Problem: Washington (CNN) -- Ronald Reagan, shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr., on March 30, 1981, was the ninth American president, in or out of office, to be the target of an assassination attempt since the Civil War. Four presidents were killed.

Will Hinckley go free?

1865: Abraham Lincoln was murdered at Ford's Theatre in Washington by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, who was tracked down hiding on a Virginia tobacco farm 12 days later and was shot to death trying to escape. Four co-conspirators, including a woman, were hanged three months later.

1881: James Garfield, only four months in office, was shot at a railway station in Washington by disappointed office-seeker Charles Guiteau. Garfield died 11 weeks later. Guiteau was convicted and hanged within the year.

1901: William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later. Czolgosz was convicted only nine days after McKinley's death and was electrocuted the next month.

1912: Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, who had succeeded McKinley in office, was making a campaign speech as the Bull Moose Party nominee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when he was shot and wounded by a New York saloon keeper, John Schrank, who was committed to a mental institution where he died 30 years later. Teddy Roosevelt finished the speech and lived the rest of his life with the bullet still inside his body.

1933: President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survived unscathed when five shots were fired by Guiseppe Zangara in Miami, Florida, but Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, standing next to Roosevelt, was killed. Zangara pleaded guilty and was electrocuted less than five weeks later. His last words: "Push the button."
1. Who shot Ronald Reagan?
2. When?
3. How many American leaders have been shot?
4. How many died?
5. What happened in 1881?
6. Where?
7. By whom?
8. Did he die?
9. Did Guiteau stand trial?
10. What was his sentence?
11. Who was shot in 1865?
12. Where?
13. By whom?
14. Were there anyone else involved?
15. Who did Leon Czolgosz attack?
16. When?
17. Where?
18. What city?
19. What happened in Wisconsin?
20. What was interesting about this one?
21. Who was shot but didn't get hit?
Answer: 1. John Hinckley Jr.
2. March 30, 1981
3. nine
4. Four
5. James Garfield was shot
6. Washington
7. Charles Guiteau
8. yes
9. Guiteau was convicted
10. hanging
11. Abraham Lincoln
12. Washington
13. John Wilkes Booth
14. Four co-conspirators
15. William McKinley
16. 1901
17. New York
18. Buffalo
19. Theodore Roosevelt was shot
20. bullet is still inside his body
21. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Problem: CHAPTER VIII

"I don't think I shall marry you, after all," Maggie announced that evening, as she stood looking at herself in one of the gilded mirrors with which the drawing-room at Belgrave Square was adorned.

"Why not?" Nigel asked, with polite anxiety.

"You are exhibiting symptoms of infidelity," she declared. "Your flirtation with Naida this afternoon was most pronounced, and you went out of your way to ask her to dine to-night."

"I like that!" Nigel complained. "Supposing it were true, I should simply be obeying orders. It was you who incited me to devote myself to her."

"The sacrifices we women make for the good of our country," Maggie sighed. "However, you needn't have taken me quite so literally. Do you admire her very much, Nigel?"

He smiled. His manner, however, was not altogether free from self-consciousness.

"Of course I do," he admitted. "She's a perfectly wonderful person, isn't she? Let's get out of this Victorian environment," he added, looking around the huge apartment with its formal arrangement of furniture and its atmosphere of prim but faded elegance. "We'll go into the smaller room and tell Brookes to bring us some cocktails and cigarettes. Chalmers won't expect to be received formally, and Mademoiselle Karetsky will appreciate the cosmopolitan note of our welcome."

"We do look a little too domestic, don't we?" Maggie replied, as she passed through the portiere which Nigel was holding up. "I'm not at all sure that I ought to come and play hostess like this, without an aunt or anything. I must think of my reputation. I may decide to marry Mr. Chalmers, and Americans are very particular about that sort of thing."
1. Did Maggie decide she didn't want to get married, after all?
2. When did she make this proclamation?
3. Who was she looking at, at the time?
4. In what?
5. And in what room?
6. What's the name of the fine house she lives in?
7. Who is it she decided not to marry?
8. Is he violently angry about it?
9. Do Americans care about a woman's reputation?
10. Who's the American mentioned in this fun fable?
11. Is he someone Maggie might decide to wed?
12. Are they going to retire to a larger or smaller room?
13. What do they want to have with their cigarettes?
Answer: 1. yes
2. in the evening
3. herself
4. a mirro
5. tthe drawing room
6. Belgrave Square
7. Nigel
8. no
9. yes
10. Mr. Chalmers
11. Iyes
12. smaller
13. cocktails

Problem: (CNN) -- Maria Sharapova has pulled out of the season-ending WTA Championships in Istanbul after suffering successive straight-sets defeats.

The Russian lost to China's Li Na 7-6 (7-4) 6-4, who had herself not won a match, or even a set, since August.

It was a match that ebbed and flowed as Li came from 2-4 down in the first set to force a tie-break, which she won despite losing the first four points.

Li, who this year became the first Asian Grand Slam winner after victory in the French Open, then fought off a late Sharapova surge when 5-2 up to take the second set 6-4. The defeat followed Sharapova's capitulation against U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur 6-1, 7-5 on Wednesday.

"I really wasn't thinking about too much during the match," Li was quoted as saying on the WTA's official website after the match.

"I'm so happy I was able to beat Maria because she's a top player, and also today was my first match ever at the Championships, so I want to thank all the crowd here for supporting me."

But for Sharapova, who has struggled with an ankle injury but had the chance to become world number one with victory in Istanbul, there were some positives to be taken from two defeats in two days.

"I just have to be pleased that I recovered quickly enough to allow myself a chance of playing here," she told AFP.

World number one Caroline Wozniacki crashed to defeat in her second red group match, losing 6-2 4-6 6-3 to Russia's Vera Zvonareva.
1. Where is Sharapova from?
2. What Championship was she in?
3. Did she quit?
4. What kind of defeat made her quit?
5. How many wins did Li Na have?
6. When was the last time she won?
7. Who was the U.S. Open winner?
8. When did Sharapova play them?
9. What is Li the first of?
10. What kind of injury did Sharapova have?
11. How many times did she lose in two day?
12. Where were they playing?
13. What is Caroline Wozniacki ranked?
14. Who beat her?
15. In which match?
16. Was it her first?
17. Which one was it?
18. What were the scores?
19. How did Li feel about winning agaist Sharapova?
20. Why?
Answer:
1. Russia
2. WTA Championships
3. Yes
4. lost to China's Li Na
5. 7-6 (7-4) 6-4
6. August
7. Sam Stosur
8. Wednesday
9. first Asian Grand Slam winner
10. ankle injury
11. Two
12. Istanbul
13. World number one
14. Vera Zvonareva
15. red group match
16. No
17. second
18. 6-2-4-6-6-3
19. so happy
20. first match ever at the Championships