(CNN) -- Garrick Utley, who worked as a globetrotting foreign correspondent during the flush decades of network news, has died at age 74 of prostate cancer, his wife of 40 years said Friday.

"He has been fighting -- as you always call it -- prostate cancer for two years," Gertje Utley said. "He had a very, very rare, very aggressive kind."

He died Thursday night at his home in New York overlooking Central Park, she said.

"He was really the old kind of journalist," she said of her husband, who reported from more than 75 countries. "He was the old kind of trenchcoat-clad journalist who wrote his own copy -- always wrote his own copy."

During his early years at NBC, the network did not scrimp on devoting resources to newsgathering, she said. "That's what he always talked about: The early days were the lucky days."

Born in Chicago in 1939 to a radio and television news couple, Clifton and Frayn Utley, Garrick graduated from Carleton College and studied at the Army Language School in Monterey, California, before winning a Fulbright Scholarship and moving to Berlin to study East-West relations, she said.

In 1963, NBC's John Chancellor -- who had worked for Utley's father -- hired him as an office assistant in the network's bureau in Brussels, Belgium, she said.

After NBC News's "Huntley-Brinkley Report" expanded that year from 15 minutes to half an hour, the network was looking for more material, and Utley caught the eye of the brass. "He covered a couple of stories for the Common Market, as it was called then," she said of what is now the European Economic Community, and did some work in London. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the reporters name?
2. how old is he?
3. what killed him?
4. where did he die?
5. Did he have a partner?
6. what was her name?
7. Where did he write from his early years?
8. What award did he win?
9. Did he have parents?
10. What was his moms name?
Answer: 1. Garrick Utley
2. 74
3. prostate cancer
4. New York
5. wife
6. unknown
7. Berlin
8. unknown
9. yes
10. yes

(CNN) -- World-record signing Cristiano Ronaldo scored on his debut as Real Madrid kicked off the Spanish football season with a shaky 3-2 victory at home to Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday night.

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after paying off a small chunk of his record transfer fee with a goal on his Real debut.

Real's new generation of "Galacticos" were preceded onto the pitch by the world's fastest man Usain Bolt, with the Jamaican sprint star dribbling a ball to the delight of a packed Bernabeu crowd.

Coach Manuel Pellegrini fielded seven new signings against a team who stunned Real 2-1 on the opening day last season to foreshadow a season of massive upheaval for the underachieving capital club.

The first goal took just 26 minutes in coming as $92 million signing Kaka fed the ball to $50 million capture Karim Benzema, whose shot rebounded off the post and fell welcomingly to Real captain Raul to score.

Ronaldo, who cost $130 million when he left Manchester United, then rose highest to meet a free-kick from $50 million midfielder Xavi Alonso but headed over the bar.

Deportivo stunned the home crowd in the 30th minute when former Real striker Riki was allowed a free header to equalize in the type of defensive lapse that typified Madrid's performances last season.

But while Pellegrini has obvious problems to sort out at the back, where he fielded debutants Ezequiel Garay and Raul Albiol in the absence of the suspended Pepe, he has volumes of attacking resources at the other end of the pitch. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. How long did the first goal take?
2. How much did he cost when he left Manchester United?
3. Who is this story about?
4. What sport is played in this story?
5. Whose shot rebounded off the post?
6. What's real's new generation called?
7. Did he play for anyone else?
8. How many did the coach sign?
9. How much was his free-kick?
10. Does Ronaldo celebrate after signing?
11. What was the score before he signed on?
Answer: 1. 26 minutes
2. $130 million
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
4. football
5. Karim Benzema
6. "Galacticos"
7. Ronaldo, who cost $130 million when he left Manchester United, then rose highest to meet a free-kick from $50 million midfielder Xavi Alonso but headed over the bar
8. seven
9. unknown
10. yes
11. 2-1

Michael and Derek are good friends, but they like to pull each other's leg sometimes. One day during the holidays they decided to go to London together. They went to the station and bought their tickets. When the train came in, Michael broaden in first and without knowing it, dropped his ticket in the platform as he got into the carriage . Derek, who was close behind saw the ticket fall and quickly picked it up. Without a word to his friend, he put it in his pocket. After they had been in the train a little while, they heard the ticket inspector coming down the corridor, shouting, "tickets, please!" Michael looked for his and of course couldn't find it. "Oh, dear, I can't find my ticket, Derek," he said. "Have another look, Michael, it must be somewhere," said Derek. "No, I can't find it anywhere. What shall I do?" "Perhaps you had better hide under the seat, then the inspector won't know you are here." So Michael crawled under the seat as fast as he could and lay perfectly still. Presently the door opened and in came the inspector, "Tickers please!" he said. Derek handed him two tickets and said, "This is mine. The other belongs to my friend, who prefers to travel under the seat." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who are good friends
2. Where did they buyt tickets
3. where was the ticket dropped
4. who picked up the ticket
5. who shouted tickets please
6. who hide under the seat
7. who handed the tickets over
8. who said have another look
9. where did they decide to go
10. during what time did they go
Answer:
1. Michael and Derek are good friends
2. The station.
3. In the platform.
4. Derek.
5. The ticket inspector.
6. Michael.
7. Derek.
8. Derek.
9. London.
10. During the holidays.