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1 According to newspaper reports, how much did the Happy Birthday song earn Warner Chapel Music per year before it lost its copyright?
A $1.3 million to $2 million
2 Academics at the University of Glasgow compiling a Historical Thesaurus of Scots, counted 421 separate words for what natural weather phenomenon?
A Snow (e.g. Snaw: The most obvious word for snow; Skelf: A large snowflake; Blin-drift: Drifting snow)
3 Who did America’s NBC replace Donald Trump as host on Celebrity Apprentice in 2016?
A Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
4 Which British woman did US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush say on a live TV debate that he wanted to see on a future $10 note?
A Margaret Thatcher
5 On which Channel 5 panel show did a fight break out, forcing them to cut its broadcast and call the police?
A Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side (inmates threw champagne glasses and chairs) (23rd Sept 2015)
6 The stars on the national flag of China are what colour?
A Yellow (the large star represents the Chinese Communist Party, and the four smaller stars represent the four social classes of China’s New Democracy: the working class, the peasantry, the urban elite, and the national bourgeoisie)
7 Which vegetable was the first canned?
A Peas – the method involved sealing glass jars with cork and processing them in a hot-water bath. (in ancient Egypt, it was practise to store pears and wine in clay flasks with wax seals)
8 What do computer users now call what was once the X-Y Position Indicator for a Display Systems?
A A mouse
9 Jah, Afrocentrism, Ital, Zion and Cannabis use, are the main doctrines of which religious movement?
A Rastafari
10 What significant law introduced in 1709 protected literary and artistic works?
A Copyright (prior to then, creators had no legal means of protecting their work)