Question: Question: Ontario, one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada, is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province accounting for nearly 40 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto. 

Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States follows inland waterways: from the west at Lake of the Woods, eastward along the major rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence River drainage system. These are the Rainy River, the Pigeon River, Lake Superior, the St. Marys River, Lake Huron, the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River, Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario and along the St. Lawrence River from Kingston, Ontario, to the Quebec boundary just east of Cornwall, Ontario. There is only about of land border made up of portages including Height of Land Portage on the Minnesota border. 1. does Canada have 16 provinces and territories?
2. how many does it have?
3. which one is the article about?
4. is that a province or a territory?
5. is it the biggest?
6. what borders it?
7. is that on the eastern border?
8. where?
9. does it house the country's capitol?
10. what is it?
11. does it have the city with the most people?
12. what is it named? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. No.
2. 13
3. Ontario
4. province
5. Yes.
6. Manitoba
7. No.
8. to the west
9. Yes.
10. Ottawa
11. Yes.
12. Toronto


Question: Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding of black culture in America. 

During the 1940's and the 1950's, Gwendolyn Brooks used her poems to describe conditions among the poor,racial inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women. 

But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She combined traditional European poetry styles with the African American experience. 

Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her materials through looking out of the window of her second-floor apartment in Chicago, Illinois. 

In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago, where many black people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was "A Street in Bronzeville" that gained the attention of literary experts in 1945. Critics praised her poetic skills and her powerful descriptions about the black experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published collection. 

In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called "Annie Allen". "Annie Allen" is a collection of poetry about a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and a mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death andpoverty . 

Gwendolyn Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life. 

Her next work was a novel written in 1953 called "Maud Martha". "Maud Martha" attracted little attention when it was first published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult lives of many women are popular among female writers today. 1. What was Brooks known as?
2. What kind of works did she usually write?
3. Did she ever write anything else?
4. What?
5. When?
6. What was the name of it?
7. Was it a bestseller in 1953?
8. What part of society did she write about?
9. Women and men?
10. What kind of house did she have?
11. Where?
12. What floor was it on?
13. Did it help her get ideas?
14. What did she win in 1950?
15. For which book?
16. Was it a novel?
17. Who is it about?
18. What does she experience?
19. What part of the city does she write about?
20. What does she call it? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
2. poems
3. yes
4. a novel
5. in 1953
6. "Maud Martha".
7. no
8. African Americans
9. mostly women.
10. an apartment
11. in Chicago, Illinois.
12. on the second-floor
13. yes
14. Pulitzer Prize for Literature
15. "Annie Allen"
16. no
17. a Bronzeville girl
18. loneliness, loss, death and poverty
19. the South Side
20. Bronzeville


Question: Washington (CNN) -- President James K. Polk holds a distinction among those who have sought the nation's top job: He's the only major candidate to win the White House despite losing the vote in the state where he was born and the state where he lived. 

It happened in 1844, and now 168 years later, Republican nominee Mitt Romney may need to duplicate Polk's feat if he wants to defeat President Barack Obama in Tuesday's election. 

According to polls, Romney faces the prospect of losing both the state of his birth, Michigan, and the state where he lives and served as governor, Massachusetts. 

CNN Polling Center 

Obama holds a double digit lead in Massachusetts, but the race is closer in Michigan, with the polls tightening, though the president remains in front. 

Under the Electoral College system, each state is worth a certain number of electoral votes based on population. There are a total of 538 electoral votes available, meaning 270 are required to win. 

Romney has many plausible paths to victory on Tuesday without winning Michigan or Massachusetts. 

Yet the prospect that he might lose either or both raises the question of how many other presidential candidates in U.S. history also were unable to win their birth or home states? 

Winners who overcame the loss of a state with strong personal ties included Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon and both George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush. 

New national poll shows Obama, Romney virtually tied 

Honest Abe won his home state of Illinois, but lost his birth state of Kentucky in both of his presidential runs in 1860 and 1864. In 1968, Nixon won his birth state of California, where he also ran unsuccessfully as governor, but lost his home state of New York, where he had been working as a lawyer for a few years.  1. What two candidates are running for president?
2. Who is leading in Massachusetts?
3. Is he leading in another state?
4. Where?
5. What system is used in the US?
6. What is the most votes you can have in this system?
7. How many will make you president?
8. Where was Romney born?
9. Where does he live now?
10. Why does he live there?
11. Is he ahead in the race?
12. Has anyone ever won and lost their home state?
13. Who?
14. Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
15. Where was Nixon born?
16. Where did he live?
17. What did he do there?
18. When did Abe Lincoln run for president?
19. When did Nixon?
20. Where did Nixon run for governor? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
Answer: 1. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama
2. Obama
3. yes
4. Michigan
5. Electoral College
6. 538
7. 270
8. Michigan
9. Massachusetts.
10. he served as governor there
11. no
12. yes
13. Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and  George W. Bush.
14. Illinois
15. California
16. New York
17. he was a lawyer
18. in 1860 and 1864
19. In 1968
20. California