3/6 on what I thought was a hard day.
1. The leaves of what palm native to Madagascar are used to produce the ribbon pictured here? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/3498c5yn609t.jpg
Correct Answer: RAFFIA
Your Answer: Date Palm
Points Assigned: 2
3. One factor in the VCR "format war" that led to VHS dominance was its availability to be licensed to any manufacturer that was interested, whereas for years, the manufacture of Betamax was limited to one company. What was that company, which developed the Betamax format in 1975?
1. The leaves of what palm native to Madagascar are used to produce the ribbon pictured here? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/
Correct Answer: RAFFIA
Your Answer: Date Palm
Points Assigned: 2
Never heard of it.
2. What is the name of the northern arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Sweden on the west and Finland on the east?
Correct Answer: GULF OF BOTHNIA
Your Answer: North Baltic Sea
Points Assigned: 3
2. What is the name of the northern arm of the Baltic Sea that extends between Sweden on the west and Finland on the east?
Correct Answer: GULF OF BOTHNIA
Your Answer: North Baltic Sea
Points Assigned: 3
I lived in Sweden and Finland and had no idea. Tough question.
3. One factor in the VCR "format war" that led to VHS dominance was its availability to be licensed to any manufacturer that was interested, whereas for years, the manufacture of Betamax was limited to one company. What was that company, which developed the Betamax format in 1975?
Correct Answer: SONY
Your Answer: Sony
Points Assigned: 0
Your Answer: Sony
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie of the day?
4. The effect of certain forces on an object varies by the ___________ of the distance between the object and the source of the force. What two words (sometimes joined by a hyphen) fill in the blank in this principle from physics? These two words also provide the name of the law defined by the statement.
Correct Answer: INVERSE SQUARE
Your Answer: Inverse square
Points Assigned: 1
4. The effect of certain forces on an object varies by the ___________ of the distance between the object and the source of the force. What two words (sometimes joined by a hyphen) fill in the blank in this principle from physics? These two words also provide the name of the law defined by the statement.
Correct Answer: INVERSE SQUARE
Your Answer: Inverse square
Points Assigned: 1
I knew it was something square and was able to come up with inverse.
5. In 1897, breakfast cereal titan Charles W. Post erroneously believed that the maltose sugar in his newly invented granular wheat cereal was glucose. According to this account, he misnamed this cereal what, after an older name for glucose and after the cereal's flavor after toasting?
Correct Answer: GRAPE-NUTS
Your Answer: Grape Nuts
Points Assigned: 1
5. In 1897, breakfast cereal titan Charles W. Post erroneously believed that the maltose sugar in his newly invented granular wheat cereal was glucose. According to this account, he misnamed this cereal what, after an older name for glucose and after the cereal's flavor after toasting?
Correct Answer: GRAPE-NUTS
Your Answer: Grape Nuts
Points Assigned: 1
I knew Post invented Grape Nuts.
6. Name the French director who is perhaps as known today for his romances as for his film work, thanks in no small part to his tendency to cast his wives in sex-symbol roles, including Annette Stroyberg in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Brigitte Bardot in Et Dieu...créa la femme, and Jane Fonda in Barbarella.
Correct Answer: ROGER VADIM
Your Answer: Godard
Points Assigned: 2
6. Name the French director who is perhaps as known today for his romances as for his film work, thanks in no small part to his tendency to cast his wives in sex-symbol roles, including Annette Stroyberg in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Brigitte Bardot in Et Dieu...créa la femme, and Jane Fonda in Barbarella.
Correct Answer: ROGER VADIM
Your Answer: Godard
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea.
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