6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.
Answer: Al Capone. His brain was damaged by untreated syphilis; by his release he had, a doctor said, the mental age of a 12-year-old. Alcatraz still displays his cell.
Answer: True. Same atoms, different arrangement: diamond's carbons are locked in a rigid 3D lattice, graphite's sit in slippery sheets. Squeeze graphite hard enough and hot enough and you get a synthetic diamond, which is how most industrial diamonds are made.
Answer: Utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham's phrase. His preserved body, the 'auto-icon', sits in a glass case at University College London; the head is wax because students kept stealing the real one.
Answer: Porky Pig. Mel Blanc voiced Porky for 50 years, and his gravestone reads 'That's all folks'. Porky was the studio's first star, before Bugs or Daffy.
Answer: BMW. The colours are those of Bavaria, arranged inside out because trademark law banned state symbols on commercial logos. The propeller story came from a 1929 BMW advert, and the company happily let it stick.
Answer: True. Daguerre's 1838 view of a Paris boulevard needed several minutes of exposure, so moving traffic vanished. One man stood still long enough at a shoeshine stand, and so did the boy polishing his boots.
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