King Ludwig II built a beautiful castle

Questions:

1. Where was renowned journalist Christiane Amanpour born, and where did she grow up?

2. What mythical animal is the national animal of Scotland?

3. What is the only U.S. state with a one-syllable name?

4. Which human organ can regenerate itself, even if up to 75% of it is removed?

5. When spelling the numbers above ten, which numbers have the fewest letters?  

Fun Facts:  

The grandnephew of Napoleon fought in the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa in 1879 and was speared to death by Zulu Warriors.

In 2012 King Juan Carlos of Spain went on a controversial elephant hunting expedition in Botswana. It was scandalous because he was an honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund at the time.

Florence Nightingale was initially called The Lady with the Hammer because she would break into the officers’ medication cabinets to give to the wounded. A journalist thought that wasn’t very lady-like and changed it to The Lady with the Lamp.

One of the last Viking kings was Olaf Tryggvason. In the year 1000 his fleet of 11 ships was ambushed by 70 ships of a combined navy of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. As he was about to be captured, he leapt into the sea and his body was never found. Legend has it, he survived—and some say he still lives, waiting to return.

In 1990, an Arizona state legislator was caught on camera accepting a gym bag containing $55,000 in cash as a bribe to support legalized gambling. He was convicted of corruption and served less than 18 months in prison.

The U.S. county with the fewest people is Loving, Texas. It has 64 people.

The last mail stagecoach robbery in the U.S. was near Jarbidge, Nevada, in 1916. The mail carrier, Fred Searcy, was killed, and $4,000 was stolen. Ben Kuhl was convicted of the crime. It was the first U.S. conviction based on a palm print.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria was known as “The Fairy Tale King.” Born in 1845, he was obsessed with music, medieval legends and extravagant castle building. His most iconic creation, Neuschwanstein Castle, was so enchanting that it later inspired Cinderella’s Castle at Disneyland.

Answers: 

1. She was born in London in 1958 and raised in Iran but fled before the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

2. The unicorn (It’s a symbol of purity, strength and independence.)

3. Maine (Other short state names like Utah, Kansas and Texas have two.)

4. The liver (It only works if the remaining portion is still healthy.)

5. Forty and sixty with five letters (Six-letter numbers above ten are eleven, twelve, twenty, thirty, eighty and ninety.)