Jesse day 3

4/6 

1. What name precedes the following phrases in titles of television series? House of Payne; Meet the Browns; Love Thy Neighbor.
Correct Answer: TYLER PERRY
Your Answer: Tyler Perry's
Points Assigned: 0

Seems like a gimmie for Americans.

2. As of the 1860 U.S. Census, what was the most populous city in what would become the Confederate States of America? It was roughly four times more populated than the CSA's second-largest city, Charleston.
Correct Answer: NEW ORLEANS
Your Answer: New Orleans
Points Assigned: 2

I was deciding between Richmond and new Orleans and chose correctly.

3. The supposed fossilized human-like remains presented by Charles Dawson beginning in 1912, which were exposed in 1953 as a forgery, are known by a name referencing the village in East Sussex, England, where the bone fragments were "discovered." What is that village?
Correct Answer: PILTDOWN
Your Answer: Piltdown
Points Assigned: 2

I had heard a podcast about this and the name stuck.

4. Give any one of the three rhyming titles that comprise American bohemian writer Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, all of which were initially banned in the U.S. but ultimately published in 1965.
Correct Answer: SEXUS, PLEXUS, NEXUS
Your Answer: Fight
Points Assigned: 3

Nope. I had no idea.

5. Blonde d'Aquitaine, Simmental, Limousin, Charolais, and Belgian Blue are all continental European breeds of what?
Correct Answer: CATTLE
Your Answer: Cow
Points Assigned: 1

Good guess.

6. French business magnate Bernard Arnault is the Chairman and CEO of a luxury goods conglomerate whose name is oddly complicated but is typically reduced to an initialism referencing some of the company's many brands. What are those initials?
Correct Answer: LVMH
Your Answer: DG
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea.