6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.
Answer: Usain Bolt. Set in Berlin in 2009. He reached a top speed of about 44.7 km/h. He also holds the 200 m record and has never been beaten in an Olympic 100 m final.
Answer: Feng shui. 'Wind-water'. Hong Kong's HSBC building was designed around it, and the Bank of China tower next door was accused of aiming 'knife edges' at its rivals.
Answer: True. 'Amazing Fantasy' #15, in 1962, was the final issue, so Stan Lee could try an idea the publisher hated: people loathe spiders, and a teenager could only be a sidekick. Sales figures changed his mind.
Answer: Mali Empire. On his 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca he gave away so much gold that the price of gold in Cairo reportedly stayed depressed for years.
Answer: Austria. Descended from the Viennese 'kipferl'. The French version with laminated puff pastry appeared in Paris around 1900.
Answer: Proposed it as a humane method of execution. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin wanted a painless, equal death for all classes. The machine was designed by surgeon Antoine Louis and built by a German harpsichord maker; Guillotin's family later changed their name.
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