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1. What country star's 2016 album Gunslinger has sold a little over 100,000 copies so far, which is respectable but about 1/230th the total of his 1990 album and 1/180th that of his 1991 release?
Correct Answer: GARTH BROOKS
Your Answer: Brooks
Points Assigned: 1
1. What country star's 2016 album Gunslinger has sold a little over 100,000 copies so far, which is respectable but about 1/230th the total of his 1990 album and 1/180th that of his 1991 release?
Correct Answer: GARTH BROOKS
Your Answer: Brooks
Points Assigned: 1
A guess, but I knew he sold a ton of albums.
2. The concept from economics and game theory addressing dynamics of a non-cooperative game, referring to a situation in which players in a game pursue the optimal strategy while knowing the other players' strategies, is commonly named after what mathematician and Nobel laureate?
Correct Answer: JOHN FORBES NASH JR.
Your Answer: Nash
Points Assigned: 0
2. The concept from economics and game theory addressing dynamics of a non-cooperative game, referring to a situation in which players in a game pursue the optimal strategy while knowing the other players' strategies, is commonly named after what mathematician and Nobel laureate?
Correct Answer: JOHN FORBES NASH JR.
Your Answer: Nash
Points Assigned: 0
I saw A Beautiful Mind
3. Some historians argue that the outbreak of WWII should be dated to a 1937 event known in English as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which sparked the conflagration between what two ancient (and present) rivals?
Correct Answer: CHINA, JAPAN
Your Answer: Korea and Japan
Points Assigned: 3
3. Some historians argue that the outbreak of WWII should be dated to a 1937 event known in English as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which sparked the conflagration between what two ancient (and present) rivals?
Correct Answer: CHINA, JAPAN
Your Answer: Korea and Japan
Points Assigned: 3
I was on the right path, but fudged it up. Marco Polo=China. Damn
4. The drug mifepristone, usually taken with another drug called misoprostol to terminate pregnancy, is best known by what generic name, derived from the sequence of its development by French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf in 1980?
Correct Answer: RU486
Your Answer: Plan B
Points Assigned: 2
4. The drug mifepristone, usually taken with another drug called misoprostol to terminate pregnancy, is best known by what generic name, derived from the sequence of its development by French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf in 1980?
Correct Answer: RU486
Your Answer: Plan B
Points Assigned: 2
Nope. I could not come up with it.
5. A posthumous paper by mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius explores the properties of one-sided surfaces via a strip, connected at the ends with a half-twist in the middle. Fellow German mathematician Felix Klein pursued a similar illustration using a theoretical surface that is today, perhaps due to a mistranslation of the original German, most commonly referred to as what type of object?
Correct Answer: BOTTLE
Your Answer: Helix
Points Assigned: 2
5. A posthumous paper by mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius explores the properties of one-sided surfaces via a strip, connected at the ends with a half-twist in the middle. Fellow German mathematician Felix Klein pursued a similar illustration using a theoretical surface that is today, perhaps due to a mistranslation of the original German, most commonly referred to as what type of object?
Correct Answer: BOTTLE
Your Answer: Helix
Points Assigned: 2
Ah, a Klein bottle, right?
6. Which of its seven emirates constitutes more than 85% of the total land area of the United Arab Emirates?
Correct Answer: ABU DHABI
Your Answer: Dubai
Points Assigned: 1
6. Which of its seven emirates constitutes more than 85% of the total land area of the United Arab Emirates?
Correct Answer: ABU DHABI
Your Answer: Dubai
Points Assigned: 1
I guessed poorly
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