Problem: Bell and his partners, Hubbard and Sanders, offered to sell the patent outright to Western Union for $100,000. The president of Western Union balked, countering that the telephone was nothing but a toy. Two years later, he told colleagues that if he could get the patent for $25 million he would consider it a bargain. By then, the Bell company no longer wanted to sell the patent. Bell's investors would become millionaires, while he fared well from residuals and at one point had assets of nearly one million dollars.
What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?
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Answer: a toy

Problem: In January 2007, the average annual salary in the city was 22,267. This was 1,700 lower than the national average and 3,800 less than the average for the South East.
How far below England's South East region is Southampton's average annual salary?
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Answer: 3,800

Problem: In the 1990s two icons by the Russian icon painter Sergei Fyodorov were hung in the abbey. On 6 September 1997 the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, was held at the Abbey. On 17 September 2010 Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope to set foot in the abbey.
What nationality was Sergei Fyodorov?
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Answer:
Russian