6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.
Answer: Genghis Khan. Born Temüjin. One genetic study suggested that about 1 in 200 men alive today carry a Y chromosome traceable to his lineage.
Answer: Python. Guido van Rossum named it after 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' in 1991, not the snake. The documentation is full of spam and eggs references.
Answer: Anubis. He weighed the heart of the dead against the feather of truth. A heavier heart was eaten by Ammit, part crocodile, part lion, part hippo.
Answer: True. Henry Shrapnel, a Royal Artillery officer, invented a shell packed with musket balls in the 1780s. The word later shifted to mean any fragment flung out by an explosion.
Answer: Koala. Their prints evolved independently for gripping eucalyptus and are almost indistinguishable even under a microscope. Australian police have been warned about it.
Answer: Unicorn. It has been on the Scottish royal arms since the 1400s and is often shown chained, because a free unicorn was thought too dangerous. It is a real symbol, not a joke.
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