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Questions:

1. The Chinese characters for the name of which continent mean “negative continent”?
2. A blister known as a Jennerian vesicle develops at the site of injection a few days after receiving which vaccine?
   
3. When pink first became a gendered colour, it was considered more appropriate for boys, while blue was appropriate for girls. In which decade did the colours become inverted to the current norm of pink for girls and blue for boys?
4. On 31 August 1997, Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul died after a car accident in Paris; the bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, survived. Which occupant(s) of the car were wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash?
5. Feathers from which bird are typically used to make feather dusters?
6. True or false: after the murder, beheading, and cannibalisation of Canadian man Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus in 2008, PETA attempted to run an advertisement comparing the incident to the killing of animals for food.
7. Which country was responsible for a program of human psychological experimentation, torture, and systematic sexual abuse, including the use of drug-induced comas, high-voltage electric shocks, and sensory deprivation?
8. Which fairy tale portrays the hero unscrupulously hiding in a man’s house and playing on his wife’s sympathies in order to rob and murder him?
9. Which human Star Wars character was played by the same actor in both Return of the Jedi and all three films of the prequel trilogy?
10. The English language has an subject-verb-object (SVO) word order; while Yoda’s syntax is somewhat inconsistent, academics could extrapolate that “Yodic” has what kind of word order?

Answers:

1. Africa.
2. Smallpox.
3. 1940s.
4. None. (It was initially suggested that Rees-Jones, the sole survivor, was wearing a seatbelt, but investigations proved this was not the case.)
5. Ostrich.
6. True.
7. United States. (Project MKULTRA.)
8. Jack and the Beanstalk.
9. Palpatine.
10. Object-subject-verb.