5/6 against my friend Hunter.
1. The 1935 lithograph Hand with Reflecting Sphere is the work of what Dutch artist?
Correct Answer: M.C. ESCHER
Your Answer: Escher
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: M.C. ESCHER
Your Answer: Escher
Points Assigned: 1
I did not know he was Dutch, but knew it Escher.
2. What is the name used for the accounting convention stipulating that when a firm uses or sells assets, it uses those assets which it has held in inventory the longest—i.e., those it produced or acquired the earliest? (Note: you may provide either the name or its acronym.)
Correct Answer: FIRST IN, FIRST OUT (FIFO)
Your Answer: Spoilage
Points Assigned: 2
2. What is the name used for the accounting convention stipulating that when a firm uses or sells assets, it uses those assets which it has held in inventory the longest—i.e., those it produced or acquired the earliest? (Note: you may provide either the name or its acronym.)
Correct Answer: FIRST IN, FIRST OUT (FIFO)
Your Answer: Spoilage
Points Assigned: 2
Seems very gettable.
3. While Crater Lake in Oregon has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet, what other lake, though the fourth-largest natural lake in area completely within the United States (and largest in the southern U.S.), has a maximum depth of just fifteen feet and an average depth of nine feet?
Correct Answer: LAKE OKEECHOBEE
Your Answer: Lake Okeechobee
Points Assigned: 3
3. While Crater Lake in Oregon has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet, what other lake, though the fourth-largest natural lake in area completely within the United States (and largest in the southern U.S.), has a maximum depth of just fifteen feet and an average depth of nine feet?
Correct Answer: LAKE OKEECHOBEE
Your Answer: Lake Okeechobee
Points Assigned: 3
It was the only big lake in the south I could think of. Here Iucked out because of my limited knowledge of the south.
4. Chicken in Odessa, goose or duck in Poltava, carp in Lviv, and lamb and mushrooms in Kiev: These are some of the ingredients that accompany the universal main ingredient in regional variations of what soup, widely considered by locals as the national soup of Ukraine?
Correct Answer: BORSCHT
Your Answer: Borsht
Points Assigned: 2
4. Chicken in Odessa, goose or duck in Poltava, carp in Lviv, and lamb and mushrooms in Kiev: These are some of the ingredients that accompany the universal main ingredient in regional variations of what soup, widely considered by locals as the national soup of Ukraine?
Correct Answer: BORSCHT
Your Answer: Borsht
Points Assigned: 2
Only soup I could think of from the region. I didn't know you could put those things in borsht.
5. A memorial service for victims of the 1960 explosion of the French freighter La Coubre in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, has been recorded (and duplicated) for posterity thanks to a photograph taken there of what man?
Correct Answer: CHE GUEVARA
Your Answer: Guevera
Points Assigned: 0
5. A memorial service for victims of the 1960 explosion of the French freighter La Coubre in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, has been recorded (and duplicated) for posterity thanks to a photograph taken there of what man?
Correct Answer: CHE GUEVARA
Your Answer: Guevera
Points Assigned: 0
Seems pretty intuitive based on all of the Che iconography.
6. Jenny, Lucille, Sally, and Molly (and also possibly Teddy) are women referenced in titles (and lyrics) of popular songs from the 1950s originally recorded by what artist?
Correct Answer: LITTLE RICHARD
Your Answer: Little Richard
Points Assigned: 1
6. Jenny, Lucille, Sally, and Molly (and also possibly Teddy) are women referenced in titles (and lyrics) of popular songs from the 1950s originally recorded by what artist?
Correct Answer: LITTLE RICHARD
Your Answer: Little Richard
Points Assigned: 1
Good Golly Miss Molly is what got it for me.
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