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Questions:

1. Humans, other higher primates, guinea pigs, and most bats lack the enzyme required for synthesis of which vitamin?
2. The name of which beverage comes from the colour of the habits worn by Capuchin friars?
3. Cinnabar is an ore of which element?
4. In 2008, after son was arrested there for assaulting his domestic servants, Muammar Gaddafi attempted to get the UN to abolish which European country?
5. Was Grandmaster Flash a DJ or an MC?
6. Washington, D.C. was mainly constructed on what kind of land?
7. Which pre-Euro currency was divided into 100 Pfennig?
8. Which American president’s surname means “iron worker”?
9. At which country were most German V-2 rockets targeted during World War I?
10. Which Greek philosopher and mathematician is said to have preached that men and women should not have sex during the summer?
11. Which American musician’s pronounceable pseudonyms included Jamie Starr, Joey Coco, and Alexander Nevermind?
12. Which of the following people was not a candidate in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election: Asia Carrera, Gary Coleman, Larry Flynt, or Arianna Huffington?

Answers:

1. Vitamin C.
2. Cappuccino.
3. Lead.
4. Switzerland.
5. DJ.
6. Farmland and tree-covered hills. (Contrary to the urban legend, Washington was not built on reclaimed swampland.)
7. Deutsche Mark. (And prior to the Deutsche Mark, other Mark currencies were also divided into pfennigs.)
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
9. Belgium. (1664 were fired at Belgium; 1402 at England; 76 at France; 19 at the Netherlands; and 11 at Germany itself, aimed at the Ludendorff Bridge which had been captured by American forces.)
10. Pythagoras.
11. Prince.
12. Asia Carrera.