Friday, May 26, 2017

Jesse day 10

3/6

1. What is the title of the three-hour multi-perspective epic film from 1962 that recreates the events of June 6, 1944?

Correct Answer: THE LONGEST DAY
Your Answer: The Longest Day
Points Assigned: 3

I saw it in film school.

2. While polio is its more common abbreviation, what is the full name of the highly communicable (and eradicable) infectious disease caused by the poliovirus of the Enterovirus genus?
Correct Answer: POLIOMYELITIS
Your Answer: Polioitis
Points Assigned: 1

No idea.

3. Lionel was the first practicing Jewish MP in Britain's House of Commons and loaned his government the money to buy the Suez Canal. His son Nathan was the first Jewish peer and financially backed Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company. Nathan's son Walter received the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which stated the British government's support for the establishment in Palestine of a "national home" for the Jewish people. These three men shared what last name, as members of a family influential in both political and economic affairs starting in the 18th century?
Correct Answer: ROTHSCHILD
Your Answer: Rothchild
Points Assigned: 0

Guessed, but seemed right to me. 

4. Along with being titled after the first names of their female main characters, the television series Flo, Gloria, Tabitha, Daria, Phyllis, Rhoda, Maude, and Kendra all share, most prominently, what other particular distinction? 1956's The Adventures of Champion is, arguably, the first series to hold the distinction in question.
Correct Answer: SPIN-OFFS
Your Answer: Created by Norman Lear 
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

5. Since 2000, men who have held the number one spot in the Official World Golf Ranking have represented Australia, England, Germany, Northern Ireland, the United States, and what Pacific island nation?
Correct Answer: FIJI
Your Answer: Fiji
Points Assigned: 1

Vijay Singh for the win.

6. "I'm the One" by DJ Khaled, "Despacito (Remix)" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, "Cold Water" by Major Lazer, and "Let Me Love You" by DJ Snake are all recent pop hits with what singer credited as a featured artist?
Correct Answer: JUSTIN BIEBER
Your Answer: Drake
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

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photoJesse Weisz
Executive DirectorGEEO Teacher Travel Programs

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