4/6
Correct Answer: JOSÉ ALTUVE, GIANCARLO STANTON
Your Answer: Altuve
Points Assigned: 0
I followed baseball more closely this past year because the Yankees were enjoyable again.
2. The title of the Aldous Huxley short story "The Gioconda Smile," from his Mortal Coils collection, references a work of art best known by what name?
Correct Answer: MONA LISA
Your Answer: Mona Lisa
Points Assigned: 2
2. The title of the Aldous Huxley short story "The Gioconda Smile," from his Mortal Coils collection, references a work of art best known by what name?
Correct Answer: MONA LISA
Your Answer: Mona Lisa
Points Assigned: 2
Art with a smile = Mona Lisa
3. A recent #1 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller list is a book, published on November 7, 2017, which features over 300 photographs of whom?
Correct Answer: BARACK OBAMA
Your Answer: Obama
Points Assigned: 1
3. A recent #1 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller list is a book, published on November 7, 2017, which features over 300 photographs of whom?
Correct Answer: BARACK OBAMA
Your Answer: Obama
Points Assigned: 1
I remembered that the White house photographer had put out a book and Nov 7th clinched it.
4. While investigating drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles, a newspaper reporter is approached by a bigamous airline executive with an offer to kill the executive and relieve him of his terminal cancer in exchange for $50,000. The reporter comes to learn that this is part of a fraud scheme, and also that the executive is involved in the drug trafficking in coordination with the LAPD. This roughly outlines the plot of what film?
Correct Answer: FLETCH
Your Answer: Point Break
Points Assigned: 2
I haven't seen Fletch in a long time, if at all.
5. The Triple Alliance, which was created by Otto von Bismarck in 1882 and consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, evolved into World War I's Central Powers (or Quadruple Alliance). As Italy remained neutral at the war's onset, the Central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and two new allies. Name either one.
Correct Answer: BULGARIA, OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Your Answer: Ottoman
Points Assigned: 1
4. While investigating drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles, a newspaper reporter is approached by a bigamous airline executive with an offer to kill the executive and relieve him of his terminal cancer in exchange for $50,000. The reporter comes to learn that this is part of a fraud scheme, and also that the executive is involved in the drug trafficking in coordination with the LAPD. This roughly outlines the plot of what film?
Correct Answer: FLETCH
Your Answer: Point Break
Points Assigned: 2
I haven't seen Fletch in a long time, if at all.
5. The Triple Alliance, which was created by Otto von Bismarck in 1882 and consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, evolved into World War I's Central Powers (or Quadruple Alliance). As Italy remained neutral at the war's onset, the Central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and two new allies. Name either one.
Correct Answer: BULGARIA, OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Your Answer: Ottoman
Points Assigned: 1
Wonder how many people put Bulgaria here. Glad they didn't ask for both.
6. Name the Broadway lyricist who teamed up with composer John Kander on Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret, Zorba, and Chicago, among others.
Correct Answer: FRED EBB
Your Answer: Fitzgerald
Points Assigned: 3
6. Name the Broadway lyricist who teamed up with composer John Kander on Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret, Zorba, and Chicago, among others.
Correct Answer: FRED EBB
Your Answer: Fitzgerald
Points Assigned: 3
Never hear of him.
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