Jesse Day 3

2/6 Tough day?

1. Falstaff is the main character and Mistresses Page and Ford the title characters of what theatrical comedy (and subsequent operas and films)?
Correct Answer: THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Your Answer: The best little whorehouse in Texas
Points Assigned: 2

Never heard of it. 

2. From 1971 until 1997, the country that is today the eleventh-largest in the world (by area) was known by what name?
Correct Answer: ZAIRE
Your Answer: Burma
Points Assigned: 3

Ugh, I figured it was in Africa, but couldn't figure it out. 

3. While it premiered in his hometown of New York City at Carnegie Hall in late 1928, what George Gershwin "rhapsodic ballet" was actually largely composed during his travels abroad earlier that year?
Correct Answer: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Your Answer: An American in Paris
Points Assigned: 0

I really like Gershwin so was pretty sure this was the answer.

4. What is the term for any of several related, heat-resistant minerals with a fibrous structure that are woven together or bound by an inert material and made of naturally occurring mineral silicates of the serpentine and amphibole series?
Correct Answer: ASBESTOS
Your Answer: Pumice
Points Assigned: 1

Oh, darn. This may have been pretty easy.

5. Name the American author and member of the Algonquin Round Table who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1924 novel So Big and also wrote the novels Show Boat (which became a popular Kern-Hammerstein musical), Cimarron, and Giant (both adapted into successful Hollywood films)?
Correct Answer: EDNA FERBER
Your Answer: Strauss
Points Assigned: 1

Embarrassed to say I have never heard of her. 

6. The contemporary English visual artist Tracey Emin first achieved public acclaim (and notoriety) for her "confessional" installation works, including a 1998 exhibition piece which featured what title object of hers, stained and disheveled with detritus littered before it?
Correct Answer: BED
Your Answer: Bed
Points Assigned: 2

This was a guess, but disheveled bring to mind a bed.