Question: Q: First published in 2001, the book Life of Pi written by Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize and an Asian American Prize for Literature. It is the story of a young boy named Pi who spends 227 days at sea with a small group of animals after disaster strikes their ship and is an account of his journey of survival and hardship. 

Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, on whom Life of Pi is based, is a young boy living in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns a zoo. The story starts when Patel's family decide to move to Canada, along with their zoo animals for their new home. 

However, because of the bad weather, the ship sinks. Pi along with an orangutan , an injured zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker are the only survivors who take shelter in a small lifeboat. Both the injured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed and eaten by the hyena. The tiger in turn kills and eats the hyena, leaving just the two of them alone on the boat now. 

In an effort to avoid being eaten by Richard Parker, Pi acts himself as the head of the group and remains safe from harm. Since he does not want the tiger to die for fear of going mad by being alone on the boat, he fishes and feeds the two of them in order to stay alive. 

The life of Pi then enters its third stage when their lifeboat washes up on the shores of Mexico and the tiger escapes into a nearby forest leaving Pi alone. After the Mexicans refuse to believe Pi's story, he changes his tale by replacing the animals with his mother, a cook and a sailor and asks the Mexicans which one they prefer. They prefer hearing the first story though they do not believe a word of it. 

In my view, Life of Pi is a must read book for all those who love reading.

1. Life of Pi
2. Yann Martel
3. Pi
4. their zoo animals
5. A ship
6. the ship sinks
7. Yes
8. an orangutan , an injured zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger
9. Both the injured zebra and the orangutan are soon killed
10. It is eaten
11. The tiger
12. Richard Parker
13. Pi
14. he fishes
15. Mexico
16. a nearby forest
17. No
18. fear of going mad by being alone
19. 2001

Numbered questions:
1. What's the name of the book being discussed?
2. Who wrote it?
3. Whois the main character?
4. Who came with Pi and his family when they left Canada?
5. What did they travel on?
6. What happens to it?
7. Does Pi survive?
8. Who else survives?
9. What happens to the oragutan and zebra?
10. What happens to the hyena?
11. By what?
12. What is its name?
13. /who feeds him?
14. With what?
15. Where does Pi end up?
16. And Richard Parker?
17. Do the Mexicans believe Pi?
18. Why did Pi feed Richard Parker?
19. When was the book published?

input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. What do Tom Sawyer and Jumping Frogs have in common? Stories about both of them were created by one man: Mark Twain. Twain was four years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, located on the west bank of the Mississippi. Twain grew up there and was fascinated with (......) life along the river----the steamboats, the giant lumber rafts, and the people who worked on them. 

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is one of Twain's best loved short stories, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of his most famous novels. Both these works are celebrated by events held during National Tom Sawyer Days, which originated in the late 1950s and became national in the 1960s. Children enter their frogs in the jumping contest during National Tom Sawyer Days. There's also a fence painting contest to see who can paint the fastest. The idea for this contest comes from a scene in Tom Sawyer, in which Tom has been told to paint the fence in front of the house he lives in. It's a beautiful day, and he would rather be doing anything else. As his friends walk by, he makes them believe that it's fun to paint, and they join in the "fun". By the end of the day, the fence has three coats of paint! 

Although the story of Tom Sawyer is a fiction, it's based on facts. If you go to Hannibal, you'll see the white fence, which still stands at Twain's boyhood home. 1. What's one of Mark Twain's most popular novels?
2. What else is celebrated in National Tom Sawyer Days?
3. Is it an official holiday?
4. Where?
5. When did it become official?
6. What days is the holiday held on?
7. What's an example of a thing that people do to celebrate it?
8. Anything else?
9. Is Tom Sawyer a real person?
10. Did he live in Missouri?
11. Did he enjoy painting?
12. Did he like frogs?
13. Is he based on a real person?
14. Who?
15. What did Twain like about his home?
16. How old was he when he started living there?
17. When was he born?
numbered_answers: 1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
3. Yes
4. Missouri
5. The 1960s
6. unknown
7. Children enter their frogs in jumping contests.
8. Fence painting contest
9. No
10. unknown
11. No
12. unknown
13. Yes
14. Mark Twain
15. Life along the river
16. Four
17. unknown

(CNN)The bored teenager who gunned down a college baseball player in Oklahoma simply because he and his two friends "had nothing to do," is now a convicted murderer. 

Chancey Allen Luna was found guilty of first-degree murder Friday for his role in the August 2013 drive-by shooting of Christopher Lane, a 23-year-old college student in Duncan, about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City. Luna was 16 at the time of the shooting. 

Lane, an Australian attending East Central University, was jogging when he was shot in the back by a gun fired by Luna. 

A jury recommended Friday that Luna spend life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to court records. Because he was under 18 when the crime was committed, he is not eligible for the death penalty. He'll be formally sentenced in June. 

The vehicle's driver, Michael Jones, pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Jones, who was 17 at the time of the murder, will be eligible for parole starting in 2051, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. 

Prosecutors dropped first-degree murder charges filed against the third suspect, then only 15, after he agreed to testify against Luna and Jones, according to CNN affiliate KSWO. He will now be tried as a juvenile with accessory to murder after the fact. 

Duncan police Chief Danny Ford told Australian radio station 3AW that when police arrested the teens, Jones offered a motive that made clear that Lane, a baseball player on scholarship, was chosen at random.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Was Lane a woman?
2. Where did the bullet hit Luna?
3. What state did it take place in?
4. When was it?
5. Who was Luna's accomplice?
6. What was his age?
7. When was the shooting?
8. Was it in the winter?
9. How old was Lane?
10. How many total were involved in the shooting other than the victim?
11. Why was Lane shot?
12. For what reason?
13. Was capital punishment an option for Lane?
14. Why not?
15. When was told of his fate?
16. Was Lane American?
17. What was Lane's occupation?
18. When will Lane be eligible for parole?
19. Who spoke on the radio?
Answer:
Answer: 1. no
2. in the back
3. Oklahoma
4. August 2013
5. Michael Jones
6. 17
7. 2013
8. no
9. 23
10. Two
11. he was chosen at random
12. the perpetrators "had nothing to do,
13. no
14. he was under 18
15. Friday
16. no
17. college student
18. starting in 2051
19. Danny Ford