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The answers to (and winner of) our April 2025 newsletter quiz
Our April 2025 newsletter quiz was handcrafted by the editor - here are the answers, with sources for each question

Posted by Andy Brown on 29 April 2025

Here are the answers to each question, with sources where appropriate:

Question	Sources and explanation
KSI	As of January 2025 KSI (eral name Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji) has over 44 million subscribers to his YouTube channels, and has one of the top 10 YouTube channels in the UK.
Blastar	This video game was writen by Elon Musk when he was 12 years old - he sold it for $500.
Jupiter	Jupiter is 11 times wider than Earth, and about 1,300 times bigger in volume.
Southernmost capital	Out of the capitals given, Washington DC is just north of Tokyo, which is a fair way north of Damascus. Surprisingly New Delhi is the southernmost capital.
Cities at risk	Surprisingly, it seems that Bangkok is the major city most at risk from rising sea levels (Cardiff as 4th, Manilia 6th and Hamburg 9th)
South Korea	South Korea's fertility rate has gone up from 0.72 to 0.75, says the Guardian, meaning that by 2050 the proportion of the population over 65 years old will be 45%.
Jolene	I pasted the lyrics into Excel, substituted Jolene for an empty string, compared the length of the original and revised strings and divided the difference by 6!
Marathon times	Kelvin Kiptum ran the 2023 Chicago marathon in 2 hours and 35 seconds. The distance is 26.2 miles, which means he took an astonishing 4 minutes and 36.1 seconds to run each mile.
Blink 182	I first heard Richard Osman state with authority that the band chose 182 because it was the number of times Al Pacino says "F***" in Scarface. Sadly, while the band did once say this, they also gave a lot of other theories too.
Trampoline	Trampolin in Spanish originally just meant diving-board.
Lenin	The account of Lenin's journey by sealed train from Zurich to Russia is a fascinating one (and scary too, given the suffering it unleashed in the Civil War which followed the revolution, and then Stalin's purges). The train proper started in Singen near Switzerland.
London Underground	There are 5 stations outside the M25: Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chesham, and Chorleywood on the Metropolitan Line and Epping on the Central Line.
Creme Eggs	Cadbury produce about 500 million eggs a year, although many are exported. You can watch a video of Creme Eggs being made here.
Asteroid 2024 YR4	The estimated probability of 3.1% caused a degree of panic in some places, even though the asteroid was quite small, was likely to burn up on entry to the Earth's atmosphere and was unlikely to hit any centre of population.
Red-lighting	According to Quora (and Sara Gruen's excellent book Water for Elephants) this involved throwing undesirable workers off circus trains.
Lady Gaga	Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
Live video game	PacMan brought to life in Manchester looks amazing!
Owen Cooper	His next film role will be as young Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.
Olympic Sports	The 5 new sports included are baseball/softball, flag football (a variation on American football), lacrosse, squash and T20 cricket.
Power BI Desktop	Power BI uses the VertiPaq storage engine, which stores data in columns, not rows (it shares this engine with SQL Server Analysis Services).

The question most people got right was the one about Lady Gaga's real name; the question fewest people got right was (unsurprisingly) the reported real reason why Blink 182 chose their name.

Congratulations to Julie Cook of APSE, whose name was chosen out of the 42 entries received (weighted by number of correct answers) - a £50 voucher is on its way to her. Congratulations also to Ed and Tori for the amazing achievement of scoring 100% on such a difficult quiz.

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