4/6 Easy day?
1. Although it was used by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels about the Soviet Union and was in use elsewhere, what term's popularity in its Cold War definition is credited to a March 1946 speech by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Missouri?
Correct Answer: IRON CURTAIN
Your Answer: Iron Curtain
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: IRON CURTAIN
Your Answer: Iron Curtain
Points Assigned: 1
This may be a gimmie.
2. Only once in the history of tennis has a player (man or woman) achieved the Golden Slam—winning all four Grand Slam singles titles as well as an Olympic gold medal in singles in the same calendar year. Who accomplished this feat in 1988?
Correct Answer: STEFFI GRAF
Your Answer: Stefi Graf
Points Assigned: 1
2. Only once in the history of tennis has a player (man or woman) achieved the Golden Slam—winning all four Grand Slam singles titles as well as an Olympic gold medal in singles in the same calendar year. Who accomplished this feat in 1988?
Correct Answer: STEFFI GRAF
Your Answer: Stefi Graf
Points Assigned: 1
I didn't think any man was dominating at that point besides maybe Lendl. Graf seemed about right as she was pretty amazing at that time.
3. In a well-known centuries-old proverb, what comes first in a sequence that includes shoe, horse, rider, message, battle, and kingdom?
Correct Answer: NAIL
Your Answer: Battle
Points Assigned: 2
3. In a well-known centuries-old proverb, what comes first in a sequence that includes shoe, horse, rider, message, battle, and kingdom?
Correct Answer: NAIL
Your Answer: Battle
Points Assigned: 2
I have no idea what proverb this is.
4. Magnesium sulfate, and specifically a heptahydrate sulfate mineral with the formula MgSO<sub>4</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O, is commonly associated with what town in Surrey, England, due to the mineral spring there that produced the bitter and colorless inorganic compound?
Correct Answer: EPSOM
Your Answer: Colchester
Points Assigned: 3
4. Magnesium sulfate, and specifically a heptahydrate sulfate mineral with the formula MgSO<sub>4</sub>·7H<sub>2</
Correct Answer: EPSOM
Your Answer: Colchester
Points Assigned: 3
Ah. OK. I had no idea.
5. According to the press from the FX network of a television series created by and starring Donald Glover, "Two cousins work through the __________ music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families." What fills in this blank of this quote, and also serves as the series's title?
Correct Answer: ATLANTA
Your Answer: Atlanta
Points Assigned: 0
Just watched the final episode of the first season yesterday. Great show.
6. While there are other candidates, including Dongbei and Guandong, what is the name most often used for the region in northeast China that comprises the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and forms the entirety of the Chinese border with North Korea?
Correct Answer: MANCHURIA
Your Answer: Manchuria
Points Assigned: 2
5. According to the press from the FX network of a television series created by and starring Donald Glover, "Two cousins work through the __________ music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families." What fills in this blank of this quote, and also serves as the series's title?
Correct Answer: ATLANTA
Your Answer: Atlanta
Points Assigned: 0
Just watched the final episode of the first season yesterday. Great show.
6. While there are other candidates, including Dongbei and Guandong, what is the name most often used for the region in northeast China that comprises the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and forms the entirety of the Chinese border with North Korea?
Correct Answer: MANCHURIA
Your Answer: Manchuria
Points Assigned: 2
Not sure how hard this one is, but I just knew this from my month traveling in China and studying maps.
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