6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.
Answer: Nintendo. Founded in 1889 as a playing-card company in Kyoto. It tried taxis, instant rice and 'love hotels' before settling on toys and games.
Answer: Endorphins. Newer research suggests the real culprits are endocannabinoids, the body's own cannabis-like molecules, because endorphins are too big to cross into the brain. The name stuck anyway.
Answer: The Swiss Guard. Founded in 1506; 147 of them died defending the Pope in the 1527 sack of Rome. Recruits must be unmarried Swiss Catholic men who completed Swiss army training.
Answer: Yggdrasil. An eagle sits at the top, a dragon gnaws the roots and a squirrel runs up and down carrying insults between them. Odin hanged himself from it for nine nights to learn the runes.
Answer: True. 'Comme d'habitude', a 1967 French hit, got new English words from Paul Anka. Sinatra came to loathe it, and it is the song most often played at British funerals.
Answer: Green Eggs and Ham. His publisher Bennett Cerf bet him $50 in 1960. 'The Cat in the Hat' had used 236 words; Seuss won with exactly 50, and the story goes that Cerf never paid up.
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