2/6. ugh.
Correct Answer: SUITS
Your Answer: Suits
Points Assigned: 1
Never seen the show, but I've heard of it and the clue made it clear.
2. The 1928 Pact of Paris, formally the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, was a noble but toothless agreement best known by a name that references its authors, the U.S. Secretary of State and the French Foreign Minister. What is this more common name?
Correct Answer: KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
Your Answer: Hall and Oates
Points Assigned: 3
2. The 1928 Pact of Paris, formally the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, was a noble but toothless agreement best known by a name that references its authors, the U.S. Secretary of State and the French Foreign Minister. What is this more common name?
Correct Answer: KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
Your Answer: Hall and Oates
Points Assigned: 3
Nope. Was never going to get this one.
3. Directed by the United Nations Security Council, construction began in 1991 on a 120-mile long fence and barrier zone, nine miles wide with electrified fencing, concertina wire, trenches, and dirt berms, on the border of two nations. Name either of those nations.
Correct Answer: IRAQ, KUWAIT
Your Answer: South Korea
Points Assigned: 2
3. Directed by the United Nations Security Council, construction began in 1991 on a 120-mile long fence and barrier zone, nine miles wide with electrified fencing, concertina wire, trenches, and dirt berms, on the border of two nations. Name either of those nations.
Correct Answer: IRAQ, KUWAIT
Your Answer: South Korea
Points Assigned: 2
This is my first slap my head due to my stupidity moment in a while. A gimmie that I just didn't think hard enough about. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
4. What is the name of the philosophical system developed by Ayn Rand, expressed in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as well as in her nonfiction works, which holds, among other tenets, that all real achievement is the result of individual ability and effort and that altruism is a vice?
Correct Answer: OBJECTIVISM
Your Answer: Exceptionalism
Points Assigned: 1
4. What is the name of the philosophical system developed by Ayn Rand, expressed in The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged as well as in her nonfiction works, which holds, among other tenets, that all real achievement is the result of individual ability and effort and that altruism is a vice?
Correct Answer: OBJECTIVISM
Your Answer: Exceptionalism
Points Assigned: 1
I have steered clear of Ayn Rand's wroks and thought my whole life.
5. Deriving from a French term for "raw" or "uncooked", what word is used to refer to raw vegetables or fruits, often thinly sliced or grated and accompanied by cold sauces, that are served as an hors d'oeuvre?
Correct Answer: CRUDITÉS
Your Answer: Crudite
Points Assigned: 0
5. Deriving from a French term for "raw" or "uncooked", what word is used to refer to raw vegetables or fruits, often thinly sliced or grated and accompanied by cold sauces, that are served as an hors d'oeuvre?
Correct Answer: CRUDITÉS
Your Answer: Crudite
Points Assigned: 0
I hate these things.
6. Pictured here is a scene from what animated film? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/784y9nc84y53.jpg
Correct Answer: PRINCESS MONONOKE
Your Answer: Akira
Points Assigned: 2
6. Pictured here is a scene from what animated film? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/
Correct Answer: PRINCESS MONONOKE
Your Answer: Akira
Points Assigned: 2
Nope.
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