Question:
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Betty and I are best friends. Our birthdays are on the same day, so every year we have a birthday party together. But this year we had a costume party instead. While we were writing the invitations, my mom came in and asked, "Nancy, what about inviting John?" John had been in our class for only a few months, but he was already getting better grades in math than anyone else in our class. "Mom, he wears the same pants to school every day. How could he even afford a costume?" Mom said nothing. The next day, mom gave me an envelope with a shopping card in it. "I thought it would be nice for you to give this to John." Mom said. But how? We didn't want to make John embarrassed. We discussed it for a long time. Finally, Betty and I had a good idea. On the day of our party, John arrived, in an old sheet ,but still in the same brown pants as usual. Before eating the birthday cake, Betty said in a loud voice, "Now it's time for the great prize game." It was a math game. None of us were surprised when John gave the right answer first and walked off with the envelope. Everything went well as we planned. John wore a new pair of pants and a new shirt the next week. He felt happy. So did we.
1. Who did my mom want me to invite?
2. Who has the same birthday as me?
3. Do we have a party together?
4. How long did we know John?
5. Was he the worst student in math?
6. Was he poor?
7. What did he wear every day?
8. Did he come to the party?
9. Who wanted to help John?
10. By giving him what?
11. How would he feel about that?
12. What was the big prize game about?
13. Who won?
14. What did he get?
15. What did he wear to the party?
16. When did he wear his new clothes?
17. Was everyone happy?
18. What was in the envelope?
19. Was John winning planned?
20. What kind of party was it?

Numbered answers:
1. John
2. Betty and I.
3. every year.
4. A few months
5. No.
6. Yes.
7. The same pants.
8. Yes he did.
9. Mom did.
10. A shopping card.
11. He might be emberassed.
12. Math.
13. John did.
14. New pants and shirt.
15. J an old sheet and the same pants.
16. The next week.
17. yes they were.
18. A shopping card.
19. Yes.
20. A costume birthday party.

Question:
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Several years ago ,Masaru Ibuka ,chairman of Sony ,was at a company planning a meeting. Suddenly he hdd a brilliant idea. He stopped the meeting and asked everyone present what would happen if Sony removed the recording function and 'speaker and sold headphones with a tape player instead. Almost everyone thought he was crazy. Still ,Ibuka kept thinking about his idea and worked at improving it The result, of course, turned out to be the wildly successful Sony Walkman. Good ideas often start with a seemingly silly question. Bill Bowerman was making breakfast one day. As he stood there making waffles for his son, he wondered what would happen if he poured rubber into his waffle iron. Later ,he tried it and the result looked something Like the bottom of most sports shoes we see today. Still, when he took this idea to several existing shoe companies, he was laughed at In fact, every single company turned him down. Though rather discouraged, Bowerman insisted and went on to form his own company, making NBKE athletic shoes. Sometime good ideas grow out of frustration .When Fred Smith was a student at Yale University, he had some paperwork that he needed to have delivered across the country the next day. Smith was amazed to find out that overnight delivery was impossible. He sat for a long while ,lost in thought Why couldn't there be a reliable overnight mail delivery service? He decided to design one. Smith did just that and turned his design into a class project His business professor gave him only a C for his efforts. However, Smith was not through. He improved the idea in that class project and finally turned them into one of the first and most successful overnight mail service in the world -- FedEx. We know that each of these ideas led to a very successful product or service that has changed the way many of us live. The best questions are usually open-ended and are often silly, Children aren't afraid to ask such questions ,but adults frequently are. Think how different the world might be if people never asked " silly" questions!
1. What type of questions led to success?
2. Who had the crazy idea to pour rubber onto a small kitchen appliance?
3. Did he try it?
4. What did it lead to?
5. What do they make?
6. Who had the concept for a portable player?
7. Where did he work?
8. What did they make from his concept?
9. Was it a popular product?
10. The concept of overnight services came out of which college?
11. What provoked it?
12. Did he present the concept as a project?
13. Was it a successful concept to the professor?
14. What grade was he given?
15. What did this man end up creating?

Numbered answers:
1. silly" questions
2. Bill Bowerman
3. Yes
4. NBKE
5. athletic shoes
6. ,Masaru Ibuka
7. Sony
8. Sony Walkman
9. yes
10. Yale University
11. overnight delivery was impossible
12. yes
13. no
14. C
15. FedEx

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(CNN) -- Chelsea continued to set the pace in the English Premier League with a comfortable 4-1 win over Norwich City at Stamford Bridge Saturday.

Norwich took an unlikely 11th minute lead through their star striker Grant Holt, but it was to prove short lived once the west London side got into their stride.

Goals from Fernando Torres, his 99th in English football, Frank Lampard and Eden Hazard put them 3-1 ahead by half time.

Branislav Ivanovic rounded off the scoring with an emphatic fourth in the 78th minute.

Both John Terry and Ashley Cole played and were given a warm reception by the home crowd.

Cole was forced to apologize Friday for a controversial Twitter comment as he reacted to the findings of an FA commission into the racial slur case brought against Terry.

The commission found Terry's evidence at the hearing "improbable, implausible and contrived" as they gave the reasons for his four-match ban and large fine for remarks aimed at QPR defender Anton Ferdinand in an EPL game last season.

He has until October 18 to appeal the decision or accept a ban which would rule him out of crucial games.

Manager Roberto Di Matteo confirmed after the game that Cole was likely to face action from the club over his tweet.

"We've got a social media policy at the club and there's going to be a disciplinary process against the tweet and that's how I'll leave it," Di Matteo said.

Chelsea have opened up a four-point lead over defendiing champions Manchester City, while Norwich are winless in the league this season.
1. Which team scored first?
2. Did they win the game?
3. Who won?
4. By what margin?
5. What player scored first?
6. What's his position?
7. Who scored next?
8. Was that his first score ever?
9. How many does he have?
10. What was the score at the half?
11. When was the last score made?
Numbered answers:
1. Norwich
2. No
3. west London side
4. 4-1
5. Grant Holt
6. striker
7. Fernando Torres
8. No
9. 99
10. 3-1
11. 78th minute