6 questions, easy to hard, then Ivy's pick. Here is every answer, and why.
Answer: Bitcoin. Created by the pseudonymous 'Satoshi Nakamoto', whose identity is still unknown. The first real purchase was two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin in 2010.
Answer: Neanderthals. Most people outside Africa carry about 1 to 2% Neanderthal DNA. They buried their dead, made jewellery and probably spoke.
Answer: 7. A seven-sided shape of constant width, so it still rolls in vending machines. Introduced in 1969, the first coin of that shape in the world, and copied by the 20p in 1982.
Answer: AD 79. Pliny the Younger watched it from across the bay and described the cloud as shaped like an umbrella pine. His uncle, Pliny the Elder, sailed towards it and died.
Answer: Fanta. Made from whey and apple-pomace leftovers, its name came from the German 'Fantasie'. Coca-Cola reclaimed the brand and its profits after the war.
Answer: True. His friend Max Brod ignored him and published 'The Trial', 'The Castle' and 'Amerika'. Almost everything Kafka is famous for exists because a friend broke a promise.
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