Input question: Badinage describes verbal communication which is?

Output answer: witty

Input question: In which castle was Mary Queen of Scots executed in 1587?

Output answer: fotheringay

Input question: A check for $7.2 million was issued on August 1, 1868 and was made payable to Edouard de Stoeckl, a Russian Minister. What was being bought?

Output answer: alaska

Input question: In June 2009 it was announced that the rats on Rat Island had finally been eradicated, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck caused an infestation. Where is Rat Island?

Output answer:
alaska