ANSWERS
1. George I, of the House of Oldenburg, was the monarch of what country, from 1863 to 1913?
Greece. Before the Greek Assembly elected him King of the Hellenes, George was a Danish prince. His father took the Danish throne as Christian IX later in the same year.
2. William McKinley was elected to his first term as President of the United States in what year?
1896.
3. Galaktoboureko would typically be served during what course at dinner?
Dessert. It's custard in a phyllo pastry shell.
4. In mythology, what deity was born from the head of Zeus, after he swallowed her pregnant mother?
Athena. Zeus had done this to Metis because it had been prophesized that she would bear children more powerful than him.
POINTS
Well, I think I started out with roughly the right difficulty setting. A lot of sixes, but these people didn't all miss the same question, so there wasn't any particular WWOQ. Congratulations to wintergreen, AJ, tanstaafl and Annie for their perfect scores.
wintergreen48 = 10
andrewjackson = 10
tanstaafl2 = 10
AnnieCamaro = 10
jarnon = 6
NellyLunatic1980 = 6
ulysses5019 = 6
themanintheseersuckersuit = 6
Hambone = 6
plasticene = 6
kroxquo = 6
Here's Fanny! = 6
T_Bone0806 = 6
mrkelley23 = 6
TheConfessor = 6
frogman042 = 4
peacock2121 = 4
sunflower = 4
etaoin22 = 4
SportsFan68 = 2
megaaddict = 2
Rexer25 = 2
LookingForHumorPoints = 0.5 (One point for the galaktobouriko answer, minus half a point for the suggestion that Uly's avatars might be deities!)
TheConfessor's grumble about ambiguous pronouns is duly noted. Henceforth, all pronoun usage will be of the gender-and-number obfuscating "they".
