What liquor is made from the fermented by-products of sugar cane such as molasses and sugar cane juice?
Answer:
It is rum.
7AM:
What is the most sommon element in the human body - carbon, nitrogen or oxygen?
Answer:
It is oxygen, making up over 60% of the average human.
8AM:
Who gave us the advice: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" in one of his writings - Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin or Karl Marx?
Answer:
Shakespeare wrote that line in Hamlet.
9AM:
Andalusia is the most populous and second largest autonomous community in what country?
Answer:
It is in Spain.
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