Friday, June 2, 2017

Jesse day 14

3/6

1. While Haneda Airport serves as the Tokyo base for Japan's main domestic airlines, the city's primary international airport is located in what city in Chiba Prefecture, after which the airport is named?

Correct Answer: NARITA
Your Answer: Narita
Points Assigned: 0

I run a travel company and send lots of people through Narita, plus I have been there myself. 

2. The fifth and most recent film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, released in May 2017, is subtitled Dead Men Tell No Tales, and the first in the series is subtitled The Curse of the Black Pearl. Give the subtitle of any one of the other three installments in the series.
Correct Answer: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, AT WORLD'S END, ON STRANGER TIDES
Your Answer: Ghost of Blackbeard
Points Assigned: 2

I have ignored the franchise, at my own peril. 

3. Volunteers who supported Giuseppe Garibaldi during the conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were known by what sanguine sartorial sobriquet?
Correct Answer: REDSHIRTS
Your Answer: Italians
Points Assigned: 2

Darn. Seems very gettable.

4. Among the six standard meat/tofu items on the menu at the Chipotle Mexican Grill chain, the slow-cooked, seasoned shredded beef option is listed as what term?
Correct Answer: BARBACOA
Your Answer: Barbacoa
Points Assigned: 1

I have eaten at Chipotle enough to get this one.

5. The artistic diversion, born from Surrealism, in which several people contribute to a drawing or text without seeing all of what the others have done is commonly known as "exquisite" what? It's named after an early example that allegedly produced "The exquisite [redacted] shall drink the new wine."
Correct Answer: CORPSE/CADAVER
Your Answer: multitudes
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea

6. Of the companies whose stocks make up the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, twenty-six are listed on the New York Stock Exchange while four are listed on the NASDAQ. Name any one of these latter four, all of which have joined the Dow within the last twenty years. 
Correct Answer: APPLE, CISCO SYSTEMS, INTEL, MICROSOFT
Your Answer: Apple
Points Assigned: 1

I have a bit of Apple stock. 

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