Jesse day 9

2/6

1. What fictional amateur detective, a shrewdly intelligent elderly busybody of independent means with an unsentimental understanding of human nature, lived in the cozy English village of St. Mary Mead?
Correct Answer: JANE MARPLE
Your Answer: Landsberry
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea. Never heard of Jane Marple.

2. "Thank you for all your continued patience and understanding. We apologize for what all of our guests and staff went through over the last 24 hours and will work tirelessly to make this right. Please check our official social media channels ([redacted]) for further important updates."<P>This quote concludes a statement that appeared on April 29, 2017, on the home page for what fledgling (to put it charitably) music festival?
Correct Answer: FYRE FESTIVAL
Your Answer: Fyre Festival
Points Assigned: 0

Hilarious.

3. The principle that the volume of a gas times its pressure is constant at a fixed temperature is named after what chemist, who first published the discovery in 1662?
Correct Answer: ROBERT BOYLE
Your Answer: Beaufort
Points Assigned: 1

Seems gettable, but I did not know it.

4. This self-portrait is the work of what French painter of the Ancien Régime, who served for a time as the official portraitist of Marie Antoinette? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/98yf4c5y698y09.jpg
Correct Answer: ÉLISABETH VIGÉE LE BRUN
Your Answer: Cassatte
Points Assigned: 2

Never heard of her. 

5. A 2017 animated film subtitled The Lost Village is a reboot not connected to two previous films from this decade that also feature what characters?
Correct Answer: THE SMURFS
Your Answer: Smurfs
Points Assigned: 2

Total guess triggered by the word village. I may have scored this too high. 

6. A reconditioned 1985 Broadway revival of what 1965 Neil Simon play featured Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno in the play's title roles?
Correct Answer: THE ODD COUPLE
Your Answer: Bullets over broadway
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea.