6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.
Answer: The Smurfs. The word came from a dinner where Peyo, forgetting the word for salt, asked a friend to pass the 'schtroumpf'. They began as side characters in another strip.
Answer: Diego Maradona. Against England, with his fist, four minutes before scoring what was voted the goal of the century from his own half. Same match, same player.
Answer: Albert Einstein. Einstein's objection, in a 1926 letter to Max Born, to the randomness of quantum mechanics. Bohr is said to have replied that Einstein should stop telling God what to do.
Answer: True. The Pacific plate creeps north-west past the North American plate at about the rate your fingernails grow. Los Angeles, on the Pacific side, is heading towards San Francisco and will be its neighbour in some 15 million years.
Answer: Nintendo. Hanafuda cards, in Kyoto. Before video games it tried instant rice, taxis and 'love hotels'. It still sells hanafuda.
Answer: True. Mount Tambora in Indonesia threw so much ash into the sky that crops failed from New England to Switzerland in 1816. Stuck indoors by the rain, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
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