Jesse day 19

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1. What is the title of Eugene O'Neill's resetting of Aeschylus's Oresteia, premiering in October 1931? O'Neill reinterprets the title character as Lavinia, the sister of Orin (Orestes) and daughter of General Ezra Mannon (Agamemnon).
Correct Answer: MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
Your Answer: Stardust Memories
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea. I think Stardust Memories is Neil Simon, right 

2. "Socialism with a human face" was the description applied to the reform communism that was introduced in 1968 in Czechoslovakia. It provoked the Soviet invasion in August of that year and quickly failed. Who was the leader (and human) who proposed this new approach, about twenty years too early?
Correct Answer: ALEXANDER DUBČEK
Your Answer: Havel
Points Assigned: 1

I though Havel might have been right. 

3. Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts were the first of a family of U.S.-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which are today among the world's largest products traded on major exchanges. These funds, managed by State Street Global Advisors, are well known informally by what nickname?
Correct Answer: SPIDERS (SPDR)
Your Answer: Swaps
Points Assigned: 0

I had no idea. My opponent is strong in Biz questions. 

4. Hansen's disease, a mildly contagious and curable infectious condition now rare in the United States (and becoming rarer globally), is also known by what name?
Correct Answer: LEPROSY
Your Answer: Tuberculosis
Points Assigned: 2

This seems very gettable. It did not come to me. 

5. What non-US island, despite a land area less than half the size of Rhode Island, is currently home to 32 U.S. military bases and about 10,000 American military personnel?
Correct Answer: OKINAWA
Your Answer: Okinawa
Points Assigned: 1

I first thought Bahrain, but the size and numbers didn't seem right. The Okinawa came to mind. 

6. A picture of what appears, appropriately, on the label for HP Sauce, England's favorite brown sauce?
Correct Answer: HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (BIG BEN)
Your Answer: Beefeater
Points Assigned: 2

I haven't seen a bottle of HP in a while.