Q: Friedrich Hayek CH (German: [fidc ast hak]; 8 May 1899 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and ... penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena."

In 1984, he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his "services to the study of economics". He was the first recipient of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize in 1984. He also received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 from President George H. W. Bush. In 2011, his article "The Use of Knowledge in Society" was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in The American Economic Review during its first 100 years.

Answer the following questions:
1. What was one of the top 20 articles?
2. In what publication?
3. During what time span?
4. Where was he born?
5. When?
6. Is he still alive?
7. When did he die?
8. How did his name usually appear?
9. What did he do?
10. What is his nationality?
11. What did he defend?
12. Did he get any awards from Americans?
13. What was it?
14. When?
15. Who bestowed it?
16. Did he receive an award from British royalty?
17. What was it?
18. Who bestowed it?
19. On the advice of whom?
20. When?
A: 1. The Use of Knowledge in Society
2. The American Economic Review
3. 100 years
4. Austria-Hungary
5. May 8, 1899
6. No
7. March 23, 1992
8. F. A. Hayek
9. economist and philosopher
10. Austria-Hungarian
11. classical liberalism
12. Yes
13. US Presidential Medal of Freedom
14. 1991
15. George H. W. Bush
16. Yes
17. appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour
18. Queen Elizabeth II
19. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
20. 1984
Q: Beijing, China (CNN) -- A court in eastern China sentenced a man to death Saturday for attacking 29 kindergarten students and three teachers with a knife, state-run media said.

The Taixing Intermediate People's Court found Xu Yuyuan, 47, guilty of intentional homicide after a half-day trial, Xinhua news agency said.

Xu told the court that his rage against society motivated him in the April 29 attacks, according to Xinhua. But he appealed the death sentence, arguing that the punishment was too severe since no one died in the attacks, Xinhua said.

Chinese penal code says a person can be convicted of intentional homicide for acting on an intent to kill, the news agency reported.

A police probe found Xu had been unemployed since 2001, when he was fired by a local insurance company. He told police he carried out the attack because he was angry about a series of business and personal humiliations, Xinhua said.

About 300 people attended Saturday's open trial, according to Xinhua.

Xu's sentence was the second death penalty conviction after a recent spate of school attacks that have prompted public outrage across China.

Zheng Minsheng, 42, was sentenced to death and executed on April 28 for attacking students in front of an elementary school in Fujian province, killing eight and wounding several others. Zheng also used a knife in the attacks, Xinhua reported.

Authorities said Zheng carried out the attack because he was frustrated at "failures in his romantic life," the news agency said.

At least four other such attacks on school children in China have been reported since March.

Answer the following questions:
1. How old was the defendant?
2. What was his nationality?
3. Was he found guilty?
4. of what?
5. How long was the proceeding?
6. Who published the information?
7. How many victims were there?
8. was Xu employed?
9. Did anyone perish in the incident?
10. What punitive measures were sought by the prosecutors?
11. What was the assailant's motive?
12. about what?
13. Have there been other similar crimes commited recently?
14. What became of the other criminal?
15. How many lives did he take?
16. and his motivation?
17. with what?
18. How many crimes of this nature have been reported this year?
A: 1. 47
2. Chinese
3. yes
4. intentional homicide
5. a half-day
6. CNN
7. 32
8. no
9. no
10. the death penalty
11. he was angry
12. business and personal humiliations
13. yes
14. he was executed
15. eight
16. he was frustrated
17. failures in his romantic life
18. four
Q: Jack had gone to the university to study history, but he kept playing all the time and at the end of his first year, his history professor failed him in his exams. He was so poor at his subject that he would have to leave the university. However, his father made up his mind that he would go to see the professor to ask him to let Jack go on his studies the next year. "He's a good boy," said the father, "and if you let him pass this time, I'm sure he'll improve a lot next year and pass the exam at the end of it really well." "No, no, that's quite impossible." said the professor at once, "Do you know, last month I asked him when Napoleon had died, and he didn't know!" "Please, sir, give him another chance." said Jack's father. "You see, I'm afraid we don't take any newspapers in our house, so none of us even know that Napoleon was ill."

Answer the following questions:
1. What was Jack studying?
2. Was he in high school?
3. Where was he studying?
4. Did he pass his tests?
5. Who decided to plead for Jack to be allowed to stay in school?
6. Did the professor agree to let him stay?
7. Did the professor ask Jack a question?
8. What was it?
9. Did he know the answer?
10. Why did Jack's dad say his son didn't know the answer?
11. What does Jack do instead of studying history?
A:
1. history
2. No
3. the university
4. No
5. his father
6. No
7. Yes
8. when Napoleon had died
9. No
10. we don't take any newspapers in our house
11. playing all the time