Hello All, good to be back. Starting off with a 2/6.
1. The culinary term "affogato" normally refers to a dessert topped (or "drowned") with what?
Correct Answer: ESPRESSO/COFFEE
Your Answer: liquor
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: ESPRESSO/COFFEE
Your Answer: liquor
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea.
2. What was the real name of the FBI Special Agent and one-time Deputy Director of the Bureau who was revealed in 2005 to be the secret Watergate informant "Deep Throat"?
Correct Answer: W. MARK FELT
Your Answer: Felt
Points Assigned: 1
2. What was the real name of the FBI Special Agent and one-time Deputy Director of the Bureau who was revealed in 2005 to be the secret Watergate informant "Deep Throat"?
Correct Answer: W. MARK FELT
Your Answer: Felt
Points Assigned: 1
I just knew this one.
3. Thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, biotin, folic acid, and cobalamin form a dietary group of eight that is known collectively as what?
Correct Answer: VITAMIN B COMPLEX
Your Answer: Amino Acids
Points Assigned: 0
3. Thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, biotin, folic acid, and cobalamin form a dietary group of eight that is known collectively as what?
Correct Answer: VITAMIN B COMPLEX
Your Answer: Amino Acids
Points Assigned: 0
Nope, I was wrong, had no idea and scored it too low I think.
4. Badaro, Raouché, Gemmayzeh, Saifi Village, Centre Ville (The Central District) and Wadi Abu Jamil are all neighborhoods or districts within what city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea?
Correct Answer: BEIRUT
Your Answer: Beirut
Points Assigned: 1
4. Badaro, Raouché, Gemmayzeh, Saifi Village, Centre Ville (The Central District) and Wadi Abu Jamil are all neighborhoods or districts within what city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea?
Correct Answer: BEIRUT
Your Answer: Beirut
Points Assigned: 1
This was a guess, but there aren't too many major cities on the East Coast of the Med. Mixture of french and arabic helped of course.
5. What New Orleans-born (and jazz and blues-influenced) singer and civil rights activist, who died in 1972, was dubbed the "Queen of Gospel"? In fact, her 1955 album was titled The World's Greatest Gospel Singer.
Correct Answer: MAHALIA JACKSON
Your Answer: Nina Simone
Points Assigned: 3
5. What New Orleans-born (and jazz and blues-influenced) singer and civil rights activist, who died in 1972, was dubbed the "Queen of Gospel"? In fact, her 1955 album was titled The World's Greatest Gospel Singer.
Correct Answer: MAHALIA JACKSON
Your Answer: Nina Simone
Points Assigned: 3
Never heard of her.
6. What was the nickname of the fictional literary character David Wilson, a young lawyer in pre-Civil War Dawson's Landing, Missouri, whose eccentric hobby of collecting fingerprints eventually helps him solve his novel's central murder?
Correct Answer: PUDD'NHEAD
Your Answer: Slouth
Points Assigned: 2
6. What was the nickname of the fictional literary character David Wilson, a young lawyer in pre-Civil War Dawson's Landing, Missouri, whose eccentric hobby of collecting fingerprints eventually helps him solve his novel's central murder?
Correct Answer: PUDD'NHEAD
Your Answer: Slouth
Points Assigned: 2
I did not read this book so had no idea.
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