Jesse Day 6

5/6! Lots of good guessing. 

1. A semi-retired wrestler, a former federal prison, a British Overseas Territory, and a sports arena in Newark, New Jersey, all share what nickname?
Correct Answer: THE ROCK
Your Answer: The Rock
Points Assigned: 2

Good question. I wrote down a list of the most famous wrestlers I could think of, the Rock being one of them. I then thought of Alcatraz, and then thought of Gibraltar, to which I've been. The odd thing is I grew up in a town next to Newark, but had no idea what the name of the arena is there. Guessing it is the prudential center, hence the name the rock? 

2. In the film The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter tells Clarice Starling that he once ate a census taker's liver with beans and wine. Specifically, what type of beans, and what Italian wine (two answers needed)?
Correct Answer: FAVA, CHIANTI
Your Answer: Fava beans and a nice chianti
Points Assigned: 0

Iconic film line. 

3. The young Henry V of England in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays has a sobriquet that is common particularly in literary scholarship, though not the plays themselves. That two-word moniker, when reversed, gives the name of a 21-time Tony Award winner. What is either name?
Correct Answer: PRINCE HAL/HAL PRINCE
Your Answer: Fossee
Points Assigned: 3

Never heard of the guy and my Shakespeare knowledge is pitiful. Opponent is a pretty good at theater so the 3 points could burn me. 

4. While the high-water mark of the Confederacy was reached during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, contemporaries were quicker to recognize the grand strategic importance of the surrender the very next day of rebel forces defending what city and Mississippi River stronghold?
Correct Answer: VICKSBURG
Your Answer: Vicksburg
Points Assigned: 1

Total guess derived from the lyrics to The Band song, The night they drove old dixie down. Surprised I was right.

5. According to the lyrics of the famous song from The Wizard of Oz, somewhere over the rainbow, troubles melt like what?
Correct Answer: LEMON DROPS
Your Answer: lemon drops
Points Assigned: 1

I sang it to myself several times and kept thinking butter drops, but that isn't a thing. Then I though maybe it was butter cups. But those are flowers. Then I cam up with lemon drops. 

6. What English male forename (nickname, to be precise) is also, unrelatedly, an Old Persian term for "land"?
Correct Answer: STAN
Your Answer: Stan
Points Assigned: 2

Good question! My company launches a Multi-Stan trip today so I have Stan on my mind.