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Questions:

1. Who sponsored the King James Version of the Bible?
   
2. In 1997, who commissioned a copy of the Qur’an written in his own blood?
3. Which of the Founding Fathers of the United States was the last to die: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or Alexander Hamilton?
4. The Mariana Islands consist of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands plus which unincorporated US territory?
5. Ulster, Munster, Leinster, and Connacht are the four provinces of what?
6. Who was in 1975 unsuccessfully sued for libel by the parent company of Kentucky Fried Chicken after he publicly referred to their gravy as “sludge” that tasted like “wallpaper paste”?
7. Which element present in radioactive fallout is absorbed by the body and incorporated into the skeleton as if it were calcium?
8. The maximum theoretical yield from 1 kg of matter would be produced by annihilating it with an equal amount of matter. Would the TNT equivalent amount of energy released be 42 tons, 42 kilotons, 42 megatons, or 42 gigatons?
9. The mainly jocular FFF system of units of measurement is based upon the furlong for length, the firkin for mass, and what unit for time?
10. Is the equatorial radius of the Earth greater, lesser, or exactly equal to the polar radius?
11. What is an astronomical unit?
12. How many astronauts have been killed by in-flight accidents?

Answers:

1. King James VI and I.
2. Saddam Hussein. (After the fall of Hussein’s regime, the question of what to do with the Blood Qu’ran posed a dilemma.)
3. James Madison.
4. Guam.
5. Ireland.
6. Colonel Sanders. (Sanders sold the company in 1964.)
7. Strontium.
8. 42 megatons.
9. Fortnight.
10. Greater. (6378.1 km versus 6356.8 km.)
11. A unit of length approximately equal to the mean distance between Earth and the Sun.
12. 18. (Around 520 people—or 523, or 529, depending on the definition used—have been into space.)