?"

"I don't know that I can," Rankine answered good-naturedly. "To some extent, Mr. Staffer's right. The Navy certainly occupies the background of the stage, just now."

"It strikes me as being out of sight altogether," Staffer said.

"Well, perhaps that's its proper place. But I expect it will emerge from obscurity when it's wanted."

"We must hope so," Staffer returned. "No doubt, your commanders are waiting for the right moment to make a dramatic entry on the scene; but one imagines that ambitious young officers must find being kept in the background rather galling."
1. What is the chapter number?
2. What is the name of the chapter?
3. Who was sitting next to Elsie?
4. How was he able to be at the Appleyard?
5. Where was he sitting with her?
6. When did they go there?
7. Who was not happy with his arrival?
8. Who suggested he should be invited?
9. Who should be present when he came?
10. Who was to invite him?
11. What common thing were Elsie and Mrs. Woodhouse doing?
12. What were the others doing?
13. And what were Elsie and Mrs. Woodhouse doing?
14. Who broke the silence?
15. Who made a comment about the military?
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answer:
1. CHAPTER XXIII
2. AN EVENING AT APPLEYAR
3. Rankine
4. He had arrived during the afternoon
5. corner of the billiard-room
6. during the afternoon
7. Andrew
8. Elsie
9. unknown
10. Dick
11. playing billiards
12. talking quietly
13. knitting
14. unknown
15. Staffer