3/6 Bad score on an easy day
Correct Answer: CAMBODIA, LAOS, VIETNAM
Your Answer: Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
Points Assigned: 0
I've been to all three.
2. Name the manga series, about an android child developed by a Japanese roboticist to replace the scientist's lost son, that is the most famous and enduring work of "father of manga" Osamu Tezuka?
Correct Answer: ASTRO BOY (MIGHTY ATOM)
Your Answer: Tetsuo
Points Assigned: 2
2. Name the manga series, about an android child developed by a Japanese roboticist to replace the scientist's lost son, that is the most famous and enduring work of "father of manga" Osamu Tezuka?
Correct Answer: ASTRO BOY (MIGHTY ATOM)
Your Answer: Tetsuo
Points Assigned: 2
Shoot, this is very gettable.
3. In 1997, regional Bell operating company Bell Atlantic merged with fellow "Baby Bell" NYNEX, then merged, in 2000, with the independent telephone company GTE. At that point, this new entity was renamed what?
Correct Answer: VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
Your Answer: Nextel
Points Assigned: 3
3. In 1997, regional Bell operating company Bell Atlantic merged with fellow "Baby Bell" NYNEX, then merged, in 2000, with the independent telephone company GTE. At that point, this new entity was renamed what?
Correct Answer: VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS
Your Answer: Nextel
Points Assigned: 3
As is this. I thought I was right and that this was a very hard question for non-NYC area people.
4. What is the name of the boastful, unscrupulous, and unreliable servant who is a stock clown character from the Italian commedia dell'arte (and the "Bohemian Rhapsody")?
Correct Answer: SCARAMOUCHE
Your Answer: Figaro
Points Assigned: 2
4. What is the name of the boastful, unscrupulous, and unreliable servant who is a stock clown character from the Italian commedia dell'arte (and the "Bohemian Rhapsody")?
Correct Answer: SCARAMOUCHE
Your Answer: Figaro
Points Assigned: 2
Fudge. This seems obvious now.
5. The Boston Marathon is held annually on a state holiday with what name, which might be distasteful to followers of Jets, Colts, and others?
Correct Answer: PATRIOTS' DAY
Your Answer: Patriots Day
Points Assigned: 1
I knew this one even without the football team clue. My oponent is Canadian. probably should have scored this higher.
6. Derived from the Latin word for "rope" is what term for a counterbalanced two-car cable railway used on steep grades like mountainsides? Pictured here is an example, the Saltburn Cliff Lift in North Yorkshire, England. LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/8o98dy4jo58973y9.jpg
Correct Answer: FUNICULAR
Your Answer: Funicular
Points Assigned: 1
5. The Boston Marathon is held annually on a state holiday with what name, which might be distasteful to followers of Jets, Colts, and others?
Correct Answer: PATRIOTS' DAY
Your Answer: Patriots Day
Points Assigned: 1
I knew this one even without the football team clue. My oponent is Canadian. probably should have scored this higher.
6. Derived from the Latin word for "rope" is what term for a counterbalanced two-car cable railway used on steep grades like mountainsides? Pictured here is an example, the Saltburn Cliff Lift in North Yorkshire, England. LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/
Correct Answer: FUNICULAR
Your Answer: Funicular
Points Assigned: 1
I've been on a bunch of them.
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