2/6 and I'm 2 W and 2 L going into today.
1. What Briton's oddly and awkwardly menacing visage was cropped from this photograph? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/845y7c9n8348.jpg
Correct Answer: TONY BLAIR
Your Answer: Boris Johnson
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: TONY BLAIR
Your Answer: Boris Johnson
Points Assigned: 2
Very gettable. It was between Blair and Johnson for me. I went the wrong way.
2. A particular conical glazed earthenware vessel provides the name for a renowned, slow-cooked composite meat and white-bean-based dish native to the French Languedoc. What is that dish?
Correct Answer: CASSOULET
Your Answer: Bouliabase
Points Assigned: 1
2. A particular conical glazed earthenware vessel provides the name for a renowned, slow-cooked composite meat and white-bean-based dish native to the French Languedoc. What is that dish?
Correct Answer: CASSOULET
Your Answer: Bouliabase
Points Assigned: 1
Never heard of this dish.
3. Columbus, Roswell, Albany, Gainesville, Duluth, Canton, and Dallas are all cities in what U.S. state? Note that these cities, which are listed in order by population, all have more prominent namesakes in other states.
Correct Answer: GEORGIA
Your Answer: Ohio
Points Assigned: 2
3. Columbus, Roswell, Albany, Gainesville, Duluth, Canton, and Dallas are all cities in what U.S. state? Note that these cities, which are listed in order by population, all have more prominent namesakes in other states.
Correct Answer: GEORGIA
Your Answer: Ohio
Points Assigned: 2
I don't know Georgia well at all. This was a complete guess.
4. An open rebellion in 1877 led (reluctantly) by Saigo Takamori, which was suppressed by the Japanese army and was rooted in a previous attempt to defeat the Tokugawa government, was the last significant uprising against the Meiji government by what group?
Correct Answer: SAMURAI
Your Answer: Samurai
Points Assigned: 0
4. An open rebellion in 1877 led (reluctantly) by Saigo Takamori, which was suppressed by the Japanese army and was rooted in a previous attempt to defeat the Tokugawa government, was the last significant uprising against the Meiji government by what group?
Correct Answer: SAMURAI
Your Answer: Samurai
Points Assigned: 0
Seems like a gimmie, right?
5. Harmen, Reynier, Claes, and Frans II, painters themselves, were all children of what 16th/17th-century Dutch portrait specialist?
Correct Answer: FRANS HALS
Your Answer: Rembrant
Points Assigned: 3
5. Harmen, Reynier, Claes, and Frans II, painters themselves, were all children of what 16th/17th-century Dutch portrait specialist?
Correct Answer: FRANS HALS
Your Answer: Rembrant
Points Assigned: 3
Never heard of Frans Hals.
6. The term PDA, for "personal digital assistant," was first used at 1992's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in a keynote speech by John Sculley, in (indirect) reference to a device his company would formally introduce a year later that had what name?
Correct Answer: APPLE NEWTON
Your Answer: Newton
Points Assigned: 1
6. The term PDA, for "personal digital assistant," was first used at 1992's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in a keynote speech by John Sculley, in (indirect) reference to a device his company would formally introduce a year later that had what name?
Correct Answer: APPLE NEWTON
Your Answer: Newton
Points Assigned: 1
I think this will be difficult for someone in their 20's, but gettable for some one in their late 30's or older. I considered palm pilot, but decided newton was more likely.
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