Trivia Test

In economics, what type of commodity is a Giffen good which violates a cardinal law?

Hollywood sign_250 (photo credit: Susan Goldman/Bloomberg)
Hollywood sign_250
(photo credit: Susan Goldman/Bloomberg)
1. In economics, what type of commodity is a Giffen good which violates a cardinal law?
2. What runs for about 1.3 miles on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles County and is said to attract 10 million tourists every year?
3. What puzzle game whose name means “single number” was popularized by Nikoli in its native country in 1986 before gaining international popularity from 2005 onward?
4. In primary school, after he had misbehaved, his teacher asked him to add all the numbers from 1 to 100. He answered in a few seconds after realizing that the pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums: 1 + 100 = 101, 2 + 99 = 101, 3 + 98 = 101, and so on, for a total sum of 50 x 101 = 5050. About which German genius, regarded as the greatest mathematician since antiquity, is this possibly apocryphal story often told?
5. In which Olympic sport do participants wear an electrically conductive jacket called a lamé to define the scoring areas?
6. No sleuthing allowed to get at this answer! Which struggling doctor wrote The Narrative of John Smith, which will be published this year – about 130 years after it was first written?
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