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Pyramids The Great Pyramid at Giza is one of the world's most amazing landmarks. Rising high above the Sahara Desert in the Giza region of northern Egypt, the Great Pyramid stands some 450 feet into the burning desert sky and occupies of an area of 13 acres. The rough climate of the Sahara has actually caused the pyramid to shrink 30 feet from its original height. The pyramid was such an amazing feat of engineering, that it remained the tallest structure in the world for over 3800 years! The entire pyramid was originally faced with polished limestone to make it shine brilliantly in the sun. Most Egyptologists, scientists who study ancient Egypt, agree that the Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC, a little more than 4,500 years ago. It took tens of thousands of workers twenty years to build. The pyramid contains over two million stone blocks. Although most of the blocks weigh two or three tons, some weigh up to 80 tons! The Great Pyramid of Giza was ordered built by the Pharaoh Khufu as a magnificent tomb. His vizier (advisor) Hemon is credited with being the pyramid's architect. Khufu's pyramid is actually part of a complex of pyramids that includes the Pyramid of Khafre, the smaller Pyramid of Menkaure, a variety of smaller pyramids and structures, and the Great Sphinx. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World. Show questions one by one Last question 1 / 10Next Question
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Read the passage and answer the questions. The Atlanta Falcons were born in 1965 when the city of Atlanta elected to build the team a new stadium (Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium). The name “Falcons” was chosen as a result of a fan contest. Local businessmen made the deal but it was the NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle who named Rankin Smith Sr. the owner in an attempt to persuade him to join the NFL rather than the rival AFL (American Football League). Smith paid $8.5 million dollars for the team, which the highest amount ever paid for an NFL franchise at the time. In 1966, Atlanta chose linebacker Tommy Nobis in the NFL Draft, making him the first Atlanta Falcon. The Atlanta Falcons played their very first game on August 1, 1966, and lost to the Philadelphia Eagles in a pre-season matchup. The 1960s were not kind to the fledgling franchise; the Falcons would win just 12 games during the remainder of the decade. It wasn’t until 1971 that the Atlanta Falcons enjoyed their first winning season. In 1978, the Falcons made the playoffs for the first time. They would also make the playoffs in 1980 and 1982, before enduring a nine-year playoff drought that ended in 1991. In 1998, the Atlanta Falcons upset the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game 30-27, earning them their first (and only) Super Bowl birth. In Super Bowl XXXIII, however, the Falcons were defeated by the Denver Broncos 34-19. In 2001, former Home Depot co-chairman Arthur Blank purchased the Atlanta Falcons. Blank purchased the Falcons in the midst of the Michael Vick era, a lightning-fast quarterback from Virginia Tech whom they drafted with the first pick overall in 2001 NFL draft. Vick quickly became a sensation, and electrified crowds in Atlanta and in other NFL cities, but never led the Falcons back to the Super Bowl. In 2007, he pled guilty to felony dogfighting charges and was sentenced to 23 months in prison. The Falcons would eventually release him. Today, the future looks bright for the Atlanta Falcons. With quarterback Matt Ryan, running back Michael Turner, and star wide receivers Julio Jones and Roddy White, the Falcons are one of the NFL favorites to make it to the Super Bowl in 2012. In 2010, they won 13 games before losing to the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoff. In 2011, they lost to the New York Giants (eventual Super Bowl Champions) in the NFC Wild Card Game. Show questions one by one Last Q 1 / 10Next Q
OK Read the passage and answer the questions. The Buffalo Bills have played in Buffalo, New York since they were founded in 1959. They are the only team to play in the state of New York as both other “New York” teams, the Jets and Giants, play in New Jersey. The team plays in the American Football Conference (AFC) East Division. The name “Bills” was chosen as a result of a fan contest. The team was previously known as the Bisons but other teams in the area were also called the Bisons. Although Nickels, Blue Devils and Bullets were considered, a local boy won the contest with the Bills. The word “Bill” refers to Buffalo Bill Cody and his gang and is meant to symbolize the wild frontier. Their sponsor was Frontier Oil at the time so it fit really well. The Bills hold several records: They are the only NFL team to win four back-to-back conference championships, which they accomplished between 1990 and 1993. Unfortunately, they lost in the Super Bowl each year, becoming the only team to lose more than two consecutive Super Bowls, and the second team to lose four Super Bowls without winning one (The Minnesota Vikings have also lost four). Before the advent of the Super Bowl, however, The Buffalo Bills won league titles in 1964 and 1965. The Buffalo Bills have had many Hall-of-Fame caliber players. O.J. Simpson spent most of his career with the Bills and was once the league’s all time leading rusher. Thurman Thomas was the team’s star running back during its Super Bowl years and Jim Kelly was its quarterback. Bruce Smith, considered one of the best defensive tackles in the history of the NFL, played most of his career with the Bills as well. Smith holds the career record for most sacks in by an NFL player (200) and was enshrined in the Hall-of-Fame in 2009. Show questions one by one Last Q 1 / 10Next Q
OK Read the passage and answer the questions. The Chicago Bears are a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. They were founded in 1919. They initially played in Decatur, Illinois and moved to Chicago in 1921. They are one of the only two remaining franchises that were founding members of the NFL (the other is the Cardinals franchise). The history of the Chicago Bears is long. They were originally known as the Staleys because the owner was the A. E. Staley Food Company. They were renamed the Bears when George Halas bought them in 1921. Halas purchased rights to the team for $100.00. Halas would control the team until 1983 and served as head coach on and off for over 40 years. The Chicago Bears dominated the league in its early years. In the league’s first six years, the Bears posted 34 shutouts and won the 1921 Championship Title. They would also win championships in 1932, 1933, 1934, 1940, 1941,1943, and 1946. During this time, the Bears also formed rivalries with the Chicago Cardinals and the Green Bay Packers. In 1940, the Bears made history by crushing the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the Championship Game. The 73-0 score remains the most lopsided score in NFL history. Their victory in the 1963 NFL Championship Game over the New York Giants (14-10) would be their eighth championship (but last until 1986). In 1986, the Bears, led by quarterback Jim McMahon, legendary running back Walter Payton, and head coach Mike Ditka, won their first Super Bowl, 46-10, over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. Many people believe the 1985 Bears had the most fearsome defense in the football history. During the 1985 season, the Bears achieved a record of 15 wins and one loss. On November 18, 2010, the Bears secured the record for the most wins by any NFL franchise with their 700th. In 1995, the Bears made it to Super Bowl XLI, but were defeated by Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts, 29-17. Show questions one by one Last Q 1 / 10Next Q
OK Read the passage and answer the questions. The Civil War was waged because 11 southern states seceded (broke away and started their own government) from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. The secession took place primarily because of a long-standing debate concerning states rights, and more specifically the issue of slavery. As new territories became states, opponents of slavery and advocates of slavery often clashed over whether or not that state should allow slavery. After violence broke out in Kansas over the issue, and after Kansas entered the Union as a free state, southerners began to believe that the new president, Abraham Lincoln would take away their rights to make local decisions and would abolish slavery. Henceforth, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas broke away from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Richmond, Virginia was made its capital and Jefferson Davis was made president. Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and Missouri were divided on the issue and were declared "border states". Congress, in an effort to preserve the United States, declared war on the Confederate States of America on April 14, 1861. The first shots of the Civil War were fired April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Although there we no deaths reported that day, the shots at Fort Sumter signified the start of a long, bloody war that would become the most deadly in the history of the United States. Many major battles such as Bull Run I and II, Antietam and Shiloh, among others, claimed tens of thousands of lives on both sides in 1861 and 1862. Neither the Union or the Confederacy had the upper hand. The turning point in the war, however, occurred on July 1, 1863, when Confederate and Union armies met at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle that ensued was one of the bloodiest battles in American history. Eventually, Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was driven away from Pennsylvania by Union general George Meade and his Army of the Potomac. The battle did much to cripple the Confederate army. Meanwhile, in the western battlegrounds, Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant had gained control of the Mississippi River and port of New Orleans which effectively split the Confederacy in two. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was further decimated after Ulysses S. Grant was made commander of the Union Army. Grant waged dozens of surprise attacks against Lee's army in the wilderness of Virginia in 1864. Although the battles resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers on the Union side, the Confederate Army was at the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, Union general William T. Sherman marched through Georgia and the Carolinas, destroying everything in his path. The march came to be known as "Sherman's March to the Sea". Finally, after Union forces had invaded the Confederate capital of Richmond, the Confederate states surrendered on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. The Union was preserved. Show questions one by one <= 1 / 10=>
OK Read the passage and answer the questions. William Henry Gates III (Bill) was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill was the second of three children in an upper-middle class family. He enjoyed playing games with the family and was very competitive. He also loved to read. Bill became bored in public school so his family sent him to Lakeside School where he excelled in math and science and did well in drama and English. He became interested in computer programming when he was 13. These were the days of giant mainframe computers. The school had a fund-raiser to purchase a teletype terminal so students could use computer time that was donated by General Electric. He wrote a tic-tac-toe program using BASIC, one of the first computer languages. Later he created a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination. Lakeside is where Bill met Paul Allen who shared his interest in computers. Gates and Allen and two other students hacked into a computer belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC) to get free computer time. They lost their computer privileges. After a period of probation, they were allowed back in the computer lab when they offered to fix glitches in CCC's software. At age 17, Gates and Allen were paid $20,000 for a program called Traf-O-Data that was used to count traffic. In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and was accepted by Harvard University. Steve Ballmer, who became CEO of Microsoft after Bill retired, was also a student there. Paul Allen dropped out of Washington College to work on computers at Honeywell. Bill worked for Honeywell in the summer of 1974. Bill left Harvard to join Paul in starting a new software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They called it Micro-Soft. This was soon changed to Microsoft, and they moved their company to Bellevue, Washington. IBM was one of the biggest computer companies at this time. In 1980, they asked Microsoft to write software to run their new personal computer, the IBM PC. Microsoft kept the licensing rights for the operating system (MS-DOS) so that they earned something for every computer sold first by IBM, and later by all the other companies that made PC computers. Microsoft grew from 25 employees in 1978 to over 90,000 today. Microsoft developed many new technologies. Gates used questionable business practice to get ahead. He has been described as brilliant but childlike, driven, competitive, intense, fun, but lacking in empathy. Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world. In 2012 the Forbes list of richest people in the world placed him second with $61 billion in assets. Steve Ballmer is #44 with $15.7 billion; and Paul Allen is #48 with $14.2 billion. In 2006, Gates announced that he would cut back his involvement at Microsoft to spend more time on philanthropy. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports many causes. Some are: helping to eradicate polio; fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis; providing vaccinations for children and even reinventing the toilet among many other things. Show questions one by one Last Q 1 / 10Next Q
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