6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.
Answer: False. The Empire State Building is hit about 25 times a year. Tall, pointed, isolated objects get struck repeatedly, which is the point of a lightning rod.
Answer: Mathematics. Nobel's will named five prizes; economics was added in 1968. The story that he excluded maths because a mathematician stole his lover is a myth, though it refuses to die.
Answer: False. It stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, founded in 1948. The sport grew out of drivers who ran moonshine on Appalachian back roads during Prohibition.
Answer: True. The 1.5 km tunnel, with lighting and ventilation, opened under his cell shower. Joaquín Guzmán had already escaped once, in 2001, reportedly in a laundry cart; he is now serving life in Colorado's 'Supermax'.
Answer: True. Its permit ran out in 1909 and artists had petitioned against the 'useless and monstrous' tower. It was saved because it made a superb radio mast, and its antenna later intercepted German messages in the First World War.
Answer: Basketball passes. About half the viewers, busy counting passes by the team in white, never noticed a person in a gorilla suit stroll through and beat its chest. It is called inattentional blindness.
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