2/6. Ugh.
Correct Answer: DOWNTON ABBEY
Your Answer: Downton Abbey
Points Assigned: 0
2010 seemed about right. Only thing I could think of.
2. What name do these two items share? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/39508cynw8603.jpg
Correct Answer: OLD FASHIONED
Your Answer: Cronut
Points Assigned: 1
2. What name do these two items share? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/
Correct Answer: OLD FASHIONED
Your Answer: Cronut
Points Assigned: 1
I am not a drinker and that donut looked a bit like a Cronut.
3. What was the phrase which headlined the famous open letter written in 1898 by novelist Émile Zola to Félix Faure, the president of the French Republic, in defense of falsely accused Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus?
Correct Answer: J'ACCUSE
Your Answer: Freedom!
Points Assigned: 2
3. What was the phrase which headlined the famous open letter written in 1898 by novelist Émile Zola to Félix Faure, the president of the French Republic, in defense of falsely accused Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus?
Correct Answer: J'ACCUSE
Your Answer: Freedom!
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea.
4. A defensive player known as a libero, who is subject to special substitution rules and wears a different color shirt from other team members, was introduced in international competition in 1998 in what sport?
Correct Answer: VOLLEYBALL
Your Answer: Rugby
Points Assigned: 2
4. A defensive player known as a libero, who is subject to special substitution rules and wears a different color shirt from other team members, was introduced in international competition in 1998 in what sport?
Correct Answer: VOLLEYBALL
Your Answer: Rugby
Points Assigned: 2
Shoot, now I remember that during the Olympics they did have someone in different clothes.
5. Among the historical markers of what imperial dynasty of China, which ruled from 1368 to 1644, are legal reform and the fine quality of the porcelain produced during its period?
Correct Answer: MING
Your Answer: Ming
Points Assigned: 1
Seems like a gimmie as everyone knows about Ming vases.
6. The term "documentary" may have been first used in a cinematic context in a 1926 New York Sun review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana. Despite that, Flaherty is better remembered today for what earlier film, which, like Moana, is more accurately described as a work of "docufiction."
Correct Answer: NANOOK OF THE NORTH
Your Answer: Triangle
Points Assigned: 3
5. Among the historical markers of what imperial dynasty of China, which ruled from 1368 to 1644, are legal reform and the fine quality of the porcelain produced during its period?
Correct Answer: MING
Your Answer: Ming
Points Assigned: 1
Seems like a gimmie as everyone knows about Ming vases.
6. The term "documentary" may have been first used in a cinematic context in a 1926 New York Sun review of Robert J. Flaherty's Moana. Despite that, Flaherty is better remembered today for what earlier film, which, like Moana, is more accurately described as a work of "docufiction."
Correct Answer: NANOOK OF THE NORTH
Your Answer: Triangle
Points Assigned: 3
Argh, I was a film major and definitely knew of Nanook of the North even though I never saw it.
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